Hacker News: alexeiz

New comment by alexeiz in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

alexeiz — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:35:17 +0000

It's time to do "frog on a skateboard" now.

New comment by alexeiz in "GitHub is down again"

alexeiz — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:10:43 +0000

There are new slides? Here goes the rest of my work day.

New comment by alexeiz in "GitHub is down again"

alexeiz — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:26:04 +0000

You're absolutely right! Sorry I deleted your database.

New comment by alexeiz in "175K+ publicly-exposed Ollama AI instances discovered"

alexeiz — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:42:12 +0000

Fear not, we have Clawdbot! (openclaw whatever) You can put your naked ass on the internet in seconds now.

New comment by alexeiz in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

alexeiz — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:43:25 +0000

> The unfortunate truth is that the engineering in opencode is so far ahead of Claude Code.

If only Claude Code developers had access to a powerful LLM that would allow them to close the engineering gap. Oh, wait...

New comment by alexeiz in "Show HN: Mgrep – A Semantic, Multimodal Grep"

alexeiz — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:13:31 +0000

New comment by alexeiz in "DeepSeek-v3.1-Terminus"

alexeiz — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:06:46 +0000

It says the best "coding index" is held by Grok 4 and Gemini 2.5 Pro. Give me a break. Nobody uses those models for serious coding. It's dominated by Sonnet 4/Opus 4.1 and GPT-5.

New comment by alexeiz in "The Open-Office Trap (2014)"

alexeiz — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:10:11 +0000

This reminds me something. Ah yes, Congress. They'd rather be in power in a failed country.

New comment by alexeiz in "I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform"

alexeiz — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:45:06 +0000

Here's what I see:

* PM asking a client: "Do you want beautiful logging, metrics and shit?" - "Hell yeah we want logging, metrics and shit!"

* PM telling devs: implement beautiful logging, metrics and shit

* Devs spend half a year implementing all that shit

* The client looks at the final product: "What is this shit? We need a freaking green checkmark!"

New comment by alexeiz in "Font Comparison: Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono vs. JetBrains Mono and Fira Code"

alexeiz — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:54:12 +0000

Coming from Commit Mono, Atkinson looks a bit unusual. But I think I can get used to it. I think the comparison to Fira Code is valid, because in the terminal Atkinson looks almost like Fira Mono, but better. Since I usually sit a meter away from the screen, I can appreciate the extra legibility of this font.

Also, it's great that it's available as a Nerd variant. It makes it super easy to install on Linux with Embellish.

New comment by alexeiz in "I Used Arch, BTW: macOS, Day 1"

alexeiz — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 22:00:29 +0000

For some time after the introduction of the M1 CPU Macbooks provided the best battery life experience. So it would make sense to use a Macbook if you wanted your laptop to work more than 4-5 hours unplugged. But now Intel Core Ultra series 2 and AMD Strix Point laptops are almost as good. Sure you won't get 20 hours of battery life, but you get about 10-15 hours and it's already good enough. Performance of Intel/AMD CPUs are also good enough: about M2 performance-wise. Sure they are a couple of generations behind Apple, but for most tasks it doesn't matter. Linux compatibility is also getting there. You can choose a Thinkpad if you want to be sure that Linux runs on it. But even many consumer-grade laptops are supported but Linux thanks to recent kernel updates. Essentially what I'm saying is that if you want a good laptop experience and you like Linux, you don't have to settle for Macbook anymore.

New comment by alexeiz in "Writing Toy Software Is a Joy"

alexeiz — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 02:09:52 +0000

Most difficulty and time estimates are random. Chess engine 2 days? Like a really shitty chess engine maybe. Regex engine 4/10, 3 days. Again a really shitty regex engine. What's the point of doing a bunch of projects in a really shitty way?

New comment by alexeiz in "Ask HN: I'm an MIT senior and still unemployed – and so are most of my friends"

alexeiz — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:42:18 +0000

Don't just complain. Put your side projects on github and show them off.

New comment by alexeiz in "Show HN: I built a tool to find devs based on code, not LinkedIn titles"

alexeiz — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 18:45:22 +0000

Found whopping 10 people in NYC with Python and JavaScript experience.

New comment by alexeiz in "21st Century C++"

alexeiz — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 00:41:58 +0000

He's looking to sell Circle. That must be the reason he's not open sourcing it.

New comment by alexeiz in "macOS 15.2 breaks the ability to copy the OS to another drive"

alexeiz — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 07:12:28 +0000

> Second person told me to buy a new Mac with 2 tb ssd and restore to that.

Or you can just upgrade the SSD as you would do with any normal laptop. Oh, wait...

New comment by alexeiz in "Vanilla OS 2: an immutable distribution to run all software"

alexeiz — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:07:00 +0000

Vanilla OS is crap. I wanted to try in in a VM and it wouldn't even install. First, it complained that the disk size wasn't enough. Then it complained that it absolutely required UEFI. Then the installer just failed with a cryptic error showing a line of Golang code.

New comment by alexeiz in "I'm tired of fixing customers' AI generated code"

alexeiz — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:01:51 +0000

I had a related episode at work when my coworker asked me why his seemingly trivial 10 line piece of code was misbehaving inexplicably. It turned out he had two variables `file_name` and `filename` and used one in place of another. I asked him how he ended up with such code, he said he used copilot to create it. Using code from a generative AI without understanding what it does is never a good idea.

New comment by alexeiz in "The workers have spoken: They're staying home"

alexeiz — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 21:07:30 +0000

> boss that saw my desk and started complaining to HR that it was too big

Wow, your boss is a real dickhead.

New comment by alexeiz in "Senior employees, ordered back to the office, are jumping ship"

alexeiz — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 19:23:31 +0000

> spun out of a much larger corporation

> ZBB

Microsoft?