Hacker News: biql

New comment by biql in "AI agents are starting to eat SaaS"

biql — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:53:39 +0000

There are already plenty of SaaS that offer open source version as a way to push to the cloud and charge for hosting, maintenance, support and some extra features. In that way, a working code have already been commoditized and those companies didn't disappear.

New comment by biql in "Vibe coding is mad depressing"

biql — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:30:59 +0000

This. First I try it just a little to do a boring part. It feels great. The boring part that was holding me is gone and all it took was a little instruction. The dopamine hit is real. So of course I will try it again. But not so fast. It needs to be corrected to make everything aligned with the architecture. And as my requests get bigger, it needs more and more corrections. Eventually correcting everything becomes too tedious, and accepting is just too easy, and so I lower my standards, and soon enough lose track of all the decisions. The branch is now useless as I don't want to debug or own this code I no longer understand hence I start over. I want work to felt like a training session where you get fairly rewarded for your efforts with better understanding, not like a slot machine where you passively hope it gets it right next time.

New comment by biql in "Cloudflare was down"

biql — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:12:41 +0000

How about: internet that is actually decentralized.

New comment by biql in "IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)"

biql — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 11:12:34 +0000

I had to use Borland when studying but never really liked it. Later I tried Notepad+ with console for the first time and everything clicked. There is a console for compiling and running and there is a text editor for editing. It was the flow that made sense.

New comment by biql in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

biql — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 17:51:00 +0000

Database is one of those places where it's justified, I think. Application containers do not need the same level of care hence are easy to run yourself.

New comment by biql in "Why I Chose Elixir Phoenix over Rails, Laravel, and Next.js"

biql — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:54:48 +0000

Just curious, what libraries did you miss in particular compared to Go?

New comment by biql in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

biql — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:46:33 +0000

Not sure about windows but I solved it for myself with basic provisioning script (could be an ansible playbook also) that installs everything on a fresh linux vm in a few minutes. For macos, there is tart vm that works well with arm64 (very little overhead compared to alternatives). Could be a rented cloud vm in a nearby location with low latency. Being a neovim user also helped not to having to worry about file sync when editing.

New comment by biql in "How Ruby executes JIT code"

biql — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 14:35:30 +0000

With such constraints, it should also be possible to compile it into a native binary, and then it is very similar Crystal.

New comment by biql in "Ruby's official documentation just got a new look"

biql — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 08:18:06 +0000

Sadly, the typography looks too neglected for the time when there is such an abundance of templates and fonts.

New comment by biql in "The hikikomori in Asia: A life within four walls"

biql — Sat, 25 May 2024 23:28:53 +0000

Sounds like social coaching has all the attributes of an untapped business niche. The question is, if there is just a obvious pain, why there is such a shortage of solutions. I think it could be because of the stigma associated with this issue or because people affect by it lack genuine interest in solutions as people are usually happy to pay for all kinds of self-improvements.

New comment by biql in "Ask HN: What's your experience with AI-based code review tools?"

biql — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 13:04:06 +0000

I think it needs to know every conversation that happened in the company to provide meaningful feedback that is above generic coding suggestions. But then it makes onboarding new people and getting them familiar with the project much easier. Businesses will have a lot of incentives to do that.

New comment by biql in "For developers under pressure, it’s better for bugs to be found in production"

biql — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 20:40:42 +0000

So they lie about estimates because they afraid to miss their chance to delivery buggy mess. But doesn't it do more harm to the reputation in the long term?

New comment by biql in "Elixir for Ruby developers: the three most important differences"

biql — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 21:18:41 +0000

Trying Gleam that also runs on Erlang VM but has static types, a fast compiler with Rust-style elaborate error messages made me hopeful about how much nicer this experience can be when static types are added to Elixir too.

New comment by biql in "Natural language is an unnatural interface"

biql — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 03:25:56 +0000

Exactly. It doesn't need extra buttons in the UI, it needs a giant context window to contain all the important info about your life or a business and the tools for gathering and maintaining that context. Then merely saying that you are seek becomes enough to autocomplete the rest of the actions including sending an email.

New comment by biql in "Ask HN: Can you survive as a PHP Web Developer in 2023?"

biql — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 16:52:59 +0000

This is my thinking too, yet for some reason, 90% of job desciptions insist the candidate has N years of experience with M stack. As if someone who was building websites with Rails for 10 years is somehow not qualified for building the same websites with Symphony.

New comment by biql in "Tell HN: "I don't care about cookies” extension bought by Avast, users jump ship"

biql — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 12:23:34 +0000

There should be a standard way for all browsers to tell sites whether they accept cookies or not. There is no reason every user should deal with this banner manually for all sites.

New comment by biql in "Why it can be a good idea to say “Thank You” to ChatGPT"

biql — Tue, 23 May 2023 11:36:12 +0000

Nice suggestion. I really don't want to create a habit of talking in a dry and somewhat commanding manner and have it slip into regular life.

New comment by biql in "Ask HN: Will AI result in mass silo-ing of new knowledge?"

biql — Fri, 19 May 2023 17:34:48 +0000

I think it's possible that in the end, AI will make everyone wealthier nevertheless. Just like people today posses the level of conveniences unimaginable to the elites of the past, in the form of smartphones, global delivery, cheap flights, instant access to information, etc. Being able to afford an unlimited, available 24/7 health-related consultation for $20/mo is also wealth and so is being able to single-handedly create an app that would otherwise require a team of 10.

Also, it seems to be that information that is helpful just doesn't like to be contained. Comparing with StackOverflow, its popularity didn't make developers less likely to participate in the community. Instead it made programming more approachable to a much larger pool of people and more software were created, which made our life easier. If something is intended to be used only for consumption (media) it tend to say closed. But if something can become a building block for others, people generally seem to want it to spread.

New comment by biql in "Smol Developer"

biql — Wed, 17 May 2023 08:55:29 +0000

As someone who considered giving up on programming due to wrist pain from typing, this is my dream as well. I also prefer to work independently or in small teams, and the amount of things that could be tackled this way is surely increasing. There is no reason why programming shouldn't to be more about thinking and less about typing.

New comment by biql in "The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals"

biql — Wed, 10 May 2023 13:09:46 +0000

I see limited context and the lack of sandbox dev environment is the main obstacle on way to have more sophisticated usage and faster feedback loop. The value would be greater if it could know everything about the code base, business requirements, related documentation, and, it could even avoid a lot mistakes by simple running type checks and the tests and correct itself before giving the answer.