Hacker News: danfritz

New comment by danfritz in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

danfritz — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:42:50 +0000

Always let your db generate uuids. On postgres this is easy since v18 it supports uuid v7!

There is no need to set uuids through javascript or node imo

New comment by danfritz in "Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

danfritz — Wed, 06 May 2026 11:13:51 +0000

I wonder how well this corolates with azure incidents. Especially for the US regions.

New comment by danfritz in "I Got Sick of Remembering Port Numbers"

danfritz — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:00:26 +0000

Alternative https://github.com/peterldowns/localias

Granted no fancy UI to start and stop things but is it really needed?

Tbh this is not a single binary you need dnsmasq go and other things

New comment by danfritz in "I don't chain everything in JavaScript anymore"

danfritz — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:52:43 +0000

I can only say: learn how to use reduce and you never loop twice through a list of items or objects.

To me reduce is very easy to reason about and makes it super easy to properly filter, combine, extract values without ending with filters on filters on maps and maps

Adonisjs v7 released (Next.js alternative)

danfritz — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:15:00 +0000

Article URL: https://adonisjs.com/blog/v7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168925

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by danfritz in "We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler"

danfritz — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:48:25 +0000

Ha yes classic showcase of:

1) obvious green field project 2) well defined spec which will definitely be in the training data 3) an end result which lands you 90% from the finish

Now comes the hard part, the last 10%. Still not impressed here. Since fixing issues in the end was impossible without introducing bugs I have doubts about quality

I'm glad they do call it out in the end. That's fair

New comment by danfritz in "AI is killing B2B SaaS"

danfritz — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:12:36 +0000

Indeed totally unbearable to even read the article

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

danfritz — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:54:20 +0000

By the time I have figured out all those quirks and guardrails I could have done it myself in 45min tops.

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

danfritz — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:21:23 +0000

Whats the improvement here? I spend more time fixing it then doing it myself anyways. And I have less confidence in the code Opus generates

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

danfritz — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:18:46 +0000

Every time I see a post like this on HN I try again and every time I come to the same conclusion. I have never see one agent managing to pull something off that I could instantly ship. It still ends up being very junior code.

I just tried again and ask Opus to add custom video controls around ReactPlayer. I started in Plan mode which looked overal good (used our styling libs, existing components, icons and so on).

I let it execute the plan and behold I have controls on the video, so far so good. I then look at the code and I see multiple issues: Over usage of useEffect for trivial things, storing state in useState which should be computed at run time, failing to correctly display the time / duration of the video and so on...

I ask follow up question like: Hide the controls after 2 seconds and it starts introducing more useEffects and states which all are not needed (granted you need one).

Cherry on the cake, I asked to place the slider at the bottom and the other controls above it, it placed the slider on the top...

So I suck at prompting and will start looking for a gardening job I guess...

New comment by danfritz in "GitHub partial outage"

danfritz — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:04:39 +0000

Related to the recent announcement they are moving to Azure?

GitHub partial outage

danfritz — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:04:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/1jw8ltnr1qrj

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915731

Points: 188

# Comments: 82

AI Pullback Has Officially Started

danfritz — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 06:01:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/ai-pullback-has-officially-started

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45709486

Points: 62

# Comments: 62

Safe Chain prevents developers from installing malware

danfritz — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 10:10:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@aikidosec/safe-chain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287790

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

Safe Chain: Stopping Malicious NPM Packages Before They Wreck Your Project

danfritz — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:07:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.aikido.dev/blog/introducing-safe-chain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45274271

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by danfritz in "Show HN: lambda-nat-proxy – Serverless proxy using Lambda and UDP NAT punching"

danfritz — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:24:25 +0000

Looks cool but how much does it cost?

New comment by danfritz in "The Pain That Is GitHub Actions"

danfritz — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:13:42 +0000

Not my experience, I have done fairly complex things like building / releasing a whitelabel ios and android app which is branded in ci per customer.

Like othes have suggested, keep the actions simple by having lots of scripts which you can iterate on locally and making the actions dump to just run the scripts

New comment by danfritz in "Show HN: ts-remove-unused – Remove unused code from your TypeScript project"

danfritz — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:30:52 +0000

I've always used https://github.com/pzavolinsky/ts-unused-exports

Has more features (like excluding enums) and works very well in large code bases.

New comment by danfritz in "Good refactoring vs. bad refactoring"

danfritz — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 04:37:35 +0000

Clearly the real good refactor was using reduce instead of filter / map.

No need to loop twice over the array. Always use reduce if there are chained methods going through arrays

Study on the Impact of Format Restrictions on Performance of LMM

danfritz — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:49:36 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02442

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234957

Points: 1

# Comments: 0