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Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @08:37AM (#50258203)
Stay in school.
Re:There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability on Thursday October 22, 2026 @05:54AM (#50193311)
How about trying to verify the claims with your own brain? It seems you missed the main point of the article.
Re:A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew on Thursday October 08, 2026 @07:15AM (#50004429)
It's on the frontpage of HN in 2026, of course it's vibecoded.
Good news, MTP support is already included in this release. Not sure why they haven't made this clearer.
Re:Hugging Face: Anatomy of a frontier-lab agent intrusion on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @12:33PM (#49099665)
This looks exactly like every other web UI built by Claude.
The subject matter is interesting but the amount of slop makes it difficult to read through. Yeah, it's great that you can throw your technical problems at Claude without caring much about the generated output but treating your own writing that you actually want to share with the world the same way is a terrible idea.
LLM-generated slop about LLM-generated slop, wonderful.
A month ago the company I work at with over 400 engineers decided to cancel all IDE subscriptions (Visual Studio, JetBrains, Windsurf, etc.) and move everyone over to Claude Code as a "cost-saving measure" (along with firing a bunch of test engineers). There was no migration plan - the EVP of Technology just gave a demo showing 2 greenfield projects he'd built with Claude Opus over a weekend and told everyone to copy how he worked. A week later the EVP had to send out an email telling people to stop using Opus because they were burning through too many tokens.

Claude seems to be getting nerfed every week since we've switched. I wonder how our EVP is feeling now.

>I think though that the day is coming where I can trust the code it produces and at that point I'll just by writing specs. It's not there yet though.

Must be nice to still have that choice. At the company I work for they've just announced they're cancelling all subscriptions to JetBrains, Visual Studio, Windsurf, etc. and forcing every engineer to use Claude Code as a cost-saving measure. We've been told we should be writing prompts for Claude instead of working in IDEs now.

Re:Agents that run while I sleep on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @08:14PM (#47330407)
This account constantly posts LLM-generated comments.
Re:Haskell for all: Beyond agentic coding on Sunday February 08, 2026 @09:05AM (#46934289)
A "you're holding it wrong" with the implication that the author is a bad engineer as the cherry on top. Brilliant stuff.
Re:I Avoid Async/Await on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:26AM (#31051483)
Now maybe it’s just my familiarity with Promises, but I look at the third example and I can quickly see an opportunity.

This entire article is built around the author's ignorance and could easily be summarised as "I avoid async/await syntax because I'm more familiar with promises". The author doesn't even appear to understand that async/await is syntactic sugar for promises.

Corporate greed has no bounds.
Re:Apps of a Feather on Friday April 06, 2018 @06:03PM (#16777863)
I've clicked that action every single time I've seen it for at least the past year and it still continues to show the very thing I want to see less often. It's absolutely infuriating.
Re:Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:17AM (#15399001)
A wonderful surprise to see Phaser on that list!
Re:Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner on Thursday September 14, 2017 @07:02AM (#15246726)
I love this idea, congratulations on the launch.
Off-topic but is anyone else unable to scroll on this page?
Re:Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use? on Monday February 20, 2017 @04:29PM (#13691107)
Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet - Xcode!

The frequent plain text display of code, freezes and outright crashes really makes me feel like Apple has a completely different internal tool for iOS/macOS development.

Re:Ask HN: Coding notes – how do you do them? on Thursday February 02, 2017 @09:31AM (#13550708)
Great insight, thanks for posting.
Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @04:39PM (#13475800)
Interesting. Thanks for the detailed response!
Re:What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007) on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @03:30PM (#13475173)
Can you elaborate on how you implemented those servers? Would you still use Clojure or Go for them now? If not, what alternative do you suggest?
Re:Simplify Your Message, and Repeat Often on Monday November 28, 2016 @03:33PM (#13058159)
Thanks for posting about this, more people should know about it!
For those unfamiliar with how the Raft protocol works (as I was) this site[1] provides a great step by step visualization.

1. http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

Re:Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects on Wednesday July 06, 2016 @11:54AM (#12043876)
I highly recommend Scaleway. https://www.scaleway.com/

Ask HN: How do I choose the right set of tools for web app development?

I have an idea for a side project that is essentially a web app but I'm struggling to find the right tools for the job.The number of frameworks/libraries for web app development is quite overwhelming and it's difficult to determine which one I should be using.Should I go the "pure" route with React and its related libraries (Redux, etc.)? Should I use something that tries to provide everything...

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