Hacker News: atraac

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.

New comment by atraac in "Watching an elderly relative trying to use the modern web"

atraac — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:20:36 +0000

> With design just being more sensitive and more overlooked area

My take is that design stopped being for the user. It's a rat race on who will make it look the most fancy or closest to whatever new trend AirBnB starts as quickly as possible. More animations, more colors, darker, lighter, let's make this transparent. Noone really thinks about UX anymore, it's all just portfolio-driven-design.

New comment by atraac in "Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?"

atraac — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:15:34 +0000

In my case, I use JetBrains Junie(it uses various models underneath) and it mostly works fine, but I don't vibe code entire products with it, I just give it easy, neatly defined tasks. Improve readme, re-implement something using the same approach as X, create a script that does Y etc. It's fairly good at making one-off tools I need, we messed up something and need a tool to f.e. fill up db with missing records? I'll just make a console app that does this. We need a simple app that will just run somewhere and do one thing(like listen to new files and insert something to a db). It's perfectly fine for that. I wouldn't trust it with day to day job, features, anything more advanced(I do mostly backend work). I also have to verify thoroughly what it ends up doing, it tends to mess up sometimes but since most of what it does is non-critical, I don't mind. I too don't believe the claims of people who just straight up Claude they way through a codebase to do 'grand' things but I have a small sample.

New comment by atraac in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

atraac — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:53:12 +0000

I've learned that being truthful in your resume as a SWE doesn't work anymore. I've had nearly 0 response rate to my applications, even if I was nearly a perfect match. Dude that we fired a while ago for being abysmally bad and non-productive gets interviews, raises and just got into ycombinator backed company by making up 75% of his resume(which I saw). We need a reset, this is getting ridiculous.

New comment by atraac in "Unity's Mono problem: C# code runs slower than it should"

atraac — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 08:55:03 +0000

I write mostly backend stuff for a living, big chunk of it in Node/TS but also C# with modern .NET. I also have to dabble with Unity and Unreal both for work and a hobby project. I technically learned C++ in uni but really, I hate every single second I have to spend doing Unreal Engine work. I genuinely despise how obsolete and hard to write C++ is compared to modern languages. It didn't bother me in university because that was all I knew at the time but it's hard to justify existence of header files today. Add macros everywhere, really bad compilation errors, really hard to read syntax with a lot of unnecessary bloat and you get something that is just not likable. I'm sure you can get used to it given enough time spent in that ecosystem, but I can tell you as someone writing 4 different languages on day to day basis, C++ is difficult, and it's not because of pointers.

New comment by atraac in "Cloudflare was down"

atraac — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:53:58 +0000

All those enterprise architects must be fuming now

New comment by atraac in ".NET 10"

atraac — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:10:24 +0000

  > To the uneducated, C# is linked to Visual Studio.. the IDE.. and the Community edition if free as long as you are a student, open-source, and individuals. Professional and Enterprise are paid.

No it's not. What? Visual Studio is a shitty MS product that most decent C# devs already moved away from to JetBrains/vscode.

  > Need a database - should it be SQL Server? Should it be Windows Servers? etc.

.NET runs on Linux just fine, there's also zero issues using Postgres or any other popular DB of your choice.

  > there are many smaller companies (and startups) that may have concern paying for such tools.

There's literally nothing you would need to pay to work in .NET ecosystem. If a company rules out a language based on thoughts like yours, I genuinely believe they deserve to fail. Literally none of those things is true and it takes a minute or two to find all of that out.

New comment by atraac in ".NET 10"

atraac — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:04:14 +0000

Those things have nothing to do with C# though, rather than your personal experience with companies that were using it.

If I judged every single company i worked at/interacted with, that uses NodeJs, I'd think that every single Node dev is a 13 year old child with no real experience but who think's he's the hottest shit. That has nothing to do with Node and doesn't really describe _all_ the companies out there.

New comment by atraac in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

atraac — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:18:51 +0000

So we're against checking IDs cause privacy but we also want to limit kids from accessing certain parts of the internet because gambling/porn? Have a cake and eat a cake?

New comment by atraac in "Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use"

atraac — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:54:54 +0000

Works perfectly fine here in Brave/Chromium

New comment by atraac in "Fastmail desktop app"

atraac — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:04:35 +0000

I'm a fairly happy Fastmail user but as someone who now works in two timezones, I'm kind of disappointed with its calendar. Especially that they advertise with 'Email and calendar made better' slogan. There's still no way to display two timezones like Google Calendar does, there's still no 'book a slot link' feature, it consistently forces meetings to be added to main Fastmail calendar and not the one I set as default. It's overall very disappointing, to the point where I still have to rely on Google for calendar for work-related things. If you read up on reddit they are notoriously ignoring all community feature requests. My subscription ends next year and I'm still questioning whether I want to continue. Desktop app is the last thing it needs.

New comment by atraac in "Helium Browser"

atraac — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:55:49 +0000

I tried using Zen as I moved away from Arc, it really tries to be Arc but had a ton of issues at the time(6 months ago). Ranging from performance, different parts of UI crashing or behaving weirdly, to typos in English translations all over Settings. I settled on Brave for now because I won't give up uBlock Origin but I also didn't enjoy using Firefox long term for some reason. I honestly loved Arc, but I won't use product they won't work on anymore.

New comment by atraac in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

atraac — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:57:59 +0000

Didn't work for me, at least instantly. Maybe it takes a while to process through their services. No idea

New comment by atraac in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"

atraac — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 06:54:59 +0000

Out of curiosity, you guys have been hiring for this for two years now(just looking at your comment history).

I've applied once myself because I'm really excited about your product but I dropped out the second I received automated email with a browser-based async interview without even talking to a real person. From there I went through Glassdoor interview reviews and I do not regret at all. It seems like your process is async tech task in the browser, some obscure trivia and PHP(what's with that btw?) based take-home with yet few more interviews after that. Did you ever at some point consider changing your process or are you just counting on hiring that one in a million that will want to go through all of that and pass?

New comment by atraac in "Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions"

atraac — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:38:33 +0000

For the same reason we have 2137 libraries, frameworks and languages that do the same thing - because everyone thinks they can do it better.

New comment by atraac in "Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase"

atraac — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:55:15 +0000

I've applied casually to around 30 listings(I'm EU based) throughout last 2-3 months, all of which I was almost a perfect candidate for(9 years total exp). I received 2 automatic 'no's and 1 phone call + assignment for which I'm still waiting for a response. Everything else straight up ghosted me, not even confirmation emails of received resumes. Some of those companies even re-newed their listings afterwards. I feel like 80% of job listings are just straight up fake to keep VC's believing.

New comment by atraac in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)"

atraac — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 09:31:00 +0000

Applied in January for .NET Backend position, never got a response. But hey, you looked me up on Linkedin two weeks ago and the position is still listed on your site so that search must be going great :)

New comment by atraac in "Why Tracebit is written in C#"

atraac — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:15:12 +0000

All you have to do is setup a single StyleCop config and enforce it across all projects, which would be the same if you used Prettier, go fmt or anything else. I don't get the 'different libraries' part, it can be literally a case in every single language. Let people use what does the job or force them to teach what you want them to use. It sounds more like your technical management issue rather than language/ecosystem problem. Since I started working with Node/TS I miss how similar and easy to read every C# codebase was.