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New comment by amonith in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

amonith — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:18:08 +0000

Daycare is completely free in Poland since 2024 (you need to submit an application to ZUS, but there are no limits, it's always accepted), even the private ones. You only pay separately for food (10 zł per day the child is actually attending to the daycare).

New comment by amonith in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

amonith — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:48:44 +0000

I switched from a Polish company to a German one (both remote), but my pay is more or less the same. The difference is that in Poland to get that money I have to be a "top performer" with a lot of stress and not a lot of time, while in Germany I can be just a mid dev.

New comment by amonith in "Vibe Coding Will Break Your Company"

amonith — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:46:11 +0000

I mean a lot do get reputational damage (e.g. a lot of people hate Jira because how slow it is, or Microsoft Teams - same story) - it's just that nothing comes of it, so "suffered" is perhaps the wrong word here. People curse them and still use them.

New comment by amonith in "Books are not too expensive"

amonith — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:49:23 +0000

It is especially true for MMPBs (mass market paperbacks). It's a specific term for a specific format of books that are just recently being phased out. You can find more info about this online.

New comment by amonith in "GitHub's fake star economy"

amonith — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:31:56 +0000

I especially love issues automatically "closed due to inactivity" just to keep the number of issues down :V

New comment by amonith in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

amonith — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:55:12 +0000

Yeah I thought that was one of the primary use cases of eBPF. Not an expert though, just read about some of these things.

New comment by amonith in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

amonith — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:35:59 +0000

I drew a lot of doodles and did things like that as well, but I think that they're less visually stimulating and simply "slower" so there's still some brain capacity left for learning.

New comment by amonith in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

amonith — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:53:50 +0000

Yup. As a kid I could "entertain" (distract is the better word) myself by "drawing shapes" with the cursor, highlighting random things, switching between random cells in Excel, or just like... browsing through the system without any plan or reason. Procrastination is hell of a drug.

I'm so lucky I didn't have this in the classroom.

New comment by amonith in "Show HN: Raincast – Describe an app, get a native desktop app (open source)"

amonith — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:47:05 +0000

Wait, what, Zed is Tauri? How? One of their main things was that they implemented the UI layer completely from scratch using their own GPU-accelerated rendering engine. It's got none of that browser-type stuff.

New comment by amonith in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

amonith — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:03:55 +0000

To extend on that a little bit: they use data centers located in EU, but owned by US cloud providers. They can still pull the plug ofc, so it's only a small difference, but still

New comment by amonith in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

amonith — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:27:45 +0000

Sort of, they have no "hands", LLMs can only respond that they want to execute a tool/command. So they do that a lot to: read files, search for things, compile projects, run tests, run other arbitrary commands, fetch stuff from the internet etc.

Obviously the LLM inference is super heavy, but the actual work / task at hand is being executed on the device.

New comment by amonith in "I'm going to build my own OpenClaw, with blackjack and bun"

amonith — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:57:32 +0000

Yeah, pretty much. A "mac mini" is just easier to set up for the average hype-driven AI "entrepreneur" bro than anything on the cloud. It's mostly a meme though.

New comment by amonith in "I'm going to build my own OpenClaw, with blackjack and bun"

amonith — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:01:50 +0000

Models are not local most of the time, no, but all commands execute on "the mac mini" so I wouldn't exactly call it a prop. LLMs accept and respond just with text what stuff to execute. They have no h̶a̶n̶d̶s̶ claws.

New comment by amonith in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

amonith — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:52:16 +0000

This happens to non-native English speakers a lot (like me). My style of writing is heavily influenced by everything I read. And since I also do research using LLMs, I'll probably sound more and more as an AI as well, just by reading its responses constantly.

I just don't know what's supposed to be natural writing anymore. It's not in the books, disappears from the internet, what's left? Some old blogs for now maybe.

New comment by amonith in "GitHub is down again"

amonith — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:59:55 +0000

By public services I mean only important things like healthcare, law enforcement, fire department. Definitely not stores and food delivery. You can wait an hour or even a couple of hours for that.

> Those companies have decided the extra complexity is worth the reliability.

Companies always want more money and yes it makes sense economically. I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm just saying that nobody needs this. I grew up in a world where this wasn't a thing and no, life wasn't worse at all.

New comment by amonith in "GitHub is down again"

amonith — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:06:52 +0000

I'm a firm believer that almost nothing except public services needs that kind of uptime... We've introduced ridiculous amounts of complexity to our infra to achieve this and we've contributed to the increasing costs of both services and development itself (the barrier of entry for current juniors is insane compared to what I've had to deal with in my early 20s).

New comment by amonith in "What has Docker become?"

amonith — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:55:58 +0000

Most likely a Windows or MacOS user, where docker runs in a linux VM. Optimized as much as possible and lightweight, but still a VM.

New comment by amonith in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

amonith — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:22:08 +0000

So if you're directly embedding the thing. This is a somewhat rare use case, should not be banned almost anywhere...

New comment by amonith in "McDonald's pulls AI Christmas ad after backlash"

amonith — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:37:30 +0000

The thing is, if you want AI output to be heavily directed, which is probably the case here, I can imagine that thousands of random takes had to be made to make the damn thing follow the director's imagination. If you don't care too much about the output you can make these very quickly, yeah.

New comment by amonith in "Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio"

amonith — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 11:04:39 +0000

Same but with 1 kid and different websites (including HN, which is equally bad!). Actively fighting it though. Slowly removing all social media accounts, now just need to figure out how to block stuff permanently on my phone. On a desktop I did it with changing my hosts file to point everything to 127.0.0.1. Need to figure out how to do this also on mobile without an additional network device that would disrupt things for my wife.