Hacker News: b212

New comment by b212 in "OpenWiki: CLI that writes and maintains agent documentation for your codebase"

b212 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:48:21 +0000

I swear most of these tools are made for the sake of it…

While good old prompting is often better than plan mode or superpower skills.

New comment by b212 in "Healthy but sedentary people show early decline in cellular energy production"

b212 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:45:35 +0000

Of If I walk 10 km a day on average and do strength trainings 2-3x a week but sit for 10 hours a day - am I sedentary or not?

New comment by b212 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)"

b212 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:43:05 +0000

I just wanted to say I love your ad, I have no experience with C++ but I like how straightforward and honest you are. Best of luck.

New comment by b212 in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

b212 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:42:20 +0000

What alternatives to React do you propose? I found Angular even worse…

New comment by b212 in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

b212 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:46:05 +0000

Motorola was my last Android phone. Once they pushed an update that took 99% of my phones memory and I couldn’t install even a single app - I moved to iPhone and never looked back. Over 10 years and counting. I still can’t believe they literally bricked my phone back then.

So far Apple “just works”. Is it perfect? No. But I can’t imagine fuckup of this magnitude from them.

New comment by b212 in "MacBook Neo is so popular that Apple doubled production"

b212 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:20:46 +0000

Sounds nearly impossible it took me 3 years to figure out how to properly use my Bluetooth headphones with LTS Ubuntu a few years back. The solution: bought a Mac after 3 years.

There were millions of other annoying small things in Ubuntu itself as well. I’m sorry to say but as much as I love nix systems Ubuntu wasn’t really for general public - maybe it’s better today, not sure. Heard the story over and over again - that it’s superior, and every time I try it I’m utterly disappointed.

New comment by b212 in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

b212 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:00:31 +0000

They iterate fast because they slap different names at the same thing they’ve been selling for years now.

New comment by b212 in "Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading"

b212 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:12:34 +0000

I feel there’s a lot of marketing and pure bullshit around LLMs configuration and conventions.

Law of diminishing returns applies here perfectly - you can learn prompting in 2 hours and get 400% performance boost or spend weeks on subagents and skills and Opus and st best it’s another 50% boost but not really - in my case in a good day Sonnet is a genius and on a bad one Opus is an moron. One day the same query consumes 6k tokens, the next 700k.

They want to get you hooked and need to show investors they’re super busy but in fact it’s mostly smoke and mirrors. And prompting, once you learn to give proper context, is far from rocket science.

New comment by b212 in "Firefox extension to redirect x.com to xcancel.com"

b212 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:21:04 +0000

True, people praise Threads like they forgot who’s behind it.

That aside - never heard of xcancel and it seems great!!!

New comment by b212 in "I came back from Cursor to VS Code"

b212 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:51:06 +0000

Is it only me or „Apply” barely works lately? The

New comment by b212 in "Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it"

b212 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:20:07 +0000

I don’t drink, I never smoked, I eat clean, I run, I swim, I go to the gym. But I’m also at my desk for 13 hours a day on average and I think it will kill me one day. Trying to stand as much as possible but it’s not always possible,

New comment by b212 in "McDonald's is losing its low-income customers"

b212 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 05:43:07 +0000

Loved that story!

New comment by b212 in "OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats"

b212 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:12:28 +0000

Im sure they pretended they did not.

Now they can’t pretend anymore.

Although keeping deleted chats is evil.

New comment by b212 in "Apple Debuts iPhone 16e"

b212 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:43:32 +0000

Great, another phone for giants. I’ll keep replacing battery in my 13 Mini, hoping for the best…

New comment by b212 in "Broken legs and ankles heal better if you walk on them within weeks"

b212 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 01:38:08 +0000

I battled PF for ages, tried literally everything, and when nothing worked, my feet were in pain I decided to do the dumbest thing in the world and try to only thing I was told I shouldn’t do - run.

I picked a day when my plantar fascia was not too painful and did the first training from c25k plan (roughly 8 minutes of jogging if I remember correctly).

It actually helped me. Don’t try it at home, I think I got lucky because my PF was really not a PF anymore. But I would never found out if I did not run that day. I’ve been running daily ever since, no issues whatsoever.

New comment by b212 in "Musk-led group makes $97B bid for control of OpenAI"

b212 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:16:28 +0000

Do not check out Kanye West on x unless you want to see what no censorship means (spoiler alert: a guy with 33m followers posting porn and glorifying nazism).

New comment by b212 in "Mark Zuckerberg messages Facebook engineer"

b212 — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 19:10:19 +0000

As much as I hate Twitter I was unable to read this @ Bluesky at my iPhone 13 Mini because left/right arrows covered words, this is a mobile design straight from the mid 00s. So bad.

New comment by b212 in "Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN"

b212 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:06:59 +0000

Just mix and match two last digits of the year your parents/siblings were born and you’re golden.

Side note; I’m surprised 6969 is not more popular :)

New comment by b212 in "Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?"

b212 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:50:44 +0000

Interesting as I currently work with 15 year old RoR database and a 2 years old Node project and every time I jump into the later I want to kill myself.

And I’m a mainly JS dev. Node is extremely easy to f up, so is the frontend. And with all the generated code today… it’s gonna get only worse.

New comment by b212 in "Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?"

b212 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:47:29 +0000

It’s the real joy. Especially when you do those things on Friday’s evening.