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shortcordon Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"

What is this supposed to do?

I think I do prefer the KJV here. Has the classic familiarity.

The ESV is the translation I have used since it came out for personal reading and study, though.

Luke 2:14

    [14] “Glory to God in the highest,
        and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!”

shortcordon Repetitive negative thinking associated with cognitive decline in older adults

+100 million people died in war in the 20th century. Not to mention preventable famines, etc.

Increase your time horizons to see things aren’t even close to as bad as they can be. Our lifetimes are a vapor.

shortcordon Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search

The perfect headphones to listen to while on the bus.

shortcordon Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself

I think tools like this are useful, but they can never replace the quality of the narrative that someone who actually wrote the code can come up with.

There's just so much contextual data outside of the code itself that you miss out on. This looks like an improvement over Github Co-Pilot generated summaries, but that's not hard.

shortcordon Show HN: Haystack – Review pull requests like you wrote them yourself

I tend to agree. Except if it's text generated by me for me.

I don't want you to send me a AI-generated summary of anything, but if I initiated it looking for answers, then it's much more helpful.

shortcordon LiveStore: State management based on reactive SQLite and built-in sync engine

I'm so glad to see this.

I was just looking into LiveStore this past month for a hobby project, but it was behind a beta preview, so I hope to be able to dig in soon to see if it can be useful to me.

I love how you're pushing forward the localfirst conversation.

If you've spent any time building offline capable web apps with some sort of syncing mechanism, you begin to very quickly see the usefulness of a sync engine.

shortcordon Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview

Not a fan of the dominance of shadcn and Tailwind when it comes to generating greenfield code.

shortcordon GPT-4.1 in the API

Gemini 2.5 Pro is quite good at code.

Has become my go to for use in Cursor. Claude 3.7 needs to be restrained too much.

shortcordon ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod

That sounds absolutely absurd.

Are you using a lot of deeply nested objects + unions/intersections?

shortcordon Black coffee can be good for your heart, studies show

I had similar experiences and started cutting my coffee with decaf. I’ve gotten down to a half and half ratio now.

Will typically drink 2 cups in the morning and an espresso immediately following lunch.

I’ve noticed a big difference. I rarely get jittery unless I’ve drunk no water in the morning.

shortcordon Getting our first thousand users in one day

Not PornHub.

shortcordon That coworker who never stops refactoring

I prefer Write Everything Thrice.

shortcordon Ask HN: How many bookmarks do you have?

5008 on Pinboard, many thousands more in Instapaper.

I either find a use for them at some point, or I don't. Doesn't bother me if I don't as I'm not trying to process everything I come across, just putting them in a trusted system where I could find them again if I needed to.

I do find it useful if I have a personal research project in an area of interest to start searching with what I already have vs. going to Google. Most of the links I have are vetted either by me or a source I trust so they don't have a bias to who has good on page SEO.

shortcordon Ask HN: What technical books are you reading?

I’ve been reading Game Programming Patterns off and on. Not a game developer, but it’s a pretty light read and interesting to see how design patterns apply to making video games.

Next up after that I’m gonna finally finish Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby by Sandi Metz. I started this one after reading 99 Bottles of OOP.

Longer term project is to read through The Little Schemer and the other books in that series like The Reasoned Schemer, The Little MLer, etc.

shortcordon Oh God, It's Raining Newsletters

I have the same perspective.

Last night I had probably 20 tabs open on Reddit that I wanted to read. Didn’t have the time to look through them all so I bookmarked them in Pinboard, closed the tab, and moved on with my life.

Will I ever read them? Probably not, but it’s nice knowing they’re not lost in my internet history and that I could.

shortcordon Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?

I’ve read more this year than I have in the past few years.

A few I especially enjoyed: - The Effectivd Executive - How to Win Friends and Influence People - Never Split the Difference - Code Simplicity - Atomic Habits - The Lessons of History - Superhuman by Habit - The Coaching Habit - On the Shortness of Life - Deep Survival - Desiring the Kingdom - Masters of Doom

You can check out the full list at my Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/50310109-paul-cook?ord...

Planning on diving more into history and biography in 2019 if anyone has any recommendations on that front.

shortcordon Reflections on DOOM's Development

DOOM was before my time, but I really enjoyed Masters of Doom which is the story of id up to right before DOOM III. Wil Wheaton did a fantastic job with the audiobook.

shortcordon Show HN: Edabit – Like Duolingo for Learning to Code

I’m confused as to how anyone would think this is alright to do.

shortcordon Ask HN: Ever been the last engineer at a failing startup?

If you don't mind me asking, how have you not completely recovered? Were there negative repercussions you finding employment elsewhere?

shortcordon Ask HN: Best Hacker News client for iOS?

I use MiniHack, as well.

One thing I don’t like is it can be difficult to click on links in comments. It often clicks on the overall comment rather than the link.