Hacker News: barishnamazov

New comment by barishnamazov in "Ben Lerner's Big Feelings"

barishnamazov — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:57:56 +0000

https://archive.is/PHIPi

Git Blame: From Passive-Aggressive Forensics to Active-Aggressive Emails [pdf]

barishnamazov — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:27:13 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/BarishNamazov/gitblame/blob/main/paper/gitblame.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824996

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by barishnamazov in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

barishnamazov — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:59:22 +0000

Sigh, I'd still have preferred a basic HTML page with hand-written succinct information instead of this crap verbosity.

New comment by barishnamazov in "The LCA problem revisited [pdf]"

barishnamazov — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:25:28 +0000

You are probably confusing it with a sliding window problem. RMQ [0] is about finding the minimum value in given arbitrary subarray.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range_minimum_query

New comment by barishnamazov in "RX – a new random-access JSON alternative"

barishnamazov — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:05:18 +0000

You shouldn't be using JSON for things that'd have performance implications.

New comment by barishnamazov in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

barishnamazov — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:33:12 +0000

Nobody really buys 8gb sticks anymore, so selling 2x8gb isn't economically great. Also, there are more factors than just density in RAM pricing, but it really depends on the vendor and chip layout design.

The Public Suffix List

barishnamazov — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:21:22 +0000

Article URL: https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47327689

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Epistle – Encrypted letters shared via URL, no server storage

barishnamazov — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:49:32 +0000

Article URL: https://epistle.barish.me/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47196719

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI Chatbots Still Can't Render Code Properly (and How to Fix It)

barishnamazov — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:39:56 +0000

Article URL: https://barish.me/blog/ai-chatbots-still-cant-render-code-properly/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47116543

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by barishnamazov in "Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript"

barishnamazov — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:24:28 +0000

How is this different than kysely + kysely-codegen (or hand-made types)?

The Turing Lectures

barishnamazov — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:02:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.turing.ac.uk/events/the-turing-lectures

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47028095

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by barishnamazov in "Dating apps are training us to want the wrong people"

barishnamazov — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:21:39 +0000

https://archive.is/Meaxn

Dating apps are training us to want the wrong people

barishnamazov — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:20:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-13/do-hinge-tinder-work-what-dating-apps-get-wrong-about-compatibility

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47007318

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by barishnamazov in "Software design is now cheap"

barishnamazov — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:08:03 +0000

> What matters less is the mechanical knowledge of how to express the solution in code. The LLM generates code, not understanding.

I think it's the opposite -- if you have a good way to design your software (e.g., conceptual and modular), LLM will generate the understanding as well. Design does not only mean code architecture, it also means how you express the concepts in it to a user. If software isn't really understood by humans, I doubt LLMs will be able to generate working code for it anyway, so we get a design problem to solve.

New comment by barishnamazov in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

barishnamazov — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:28:07 +0000

I'd personally rethink about applying some advice in that section. Here's my take.

> Time-boxing AI sessions.

Unless you are a full-time vibe coder, you already wouldn't be using AI all the time. But time boxing it feels artificial, if it's able to make good and real progress (not unmaintainable slop).

> Separating AI time from thinking time.

My usage of AI involves doing a lot of thinking, either collaboratively within a chat, or by myself while it's doing some agentic loop.

> Accepting 70% from AI.

This is a confusing statement. 70% what? What does 70% usable even mean? If it means around 70% of features work and other 30% is broken, perhaps AI shouldn't be used for those 30% in the first place.

> Being strategic about the hype cycle.

Hype cycles have always been a thing. It's good for mind in general to avoid them.

> Logging where AI helps and where it doesn't.

I do most of this logging in my agent md files instead of a separate log. Also after a bit my memory picks it up really quickly what AI can do and what it can't. I assume this is a natural process for many fellow engineers.

> Not reviewing everything AI produces.

If you are shipping in an insane speed, this is just an expected outcome, not an advice you can follow.

New comment by barishnamazov in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

barishnamazov — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:07:40 +0000

You are taking to simonw, surely Claude have given him free super fast unlimited token access to nightly version of Claude 5.1 Opus.

(just joking, your posts are great, Simon!)

New comment by barishnamazov in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

barishnamazov — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:02:13 +0000

This write-up has good ideas but gives me the "AI-generated reading fatigue." Things that can cleanly be expressed in 1-2 sentences are whole paragraphs, often with examples that seem unnecessary or unrealistic. There are also some wrong claims like below:

> The Hacker News front page alone is enough to give you whiplash. One day it's "Show HN: Autonomous Research Swarm" and the next it's "Ask HN: How will AI swarms coordinate?" Nobody knows. Everyone's building anyway.

These posts got less than 5 upvotes, they didn't make it to home page. And while overall quality of Show HN might have dropped, HN homepage is still quite sane.

The topic is also not something "nobody talks about," it's being discussed even before agentic tools became available: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=AI+fatigue

Smashing the Stack in the 21st Century

barishnamazov — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:56:47 +0000

Article URL: https://thesquareplanet.com/blog/smashing-the-stack-21st-century/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46901052

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by barishnamazov in "Nobody likes lag: How to make low-latency dev sandboxes"

barishnamazov — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:58:30 +0000

Not directly related but can't read the text on my phone. It's too thin, maybe you could increase the font weight a bit?

New comment by barishnamazov in "The Zen of Reticulum"

barishnamazov — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:52:08 +0000

Also discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686273