Hacker News: axod

New comment by axod in "Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract"

axod — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:18:28 +0000

You're citing a government report to support their position on why we need infinity immigration? Seriously?

The UK population grew from about 58.9 million in 2000 to 69 million in 2025 - an increase of roughly 10 million people. The large majority of that came from immigration.

And you don't think having to house an extra 10 million people is a reason for the housing crisis?

I would suggest you do your own research, and use your own logic and reason rather than blindly accepting government reports into why what they're doing is brilliant.

New comment by axod in "Postmortem of a British Startup: Tract"

axod — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:27:48 +0000

" Housing in Britain is expensive because getting planning permission is difficult. "

Nothing to do with millions of new people arriving wanting to live somewhere?

AI Took my coding. Whats left for me?

axod — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:18:14 +0000

Article URL: https://loopholelabs.io/blog/ai-took-my-coding-whats-left-for-me#zx81--qy10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48909129

Points: 3

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Rewriting stale OSS projects using LLM

axod — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:09:18 +0000

Article URL: https://loopholelabs.io/blog/rewriting-oss-in-the-ai-era

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334593

Points: 3

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New comment by axod in "Expertise in the age of AI"

axod — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:07:15 +0000

That's exactly how it was in the 90s really.

New comment by axod in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

axod — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:17:55 +0000

Maybe you want to byte align some data, or pack to a certain size but keep compat. I think they're going to be rare cases, but I can see it being used.

New comment by axod in "Expertise in the age of AI"

axod — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:39:07 +0000

I don't think you can ignore it. It's the biggest change to tech in 30 years I'd say.

"I'm tired of all this internet talk" in 1990s?

New comment by axod in "Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells"

axod — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:01:48 +0000

> ...are poor design choices that humans wouldn’t write.

They certainly do in my experience. Maybe you've been lucky and haven't worked with really messy programmers.

New comment by axod in "Show HN: AISlop, a CLI for catching AI generated code smells"

axod — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:54:47 +0000

I don't think this approach is wise.

Concentrate on code quality, and whether it does what it needs to do. Not whether it was written by AI or not.

New comment by axod in "About LLMs at Zig Days"

axod — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:34:15 +0000

That's like saying ban IDEs. Or ban search engines. LLM is just a tool that humans use to create things.

New comment by axod in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

axod — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:16:42 +0000

Fun little game, but I think the questions jump context so much it's a little unrepresentative. It might be better to group things into "packs", which have more real-world representative structure to them. For example, lots of "editing something.js" file permission requests, and then an "npm publish" is far more normal, and it's more of a risk, if you're used to pressing Y lots and then suddenly out of the blue...

New comment by axod in "Go: Support for Generic Methods"

axod — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:05:11 +0000

And so the cycle will continue. Always a shame when languages cave like this and add extra unnecessary complexity and error prone hard to parse syntax.

It'll be interesting to see the next language that comes along rejecting bloat in favor of simplicity, and then we can all start again.

Leah Culver talks about Convore on twit.tv

axod — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:11:12 +0000

Article URL: http://twit.tv/natn191

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2279276

Points: 1

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New comment by axod in "Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code"

axod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:19:08 +0000

If ever there was proof needed to show just how far HN has fallen...

Perhaps time for me to move on.

New comment by axod in "Pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code"

axod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:40:15 +0000

Am I the only one who absolutely detests cats?

They're evil irritating virmin IMHO.

New comment by axod in "How Chris Sacca And J.P. Morgan Acquired 10% Of Twitter"

axod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:22:26 +0000

Riding on top of the bubble for as long as they can I believe.

New comment by axod in "How many users do you need for a 100MM / year consumer Internet product?"

axod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:57:14 +0000

I've always found B2C advertising supported relatively easy. Perhaps I'm just lucky at it :/ Perhaps I'm just very bad at B2B.

However, I'd much rather have a million customers paying me $1 each, than have 10 customers paying me $100k each.

But I agree with your last point. Depends what gets you excited. For me personally, B2B is as soul destroying as it gets.

New comment by axod in "Is employer-based health insurance a barrier to entrepreneurship?"

axod — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 11:21:16 +0000

The UK health system is absolutely fantastic FWIW.

New comment by axod in "How many users do you need for a 100MM / year consumer Internet product?"

axod — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 23:18:16 +0000

One of the things I dislike about B2B is the lack of fine grain control.

With B2C, your revenue grows over time as you grow your userbase. It's pretty predictable, and not too risky.

With B2B, it's more binary. You might go months with 0 revenue, then get some deal and suddenly be profitable. But then there's added risk, as losing a single client can have a massive impact on your bottom line.

New comment by axod in "DuckDuckGo FOSS Donations 2010"

axod — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:33:49 +0000

A company on the stock market owes it to investors to make them a return.

Donating 10% of revenue away, wouldn't go down too well with average Joes pension scheme.

Also I'm not sure any big company 'completely depends' on FOSS. Yes it's an awesome thing, but big companies would survive just fine without it.