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ryancnelson··on Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas
they missed a huge opportunity to name this Claude Monet
ryancnelson··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
gotta say, I admire a site with a 1999 html style like LWN, having the absolute brass balls to extol the virtues of modern design.
ryancnelson··on Flipper One Tech Specs
i think i'd buy a $279 refurbished steamdeck and a bag of usb-c sensor-widgets from aliexpress. ...In fact I did. I plug my flipper zero into it sometimes, too.
ryancnelson··on Inference Engine for Apple Silicon
nifty tool. can it write README's?
ryancnelson··on Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
Linus Torvalds is 56.
ryancnelson··on Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
“ That behaviour survived — untouched — through nearly half a century of Linux distributions” … LOL
ryancnelson··on Ask HN: Any real OpenClaw (Clawd Bot/Molt Bot) users? What's your experience?
I use it but not for daily coding/chatops-ing. It’s great to have my chosen tools available from slack while I’m mobile though. Yesterday Mr claw gave a coworker read access to a GitHub repository at my command while I was in line at Home Depot. I’ve got a PR ready that proves authentication with an otp challenge.
ryancnelson··on Show HN: Whosthere: A LAN discovery tool with a modern TUI, written in Go
is the only way to export the results "run in daemon mode and curl yourself"?
ryancnelson··on Claude Skills
i know how to use curl. (I was a contributor before git existed) … watching Claude iterate to re-learn whether to try application/x-form-urle ncoded or GET /?foo wastes SO MUCH time and fills your context with “how to curl” that you re-send over again until your context compacts.

You are bad at reading comprehension. My comment meant I can tell Claude “update jira with that test outcome in a comment” and, Claude can eventually figure that out with just a Key and curl, but that’s way too low level.

What I linked to literally explains that, with code and a blog post.

ryancnelson··on Claude Skills
I commented here already about deli-gator ( https://github.com/ryancnelson/deli-gator ) , but your summary nailed what I didn’t mention here before: Context.

I’d been re-teaching Claude to craft Rest-api calls with curl every morning for months before i realized that skills would let me delegate that to cheaper models, re-using cached-token-queries, and save my context window for my actual problem-space CONTEXT.

ryancnelson··on Claude Skills
The uptake on Claude-skills seems to have a lot of momentum already! I was fascinated on Tuesday by “Superpowers” , https://blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/superpowers/ … and then packaged up all the tool-building I’ve been working on for awhile into somewhat tidy skills that i can delegate agents to:

http://github.com/ryancnelson/deli-gator I’d love any feedback

ryancnelson··on Unix philosophy and filesystem access makes Claude Code amazing
This really resonated with me, it's echoing the way i've come to appreciate Claude-code in a terminal for working in/on/with unix-y hosts.

A trick I use often with this pattern is (for example): 'you can run shell commands. Use tmux to find my session named "bingo", and view the pane in there. you can also use tmux to send that pane keystrokes. when you run shell commands, please run them in that tmux pane so i can watch. Right now that pane is logged into my cisco router..."

ryancnelson··on Morse Code Translator
is anyone going to point out that the linked website is absolute AI-generated ad-filled slop? or is this just a comments thread starter for "hey, morse code, right?"
ryancnelson··on Kiro: A new agentic IDE
I wonder if it's entirely coincidental that "KIRO" is a Seattle-area (amazon land) television station.
ryancnelson··on LLM Chat via SSH
this is neat.... whose anthropic credits am i using, though? sonnet-4 isn't cheap! would i hit a rate-limit if i used this for daily work?
ryancnelson··on Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash
the irksome bit was this: lodash's page, first sentence, says "A modern JavaScript utility library delivering modularity, performance & extras."

this github's readme says "alternative to lodash". other than being named "superutilsplus", someone who clicked on it would need to then go google for lodash to see it's another js utilities kit, to then figure out they don't care.

I stopped professional javascript development when i stopped having an office next to Ryan Dahl at Joyent, so, yeah i haven't cared for about a decade. Thanks for explaining about atoms, though, my esteemed chemists.

ryancnelson··on Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash
No I’m asking a commercial that pops up in what I’m watching and says “ask your doctor if ciallis is right for you.” and gives no context but someone washing their tesla.
ryancnelson··on Show HN: SuperUtilsPlus – A Modern Alternative to Lodash
Biggest pain point: wtf is lodash? I don’t care if it’s in your readme, but maybe tell us in your HN hype post
ryancnelson··on From: Steve Jobs. "Great idea, thank you."
i love this. A startup I was at during early COVID times got acquired into Hewlett Packard Enterprise, so we all became HPE employees with HPE addresses. There was a similar form there to request "ryancnelson"@hpe, etc...

One of my co-workers got cute and asked for "root@hpe.com" .... And boy, there's a lot of cron jobs running at HP.

ryancnelson··on Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?
Illumos, and specifically the SmartOS distribution.

Being ringside for the fork of Sun's OpenSolaris, and watching absolute geniuses steward a thing like that into a useful product and a build process was foundational for my understanding of how and why process is important, as well as how to get things fixed in the real world, while not muddying the idea of the pure design principles. A balance can exist!

ryancnelson··on Show HN: Darwin – Automate Your GitHub Project with AI
naming things is hard. Googling for other things already named this shouldn't be.
ryancnelson··on Lisa Emulator Project
https://everymac.com/systems/apple/messagepad/stats/newton_m...
ryancnelson··on Lisa Emulator Project
WHAT?! Aw, man that's terrible news that I'd not heard yet.

I worked with Ray in the late 90's in NYC. I remember that "I'm working on a Lisa Emulator" distracted us for an extra hour of geeking out during his job interview.

ryancnelson··on Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor
awesome. nothing on thingiverse has ever search-matched for "ADM-3a" for me. cheers!
ryancnelson··on Checkmate 19" IPS Retro Monitor
I would love it for some kickstarters to lean into what this product is actually selling: the retro design.

Seriously: build this, but shaped like a Lear ADM-3A ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-3A ) , and TAKE MY MONEY.

... or just introduce the set designers from "Loki" and "Starfield" to the supply people at Restoration Hardware. That's what I want in my nerdCave.

ryancnelson··on Half of vinyl buyers in the U.S. don’t have a record player: study
Pretty sure there’s a lot of vinyl gifting going on. Rich dudes are hard to shop for, but they don’t shut up about their record collection, simple solution for secret Santa this year.

Buyer doesn’t have a turntable.

ryancnelson··on Morse Code Chat
When I saw the URL, I thought "did Smitty Halibut get a new domain name"? But it's not the same person/people, apparently. "Different fish, people!"

(halibut.com is the QTH of well-known podcaster/hacker/dude Mark Smith)

ryancnelson··on Show HN: How Sketch can win looking at there Qualitative Feedback?
“Their”
ryancnelson··on Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact
I came out of "early retirement" to work with the tech team at TED (the TEDTalks non-profit)

It's a for-real media tech brand with a mission to incubate and spread good ideas. I love it. Find the TED jobs page -- we're hiring people in NYC and remote.

ryancnelson··on Eye strain with new MacBook Air M1
this is a mostly-unreplied-to question from one person, from 10 months ago, on a customer-support forum. Why is this newsworthy?
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