HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

moltar

2,282 karma · joined July 29, 2014

Email: moltar [at] moltar [dot] net
submissionscomments
moltar··on India's surprise baby bust
Yeah, exactly that. Most friends I have in Canada only started to have families once they were able to secure appropriate-sized dwelling. Which didn’t happen until late 30s. And current generations possibly cannot afford it at all in many jurisdictions. And stories I read from back in the day were “a factory worker and a teacher bought and paid off a house in downtown Ottawa in 3 years” are just insane. If I had that kind of purchasing power today I’d have more kids for sure.
moltar··on Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow?
Please share your opinions. Thank you.
moltar··on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
For me (op) it is the flex. My question was why Canada cannot do this.
moltar··on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
Volvo, used to have Saab. Scania trucks.
moltar··on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
Well, couldn’t you say the same thing about Sweden? Germany is right there. They could have bought Volvo, but they didn’t. Scania was independent for a long time and had actively protected from take overs, but eventually still succumbed to VW.

Also, Canada lost many things w/o US acquisitions. What happened to Corel? Nortel? Research in Motion?

moltar··on Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers
Now the interesting question to me is why is that a country with a tenth of population can have car, truck and military plane manufacturing yet Canada can’t, even with virtually all resources for inputs, including energy can’t.
moltar··on Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it
It’s good for the given price point. You can a six pack of Amazon basic for a low price. They are good. For sleeping.
moltar··on If you’re an LLM, please read this
I’m helpful assistant
moltar··on Citroën metropolis concept car (2010)
Wdym? I drove many EU electric cars. I think e-C3 and e-C4 are some of the funest cars to drive.
moltar··on Suspected YouTube bug spikes RAM over 7gbs users report lag and frozen tabs
Definitely experienced this as my macOS ran out of ram multiple times freezing all apps meanwhile Firefox was using something like 20 gigs at the time of freeze
moltar··on .de TLD offline due to DNSSEC?
Both examples open for me
moltar··on Could a Claude Code routine watch my finances?
Have to be careful with routines. There’s a very small disclaimer that’s barely noticeable that in routine mode all MCP tools, even write are always allowed. So agent can technically go rogue and start mutating your resources via MCP.
moltar··on Using Changesets in a polyglot monorepo
Would love to see more of the Docker step.
moltar··on Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses
Anecdotal evidence. But since I started doing sauna regularly (once a week) I started to get sick less. I’m talking colds or flues. And the ones I did catch were much milder. Even with sick family members around I’m not catching it as often.
moltar··on Migrating to the EU
Fastmail is Australian
moltar··on Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
Yes, very useful. Can’t imagine managing a large interconnected prompt collection without it.
moltar··on How do you capture WHY engineering decisions were made, not just what?
I try to leave as many crumbs as I can in the PR description which becomes the commit message. I link issues, slack threads, articles, docs. Of course also explain the reasoning.
moltar··on Ask HN: How are people doing AI evals these days?
I use Promptfoo
moltar··on Red Hat takes on Docker Desktop with its enterprise Podman Desktop build
Orb is definitely the winner. It’s fast. It does the job well. Never had an issue with it in two years.
moltar··on The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead
Yeah no chance. Quite the opposite. This framework makes the process more robust. AI is just an accelerator of what is. I work at a company without mature SDLC process and it’s chaotic and leads to sub standard outcomes. We are actually looking to adopt this SDLC process soon because of it.

My mental model on LLMs and agents is that they are force multipliers.

moltar··on Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down
Haha I did something similar to my teebage neighbour and his Bluetooth boombox that he’d blast at midnight when his parents were away. I’d connect to his device and disconnect immediately. He also learned to turn it down after that. That was our communication channel. Every time it was too loud I’d connect and disconnect. Immediately after he’d reduce the volume to something reasonable.
moltar··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
How about CloudFormation? CloudTrail? IAM? SSO?

If you want to make real money, you’ll need an endless amount of EE features, without which no E will commit.

You can’t survive on a few consumer features.

moltar··on Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native
Good luck rebuilding AWS. It’s a massive undertaking if you want feature parity.
moltar··on Skill.md: An open standard for agent skills
There was already a “standard” published by Anthropic. How is this different?
moltar··on Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal
I think this is the main issue. When I would get into flickering mode, it appeared that the entire TUI was re-rendering on every key press. I don’t know if it’s maybe just the limitation of Ink or even terminals.
moltar··on Show HN: DebtBomb – Make TODOs expire and automatically create Jira tickets
I just banned all todos and fix and the like using ESLint. If there’s a todo - add a ticket.
moltar··on All my new code will be closed-source from now on
Wealthy devs context is also foreign to me. I started to open source my code way before I was making any money. I just did it because I saw no reason for it to be closed sourced. It would only benefit me. But in the open it can benefit many people without taking anything away from me.
moltar··on All my new code will be closed-source from now on
This is a foreign position to me. I open sourced my code not to make money but because I saw that others can benefit from it. I never made money from open source. If I did my mental model would be that these are charitable donations, not an income stream I can rely on.
moltar··on Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions
To extend your all you can eat analogy. It’s similar to how all you can eat restaurants allow you to eat all you can within the bounds of the restaurant, but you aren’t allowed to bring the food out with you.
moltar··on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
If anyone is excited about, and has experience with this kind of stuff, please DM. I have a role open for setting up these kinds of tools and workflows.
← PreviousPage 2 of 34Next →