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New comment by _waqas_ali_ in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

_waqas_ali_ — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:14:36 +0000

Not sure about the other “mistakes” but this one is way too stupid to be evil :) Hanlon’s razor applies pretty well here.

Pretty sure no one thought “let’s add a lie to every commit and hopefully no one minds. Free Marketing yay!” at Microsoft.

New comment by _waqas_ali_ in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

_waqas_ali_ — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:26:21 +0000

This isn’t an airport

New comment by _waqas_ali_ in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

_waqas_ali_ — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:24:46 +0000

Someone made a mistake, owned up to it and fixed it. No one is entitled to more than that for a free software.

Anyone with a bit of software experience knows it’s easy to miss things when you are doing your own tasks + context switching + giving reviews. We should exercise kindness and empathy instead of projecting evil intentions.

New comment by _waqas_ali_ in "Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages"

_waqas_ali_ — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:45:24 +0000

Fair enough. I don’t have a use case for the API yet but I am looking forward to the products that come out of this

New comment by _waqas_ali_ in "Launch HN: Uplift (YC S25) – Voice models for under-served languages"

_waqas_ali_ — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:14:51 +0000

As a Sindhi speaker myself, amazing stuff. The output is so good. This unlocks the vastness of the internet for millions of people. I am imaging something like NotebookLM but for under-served languages or a hotline where people can call and talk/learn about anything. Do you guys have plans to create b2c products yourself?

New comment by _waqas_ali_ in "Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city"

_waqas_ali_ — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 14:36:36 +0000

Unable to add Hong Kong. Keeps erroring out with city not found

New comment by _waqas_ali_ in "Ask HN: If you are starting in 2024, what is the most productive solo dev stack?"

_waqas_ali_ — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:47:55 +0000

React with Next.js (including API routes), Tailwind for styling, docker to containerise it, DigitalOcean to deploy it for cheap

New comment by _waqas_ali_ in "Software Infrastructure 2.0: A Wishlist"

_waqas_ali_ — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 04:10:59 +0000

Keep your s3 config in version control, terraform apply, if it doesn't work revert the commit and terraform apply again. The DSL isn't that hard: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest...

New comment by _waqas_ali_ in "Advice to Young Web Developers"

_waqas_ali_ — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 05:48:07 +0000

This only applies to the use case of creating static websites with React. A lot of React websites are dynamic and comparable with websites built using PHP or other server-side frameworks. Even if you write html by hand while using PHP, you still need to maintain the server code and constant upkeep/maintenance will be required.