Hacker News: beoberha

New comment by beoberha in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

beoberha — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:20:56 +0000

Hope you never want to take diff backups

New comment by beoberha in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

beoberha — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:22:22 +0000

I believe OP is talking about new sessions or after compaction. He’s getting at the fact that LLMs are stateless and have to rediscover your codebase on every new session.

New comment by beoberha in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

beoberha — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:48:13 +0000

For me, the concern about SQLite has never been if the database engine itself is “reliable for real data”, but that storing data on a single node is not “reliable for real data”. Performance aside, what you are positing is no different than dumping everything to a text file on disk. What happens if that VM dies?

New comment by beoberha in "MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System"

beoberha — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:57:43 +0000

There’s no better option today because it’s impossible to make it a better experience. That machine at home will need upgrades, it could fail, it costs thousands, it sucks lots of power. There is no mass market appeal.

New comment by beoberha in "MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System"

beoberha — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:53:20 +0000

What you’re describing is more likely to manifest as a proprietary product from someone like Samsung or Ring (likely both!) than an open standard AI server that integrates with everything in your home automatically. This is exactly like what we have today with security systems and smart appliances. You have managed services and you have Home Assistant in your homelab.

New comment by beoberha in "MacBook M5 Pro and Qwen3.5 = Local AI Security System"

beoberha — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:40:38 +0000

I don’t think there’s anything different between what you’re suggesting and a homelab. Most people do not have a homelab and are happy to offload services like photo storage or security to remote providers.

New comment by beoberha in "Push events into a running session with channels"

beoberha — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 04:19:57 +0000

Spend 5 minutes looking up how to make a chat bot and be amazed how Telegram is really the only option. I was dumbfounded when rolling my own agent.

iMessage is proprietary. WhatsApp charges you. Unofficial APIs exist, sure, but not my cup of tea.

Then you have Discord or Slack, which are pretty heavyweight when all you want is a simple chat interface.

Telegram makes it SO easy. Bots are first class resources on Telegram and they make them so easy to use.

New comment by beoberha in "Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste"

beoberha — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:43:04 +0000

Bun is a full fledged JavaScript runtime! Think node.js but fast

New comment by beoberha in "Show HN: I built a real-time OSINT dashboard pulling 15 live global feeds"

beoberha — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:58:24 +0000

Sounds like OP did some pretty cool engineering to make this run performantly. Definitely not your run of the mill AI slop.

New comment by beoberha in "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI"

beoberha — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:32:09 +0000

Seems like a great fit - kinda surprised it didn’t happen sooner. I think we are deep in the valley of local AI, but I’d be willing to bet it breaks out in the next 2-3 years. Here’s hoping!

New comment by beoberha in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

beoberha — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:50:09 +0000

who knows when Apple decides to enter the game, but they will absolutely crush the personal agent market when they do.

New comment by beoberha in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

beoberha — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:55:52 +0000

My pessimism is mostly rooted in the VC economics of it all. The vision is great, but its a busy space and there's no actual product or business. They basically wrote the guy a check to build the spaceship in space.

New comment by beoberha in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

beoberha — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:17:22 +0000

Ignoring the VC economics and awful name, I won’t be as pessimistic as everyone. I see the vision.

That said, nobody knows what the AI future looks like. Entire’s entire thesis is a solution for something we don’t even know we need. It’s a massive bet and uphill battle. Traditionally, dev tool success stories come from grassroots projects of developers solving their own problems and not massive VC funded efforts that tell you what you need to do.

New comment by beoberha in "Coding agents have replaced every framework I used"

beoberha — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:49:54 +0000

> The initial excitement of LLMs has significantly cooled off, the model releases show rapidly diminishing returns if not outright equilibrium and the only vibe-coded software project I've seen get any actual public use is Claude Code, which is riddled with embarrassing bugs its own developers have publicly given up on fixing. The only thing I see approaching any kind of singularity is the hype.

I am absolutely baffled by this take. I work in an objectively high stakes environment (Big 3 cloud database provider) and we are finally (post Opus 4.5) seeing the models and tools become good enough to drive the vast majority of our coding work. Devops and livesite is a harder problem, but even there we see very promising results.

I was a skeptic too. I was decently vocal about AI working for single devs but could never scale to large, critical enterprise codebases and systems. I was very wrong.

New comment by beoberha in "My AI Adoption Journey"

beoberha — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:54:18 +0000

Your sentiment resonates with me a lot. I wonder what we’ll consider the inflection point 10 years from now. It seemed like the zeitgeist was screaming about scaling limits and running out of training data, then we got Claude code, sonnet 4.5, then Opus 4.5 and no ones looked back since.

New comment by beoberha in "Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users"

beoberha — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:56:57 +0000

That’s kind of my point. They’re not really in competition. I bet they’d have an easier time with this scale if they were on SQL Server, but obviously that migration isn’t happening and startups don’t reach for it for many reasons.

New comment by beoberha in "Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users"

beoberha — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:43:05 +0000

Are you saying this because OpenAI didnt choose SQL Server?

New comment by beoberha in "Your app subscription is now my weekend project"

beoberha — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:16:45 +0000

I had never written an iOS app until a couple months ago and was initially very put off when I hit the same wall. The alternative is to host on a cheap VPS and find some way to prevent other people from using your app. When you cost it out, it's close enough to the 100 bucks a year for the Apple account. However, the kicker for me is the side loading process. Way too much headache compared to a deploy script that has my changes running nearly instantly.

New comment by beoberha in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

beoberha — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:39:37 +0000

Beads is amazing. It’s such a simple concept but elevates agentic coding to another levels

New comment by beoberha in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"

beoberha — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 21:10:28 +0000

Yep, as a manager, I am explaining this conundrum often. You can be a rockstar SDE 2 or senior, but not be ready for a promotion because you aren’t leading enough.