Hacker News: KptMarchewa

New comment by KptMarchewa in "AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software"

KptMarchewa — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:29:29 +0000

>This is software that would not existed without coding agents: https://fluximp.org

> FluxImp is an AI agent harness

That is a tautology

New comment by KptMarchewa in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

KptMarchewa — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:22:24 +0000

No.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

KptMarchewa — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:50:10 +0000

We've all seen best people confidently produce shit throughout the history, before the LLMs.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

KptMarchewa — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:48:38 +0000

AWS will happily sell you instances based on 12 year old Haswell.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

KptMarchewa — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:42:41 +0000

It is a good code viewer but way too heavy if you want to switch between branches often on a sufficiently large product.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

KptMarchewa — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:58:55 +0000

I actually attended high school in that way in Poland, despite it being very rare here. I was 15 when I started. While I think it was great for me, I would not recommend doing it for younger people - you need some basic emotional maturity and safety.

Even then, it would not solve any problems here, really.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

KptMarchewa — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 09:02:47 +0000

That still works up to like age 7. It really is needed for that age up to ~18, which means you can get with providing that service for ~15 years (multiple children) and then going back to smaller apartments.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

KptMarchewa — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:46:20 +0000

>I still see construction workers drinking a can at 6:30pm however.

You mean AM, right?

New comment by KptMarchewa in "The senior engineer death spiral"

KptMarchewa — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:41:50 +0000

It is still good advice at early to mid stages of career. You can get into senior level much faster, and potentially learn much more, since you're less pigeonholed into current role, and you see more of how other organizations work.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible"

KptMarchewa — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:28:19 +0000

God no. This has pretty much all of the slop elements save for jizz drops. Paint brush strokes, icon -> caption -> text, ai divisors... pretty much zero effort, compared to OP's posters.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "Blizzard Revives 'StarCraft' Franchise with Open-World Sci-Fi Shooter"

KptMarchewa — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:54:38 +0000

I'm okay with them generating some popularity with the franchise. That would benefit any potential RTS later.

2030 though... isn't that like 8 years away?

New comment by KptMarchewa in "Temporal raises $550M at a $12.55B valuation"

KptMarchewa — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:28:33 +0000

The fintech (now bank) that I worked in couple of years ago utilized this pattern pretty effectively.

The overhead of doing something in this way is quite large, but, as this handled literal money, it was definitely worth it.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

KptMarchewa — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:22:16 +0000

> You go to your bank website and obtain a random number, either allowing a single transaction or a recurring transaction. You give the merchant the number. After merchant charges it, no other merchant can charge the same number.

That's basically how Blik works in Poland. With the exception being that the number is random 6 digits randomly generated when you open the app, that is active for ~2 minutes. So you don't deal with the issue of very long and error prone numbers to copy.

Much better way to pay online.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blik

New comment by KptMarchewa in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

KptMarchewa — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:55:05 +0000

isn't chat a cat in france

New comment by KptMarchewa in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

KptMarchewa — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:54:13 +0000

Chat Jippity.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "Getting your hands dirty is good for you"

KptMarchewa — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:44:39 +0000

That interpretation does make sense. Just heating the sauna can take even longer.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "Why getting your hands dirty is good for you"

KptMarchewa — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 13:43:51 +0000

>I don't think anyone is capable to sit in a 90-100C sauna for a whole hour without breaks, otherwise with breaks I surely have been in a sauna for more than an hour.

Yes, I definitely do agree with that. I too love what you're describing - we have some of that in Poland too :)

However, I was not sure if we're talking about it - or some American version I know only from various memes - where people are coming in with phones and in shoes.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "Getting your hands dirty is good for you"

KptMarchewa — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:13:38 +0000

Do you mean you literally sit in the sauna for hour?

New comment by KptMarchewa in "Asahi Linux on M3"

KptMarchewa — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:27:28 +0000

It's already established that no one cares. Laundering through AI is okay.

New comment by KptMarchewa in "GPT-6 Astra on OpenRouter"

KptMarchewa — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 06:26:15 +0000

the only thing that matters is cost per task. Astra seems to be massively efficient.