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Email: hn [at] kirkeby.io GitHub: https://github.com/c-kirkeby
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chrysoprace··on Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card
In the past I've purchased a rail pass because I figured it'd be more economical but last trip we just got a couple of IC cards and just booked our shinkansen and that was honestly the best experience. The problem with the rail pass was that it could only be used on some services, and the IC card was usable on most. The most confusing thing is just figuring out which local transport companies have a slightly different network, but it was honestly not bad.
chrysoprace··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Could be regional - however it's odd that it pops up on old.reddit.com but not reddit.com.
chrysoprace··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
Old Reddit is now completely unusable without an account. Maybe it's time for me to finally stop using it.
chrysoprace··on I'm becoming AI-blind
I find this struggle with coding too. When Claude spits out a plan I have to really focus to not skim over the details. It's also difficult to parse the plan because I have to work backwards to determine if the high level context matches my understanding of what Claude will do.
chrysoprace··on Consumer Rights Wiki
For those that don't know, this is an initiative started by Louis Rossmann and is largely run by a few volunteers.
chrysoprace··on Consumer Rights Wiki
Louis is quite vocal about transparency for consumers and openly sharing knowledge for people to be able to do repairs themselves or even set up a competing business.
chrysoprace··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
I built a new main rig in November because I saw the memory prices going up. I overpaid about AUD$110 above its RRP. The same kit is now AUD$610 above RRP from the same retailer.

Here's hoping I can wait out the current shortage before any upgrades (I typically only upgrade every 5-7 years or so anyway) or replacements, because I do not plan to pay the new price.

chrysoprace··on fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.
It's a Vercel project, so I assume this is intentional. The steps to get started are to log in with Vercel or add an AI Gateway key.
chrysoprace··on fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent.
Hacker news generally follows trends, and this is the current trend.

The discussion around coding agents nowadays is steering towards harnesses (which is probably a better description of what this is). "Agent" here is doing a lot of heavy lifting and has become a bit of a catch-all term to describe a model + harness + tooling + prompt + some other things that I've probably not thought about. The harness is a part that's being explored more as many believe it's where we can get some better performance out of the models.

This one in particular is from Vercel who provide a service to use models, so they have a vested interest in providing a harness.

chrysoprace··on Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD
Given Canon is invite-only and most of the article is breaking down the technical implementation, that seems highly unlikely.
chrysoprace··on Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub
I hadn't read this article until now, but I started catching myself using the word at work a few years ago and I've actively been trying to avoid using it for the reasons laid out in this post.
chrysoprace··on The AI Credit Resale Economy
You basically can't. This episode from Syntax[0] shows one provider that he tried to go through to showcase this, and he was fairly certain it wasn't Claude, but of course that was all speculation on his part.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09UELaUhPEw

chrysoprace··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
I think the main problem is just that we don't have a standard library across the browser and server. We have to reinvent everything across both domains because we don't have good building blocks unlike Go which, despite my issues with some the standard library, at least has one.

I'm disappointed that we've fragmented across Node/Deno/Bun, although I was briefly hopeful for Deno since they tried to standardise around ESM and provide a strong standard library. Of course this still had to be bundled for the browser, which has its own issues.

chrysoprace··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
I think that in 2026 Node is a boring technology, but with the fast-moving ecosystem around it if you opt into npm (the registry, not the package manager) it makes it not boring.

The things you layer on top of Node via npm could count as "not-boring" in this instance, especially with the number of supply-chain attacks each month.

chrysoprace··on Delta
I'll have to give it a go to fully understand the use case, but I can't see the value in keeping the work-in-progress artifacts. The sharing aspect is niche, and I could see some use depending on team workflow. I guess it's one step better than "Claude said".
chrysoprace··on Delta
There is never a bad time to learn vim! Not only is it a super useful skill if you end up having to edit a file on a server (and you don't want to deal with nano), it also makes coding fun.
chrysoprace··on Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
Hey mate, just tried it again and the same issue.

Note: this is for Cowork, not sure if that makes a difference, I don't use the desktop app for coding.

