Hacker News: asaaki

New comment by asaaki in "EEVblog: The 555 Timer is 55 years old [video]"

asaaki — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:11:36 +0000

Just another 500 years to go. I missed the beginning, probably will miss that last milestone as well.

New comment by asaaki in "Arguing with Agents"

asaaki — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:06:53 +0000

Thanks! I was starting to feel alone with that.

Not sure what others have been reading so far, but this article already smells so human, I couldn't imagine anyone mistaken it for LLM output (especially since it is about LLMs and how they fail to work for some of us).

Funnily enough I also consulted three models across different vendors, and all came to the same conclusion (it's very human and very unlikely LLM produced). And yes, I let them all cross reference with older posts which are all pre-LLM era. Takes less than 5 minutes to do so.

Arguing with Agents

asaaki — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:13:23 +0000

Article URL: https://blowmage.com/2026/04/14/arguing-with-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787854

Points: 71

# Comments: 39

Why Your Team Has Slowed Down, Why That's Worse Than You Think, & How to Fix It

asaaki — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 21:33:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/economy-team-slow-down/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29204798

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by asaaki in "Ask HN: Do you create music? let's hear it"

asaaki — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 10:00:12 +0000

Some strange tunes to be found at: https://soundcloud.com/asaaki

If you love long tracks, listen to https://soundcloud.com/asaaki/plane-of-the-frost-demons

And lately experimented with short audio-visual stuff: https://youtu.be/UBsz7vgTvjY

New comment by asaaki in "Harmful Biases in Performance Reviews"

asaaki — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 17:09:53 +0000

The "Idiosyncratic rater bias" is a bit confusing to me, since it starts already with Bob being an EM, and to counter it is suggested to write from the manager's perspective. So what are managers supposed to do when they are falling for this bias like Bob did? Was either the example or the solution different initially? Maybe it's just the phrasing. (Hey, EM-Bob, try to write like a manager … — Erm, I am one. Duh.)

New comment by asaaki in "I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript"

asaaki — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 18:02:55 +0000

That's interesting. I'll have Mac access only next month. The setting `max-width: 100%` actually breaks the design completely, chopping it down to a half.

I have to try this solution[1] to see if that helps to avoid the scrolling.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/56382662/653173

New comment by asaaki in "I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript"

asaaki — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:53:11 +0000

I think I should just remove the poster, it was initially replacing the GIF, which was megabytes in size. Given that the sizes of the WebP and WebM animations are pretty close I can live without it; all major browsers support both formats anyway.

I cannot help with the caching fun here, quick tested in both Chrome and Firefox. There's probably something strange in the video tag, either by design or by implementation.

New comment by asaaki in "I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript"

asaaki — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:41:59 +0000

Perl … haven't seen that old friend for a very long time.

New comment by asaaki in "I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript"

asaaki — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:41:25 +0000

Also zola, hugo, and other pretty light weight generators are quite okay. I'm using zola which runs nicely on Win/Mac/Linux. All you need to get started is some theme/template and your blog posts in Markdown. Then enrich it with whatever floats your boat.

New comment by asaaki in "I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript"

asaaki — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:38:20 +0000

Thank you for the tip/link. Seems to be an appropriate solution, just have to fiddle with my build process for a bit.

New comment by asaaki in "I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript"

asaaki — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:34:22 +0000

I decided to have no (client side) tracking at all, for both usually it requires JS and cookies. And honestly I don't like to have both on my site if not strictly necessary (as a European citizen I'm also quite aware of all the shenanigans one has to do wrt privacy and consent).

New comment by asaaki in "I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript"

asaaki — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 17:30:54 +0000

Thank you for the detailed response. Interesting links I will work through over time.

New comment by asaaki in "I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript"

asaaki — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 18:59:24 +0000

If you're in control of the environment, you might want to consider the yak shaving road and build a node package with a C, C++ or Rust library then. ;-)

New comment by asaaki in "I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript"

asaaki — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 10:25:21 +0000

Thanks.

If you're okay with a non-node/js solution, use https://github.com/kornelski/cavif-rs - it does the job for me pretty well.

For node it looks surprisingly disappointing right now, the only real candidates being the packages @saschazar/wasm-avif (v1.0.0) and avif (v0.0.1-alpha2) — I'll probably never understand the ecosystem and community, the format is out for some time and fully supported in the most widely used browser, yet barely noticeable support in the JS world.

I wrote JavaScript to avoid JavaScript

asaaki — Sun, 08 Nov 2020 06:30:13 +0000

Article URL: https://markentier.tech/posts/2020/10/wrote-javascript-to-avoid-javascript/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25023594

Points: 74

# Comments: 59

New comment by asaaki in "I Accidentally Hacked WhatsApp"

asaaki — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 09:50:55 +0000

That's such a great story. Love you, Mike! lol.xxx

New comment by asaaki in "Ask HN: Do you use Kubernetes in production?"

asaaki — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 19:38:42 +0000

Yes, we're running multiple k8s clusters on AWS. Only a few components are not there yet due to their too snowflaky deployment procedures, but we're getting there. So far everyone likes it and would recommend it.

New comment by asaaki in "Ask HN: What CMS in 2018 for webapps?"

asaaki — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 19:33:26 +0000

Maybe a stack like Gatsby+Contentful+Netlify+Algolia is something you might like. The following guide describes you the full stack: https://www.gatsbyjs.org/blog/2017-12-06-gatsby-plus-content...