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edverma2on Writing by hand is good for your brain

> I use a lot of moleskine notebooks and Mead comp books, which I can buy in bulk online.

Moleskine notebooks are beautiful, but I always felt they were far too expensive. Would love to learn where they can be bought in bulk for a more reasonable price.

edverma2on OpenAI, the US government and Persona built an identity surveillance machine

This is a hilarious personal website! Love it. Even better that it's paired with quality content.

edverma2on Claude Sonnet 4.6

It seems that extra-usage is required to use the 1M context window for Sonnet 4.6. This differs from Sonnet 4.5, which allows usage of the 1M context window with a Max plan.

```

/model claude-sonnet-4-6[1m]

⎿ API error: 429 {"type":"error","error": {"type":"rate_limit_error","message":"Extra usage is required for long context requests."},"request_id":"[redacted]"}

```

edverma2on Another GitHub outage in the same day

I was just looking into this today but it seems pricey. $29/user/month for basic features like codeowners and defining pr approval requirements. Going with Forgejo.

edverma2on GitHub is down again

Anyone have alternatives to recommend? We will be switching after this. Already moved to self-hosted action runners and we are early-stage so switching cost is fairly low.

edverma2on Elevated errors across many models

time to go outside

edverma2on America’s semiconductor boom [video]

Does America need to produce the talent or can they import it?

edverma2on GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search

From GPT-5-Pro with Deep Research selected:

> FWIW Deep Research doesn’t run on whatever you pick in the model selector. It’s a separate agent that uses dedicated o‑series research models: full mode runs on o3; after you hit the full‑mode cap it auto‑switches to a lightweight o4‑mini version. The picker governs normal chat (and the pre‑research clarifying Qs), not the research engine itself.

edverma2on A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code

I built a tool to split up a single PR into multiple nice commits: https://github.com/edverma/git-smart-squash

edverma2on Show HN: Ten years of running every day, visualized

This is so cool. Congrats on ten years!

edverma2on I scanned all of GitHub's "oops commits" for leaked secrets

All devs should run open-source trufflehog as a precommit hook for all repositories on their local system. It’s not a foolproof solution, but it’s a small time investment to get set up and gives me reasonable assurance that I will not accidentally commit a secret. I’m unsure why this is not more widely considered standard practice.

edverma2on Show HN: Tool to Automatically Create Organized Commits for PRs

Interesting! I’ve faced the same problem where I have a mega PR and spend a lot of time breaking that up into separate PRs. I agree that what you are suggesting is a different but related problem to what this tool currently solves. I’ll start thinking through how this would look, and I’ll go ahead and make a GitHub issue if you or anyone else wants to start a discussion there.

edverma2on Librarians are dangerous

Why do people speak online as if the library is a place anyone goes to? I understand some people still go to libraries, but this cannot be considered a commonplace activity like it once was. Librarians do not hold any meaningful position in society because so few people come in contact with them.

edverma2on Mark Zuckerberg paid lobby$7.6M to aid in TikTok ban

This seems like a very small amount of money to pay to help remove your biggest competitor in your largest market.

edverma2on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2024)

Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Remote: Yes, but prefer hybrid or onsite

Willing to Relocate: Yes

Technologies: Go, Java, Python, JS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis GCP, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OF-RvKyexSa-RIVfOEt8iEW6Xz5...

Email: edverma@gmail.com

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Ex-Founder and software engineer with 5 YOE looking to join a small high-growth company in either a technical product manager role or software engineer role. Will relocate anywhere in the US for the right opportunity.

edverma2on Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city

very cool! I'm surprised there are no signups in SF yet. I'm sure many will come.

edverma2on Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?

https://thetickerscreen.com

A huge sports LED ticker screen. It’s been an interesting experience. Hardware is hard. But people love it when they see it and seem to be really excited for it.

edverma2on The Right Kind of Stubborn

This seems timely in regards to the US Presidential race.

edverma2on Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash

Does anyone have good examples of software that meets this criteria? Or places where this type of software can be found? I love the idea here and would love to put it into practice but among the disadvantages that small makers suffer against large industry is easy discoverability for their products.