Hacker News: blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blacksoilHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:15:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by blacksoil in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"]]>They argue that the Chinese models distill US models as one of the basis of the potential ban. I think it's quite ironic considering even the US models themselves are using data out there on the internet without asking for permissions and in many cases even infringing copyrights...

]]>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:41:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029994blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029994https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49029994<![CDATA[New comment by blacksoil in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"]]>Yes please! It's very annoying how clicking an FB or Insta result from a Google search result would disallow going back to the search result!

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:30:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764767blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764767https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47764767<![CDATA[New comment by blacksoil in "Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs"]]>Claude code has a version that runs on the cloud. You grant it access to Github then and you can tell it to make changes and create PR from your phone, tablet, or desktop. I'm curious, but what makes this difference than that?

]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:35:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729698blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729698https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729698<![CDATA[What Can a 500MB LLM Do? You'll Be Surprised [video]]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwrtbDl9XX0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43912062

Points: 3

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]]>Wed, 07 May 2025 03:44:49 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwrtbDl9XX0blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43912062https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43912062<![CDATA[New comment by blacksoil in "The Software Engineering Identity Crisis"]]>> You either have a skill issue, or you are deliberately solving problems other than the thing you actually want to solve, which you do not mention.

Wow the first one is quite judgmental. FWIW, I'm the same way, I like writing some code, but definitely not all code. Writing CRUD boilerplate for a schema? No thank you, AI is more than welcome to take that.

I derive my joy from getting something done, making it actually usable by the business side, and ultimately have it to generate revenue.

]]>Thu, 27 Mar 2025 02:23:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489800blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489800https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43489800<![CDATA[New comment by blacksoil in "Launch HN: A0.dev (YC W25) – React Native App Generator"]]>Wow this is very easy to use. I've been using Github Co-Pilot for a while to do web dev, this is way way way more convenient :)

]]>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:03:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020959blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020959https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43020959<![CDATA[New comment by blacksoil in "Tech takes the Pareto principle too far"]]>It's true that building an MVP is a lot easier than creating a polished product that would scale to tons of users. I would even say that the skill set needed for the two are significantly different. Somebody trained at quick prototyping of full stack app may not have the skills to scale it for thousands of concurrent users and vice versa. But isn't that the reason behind raising funds? If the product demand is proven, funds can be raised to polish and scale the product out.

]]>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 06:19:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42828146blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42828146https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42828146<![CDATA[Tucker Carlson Interviewed Vladimir Putin]]>Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCWBhuDdDo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529858

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

]]>Sat, 28 Dec 2024 10:01:00 +0000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOCWBhuDdDoblacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529858https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42529858<![CDATA[New comment by blacksoil in "Launch HN: Fortress (YC S24) – Database platform for multi-tenant SaaS"]]>"Speaking as a dev with over 12 years of experience in both dev and ops"

I think you aren't the target market. The target market is probably people who are new to coding or even self-taught indie hackers who aren't too technical but oriented towards building a product as quickly as possible

]]>Tue, 03 Sep 2024 11:43:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41433899blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41433899https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41433899<![CDATA[New comment by blacksoil in "Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management"]]>Can someone help enlightening me. In terms of preventing leaks, since we still need to ensure that the .env.keys doesn't leak, wouldn't effort still be the same?

The ability to use arbitrary filename for.env is quite nice though!

]]>Wed, 26 Jun 2024 00:38:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40795279blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40795279https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40795279<![CDATA[New comment by blacksoil in "Ask HN: How can I effectively restart my dev career?"]]>Meanwhile applying, how about working on a project that you can showcase? Use the latest popular technologies in terms of maximizing chance of getting hired.

I think it's pretty normal for hiring team to be worried to hire somebody who hasn't coded significantly for the past 3 years to do coding role.

]]>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:49:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700757blacksoilhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700757https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40700757<![CDATA[New comment by blacksoil in "Ask HN: How do you use React as a library in 2024?"]]>- Using it as a plain `