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Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:11AM (#50350514)
My experience has been the opposite, the HN crowd seems more sketical of vibe-coding and not reading a single line of code.

The twitter(x.com) and linkedin crowd has drank the cool-aid and are now swimming in it; Wild posts from FAANG engineers and managers saying they or their engineers dont read any of the code the LLM generates.

Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:14AM (#50348675)
>With Amazon, a carpenter can type in any furniture he wants and have it arrive in a matter of hours. Sure but that doesnt require him to be a carpenter though right? Anybody could do that.
Re:Resisting Cognitive Surrender on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @12:39AM (#50348503)
i sometimes wonder how all carpenters or music producers in the world would react if tomorrow a magic box arrives where they type-in/dictate what they want and voila... out comes a table/composition.. Will the worlds music producers and carpenters just "accept" this new magic genie? I would hope they wont. Yet here we are...
Re:The Agent SDK on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:51AM (#50274665)
>runtime that runs the LLM with tools

This "runtime" is what you are building with LangChain.. A harness like claude code/codex etc is general purpose and its env is a shell + tools. But with a custom runtime (basically a loop where we ask llm what to do next), we can give it specific tools which we define in code. This can help with things like authorization since, well its custom code you own.. so the runtime gets the tools scoped to the users permissions etc.

Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:23AM (#50196676)
I use linode and have nothing but praises for their service.

>Actually I will move my projects away from Railway

If you want a railway like experience, i have been building an opensource alternative to railway: https://github.com/axernel-labs/stackdome . Its mit-licensed and can run on a single vps to full-scale k8s clusters.

Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Thursday October 22, 2026 @11:19AM (#50196619)
If you are open to self hosting and want a railway like experience, i have been building stackdome: https://github.com/axernel-labs/stackdome . Its mit-licensed and can run on cheap vps's to large k8s clusters.
The installer script installs k3s which is a lightweight distribution of k8s which runs in a single binary. It has a low resource footprint and is well suited for running on VPS boxes. While its not as light as plain docker/docker-compose, its a small price to pay for the ecosystem and tooling k8s brings.

Show HN: Stackdome – An open source self-hostable Railway alternative on K8s

https://stackdome.com

Hello Hacker News, this is Ashish.We started building Stackdome in 2024 as a hobby project. The idea was to package the tooling in the CNCF/cloud-native ecosystem into an opinionated platform, so that developers can get a well engineered platform without learning Kubernetes YAMLology or a dozen other projects from the CNCF landscape.Railway and Render did this well for their hosted products. I...

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Re:I Didn't Need Kubernetes, and You Probably Don't Either on Wednesday November 27, 2024 @01:25AM (#42253487)
Exactly. I've come to describe k8s as a distributed operating system for servers.

K8s tries to abstract away individual "servers" and gives you an API to interact with all the compute/storage in the cluster.

Re:Interface Upgrades in Go on Sunday June 23, 2024 @10:03AM (#40767537)
+1 to this. Especially with go, most of the (non-integration) tests I end up writing are behaviour driven tests. I'm not really sure how one can write these sort of tests without interfaces and mocks.
Could you elaborate a little bit more? These days i write a lot of go code and i end up using mock objects for different interfaces to write unit tests. Is there another way to do this?
Re:Ask HN: Does GPT-4 have emergent intelligence? on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @04:55AM (#35522552)
Care to explain the reasoning behind your "no"?
Re:Ask HN: Interesting movies that explore AI? on Sunday December 11, 2022 @04:38PM (#33947838)
Ex machina
Re:Ask HN: How to get out of making CRUD apps? on Monday September 12, 2022 @04:43PM (#32816647)
Thanks for making me chuckle. Good one :)
Re:Blockchain Is Puny on Saturday June 26, 2021 @01:16PM (#27643755)
I'm no expert in crypto. But how would people know that your public key belongs to "you" ?
Do we have evidence that the virus has mutated into something more deadly? Such mutation is clearly not beneficial to the virus. My guess would be that the virus mutated into something with a higher R-0. Read more about the optimal virulence here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal_virulence
Re:Darker Corners of Go on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:07AM (#26553568)
I learned Go as my first statically typed language(Worked on ruby and some python before that). Although I missed the functional goodies from Ruby in Go, I thought that was the price I had to pay for performance and static checking guarantees.. Nevertheless, I enjoyed writing Go and its take on writing concurrent programs. As others have called it, I thought of Go as "modern C with garbage collection and first class concurrency primitives".

All this changed when I started learning Rust, man was I blown away by the language.. I never thought a statically typed language with manual memory management can feel so "scripting language" like.(Sure the borrow checker annoys you sometimes, nothing a `.clone()` can't fix when you are starting out). I truly enjoy writing Rust these days and never have I missed anything major from Ruby.

I'll be damned if I sit here and criticize Ken Thompson and Rob Pike, but I feel like in their quest to make Go "simple" they've perhaps held a little too hard on to their past.

tldr; Go feels a little too verbose and "dated" after learning rust.

Re:Distributed Systems: A free online class on Monday March 22, 2021 @06:27AM (#26538884)
Thank you so much. I don't see many of these courses listed on youtube in their official mit ocw website. I wonder why..
Re:Learning Without Burnout on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @03:57AM (#26474065)
Couldn't agree more.. Reading CLRS cover to cover and reading SICP cover to cover are two different things.
Re:Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @03:28AM (#25998524)
I would think so. Can anyone eli5 why statically linking binaries is a big deal? Even light weight container oriented linux distributions like alpine ship with musl. In which scenario would it find it use cases?
Re:Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD on Tuesday February 02, 2021 @12:33AM (#25997731)
So does that mean no statically linked binaries since glibc can't be statically linked?
Yes, but we already know about the rules which govern evolution, its the laws of physics.
Read the Blind Watchmaker and then The Selfish Gene. These books should help you understand the science behind life's existence.(For the uninitiated)
Re:Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes? on Thursday January 21, 2021 @02:09AM (#25856340)
Now the programmer just waits till the stack blows up to get his free drink.
Re:Ask HN: Am I a Bad Programmer? on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:57AM (#25656218)
Please can you elaborate on the objective measures of code quality part? Do you mean to use static analysis tools like code climate? Also, if you don't mind can you share some good reads/books which cover these topics? Thanks

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