Hacker News: borplk

New comment by borplk in "Asked Reddit support to give me API key so I can delete my data. They refused"

borplk — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 15:48:38 +0000

I guess you'll have to do it with browser automation. I assume that's possible?

New comment by borplk in "Crafting QR Codes: A deep dive into QR code art (2024)"

borplk — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:57:20 +0000

This is cool but personally I never really understood the interest in turning a barcode into a piece of art or trying to embed images and logos into it.

New comment by borplk in "Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD"

borplk — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:01:30 +0000

I'll take the 300x slower non-vibe-coded pg, thanks!

New comment by borplk in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

borplk — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:41:27 +0000

If it's good enough to replace plain Software Engineers it's good enough to do DevOps/SRE too. There's no meaningful distinction between those categories in this context.

New comment by borplk in "Show HN: GETadb.com – every GET request creates a DB"

borplk — Sat, 09 May 2026 10:37:49 +0000

Gimmickmaxxing?

New comment by borplk in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

borplk — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:09:37 +0000

I don't remember 2001. But 2008 tech job market was way wayyy better than today.

New comment by borplk in "Write some software, give it away for free"

borplk — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:37:53 +0000

Unfortunately nerds are easy to trick. Good luck convincing any other discipline to do free labour for optional donations, vibes, and "the community".

New comment by borplk in "Train Your Own LLM from Scratch"

borplk — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:23:03 +0000

Can anyone suggest or come up with viable "use cases" of a custom LLM like this? I wouldn't mind giving it a try but ideally I'm looking for something that is not just a toy.

New comment by borplk in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

borplk — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:24:42 +0000

That doesn't justify it because the user should still be able to decide when to initiate it. People are ok with not interrupting the update if they get to choose when it starts.

New comment by borplk in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

borplk — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:57:47 +0000

I find it shocking (not really) that among the many BILLION dollar companies built on the back of Postgres there isn't enough sense to pay the salary of one dude to keep a project like this going forever.

New comment by borplk in "Self-updating screenshots"

borplk — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:21:28 +0000

Site appears to be down intermittently with a Django error

If author sees this: Turn off Django debug mode

New comment by borplk in "Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?"

borplk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:54:40 +0000

My observation is that people who love this stuff are not programmers so they feel like they have been empowered to automate things that they could not otherwise automate.

For people who are already highly skilled in scripting/automation it's a lot less impressive.

They notice all the things that could go wrong. All the non-determinism issues. And they think I could do this better with a custom script myself.

The use cases I have heard all seem like gimmicks to me.

New comment by borplk in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"

borplk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:48:01 +0000

Unfortunately everything is going in the opposite direction.

We are in the age of AI-slop AI-everything AI-break-it AI-fix-it.

Software companies are competing with each other on how low they can push the quality and still get away with it.

There's no reward or incentive for paying attention to the details or the quality. In fact you will get penalised for it.

New comment by borplk in "Ask HN: Are Web Agencies Cooked?"

borplk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:37:43 +0000

I think it means charging based on the value of the work to the client not just the cost of doing the work.

That means if you get fast and efficient at doing something valuable for the clients you get to enjoy better margins because your costs are relatively low but the value is high so the customers still happily pay a good amount for it.

New comment by borplk in "Claude.ai down"

borplk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:48:45 +0000

Claude is SOOO powerful and dangerous they just had to shut it down guys :))

New comment by borplk in "S3 Files"

borplk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:38:01 +0000

Does anyone have solutions or suggestions for mounting a S3 bucket as a read-only filesystem? I don't need any writes.

Previously I have done a periodic script that would simply re-sync the directory which works well enough. But curious if there's anything else out there.

New comment by borplk in "Claude API Error: 529"

borplk — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:06:38 +0000

Holy shit I just scrolled through the status sites. Almost every single day is filled with incidents.

New comment by borplk in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

borplk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:45:27 +0000

It's not clear that it would be a net-negative on the revenue.

It could encourage more development and adoption and lead to being a net-positive for the revenue.

New comment by borplk in "Ask HN: Is vibe coding a new mandatory job requirement?"

borplk — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:16:26 +0000

I realise that this is not always practical. But generally I refuse to engage or negotiate about the way I work. Especially if you have a lot of experience, you have to push back when people want to drag you in the mud and wrestle about which tools you use.

A good company will not try to micro manage you as an Engineer in that way.

New comment by borplk in "Microgpt"

borplk — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:58:05 +0000

Can anyone mention how you can "save the state" so it doesn't have to train from scratch on every run?