Hacker News: damethos

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283

damethos — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:08:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hacktron.ai/blog/i-let-claude-opus-to-write-me-a-chrome-exploit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813526

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

MDN ditches React for web components in front end rebuild

damethos — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:05:21 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/mdn-front-end-deep-dive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47768290

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by damethos in "Hackers (1995) Animated Experience"

damethos — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:45:20 +0000

Time to re-re-re-re-N-watch this!

New comment by damethos in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

damethos — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:34:49 +0000

"covered/invisible knowledge" aka tacit knowledge

New comment by damethos in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

damethos — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:24:41 +0000

I have the same questions in my head lately.

New comment by damethos in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

damethos — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:15:02 +0000

Hey Mike! Alex from GR here. Good to see you around :)

New comment by damethos in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

damethos — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:22:31 +0000

Probably just let them vent until they adjust their habits and just chat with their co-workers, without the need to use this as an excuse. Then, they can enjoy the fast loading times :)

New comment by damethos in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

damethos — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:57:15 +0000

- How big things get done

- The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good?

- The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition

- The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

- Rework

Added them on my blog as well with a small review on each in case anyone is interested: https://www.alexanderlolis.com/my-2025-reads

New comment by damethos in "Thin desires are eating life"

damethos — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:50:15 +0000

Loved the article. I completely agree. We ALL need more thick days.

What distinguishes great software engineers? (2019) [pdf]

damethos — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Li2019WhatDistinguishesEngineers.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46290908

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

The secret inside one million boxes

damethos — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 09:56:28 +0000

Article URL: https://eieio.games/blog/the-secret-inside-one-million-checkboxes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46180529

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

4 billion if statements (2023)

damethos — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 15:34:26 +0000

Article URL: https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46174114

Points: 638

# Comments: 176

When Good Enough Software Is Best (Edward Yourdon – 1995) [pdf]

damethos — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:40:51 +0000

Article URL: https://scitech.bournemouth.ac.uk/staff/kphalp/Yourdon.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148844

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by damethos in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

damethos — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:28:30 +0000

This has been my experience as well and I will probably end up paying for a tool because the free ones just don't work smoothly.

New comment by damethos in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

damethos — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 06:25:16 +0000

I was using SmartGit for many years and was very happy with it, until they made it subscription based and had to switch to SourceTree. It works but I do not find it very smooth at all. It hangs every now (using MacOSX) and in general the experience is not as smooth as it was with SmartGit. I am surprised that you are saying that you haven't come across any better tool.

New comment by damethos in "I Am Mark Zuckerberg"

damethos — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 10:33:21 +0000

This is pure awesomeness. It made my day.

New comment by damethos in "Why Your Best Engineers Are Interviewing Elsewhere, CodeGood"

damethos — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:46:18 +0000

I liked the article, but I also laughed a bit because it was the engineers’ fault that they didn’t rise to the occasion and skip-level to save the company!

New comment by damethos in "What the hell have you built"

damethos — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:50:25 +0000

Useful, but 10 years ago without JSONB in PG it wasn't really the answer to everything. But as of today, I am recommending PG to anyone that does not have a good reason or use case to NOT use it.

New comment by damethos in "What the hell have you built"

damethos — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:48:28 +0000

This comment sums up my view as well, but I must confess that I’ve designed architectures more complex than necessary more than once, just to try new things and compare them with what I already knew. I just had to know!

New comment by damethos in "Ask HN: Turned 25, Give Me Your Best Advice for the Next 25 Years?"

damethos — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:17:50 +0000

Not mine, but worth the read:

https://web.archive.org/web/20211228110510/kk.org/thetechniu...