Claude asked me a question at 12:05pm my time, came back at 12:40 and the question prompt disappeared and it spat back a message. Previously when I was writing a Google Doc, it would prompt me for questions, I'd come back and it would have timed out like this and just made a new version of the doc.

chrysoprace··on Tl;dv: Over 180k meetings left wide open
We use a similar tool at work and it's automatically invited to every meeting. It records, transcribes, and lets you search for something somebody said and when. It is incredibly unsettling.
chrysoprace··on Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
There is for Claude Code[0], but not for Desktop. It's `askUserQuestionTimeout` and you can set it to `never`.

[0] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings

chrysoprace··on Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code
Having used a bit of a mix of Claude Desktop and Claude Code lately, I discovered that Claude Desktop just times out when it asks you for a decision, and just goes ahead with the action anyway. There is no way to turn this off that I've found, unlike Claude Code where you can ask it to never time out.
chrysoprace··on LinkedIn Feed Blocker
There absolutely is something better than LinkedIn; it's email and phone contact. But everybody expects you to be on LinkedIn.
chrysoprace··on Kitesurf: Agent-first browser that runs in V8 isolates
It's pretty bizarre to see them going from being the bot protection platform to differentiating on the kinds of bots they'll block, because now they're facilitating the exact kind of bot automation they made their name protecting against.
chrysoprace··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
I haven't experienced any latency in tmux, so I'm not sure what you're experiencing. For rendering, you may have to change your `TERM` value in your shell.

Tmux is highly keyboard driven and I hardly use any graphical applications outside of my browser. My workflow is basically the same regardless of whether I'm using Linux, macOS or Windows because my workflow lives in the terminal. If I close the terminal, I can continue the session and I can SSH into the machine from another machine.

It's also got a rich plugin ecosystem and is available on pretty much any package distribution. You can also preprogram your layouts if you always do your layouts the same way.

chrysoprace··on Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
I started noticing problems with MCP auth state failing inside herdr, but working in a normal terminal session or with tmux, so I switched back to using tmux and it's been flawless. I also noticed that herdr was causing errors/warnings in ordinary terminal sessions so it's more trouble than it's worth at the moment (at least for me). It's a shame though, since I otherwise think it's a good tool.
chrysoprace··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)

  Location: Brisbane, Australia
  Remote: Yes, or hybrid locally
  Willing to relocate: Only to Denmark (citizen)
  Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, MySQL/PostgreSQL, AWS, Kafka
  Résumé/CV: Available on request
  GitHub: https://github.com/c-kirkeby
  Email: In the "About" section on my profile
Developer with 10+ years in the industry across development and software testing. Experienced in delivering high-performance applications for direct email and SMS digital marketing, loyalty programs and healthcare.
chrysoprace··on Seedance 2.5
My comment addresses this.

Regulation around the world needs to catch up to address the harmful nature of the technology, as it is currently moving faster than the politicians can / want to move.

chrysoprace··on Seedance 2.5
The game is from 2002. Anybody wanting to play the game either buys it for nostalgia or as an enthusiast. All the mod does is increase accessibility.
chrysoprace··on Seedance 2.5
While I generally think it's balanced against a lot of negative applications (misinformation, deepfakes, etc.), there are some good applications. I think regulation just hasn't sufficiently caught up with the harm they can cause.

To give a good use case (audio generation specifically), the 2002 game Morrowind has had a resurgence lately and it's a really great game, but it lacks fully voiced lines for dialogue. A community project called Voices of Vvardenfell uses ElevenAI to generate voice lines from the voiced lines that do exist in the game. They don't take away jobs from artists because it was a monumental (unpaid) undertaking from community volunteers to do this before (there was such a big project but it was abandoned last I saw).

So as with any emerging technologies, I think it just needs to be properly regulated.

chrysoprace··on Software for One
It wasn't when I bought it and I was grandfathered into a perpetual subscription. I don't want it to be a monthly SaaS, I guess was my point. It does most of what I want it to do and that's fine.

AntennaPod is good but it really lacks in UX polish / defaults. I say go for gold and make your own personal apps. My personal podcast app won't do what your idea of a personal podcast app should do so you can make the app that you want with an LLM subscription.

chrysoprace··on The development pipeline is a production system
I guess the problem is visibility. In the same way that many companies don't take security seriously until it becomes a problem. If a problem never manifests, but was prevented, was it really a problem?

Of course I know the importance of preventing problems, but how do you properly measure it? A data leak is immediately visible, but preventing them is less so.

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