Hacker News: atraac

New comment by atraac in "Migrate from OpenClaw"

atraac — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:32:03 +0000

I have the same feeling. I'm even trying to argument to myself upgrading my phone to something newer that would support AI better but I genuinely can't. The only use case I could ever need is maybe(!) using it to fill up shopping list out loud but at this point it, using shared Google Keep it's roughly the same amount of work to just type it. In professional matter though, having an AI agent on Slack, that can query readonly dbs for us, check things, debug problems reported by our users, it's pretty great.

New comment by atraac in "A website that lists websites to submit your website to"

atraac — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:20:22 +0000

Website catalogues exist for more than a decade. They were one of the first attempts at gaming SEO.

New comment by atraac in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

atraac — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:23:03 +0000

We forgot already that getting paid for your work is your right and LLMs were trained on stolen property?

New comment by atraac in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

atraac — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:09:07 +0000

I work in crypto and this is happening practically every other day. I refuse anyone on LinkedIn that I don't know personally and has web3 or crypto anywhere in the description. It's all fake accounts with fake job offers. It's a pretty known scam.

New comment by atraac in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

atraac — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:41:45 +0000

Unless your job is purely producing code pointlessly, this is not a really good comparison. Most of the time really is spent on understanding the problem and figuring out solutions, not waiting on CPU.

New comment by atraac in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

atraac — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:32:43 +0000

How would getting rid of postinstall break patch-package? If people use a package, and that package needs some kind of step to get working, user of that package should decide when that step happens. He can very well just call patch before building on his own. There's zero issues with that approach and the upside is he actually has control.

I work in a monorepo where running install calls dozens of deeply nested postinstalls of some elaborate NextJs or React Native dependencies other projects use. It's borderline insane. Unless you regularly screen everything, it's impossible to know whether one of those is compromised, especially in the world of Node where is-even is being used and the sheer amount of crypto scams around.

New comment by atraac in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

atraac — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:40:57 +0000

postinstall scripts should've been removed long time ago, it's the cancer of NPM packages. There's so many deeply nested, uncontrolled postinstalls that run randomly when you pull something it's insane, I don't know how someone at some point ever though that was a good idea.

New comment by atraac in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

atraac — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:15:20 +0000

These laws only apply to megacorps. It's not an existential risk to them, as Apple is clearly proving now.

Who is saying that enforcing companies to open their systems to competition is making them mediocre? Maybe if that's the end result, they should put more time into designing systems that wouldn't become mediocre just by allowing third parties to do things with those said systems? We need to stop defending corporates for abusing their monopolies.

New comment by atraac in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

atraac — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 12:56:22 +0000

We use almost exclusively Valkey now, mostly because we host on AWS and Render, which both use Valkey. It's faster, cheaper and compatible. I'd consider Garnet too but I believe it doesn't support LUA(or didn't at the time we needed it).

New comment by atraac in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

atraac — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:27:33 +0000

I've used one of the flagship Surface Books two jobs ago, really beefy, could run Cyberpunk(don't ask how I know). Insanely bad machine, the overall finish was terrible, hinges broke often, charging port broke often(like every 3rd-4th person in the office), it overheated with basic office work, fans went rocket level loud when compiling basic things, after a while it was stuttering even with casual use. Had a really good Dell XPS at home too that was dying when compiling big Typescript codebase. I bought an MBP M3Pro 1.5y ago and I could never go back. It's insane how far ahead Apple is when it comes to performance. Noone seems to grasp that until they actually try to work on M-series. Three of my ex colleagues also switched to Macbooks after I told them, they also are never coming back.

New comment by atraac in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

atraac — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:57:16 +0000

My bet is they won't. It's hype driven development. I work in the space(we build one of the bigger exchanges based on Hyperliquid) and our design/product people are spasming at the thought of releasing MCP/Openclaw skill for trading. I'm 99% sure it will all be a flop, month from now noone will ever know these exist but this is what everyone in that space is doing right now, quite literally, everyone. Not a single sane person will give meaningful amount of money to LLM for actual trading.

New comment by atraac in "Vivaldi 8.0"

atraac — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:05:27 +0000

Your users don't have to use those extensions, so I don't understand how that's relevant? People who do, should be made aware of risks and that's it. This is not a good argument against taking away their option to have that customization.

New comment by atraac in "Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7"

atraac — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:59:27 +0000

But 100$ Claude subscription also gets me easily entire week of coding 6-8 hours a day? What on earth do you do to run out of limits on Max? Do you vibe multiple new codebases every day for a living? The benefit of Claude is also not gaslighting me every time I tell it it's wrong.

New comment by atraac in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

atraac — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:04:37 +0000

12% for software development, 8.5% for design/management. The caveat being, you can't deduct anything from tax, only VAT(under some assumptions). If you have actual expenses it's 12/32% progressive or 19% linear tax. Of course all of those are assuming you own a one man company and work B2B. Most devs here do. Otherwise regular contract of employment is progressive 12/32% tax, plus Healthcare and employer payments. Much less beneficial to both sides hence why it's not preferred by most.

New comment by atraac in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

atraac — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:00:54 +0000

I'm Polish, working for globally remote companies. I second the communication issue. Most Polish devs are so ashamed of their english(even if it's perfectly communicative) that it makes it hard to discuss technical ideas with them. As for technical knowledge, I guess that's cognitive bias, most Polish devs I met were far better at tech stuff than most f.e. Germans I worked with.

New comment by atraac in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

atraac — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:54:55 +0000

Anecdotal evidence but last week or two Claude changed something related to their quotas. I'm a Pro user(now Team Standard) and while I did quite a lot before with that subscription, past week the 5h quota quite literally lasts maybe 5 semi sized prompts. I don't "vibe" anything, I give it clearly defined tasks or things to debug/fix, nothing hardcore. I ran out of the quota every single day past week, often twice a day, this never happened before. It's rather unusable for actual professional usage now. I'm tempted to test Codex over next week to compare hence why we're waiting with going to Claude Max sub.

New comment by atraac in "Zed 1.0"

atraac — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:08:09 +0000

Was in the same boat. I ended up not using Zed because it had a bunch of minor quirks that annoyed me but I moved to vscode. I primarily write Typescript and C# these days. I was a JetBrains fanboy for years and it feels way too bloated now, stuff notoriously hangs or takes too long on my M3 Pro. I also love Claude Code integration with vscode just a bit too much to give it up for CLI.

New comment by atraac in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

atraac — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:05:00 +0000

I use Pro professionally and didn't hit limits most of the time. I believe I used up 5hr quota once or twice. We switched to Team sub and I'm on Standard(which is Pro x1.25 I believe). I don't vibecode entire applications, I ask it to make boilerplate, smaller, well scoped features or fix some errors. I don't let it go off with a prompt "make another netflix clone" cause I just don't see any real value in that

New comment by atraac in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

atraac — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:15:10 +0000

What does this even have to do with the thread? They're hosted there cause it's cheap and extremely easy to do so. Not because it's "specially crafted" for scams.

New comment by atraac in "Zed editor switching graphics lib from blade to wgpu"

atraac — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:45:40 +0000

Default double shift in zed goes to Execute a command window, sadly it doesn't support file searching within the same window and that's what I suppose he meant. I know cause I'm an avid JetBrains fanboy too and I can't use any other IDE because of that and few other features. Also, they're working on Search Anywhere Jet-Brains style feature right now if you believe Github Issues.