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New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "The special hell of Bolt, Europe's Uber clone"

4hg4ufxhy — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 21:23:35 +0000

I think it's a drivers market. When the ridesharing apps cannot afford to fire drivers in fear of losing market share, that allows the drivers to pull of scummy behaviour for maxing profit. I heard uber drivers go out of their way for 5 star reviews in America. Sounds like the balance of power is on the plaforms side over there and in some specific markets in Europe.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "I tried vibe coding in BASIC and it didn't go well"

4hg4ufxhy — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 12:50:06 +0000

There is a reason to go the extra mile for juniors. They eventually learn and become seniors. With AI I'd rather just do it myself and be done with it.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "An average human breathes out roughly 1kg of carbon dioxide a day"

4hg4ufxhy — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 14:57:13 +0000

Eat less. But don't worry.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Japanese grandparents create life-size Totoro with bus stop for grandkids (2020)"

4hg4ufxhy — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 22:58:21 +0000

It seems quite common. I happened to drive past one in Taiwan. It's still special so I don't think that meme applies.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Data on AI-related Show HN posts"

4hg4ufxhy — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 23:28:59 +0000

I was probably misusing the term in that case. I have a negative and pessimstic view about AI, but I think humanity will be fine.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Data on AI-related Show HN posts"

4hg4ufxhy — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 21:24:16 +0000

Mostly I just find discussions about/including it tiring, uninteresting and predictable.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Data on AI-related Show HN posts"

4hg4ufxhy — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:42:57 +0000

This is show HN. From articles and discussions it feels more than half being about AI. As an AI doomer the interesting content on HN has plummetted.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice"

4hg4ufxhy — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 08:45:41 +0000

That would already be great progress. For context Ubisofts the Crew shutdown only after 3 months of stopping sales.

It could also work as a deterrent on making dedicated servers only architecture. If you can disable dedicated servers instantly(instead of 2 years) but enable private servers that might be more cost efficient.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice"

4hg4ufxhy — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 08:36:29 +0000

Why not apply it to Saas? If you sold lifetime licenses and you don't want to run it anymore, just let your customers self host it. Even better if you can open source it.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice"

4hg4ufxhy — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 08:20:13 +0000

You shouldn't blame consumers that you failed to negotioate proper terms for your licenses. Maybe having legislation to point at will help you out to get more reasonable terms.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

4hg4ufxhy — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 03:37:32 +0000

It depends on the domain. Any complex long lived mutable state, precise memory management or visual rendering probably benefits from debuggers.

Most people who work on crud services do not see any benefit from it, as there is practically nothing going on. Observing input, outputs and databases is usually enough, and when it's not a well placed log will suffice. Debuggers will also not help you in distributed environments, which are quite common with microservices.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "The magic of through running"

4hg4ufxhy — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:16:11 +0000

Typically trains are powered from above, and subways are powered from the rails. Perhaps this is the distinction, rather than running underground.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Ask HN: How do I give back to people helped me when I was young and had nothing?"

4hg4ufxhy — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:45:27 +0000

I'd do separate one on ones. A big one gives off main character vibes.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Congratulations on creating the one billionth repository on GitHub"

4hg4ufxhy — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:09:51 +0000

What would be the issue with global lock? I think repo creation is a very rare event when measured in computer time.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "My first attempt at iOS app development"

4hg4ufxhy — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 00:36:20 +0000

I think he is implying that that is neutral, not a loss. It is opportunity cost.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Track Errors First"

4hg4ufxhy — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:03:14 +0000

It's not about being easily testable, it's about being in an invalid state for an unexpected reason, you can't test that trivially.

You can try to avoid it by architecture or abstractions, but it only works to some extent.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

4hg4ufxhy — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:24:04 +0000

My coworkers are burning 10k/month on cursor.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Lessons from Mixing Rust and Java: Fast, Safe, and Practical"

4hg4ufxhy — Sun, 18 May 2025 12:52:27 +0000

The bindings are inefficient doing excessive cloning. But if performance is not a concern then its fine.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "Help Me Help You, Maintainers"

4hg4ufxhy — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:29:11 +0000

If that software has some thousand of users it has made a lot of money. Your report and the fix is in their best interest to stay competetive in the market.

18 dollars for a feature request pales in comparison. Even if it was a 1 line fix it wouldn't be economical work.

New comment by 4hg4ufxhy in "We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly"

4hg4ufxhy — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:02:48 +0000

I'd imagine it's more common that a frontend dev moves to backend dev role.

From my experience a fullstack dev can be a lot more productive than two separate devs when it comes to adhoc work like bugfixes and adding small features.

Also they tend to have very good API design skills, since they understand both sides intimately.