Hacker News: damidekronik

New comment by damidekronik in "Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them"

damidekronik — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:43:04 +0000

I was gonna say that uBlock still works for me on facebook, but yea I forgot I had purity quietly working for me for all those years

New comment by damidekronik in "Ukraine's drone commander has Russian oil, troops and morale in his sights"

damidekronik — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:50:12 +0000

Given the stated goal, most likely exaggerating

New comment by damidekronik in "How/why to sweep async tasks under a Postgres table"

damidekronik — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 21:10:26 +0000

I am using pgboss myself, very decent, very simple. Had some issues with graphile back in the days, cant remember what exaclty, it probably did already overcome whatever I was struggling with!

New comment by damidekronik in "Malleable Software"

damidekronik — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:55:43 +0000

So we need to create tools with very high flexibility, not-so-fantastic onboarding that take a long time to setup and hard to get right - so that AI can fix them? I would rather use Linear (as per example).

New comment by damidekronik in "Async Queue – One of my favorite programming interview questions"

damidekronik — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 12:50:17 +0000

And then once The Anyone gets few more years of experience they revert back to the bulky one.

New comment by damidekronik in "The hunt for Marie Curie's radioactive fingerprints in Paris"

damidekronik — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 09:21:25 +0000

Maybe we can at least fix the headline here, on hacker news

New comment by damidekronik in "A Principled Approach to Querying Data – A Type-Safe Search DSL"

damidekronik — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 12:39:26 +0000

Prisma doesn't cover plenty of SQL features. custom types, more complex indexes (like where clause). It is also a VC backed biznes, need to be ready to drop it at almost any time, SQL/postgres on the other hand is here to stay.

RLS is hard to work with, hard to debug, hard to reason about, cumbersome. It is however powerful.

New comment by damidekronik in "A Principled Approach to Querying Data – A Type-Safe Search DSL"

damidekronik — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:54:44 +0000

I am using both prisma and kysely in the same codebase with a great success. The db schema is driven by SQL, not prisma. It is then introspected by both kysely and prisma, prisma is used in 95% of the places while kysely is used whenever performance is critical or when prisma doesn't support the SQL features we need.

New comment by damidekronik in "JetBrains Fleet drops support for Kotlin Multiplatform"

damidekronik — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:19:05 +0000

Love Webstorm, but I am having constant problems with type hints. Typescript with a solid setup that over time stopped working well.

New comment by damidekronik in "I do not want AI to "polish" me"

damidekronik — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 14:22:15 +0000

"The obsessive need for AI developers (...)" - Of product product/business people trying to fit into the "AI era". Developers, if given a chance, wouldn't probably built this.

New comment by damidekronik in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024)"

damidekronik — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:43:02 +0000

As someone interested in the gaming sector but with a web dev/full stack experience this seems like an amazing offer. It is however a shame you are not disclosing the salary range. I am not willing spend several hours on the interviweing process just to get to know what you are offering.

New comment by damidekronik in "Writing Composable SQL Using Knex and Pipelines"

damidekronik — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:04:28 +0000

What's missing from https://kysely.dev/?

New comment by damidekronik in "Fair coins tend to land on the side they started (2023)"

damidekronik — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 15:22:03 +0000

From this year's Iq:

Botany: Jacob White and Felipe Yamashita, for finding that certain plants imitate the leaf shape of nearby plastic plants and concluding that "plant vision" is plausible.

This somehow doesn't fit the Iq award in my mind.

New comment by damidekronik in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

damidekronik — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:40:52 +0000

Which 49" do you have? I am looking to improve my setup and wouldn't mind some suggestions.

New comment by damidekronik in "I was an MIT educated neurosurgeon – now I'm alone in the mountains [video]"

damidekronik — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 08:39:32 +0000

Parent comments is still correct, NHS is free from the Financial Incentive problem. I don't think anyone claims the system is good, just this one aspect is correct.

New comment by damidekronik in "I Received an AI Email"

damidekronik — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 10:08:29 +0000

Slightly similar, in Lem's novel all war efforts moved to the moon where AI deployed by each nation continues in an endless conflict. Peace on Earth is achieved, peace in the mail box is achieved. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_on_Earth_(novel)

New comment by damidekronik in "After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL"

damidekronik — Thu, 30 May 2024 18:15:56 +0000

Postgraphile is great, until you need to debug row level security. Or when you realize you need another tool to make the query type safe.

New comment by damidekronik in "Making a Postgres query 1k times faster"

damidekronik — Wed, 15 May 2024 22:15:45 +0000

I think a nicer takeaway is what the author summarized with:

1. Always use BUFFERS when running an EXPLAIN. It gives some data that may be crucial for the investigation.

2. Always, always try to get an Index Cond (called Index range scan in MySQL) instead of a Filter.

3. Always, always, always assume PostgreSQL and MySQL will behave differently. Because they do.

New comment by damidekronik in "A day in the life of a Walmart manager"

damidekronik — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 15:37:20 +0000

Would honestly love to know more. What activities which are not common for a store did he bring from the navy?

New comment by damidekronik in "Ask HN: Anyone Using MacBook Air M2 24GB for Developement?"

damidekronik — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 08:09:24 +0000

I am using the Pro version, "MacBook Pro M2 24GB 13-inch 2022". Backend and frontend mostly, several docker containers running constantly, several chrome and firefox instances with about 10s of tabs opened, DB tools (pgAdmin etc). All of this works great, battery life ~5 hours when doing heavy work, fans very very rarerly turning on, maybe few times over the last 10 months I was using it.

One issue I experience is that "Virtual Machine Service for Docker" is consistently sitting at 6gb ram. I am running in "linux/amd64" mode as I had some compatibility issues.

Another issue is that for some reason WebStorm sometimes works much worse than on linux which I used before the mac. As if WebStorm completely turns off some features (highlight, typechecking...) from time to time.