Hacker News: avanwyk

Google ADK now available for Kotlin

avanwyk — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:27:49 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.googleblog.com/adk-kotlin-android-building-ai-agents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284756

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by avanwyk in "New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references"

avanwyk — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:21:34 +0000

We got pretty far without a single hallucinated citation (because they simply didn't exist). It's really simple: check your references, or don't bother of publishing. It's not a high hurdle.

New comment by avanwyk in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

avanwyk — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:12:34 +0000

I get this all the time with Brave, and especially in Private Windows. It's the number one reason I don't use Google Search anymore. I've used Brave search for a while, what do you use? Do you have a way to prevent the captchas?

New comment by avanwyk in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

avanwyk — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:55:53 +0000

This is a strong disagree from me. What this is implying is that the customer now has to buy into two ecosystems: the expensive, Dodgers, tickets, and stadium world; and the far more perilous, casino in your pocket, attention sucking, hell, that's smartphones. Countless articles are being written on the effect of smartphones on the elderly (and teens). But you know what? Fuck'em. Because progress.

Another comment suggested grandfathering in customers like this. Sure, that's one idea. But generally, don't punish the masses because of the crimes of the few.

I'm certain VIPs don't scan their phones when they come to the game. This man is nothing short of a VIP.

New comment by avanwyk in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

avanwyk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:42:07 +0000

I wouldn't even call this a regression. Hand curated and edited feels like the future I want right now.

New comment by avanwyk in "An Opinionated Agentic Engineering Workflow"

avanwyk — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:55:02 +0000

I've built with GSD, and experimented with rolling my own. I think GSD is good if you don't know exactly what you want to build, but you only have a vague idea. However, if the opposite is true (and I believe it should be), then GSD has a lot of overhead, and costs a lot of tokens. Subjectively, my GSD apps looked very much like AI slop (the app itself, not the code), and felt soulless.

An Opinionated Agentic Engineering Workflow

avanwyk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:06:31 +0000

Article URL: https://avanwyk.com/an-opinionated-agentic-engineering-workflow/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586137

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by avanwyk in "Show HN: Claude's Code – tracking the 19M+ commits generated by Claude on GitHub"

avanwyk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:18:22 +0000

Did you try out DuckDB?

New comment by avanwyk in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

avanwyk — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:04:15 +0000

I need to get back to writing avanwyk.com

New comment by avanwyk in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

avanwyk — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:27:10 +0000

Others have echoed the same, but I also switched from VSCode to Zed, but then put in the effort to learn Neovim (Lazyvim) properly, and I haven't looked back. Writing code feels exciting again. I recommend something like https://github.com/adomokos/Vim-Katas to accelerate muscle memory. And also Vimium in the browser is great.

New comment by avanwyk in "Never write your own date parsing library"

avanwyk — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 22:37:14 +0000

I can't believe this is such a controversial take. Solving hard things by yourself is growth. I 100% agree, rather solve a hard solved problem yourself than learning yet another JS framework or launching yet another revenue losing SaaS ("successful" because of VC). Or whatever. Push hard boundaries.

New comment by avanwyk in "Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs"

avanwyk — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:39:17 +0000

This is great. Really good work. This looks really useful, and I think you did a great job on the interface and site in general. I hope you aren't discouraged by the other commenters, keep hacking!

New comment by avanwyk in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

avanwyk — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 01:20:47 +0000

https://avanwyk.com/

My blog about topics I keep discussing with other people. Highest I've been is #2 on the front page. :)

Revisiting Java in 2021 – Part II

avanwyk — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 14:19:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.avanwyk.com/revisiting-java-in-2021-ii/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28584518

Points: 108

# Comments: 144

Revisiting Java in 2021 – Part 1

avanwyk — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 21:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.avanwyk.com/revisiting-java-in-2021-i/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28385917

Points: 5

# Comments: 4