Hacker News: Otek

New comment by Otek in "Now is the best time to be a duct tape engineer"

Otek — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:33:13 +0000

> What I wanted was to say “hey Siri, call Claw Phone” and have the audio system in my Toyota become an IDE. So I build it.

Or just focus on driving? Why we are doing it to ourselves? It seems so toxic to fill every possible little moment with… productivity? Is it even productive?

This comment is too emotional but i just felt so sad while reading this

New comment by Otek in "Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets"

Otek — Wed, 20 May 2026 08:07:55 +0000

Yes? I mean it depends probably but by default - yes

Perplexity says its AI agent cut Rho's weekly meeting time by 90%

Otek — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:06:02 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/perplexity_ai/status/2056749555346235704

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48199641

Points: 1

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New comment by Otek in "Do_not_track"

Otek — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:16:02 +0000

Exactly, new “standard” won’t fix it

New comment by Otek in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

Otek — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:49:49 +0000

? Do you know what “source” means in open source? Like, what is the source of the binary? It’s the code. That’s the source in open source.

New comment by Otek in "Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.0"

Otek — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:13:58 +0000

Running what exactly? Older iOS versions? Android?

New comment by Otek in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

Otek — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:25:21 +0000

> Are local models anywhere close to gaining enough capability and traction to do it in-house?

Cloud providers will always be able to offer more performance and more powerful options.

New comment by Otek in "iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA"

Otek — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:29:55 +0000

> The side loading stuff I can understand to restrict to the EU

Just curious: why do you understand they restrict it to EU?

New comment by Otek in "Why Twilio Segment moved from microservices back to a monolith"

Otek — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:56:44 +0000

I 100% agree with you but also sad fact is that it’s easy to understand why people don’t want to take this role. You can make enemies easily, you need to deliver “bad news” and convince people to put more effort or prove that effort they did was not enough. Why bother when you probably won’t be the one that have to clean it up

New comment by Otek in "Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything"

Otek — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:36:48 +0000

99% marketing 1% product Sorry…

New comment by Otek in "Programming peaked"

Otek — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:58:04 +0000

> And these decisions have changed over time for the wrong reasons.

Have you ever considered that you don’t understand why those decisions were made and that’s why you think they were made for the wrong reasons?

New comment by Otek in "Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC"

Otek — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 12:53:59 +0000

FYI you can add a matte layer yourself on any screen

New comment by Otek in "Project Fucking Sucks"

Otek — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 23:26:50 +0000

I love those paragraph so much. Thank you.

“In this article, I’m going to be making an argument for gatekeeping. Not people, but culture, which is always worth defending. I’m not advocating for elitism, credentialism, or hostility towards beginners.

Instead, I say we should band together and defend the norms, values, quality standards, and our shared understanding of what open–source is for.”

I think this is very important distinction that should be understood broader.

New comment by Otek in "Steam Machine"

Otek — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:38:05 +0000

This is true also for steam deck but it’s a success anyway. COD, Fortnite, LoL players can stay on windows. I’m happy to play newest indie game on my Linux machine

New comment by Otek in "Show HN: I built a local-first daily planner for iOS"

Otek — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:12:06 +0000

Weird. Things3 seems to be doing great without it

New comment by Otek in "Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%"

Otek — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:52:44 +0000

But then you have to maintain it yourself, which overall usually wilk be more work than just migrating from time to time

New comment by Otek in "Modern Linux tools"

Otek — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:21:53 +0000

This is 2023 article. As with most “modern tools” half of them probably already have some newer, shinier and more trendy replacements

New comment by Otek in "Vibe engineering"

Otek — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:00:48 +0000

What’s the point of this kind of division? Should developers who use JetBrains instead of Vim be called something different too? Or if one person uses Google and another relies on a book, are they somehow different kinds of engineers? What are we actually trying to achieve with this distinction? Vibe coder is not engineer because the person doing it doesn’t really interact with the code. But the tools a professional engineer uses for assistance shouldn’t matter at all, should they?

New comment by Otek in "It's not a hack to satisfy known requirements"

Otek — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:30:13 +0000

The question “what if it happens” is important but useless without “how likely is that to happen” and “if it will happen how much time we need to cover for it”

Folke/sidekick.nvim – Your Neovim AI sidekick

Otek — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 19:29:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/folke/sidekick.nvim

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45442168

Points: 9

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