Hacker News: Snacklive

New comment by Snacklive in "Framework discloses data breach via Metabase 0-day"

Snacklive — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:49:08 +0000

same here

New comment by Snacklive in "The Cold Email"

Snacklive — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 05:15:35 +0000

Do you have the email by any chance ? That sounds like an awesome read

New comment by Snacklive in "Pay for Software That Respects You"

Snacklive — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:46:46 +0000

i ended up paying for the ReadEra Premium app way after my phone was no longer my primary way of reading, just because i love it so much and for the time i use the free version i feel so respected and was so happy with the app that i needed to give back in some way.

New comment by Snacklive in "OpenPrinter"

Snacklive — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 23:48:51 +0000

Do you have any recommendations for models or what should i look out for ?

My mom wanted a printer for her birthday and it's been a few months without any success when it comes to selecting the right model

New comment by Snacklive in "Steam Machine launches today"

Snacklive — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:57:14 +0000

That's just bad ragebait

New comment by Snacklive in "When I reject AI code even if it works"

Snacklive — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:38:52 +0000

I'm part of the middle ground. Not able to do full agent code, but I'm fine using it to generate snippets that i fully read. I find it great to use apis with little documentation. For me AI is similar to a google search when im not able to find meaningful doc or i want the code snipped and refine over it

New comment by Snacklive in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

Snacklive — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:36:47 +0000

I'm not particularly anti-ai i do find it useful and i use it everyday for my job, i actually find it great for iterating ideas and especially for finding information about libraries or obscure APIs

But i read everything, i write most of my code by hand and I'm very careful to not shoot myself on the foot.

I say this because on the other side of the spectrum, some colleagues at work are VERY hyped about AI and i constantly suffer the consequences of them making changes without looking, the code is brittle and often introduces bugs

So I'm mostly anti hype, i can recognize it as a useful tool, but im tired of people using it without taking a few minutes to review what is outputting

New comment by Snacklive in "Music for Programming"

Snacklive — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:58:42 +0000

Will Wood is such a great artist. Glad to see someone giving him recognition in the wild

New comment by Snacklive in "I am happier writing code by hand"

Snacklive — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:46:58 +0000

I have a problem vibecoding and frustrating experiences with coworkers that are a little too much into it.

I can use AI to help me explore libraries or to replace a search, generate small snippets here and there, or even scripts that i occasionally need. But i can't vibecode, i don't know how to let go, i babysit too much, i read the code and i feel uneasy if I don't understand what I'm building, or why I'm building it in a certain way, i need to understand how the pieces work to make a whole

New comment by Snacklive in "Uncrossy"

Snacklive — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:15:15 +0000

Fantastic work, very fun ! I actually only ran into the dead end scenario right until the last few words so not a frustrating first experience. But reading other comments maybe a setting to prevent the player to take a route that ends up unsolvable would be great. Kinda like the "Normal" and "Expert" Modes in worldle

New comment by Snacklive in "Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language"

Snacklive — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:29:58 +0000

I was thinking the same. Maybe if he tried to think instead of just asking the model. The premise is interesting "We optimize languages for humans, maybe we can do something similar for llms". But then he just ask the model to do the thing instead of thinking about the problem, maybe instead of prompting "Hey made this" a more granular, guided approach could've been better.

For me this is just a lost of potential on the topic, and an interesting read made boring pretty fast.

New comment by Snacklive in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

Snacklive — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:55:30 +0000

Recently i bought a book from Kindle because i couldn't find it in any other platform and I'm so happy it only cost me 1$ because i haven't been able to download the ePub version, none of the methods on the internet have worked for me or they need to use a physical kindle device. God it's so frustrating i just want to read a 1$ book on my Kobo

New comment by Snacklive in "Advent of Code 2025"

Snacklive — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:10:01 +0000

why would delegate to an LLM something that is supposed to be fun. THIS specifically is the kind of stuff you shouldn't delegate to an LLM

New comment by Snacklive in "Roadmap for improving the type checker"

Snacklive — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:42:45 +0000

Not much experience with multiplatform Kotlin. But Kotlin in the JVM compiles fairly large project +200k lines without cache in few minutes < 3, incremental compilations in the millisecond range maybe a few seconds if large chances were made

New comment by Snacklive in "Maduro launches app for Venezuelans to report 'everything they see and hear'"

Snacklive — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:15:51 +0000

This was already a thing, it played a massive role in the events following the past election.

After the election, every sane person knew that Maduro lost, however as the government didn't recognize the results and Maduro was declared president once again

A number of protests started in various cities, so the government instructed their followers to use the app to report any activity, during the following months it was scary to leave the house, the military and cops got free pass to search any citizen on sight, they were allowed to just take your phone and if something against the government was found they could take you to prison or use some kind of extortion.

Also, Maduro gave a free pass to the "Colectivos" basically criminals supported by the government with weapons to just terrorize the common people. IT WAS WILD, to be on the street, hear a group riding motorcycles and needing to take cover in a building if you didn't want to be shot

Much of this stuff was coordinated using the reports given by the app

New comment by Snacklive in "I Don't Have Spotify"

Snacklive — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:41:05 +0000

Seems like you can provide the link of an Spotify hosted song and the site would give you links for alternatives such as Youtube Premium and Apple Music

New comment by Snacklive in "Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me"

Snacklive — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:33:09 +0000

would you be interested in writing an article about it ? sounds really interesting

New comment by Snacklive in "What does it mean to be thirsty?"

Snacklive — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 05:17:31 +0000

YES YES i get migraines and it's my body saying "Hey you need more water to function you know ?" usually i don't feel any thirst nor hunger, although, i do get hungry more often, but i can last a day without food before my head starts to hurt

New comment by Snacklive in "Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server"

Snacklive — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:49:28 +0000

Saw the demo video on YouTube today. Almost made me rent a cheap vps with lots of storage just to run it

New comment by Snacklive in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

Snacklive — Fri, 09 May 2025 02:40:05 +0000

Twitter used to. My first username was "myusernameXII" cuz i thought it looked cool in one of the suggestions