Hacker News: cyral

New comment by cyral in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

cyral — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:08:49 +0000

Another massive reason is that ChatGPT and similar apps are eating their lunch. Asking a question to ChatGPT actually tends to be pretty convenient compared to the top X results that are just SEO optimized slop.

New comment by cyral in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

cyral — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:00:36 +0000

This may have been a problem a year or two ago but any premium model will be exploring the codebase to check similar routes to answer all these questions, if you don't specify them.

New comment by cyral in "How the Heck does Shazam work?"

cyral — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:01:22 +0000

The interactive parts of this post are very cool though

New comment by cyral in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

cyral — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:50:08 +0000

It's insane how most of the dev subreddits are filled with slop like this. I've thought the same thing - why can't they even spend 5 minutes to write their own post about their project?

New comment by cyral in "Cursor 3"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:51:19 +0000

All the VS code stuff is literally still there

New comment by cyral in "Cursor 3"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:38:05 +0000

I just upgraded and you can still show/hide the entire editor like before

New comment by cyral in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:34:46 +0000

> If anything, too much slop goes through uncontested.

It's actually insane opening up /r/webdev and similar subreddits and seeing dozens of AI authored posts with 50+ comments and maybe a single person calling it out. Makes me feel crazy. It's not as much of a problem here, but there is absolutely a writing style that suddenly 50% of submissions are using. It's always to promote something and watching people fall for it over and over again is upsetting.

New comment by cyral in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:31:13 +0000

It might be normal language but lets say maybe 5% of real human blog writers use short punchy phrases like that. The noticeable problem is now its 50% of blog posts because almost every single AI authored post uses the same phrasing, it's tiring knowing you are just reading ChatGPT output. Its usually part of a low-effort funnel to guide you to some product/service.

New comment by cyral in "Algorithm Visualizer"

cyral — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:32:04 +0000

Very cool. One of my favorite professors in college would make 100+ slide powerpoints of algorithms and flip through them really fast in order to visualize what they were doing, it was really helpful.

New comment by cyral in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

cyral — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:35:17 +0000

I've been doing this for so long and never knew there was a reviver param, thanks - that is super useful.

New comment by cyral in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

cyral — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:46:13 +0000

Yup, it was actually an interesting article but there are a few telltale parts that sound like every AI spam post on /r/webdev and similar. "No warning. No confirmation dialog. No email notification." is another. The three negatives repeated is present in so many AI generated promotional posts.

New comment by cyral in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

cyral — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:56:23 +0000

I've seen this too in the US, the newer machines let them spin the scan around in 3D space and must make it much easier to tell if something needs inspection or not

New comment by cyral in "ChatGPT Health"

cyral — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:25:53 +0000

Yes, in my area if you need to find a new doctor you literally can't. This is a major city. The online booking for any major hospital network literally shows no results because the next appointment would be 90+ days out. If you have an existing relationship maybe you can get in in two weeks.

New comment by cyral in "ChatGPT Health"

cyral — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:26:51 +0000

Getting a potential answer right away is certainly temping over waiting weeks to get an appointment

New comment by cyral in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

cyral — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 03:15:37 +0000

The amount of docs that have a “Copy as markdown” or “Copy for AI” button has been noticeably increasing, and really helps the LLM with proper context.

New comment by cyral in "ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests"

cyral — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:40:25 +0000

You can click the three dots on any response and click "Branch in new chat". Not sure when it was added but it exists.

New comment by cyral in "Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes"

cyral — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:07:43 +0000

Wild that it was released in 2016 for almost $9,000

New comment by cyral in "Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates"

cyral — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:52:09 +0000

Different scenario but it reminds me of when Missouri prosecuted a reporter who found that teacher's SSN numbers were exposed in the HTML of a webpage

> "Parson described the journalist as a “perpetrator” who “took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the Social Security number of those specific educators” in an “attempt to steal personal information and harm Missourians.”"

New comment by cyral in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

cyral — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:15:11 +0000

Not entirely unsurprising due to the theft issues they face

New comment by cyral in "The highest quality codebase"

cyral — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:25:20 +0000

Using the plan mode in cursor (or asking claude to first come up with a plan) makes it pretty good at generic "how can I improve" prompts. It can spend more effort exploring the codebase and thinking before implementing.