Hacker News: clktmr

New comment by clktmr in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

clktmr — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:32:20 +0000

You knew exactly what you wanted, since you already built it. All decisions were already made, all tradeoffs reached. LLMs are definitely helpful, but try exploring something new with them and you'll slow down significantly.

New comment by clktmr in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

clktmr — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:54:28 +0000

I am a Freelancer who has worked the last ten years on Embedded/Containerized Linux Systems. Last project (~5y) included evaluating and moving an existing product from Linux Network Stack to high-performance DPDK based solution.

I have a weak spot for Go; In my free time I explore using it in an embedded context. Have a look at https://www.github.com/clktmr/n64

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: C, Go, JS, Lua, Embedded Linux, Yocto, RTLinux, Kernel, DPDK/VPP

Résumé/CV: https://timurcelik.de/cv2026en.pdf

Email: mail@timurcelik.de

New comment by clktmr in "How Not to Buy SpaceX Stock (It's Harder Than You Think)"

clktmr — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:33:28 +0000

https://archive.is/71GCn

How Not to Buy SpaceX Stock (It's Harder Than You Think)

clktmr — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:50:39 +0000

Article URL: https://cranberries.medium.com/how-not-to-buy-spacex-stock-its-harder-than-you-think-a37610cb8bd3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48354214

Points: 22

# Comments: 7

New comment by clktmr in "Googlebook"

clktmr — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:11:21 +0000

This just shows how bad search engines have become. About 15 years ago you could type fully worded questions into Google and would be pointed to the exact sentence of a website that answers your question. I happened so slowly, we were all frogs in boiling water.

An the same will happen to AI. We will remember these days as the golden age for AI, where you weren't required to prompt an AI three times before it answers with a non-ad response.

New comment by clktmr in "I am building a cloud"

clktmr — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:55:57 +0000

> Agents, by making it easiest to write code, means there will be a lot more software. Economists would call this an instance of Jevons paradox. Each of us will write more programs, for fun and for work.

There is already so much software out there, which isn't used by anyone. Just take a look at any appstore. I don't understand why we are so obsessed with cranking out even more, whereas the obvious usecase for LLMs should be to write better software. Let's hope the focus shifts from code generation to something else. There are many ways LLMs can assist in writing better code.

New comment by clktmr in "Go on Embedded Systems and WebAssembly"

clktmr — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:34:04 +0000

I've written a fair amount of code for EmbeddedGo. Garbage Collector is not an issue if you avoid heap allocations in your main loop. But if you're CPU bound a goroutine might block others from running for quite some time. If your platform supports async preemption, you might be able to patch the goroutine scheduler with realtime capabilities.

New comment by clktmr in "The future of version control"

clktmr — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:22:23 +0000

The thing is, you'll typically switch to master to merge your own branch. This makes your own branch 'theirs', which is where the confusion comes from.

New comment by clktmr in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

clktmr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:41:41 +0000

> - he's labeled GenAI as nuclear waste (https://www.webpronews.com/rob-pike-labels-generative-ai-nuc...)

The whole article is an AI hallucination. It refers to the same "Christmas 2025 incident". The internet is dead for real.

New comment by clktmr in "State of Show HN: 2025"

clktmr — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 09:18:53 +0000

The advent of coding agents killed Hacker News to some degree for me. Before I could always come here to get a pause from the hype, scandal and bait. Top comments were usually insightful; I really had this feeling to learn while browsing the feed. Today every brainfart about AI makes it to the frontpage. I know this sounds very dismissive, but most pieces really have no substance at all.

The good content is still there buts it drowns in noise and I'm not very good at filtering it out. I even suspect Hacker News is one of the prime advertisement targets of coding agent companies.

I would love to see if this is just my perception or if it can be found in the data.

New comment by clktmr in "Anthropic tries to hide Claude's AI actions. Devs hate it"

clktmr — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:40:06 +0000

It's probably in their interest to have as many vibed codebases out there as possible, that no human would ever want to look at. Incentivising never-look-at-the-code is effectively a workflow lockin.

New comment by clktmr in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

clktmr — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:10:25 +0000

At least try a different question with similar logic, to ensure this isn't patched into the context since it's going viral.

New comment by clktmr in "Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker"

clktmr — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:55:42 +0000

It's pretty good at dead code elimination. The size of Go binaries is in large part because of the runtime implementation. Remove a bunch of the runtime's features (profiling, stacktraces, sysmon, optimizations that avoid allocations, maybe even multithreading...) and you'll end up with much smaller binaries. I would love if there was a build tag like "runtime_tiny", that provides such an implementation.

New comment by clktmr in "Why "just prompt better" doesn't work"

clktmr — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:25:58 +0000

You don't know what you want. That's why asking questions doesn't work. You think you know it, but only after you've spent some time iterating in the space of solutions, you'll see the path forward.

New comment by clktmr in "Ask HN: Any example of successful vibe-coded product?"

clktmr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:19:26 +0000

This is so ironic. Why would you add all these "features" to Go, if you're not interested in using the language at all?

New comment by clktmr in "Go away Python"

clktmr — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 18:00:19 +0000

There is also yaegi, a Go interpreter, which might be a better choice for small scripts than 'go run'.

https://github.com/traefik/yaegi

New comment by clktmr in "Libgodc: Write Go Programs for Sega Dreamcast"

clktmr — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 14:57:27 +0000

Hey panos! I only had a short look at this for now, and it looks impressive! I'll have to dust off my Dreamcast and get this running.

I looked at gccgo when porting the runtime to n64, but at the time it wasn't updated since go1.18. Can we use Go Generics on the Dreamcast? I see that gccgo is obviously needed to support SH4.

New comment by clktmr in "Go-boot: bare metal Go UEFI boot manager"

clktmr — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 23:19:28 +0000

This would also benefit the Embedded Go project, which uses similar modifications to the runtime.

https://embeddedgo.github.io/

Go on the Nintendo 64

clktmr — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:04:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.timurcelik.de/posts/n64go-1-getting-started/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46106390

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by clktmr in "We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size"

clktmr — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:02:55 +0000

Can you imagine their fork extending git with a feature which is incompatible to mainline git and then forcing user's to switch to their fork via github? I can, and it will give them the power to extinguish mainline git and force everything they want on their users (telemetry, licence agreements, online registration...). That might be the reason they're embracing git right now. The fork being open source doesn't help at all.

I'm not saying this shouldn't be merged, but I think people should be aware and see the early signs.