Hacker News: AtNightWeCode

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "A case for Go as the best language for AI agents"

AtNightWeCode — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:48:22 +0000

My experience is that AI agents are not that good with Go. Not sure why but I think it is down to the low code quality of many major open source projects in Go.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Layoffs at Block"

AtNightWeCode — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:44:19 +0000

In this market it is probably smarter to fire a large block of people. Chances are good that you can rehire some where you went too aggressive. Sucks for the people that got laid off though.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Layoffs at Block"

AtNightWeCode — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 09:21:01 +0000

And also not doing it on a Friday.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

AtNightWeCode — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:42:51 +0000

Very good. I agree with most of it. One thing I disagree with is "The senior engineers I respect most have learned to trade cleverness for clarity, every time.". This sounds like the anti-pattern "design for lowest competence" or similar. This is a big trap. A little bit of magic is often better than clarity. Junior devs should learn to follow the rules and how things work without the actual need for deeper understanding.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

AtNightWeCode — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:32:20 +0000

What a complete moron. This is why every senior dev hates these idiots in mid management. The kids know better? Yeah right. The new kids knows nothing. Recognizing how things work is not knowledge.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Avoid UUID Version 4 Primary Keys in Postgres"

AtNightWeCode — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:02:09 +0000

The counter argument I would say is that having all these integer ids comes with many problems. You can't make em public cause they leak info. They are not unique across environments. Meaning you have to spin up a lot of bs envs to just run it. But retros are for complaining about test envs, right?

Uuid4 are only 224bits is a bs argument. Such a made up problem.

But a fair point is that one should use a sequential uuid to avoid fragmentation. One that has a time part.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros"

AtNightWeCode — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:46:18 +0000

Sounds like something a buyer would say. Surely Netflix can handle HBO traffic better and cheaper. Maybe HBO are stuck in some deals. But it is a no-brainer to trash the HBO backend over time.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

AtNightWeCode — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:30:47 +0000

Not missing working with LUA in proxies. I think this is no big thing. They rolled back the change fairly quickly. Still bad but that outage mid November was worse since it was many bad decisions stacking up and it took too long time to resolve.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Claude Opus 4.5"

AtNightWeCode — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:06:49 +0000

The cost of tokens in the docs is pretty much a worthless metric for these models. Only way to go is to plug it in and test it. My experience is that Claude is an expert at wasting tokens on nonsense. Easily 5x up on output tokens comparing to ChatGPT and then consider that Claude waste about 2-3x of tokens more by default.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

AtNightWeCode — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 15:29:56 +0000

Maybe I am too cynical but the story sounds fake. And I would not be surprised if this is some way of manipulating the market.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold"

AtNightWeCode — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 11:16:02 +0000

Sounds like some sort of scam to me. The item is probably correct but the price seems way too high.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

AtNightWeCode — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:19:05 +0000

Exactly. The newbie mistake in SQL is also way worse than this. But the whole design is also bad. Clearly implementing things at the wrong place.

And, it took like over an hour between the problem started til my sites went down. That is just crazy.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

AtNightWeCode — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:05:40 +0000

So they made a newbie mistake in SQL that would not even pass an AI review. They did not verify the change in a test environment. And I guess the logs are so full of errors it is hard to pinpoint which matters. Yikes.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Structured outputs on the Claude Developer Platform"

AtNightWeCode — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 15:45:58 +0000

Does it even help? Get the name of some person => {"name":"Here is the name. Einstein." }

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

AtNightWeCode — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:39:52 +0000

I care less and less about things like this. At some point you will write code in some lang that have fancy keywords and stuff gets mutated anyway. Also, what people tends to do if stuff is immutable is that they hide mutation by doing deep copies with changes.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Keep Android Open"

AtNightWeCode — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:30:55 +0000

This battle was lost a looong time ago. The effort it takes to keep up with all the shenanigans of Google and that play store is way worse than these new changes.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

AtNightWeCode — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:52:18 +0000

I looked into this before and the stocks of these large corps simply does not move when outages happens. Maybe intra-day, I don't have that data, but in general no effect.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

AtNightWeCode — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:23:28 +0000

From Azure status page: "Customers can consider implementing failover strategies with Azure Traffic Manager, to fail over from Azure Front Door to your origins".

What a terrible advise.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

AtNightWeCode — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:18:04 +0000

Earnings report today. A coincidence?

I can at least login to Azure. But several MS sites are down.

New comment by AtNightWeCode in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

AtNightWeCode — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:37:21 +0000

Still don't get why on earth anybody would run a Docker version of MinIO in production. And why is this even a problem. Not like you put a private storage service on the Internet? Or do you? The incompetence of the average HN user is just mind blowing.