Hacker News: b212

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.

New comment by b212 in "The FizzBuzz that did not get me the job"

b212 — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 02:33:59 +0000

I think DHH was right all along. Typescript is cool if you use it alone but from my experience code like the one produced by the OP gets written by some ex-Java ninja and out of 1000 devs maybe 5 could fully comprehend what the code actually does. AI writes this kind of TS a lot. I don’t say TS is bad but most of the time I feel it’s like trying to kill a fly with a nuke. The worst part is I almost never had the issues TS tries to solve, after all adding prototypes to React took 1/10th of the time than annoyances with TS take.

Great job OP, but my eyes bleed.

New comment by b212 in "NATO to deploy ships, aircraft in Baltic Sea after cable breaches"

b212 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 02:02:36 +0000

You raid two cities and there’s nothing left. It’s mind boggling.

New comment by b212 in "Big tech is picking apart European democracy"

b212 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:58:16 +0000

I feel like the world order established after WWII is falling apart not because of tyrants like Putin (as he’s always been this way) but because we started to normalize talking about taking over other countries, dropping “refugees” by mafia and terrorist orgs at our borders, and on top of that we truly treat each other like shit - no amount of PhDs and FAANG exp will make you safe against CFOs Excel sheets…

We really had a good run but something needs to give at last. I hate how polarized we all are, and I just want to love you all.

(I’m not American, the big split happens everywhere globally and I believe it’s even worse in my country even tho we border with Russia and should be unified like never before)

New comment by b212 in "Software engineer pay heatmap for Europe"

b212 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:47:01 +0000

TBH when I was looking for SWE jobs in the UK in 2012 the salaries were… About the same? Maybe less for juniors but got quite a lot of 45-60k offers for mid dev. WTF, Brexit?

New comment by b212 in "Software engineer pay heatmap for Europe"

b212 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:44:22 +0000

One of my fav countries in the world.

I visit it multiple times a year and I can confirm. Nothing has changed in Italy since 2008. At least not for the better. And with one of the oldest populations… It will only get worse.

New comment by b212 in "Software engineer pay heatmap for Europe"

b212 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 01:40:27 +0000

Italy? Portugal? You must be new to tech, eh?

Policemen in Italy make many times more than software engineers.

DocPlanner has opened an office in Barcelona over 10 years ago to save on dev salaries, people got paid more in Warsaw even back then.

Portugal is kinda dead as a country.

What I found more fascinating is that Poland surpassed Sweden, not a tech powerhouse for sure but it’s Scandinavia, super freaking expensive.

New comment by b212 in "Show HN: I built the most over-engineered Deal With It emoji generator"

b212 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 00:27:32 +0000

Great job, thanks for sharing.

Just noticed what company you did leave and I have even more respect for you.

Someone get this guy a job please.