Hacker News: Otek

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

# Comments: 1

New comment by Otek in "Ask HN: How Do You Journal?"

Otek — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 15:22:58 +0000

I don’t stick to one tool. I rarely go back to what I wrote in the past but I found that the process od journaling is valuable enough. If I have my paper notebook at hand, I’ll use that. I sometimes write something in Apple Notes or Apple journal app.

If I were to recommend one: go with paper. But regardless of the tool: don’t treat it as “one precious journal that have to be perfect”. Missed a note? Don’t feel shame. Don feel like writing? Just note a one sentence.

Good luck!

New comment by Otek in "Kruci: Post-mortem of a UI library"

Otek — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 21:11:01 +0000

Last place I would expect to find klocuch reference

New comment by Otek in "Amazonq.nvim: Official AWS AI Assistant Plugin for Neovim"

Otek — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:54:40 +0000

Please do more official AI assistant plugins for Neovim

New comment by Otek in "Notes on Managing ADHD"

Otek — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 19:09:01 +0000

Caffeine perhaps? Yerba mate? Also CBT therapy on its own is pretty good.

New comment by Otek in "Petition to stop Google from restricting sideloading and FOSS apps"

Otek — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:58:26 +0000

it's really sad that just pointing out logical mistakes in someone's post gets you attacked, and ppl even accuse you of using AI like it's changing anything. we seriously need a proper public campaign to teach folks how to actually have real discussions again and to spot weak or irrelevant arguments

this comment was AI generated or was it

New comment by Otek in "GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]"

Otek — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 08:52:51 +0000

Not sure if you noticed but I assumed they will give you their phone, which is possible absolutely, they can do it just to prove a point