Hacker News: Dansvidania

New comment by Dansvidania in "Cannibalism"

Dansvidania — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:36:25 +0000

Doesn’t the article make the argument that since you can write tests this is not as much of a problem for code gen ?

Its arguable whether it is a foolproof solution (I don’t think so) but it definitely makes it look like you can build a harness around the stochastic machine that will validate the correctness of the generated randomness.

Monkeys and typewriters when you can quickly validate whether it’s Shakespeare or not is a costly but theoretically feasible scenario. No?

New comment by Dansvidania in "Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?"

Dansvidania — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:07:49 +0000

Software engineering, Computer Science and Coding are not the same, even though there is overlap.

AI might (I have doubts) be quite capable at coding, but it is still quite poor at software engineering.

Even assuming that it does become good at software engineering, it is still worth knowing it yourself to check the tools, know what they are doing, etc. Think of a civil engineer. They are not calculating static forces on pillars manually anymore for a while, they use computer programs for that, but they still need to understand the math behind it. I believe there will always be, at the very very least, a similar relationship between software engineering and coding agents.

Problem solving techniques are going to be applied at different levels, but they are still going to be valuable and - in my opinion - even necessary.

New comment by Dansvidania in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

Dansvidania — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:43:25 +0000

so many cyberpunk tropes are coming true...

New comment by Dansvidania in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

Dansvidania — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:39:04 +0000

Staff level software developer looking to move away from megacorps. Worked in automation, integration and API domains, latest in Kotlin. Generalist backend dev prepared to do frontend - cautiously AI assisted frontend especially - whenever needed and familiar with ops/infra. Happy to explore new stacks especially on the functional spectrum.

  Location: CZ, EU
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: no
  Technologies: Kotlin, Clojure, Java, Golang
  Resume on request
  Email: tzedek_081@icloud.com

New comment by Dansvidania in "Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek"

Dansvidania — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:39:32 +0000

Silly question but if I remember correctly salmon go back to reproduce where they spawned. This suggests that once access is cut up a river, that location loses its salmon (can’t get there, so they don’t reproduce?)

Do they artificially reintroduce the salmon once access is restored or does that “neighbourhood” of salmon somehow survives and keeps trying every year ?

New comment by Dansvidania in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

Dansvidania — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:00:07 +0000

Can you give an example (even if contrived) of how that would have looked ? I’m very curious !

New comment by Dansvidania in "Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching"

Dansvidania — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:11:09 +0000

when everything else fails...

New comment by Dansvidania in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

Dansvidania — Wed, 20 May 2026 10:42:46 +0000

sorry if it's a stupid question, but isn't generating valid json tool call in the middle of prose the way tool calling works? what is that missing?

New comment by Dansvidania in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

Dansvidania — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:30:38 +0000

The personification in this article is cringeworthy and it makes me doubt that the person (?) that wrote it understand what an agent is and how it works.

Random.

New comment by Dansvidania in "Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent"

Dansvidania — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:28:54 +0000

What irony? This is a design tool, it does not make you good at design.

New comment by Dansvidania in "I prefer OG style websites – what are yours?"

Dansvidania — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:27:08 +0000

Why is it awful? Most barebones websites are naturally responsive..

New comment by Dansvidania in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

Dansvidania — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:50:15 +0000

I have been in a Microsoft adjacent company (meaning lots of people bounced to and from Microsoft to it) and all this makes a lot of sense. The almost ideological “everything in house” and politically oriented philosophy they had fits like a glove. Some of the ex Microsoft people hated it, some of them missed it. But the picture they made was pretty bleak.

Given how windows is going what’s described in the article doesn’t seem so shocking either. Even though they need not be correlated products, I can’t help but seeing a similar shortsightedness in the playbooks they are adopting.

New comment by Dansvidania in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

Dansvidania — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:45:23 +0000

I see what you did there

New comment by Dansvidania in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

Dansvidania — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:17:43 +0000

the microsoft playbook

New comment by Dansvidania in "March, 19-21: God is a comedian"

Dansvidania — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:38:16 +0000

This feels like the end of a civ game.

New comment by Dansvidania in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

Dansvidania — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 06:41:47 +0000

Why shouldn’t they? Or do you mean it is not required for US citizens?

New comment by Dansvidania in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

Dansvidania — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:35:21 +0000

Youd expect them to have a checklist too though.

New comment by Dansvidania in "Cannabinoids remove plaque-forming Alzheimer's proteins from brain cells (2016)"

Dansvidania — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:54:28 +0000

They can’t all be winners, right?

Here. Take my upvotes to balance it out a smidge.

New comment by Dansvidania in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

Dansvidania — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:44:51 +0000

> There's a huge hypocrisy in wanting others to pollute less, yet still have a lifestyle that pollutes, but just less than those polluting the most

> And I'll never ever take a single lesson about pollution from anyone who had two kids or more.

New comment by Dansvidania in "You need to rewrite your CLI for AI agents"

Dansvidania — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:37:06 +0000

In the meantime I need to go through captcha to access the blog…