Hacker News: ab_io

New comment by ab_io in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

ab_io — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:22:29 +0000

100%. My team started using graphite.dev, which provides AI generated PR descriptions that are so bloated with useless content that I've learned to just ignore them. The issue is they are doing a kind of reverse inference from the code changes to a human-readable description, which doesn't actually capture the intent behind the changes.

New comment by ab_io in "Notepad++ is 21 years old"

ab_io — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 19:46:40 +0000

As a Mac user, Notepad++ is the only thing I miss from the Windows ecosystem.

New comment by ab_io in "I Lost Faith in Kagi"

ab_io — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:43:14 +0000

I just cancelled my Kagi subscription over the weekend. Some of the ideas in the article resonate (the dev team seems spread way too thin) but I also decided that the main product just wasn't distinct enough. The lens and quick answers features were nice, but otherwise the search results were not that different from Google's -- Having just switched back, I haven't noticed a significant difference.

I also think this product might be a bit too late. GPT4 has been out for over a year now, and it's changed how I look for answers. I tried FastGPT but like the author I found it lacking. As it stands, Perplexity feels more like the future of search than Kagi.

New comment by ab_io in "Lastpass Security Incident"

ab_io — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:18:51 +0000

I’m disappointed, but I can’t say I’m surprised. I once tried to contact their support team after getting effectively locked out of my account, only to have the support form return a 5XX error upon submission. I dropped them right then and there.

New comment by ab_io in "Why isn't there a universal data format for résumés?"

ab_io — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 02:32:42 +0000

There kind of is, it’s call HR-XML and a number of COTS resume parsers output their results in this format.

New comment by ab_io in "Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter in return ships"

ab_io — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:15:04 +0000

> During a spacewalk, Mission Control in Houston warns Explorer's crew about a rapidly-expanding cloud of space debris accidentally caused by the Russians having shot down a presumed defunct spy satellite

Life imitating art.

New comment by ab_io in "Slack is down"

ab_io — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 17:24:27 +0000

It would be a mass customer extinction event for said service, and would effectively result in a windfall for competing services

New comment by ab_io in "Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera"

ab_io — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 22:44:49 +0000

Simply cut a small rectangle out of the sticky part of a Post-It note for a safe camera cover that easy to remove and reuse.

New comment by ab_io in "Ask HN: What are your favorite developer-efficiency tips?"

ab_io — Sat, 09 May 2020 09:55:08 +0000

Decent git aliases: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Git-Aliases

Ask HN: How’s WFH Going?

ab_io — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 04:26:13 +0000

Are you enjoying the long duration of working from home?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22862737

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

Boosted lays off ‘significant portion’ of its employees

ab_io — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 06:35:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/4/21165336/boosted-layoffs-money-funding-problems

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22491437

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ab_io in "Robinhood reports outage as markets rebound"

ab_io — Mon, 02 Mar 2020 21:22:44 +0000

This is starting to look like a customer extinction level incident — Any idea which competing service their users / wsb will likely move to?

New comment by ab_io in "FAANG hiring managers share how to answer behavioral interview questions"

ab_io — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 07:47:00 +0000

Because of their stock growth

New comment by ab_io in "Ask HN: How do you protect your parents from tech scammers?"

ab_io — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 18:34:12 +0000

Try showing them some clips from Kitboga [1] — he talks to tech scammers (usually pretending to be an old lady) with the goal of wasting their time, and demonstrating how most tech scams work.

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCm22FAXZMw1BaWeFszZxUKw

New comment by ab_io in "Joplin – a note taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities"

ab_io — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 10:04:31 +0000

Since none of the top comments seem to directly discuss Joplin itself, let me just say that I’ve been using it for years, and it’s great.

New comment by ab_io in "Ask HN: Which podcast goes straight to the top of your list when it comes out?"

ab_io — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 20:14:41 +0000

EconTalk w/ Russ Roberts

New comment by ab_io in "For Owners of Ring Security Cameras, Strangers May Have Been Watching Too"

ab_io — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:18:55 +0000

One of the biggest selling points of these services is that you can view your live video feed from anywhere via mobile device -- A savvy tech enthusiast might be able to create such a setup by hand, but the majority of people wouldn't know where to begin.

New comment by ab_io in "Ask HN: What's the best book on modern UI/UX?"

ab_io — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 21:02:04 +0000

Reading "The Design of Everyday Things" will give you a sense of the basics -- After that try learning a popular frontend-web framework (like Bootstrap / Foundation) which follows lot of the industry-standard UI practices out-of-the-box. Also checkout things like WAI-ARIA / WCAG, which outline accessibility standards on the web.

New comment by ab_io in "Grafana Loki – Like Prometheus, but for logs"

ab_io — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 20:42:56 +0000

Choose a documentation source-of-truth (Confluence, etc) and keep a changelog[1]. I've also seen a dedicated email group (i.e. change-mngt@company.com) used for tracking non-code changes.

[1]: https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/

New comment by ab_io in "Ask HN: When should my team start documenting?"

ab_io — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:40:33 +0000

Ideally, from the get-go. Your system and documentation should be produced & grow in-parallel. At worst, before any team members with key (undocumented) domain knowledge leave.