Hacker News: damsta

New comment by damsta in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

damsta — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:08:09 +0000

> Where you should expect to see us evolve is in the quality, depth and pace of innovation we ship.

Yes, letting some LLMs "plan, code, review, deploy" will for sure improve quality and depth of innovation you ship.

New comment by damsta in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

damsta — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:22:15 +0000

Fuck Spotify

New comment by damsta in "GPT-5.4"

damsta — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:12:14 +0000

There is extra cost for >272K:

> For models with a 1.05M context window (GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.4 pro), prompts with >272K input tokens are priced at 2x input and 1.5x output for the full session for standard, batch, and flex.

Taken from https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/models/gpt-5.4

New comment by damsta in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

damsta — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:51:10 +0000

Companies like Vercel, Lovable, and Stackblitz should pay salaries to each of these engineers. Their business succeeded only because Tailwind exists.

New comment by damsta in "Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone"

damsta — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 17:53:35 +0000

I got interested and checked their website, but it gave me a bad vibe, not to mention the hefty price tag in addition to the subscription.

New comment by damsta in "Structured Outputs in the API"

damsta — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 20:24:33 +0000

Can we get something like that in Gemini 1.5 Flash?

New comment by damsta in "Unity plan pricing and packaging updates"

damsta — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 14:29:49 +0000

How does the install tracking work exactly? Do they fingerprint the device once you start a game?

New comment by damsta in "Google kills two-year “Pixel Pass” subscription after just 22 months"

damsta — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 18:02:27 +0000

Is having an end-of-life deadline a requirement in pre-mortems done for product launches at Google?

New comment by damsta in "Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country"

damsta — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 14:01:51 +0000

If you are taking a slice of your free time just to go through this whole process to create a PR, and you know you will never get that time back, and your only message is: Taiwan is not a country, then either you are a troll or hate-fueled person. There is no middle ground, just read this part of their comment:

> TaiWan is not a country, is essentially a province of China. currently it's a district because of some history reasons. > So, TaiWan flag should not be placed along with other REAL country flags, It's a big misleading to website visitors.

This is not just a disagreement.

New comment by damsta in "Remove Taiwan flag – Taiwan is not a country"

damsta — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 11:48:44 +0000

Imagine wasting time on cloning the repo, making a change, pushing it, creating a PR, all that time wasted because of hate. He could use that time to fix one of the 38 issues reported by other users...

New comment by damsta in "Roku to cut 200 jobs in second round of layoffs"

damsta — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 13:24:13 +0000

And I thought March would be a bit more kinder to IT sector than February and we still have Friday left for a few more layoffs.

New comment by damsta in "Meta plans to lay off 10k employees"

damsta — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:55:36 +0000

I asked ChatGPT about taking responsibility for the layoff, here is the response:

> The blog post does not explicitly state that Mark Zuckerberg takes full responsibility for the layoffs.

New comment by damsta in "Microsoft Designer"

damsta — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 09:29:49 +0000

I joined the waitlist and got a confirmation email saying "Pretty soon, you’ll be creating stunning designs in a flash" ;)

New comment by damsta in "GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal"

damsta — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:28:55 +0000

I do not like PayPal at all, but this decision will bring a lot of pain to a lot of developers. A middle finger is due to both companies.

New comment by damsta in "Genders.wtf"

damsta — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 17:06:06 +0000

Perfect usage of .wtf TLD

New comment by damsta in "Bun 0.3"

damsta — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 18:03:57 +0000

What are the things you are hoping to release in Bun v0.4?

New comment by damsta in "AI Music Generator"

damsta — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 12:54:10 +0000

All those AI songs sound like they are straight from sample packs previews. I am sure that in a few years we will get a real AI music generator, where you can enter a prompt like "a rock song with Freddie Mercury's vocals and lyrics about space".

New comment by damsta in "GitHub deleted accounts of people who contributed to Tornado Cash repos"

damsta — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 11:32:54 +0000

Mods please change "tornado" to "tornado cash". People explaining in the thread that some tornado was sanctioned got me confused even more.

New comment by damsta in "HN is up again"

damsta — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 20:37:30 +0000

It was really funny to read advices to move HN to cloud from all those "experts".

New comment by damsta in "Angular without SSR is faster than Next.js with SSR"

damsta — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 07:02:03 +0000

> Angular 1.x was a complicated and annoying beast

For me Angular 1.x was simple and pleasant, first JS framework that I really liked to use back when MEAN stack was popular. Angular 2+ is what you call "complicated and annoying beast".

> my scaled, hooks infested, react apps make me feel like I’m handicapping myself

I know what you mean, I hope Vue 3+ or Solid will slowly replace React.