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New comment by allexsendev in "From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet"

allexsendev — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 06:11:10 +0000

interrupting your thread bcs what the law states directly is less interesting than what it puts the emphasis on: if maxing out measurement becomes the goal, it isn't measuring what it was supposed to. Take a concrete example - original point of schools/academia was education. Eventually grades started measuring education, and now grades are the goal instead of education. ppl started optimizing for grades by any means possible -> grades aren't good measure of education anymore.

New comment by allexsendev in "From Linux to Wikipedia: How Volunteers Build the Internet"

allexsendev — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 06:55:47 +0000

This has happened with most of the fields - volunteers do a lot of work, make their fields/areas good, raise interest, bring ppl into it which usually brings money then which usually brings money chasers who then usually "optimize" the hell out of every metric for maximum gains.

Great OS volunteers still exist today, but the ratio of genuine field lover to money chaser is absurd now.

New comment by allexsendev in "Download your favourite YouTube videos"

allexsendev — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:21:46 +0000

Read the comments and combined with my personal experience, made me wanna have a full on offline library, and in a better case, "decentralized" libraries of such things, although at the very least videos prolly won't work all that well.

New comment by allexsendev in "Lemmings CSS Animation"

allexsendev — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:05:09 +0000

Could be, yeah, didn't look deep into it. Just speaking from my experience with the flashy websites doing impressive demos usually starting to lag fairly soon.

New comment by allexsendev in "Lemmings CSS Animation"

allexsendev — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:36:38 +0000

mad impressive imo, spawned like 50+ ppl and still running smooth (although must say I have a monster rig).

And I overenjoyed throwing lil marios around

New comment by allexsendev in "HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN"

allexsendev — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:09:53 +0000

Glad it landed well!

New comment by allexsendev in "HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN"

allexsendev — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 05:48:02 +0000

Built (and still am) something like this, but hand-curated (watched end-to-end) rather than source-filtered. v0 test run: https://cabin.watch

no distribution means I'm having a bit of a hard time finding good videos fast enough (rejection rate through the roof rn), so send any if you know some.

New comment by allexsendev in "Ask HN: Are you tired too in this AI era?"

allexsendev — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:27:22 +0000

I use AI to correct AI :D Yea I know, sounds ridiculous, but hear me out.

Claude Web works differently than Claude Code. I use Claude Web/Chat for briefs, general overview of the project outside of code/app, for planning and handing off the work to Code, that includes prompts. Code is tasked to output a detailed view of what it found, run measurements and tests (designed both by me and Chat) and report findings back. That is fed back to Chat and I get a rough summary. Errors are categorized by their blast-radius and so on.

Eventually I do a deep dive of what changed, how well it's handling, how much it's struggling, token usage, time spent per review/test and so on. (btw, Code is tasked to run an independent review via contextless agent on the codebase, that easily costs me another 20-30 mins and ~200K tokens on my current project, each run).

It still makes architectural issues, tries bandaiding and patching instead of properly designing, overvaluing/devaluing certain cases and misallocating where most of the focus should be, but that's relatively easier to spot and propose a fix for than doing a line by line code review.

Codebase quality is ensured through mapping the flow and the output space and having a hard-pinned tests Code can't modify to green its answers, + the independent reviewer I mentioned above.

It's not as fun as going in by hand on deep technical problems, sure. But AI usage is less about fun and more about output speed, so use it for what it is for ig? :D

New comment by allexsendev in "Reddit will force everyone to log in"

allexsendev — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:46:54 +0000

So atp Discord is opening their public servers, enabling Google to show results from there, and reddit is closing theirs? :D