Hacker News: alper

New comment by alper in "Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot"

alper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:04:35 +0000

I use Ian's (Fast) Knot and that's good enough for me.

https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

New comment by alper in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

alper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:19:00 +0000

I felt that FCP was underpowered for compositing and grading so I switched from paid FPC to unpaid Resolve. But I don't really edit that much. Resolve is good enough for me for now.

New comment by alper in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

alper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:46:16 +0000

One of the best things that happened to me is my boss giving me a crash course in advanced SQL at my first job. In the database we used at work, he gave me increasingly difficult questions to answer with queries.

It was a great foundation and has served me well to this day.

New comment by alper in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

alper — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:44:38 +0000

The people doing the complaining are usually not the people doing real work in these tools. You can always find some loud voices somewhere.

New comment by alper in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

alper — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 08:54:53 +0000

Passkeys are not going to fix this. The only thing that will fix this is some kind of notarization backed identity that people can go to as a recourse.

The EU Should force them to do this.

New comment by alper in "Cloudflare Flagship"

alper — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:46:32 +0000

Anybody and everybody could use a mature LaunchDarkly alternative.

New comment by alper in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

alper — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:57:56 +0000

Will we become Musk's slave or Altman's slave?

New comment by alper in "Haskell Foundation 2026 Update"

alper — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:46:32 +0000

> the tooling is decades behind

For all the academic interest the language has, it seems very few of those people want to do anything foundational to make the language more ergonomic and more relevant.

New comment by alper in "Everything in C is undefined behavior"

alper — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:35:37 +0000

Isn't the article mostly saying that SPARC sucks?

New comment by alper in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

alper — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:24:37 +0000

I'd expect political escalation for something like this but given that this is Germany, who knows.

New comment by alper in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

alper — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:23:11 +0000

Given how amateurish German IT operations is, there is no guarantee whatsoever there will be a post-mortem nor whether it then will make it out under 3-6 months with all the necessary approvals.

The Faster You Go, the Wronger You Get

alper — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:22:19 +0000

Article URL: https://hagakure.substack.com/p/the-bottleneck-was-understanding

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034126

Points: 3

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New comment by alper in "Y Combinator holds $5B stake in OpenAI"

alper — Tue, 05 May 2026 08:27:43 +0000

I guess that explains all the AI boosting they do.

New comment by alper in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

alper — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:09:01 +0000

I'm guessing everybody in this interaction is an adult.

New comment by alper in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

alper — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:08:06 +0000

> that highly paid programmers in the US also brought in a ton of profit

In Germany for instance I've seen many a company that treated their programmers as a cost center and they actually were (probably a mutually reinforcing self-fulfilling prophecy).

Too many instances of programmers being deployed in such a way that I couldn't possibly see a way that they would get back even that meagre investment that was being made. Fully irrational dev teams doing useless busy work.

Most German "startups" used to be replaceable with Zapier and Pipedrive. That has probably only gotten worse with the advent of LLMs.

New comment by alper in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

alper — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:05:29 +0000

Premature abstraction is the root of all evil.

New comment by alper in "Monad Tutorials Timeline"

alper — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:08:52 +0000

I've read more than my fair share of these tutorials, and I'd like to be proven wrong here but I don't think I've ever seen one that explains what the point of these functional constructs (similarly with Applicative etc.) is.

"You can do IO now." So what? I could do IO before that as well.

Very rarely are practical explanations discussed. Even if they are discussed, the treatment is shallow and useless.

New comment by alper in "Monad Tutorials Timeline"

alper — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:07:15 +0000

It happens all the time. For a brief period I understood musical notation and rhythm and then it was gone. Similarly I had a time in my life where I knew by feeling whether a French noun was le or la.

New comment by alper in "We need a federation of forges"

alper — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:26:56 +0000

I'm afraid that atproto will suffer from Bluesky's irrelevance. Not sure if that's a valid fear.

New comment by alper in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

alper — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:52:40 +0000

The entrenchment here is ridiculous. The average software engineer does not care at all about their vcs or their forge and their knowledge of both is extremely shallow.

For the people who want to do their work and get on with their life, it does not really matter that much.