Hacker News: fnoef

New comment by fnoef in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

fnoef — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:59:59 +0000

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New comment by fnoef in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

fnoef — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:43:47 +0000

Based! Amazing approach, enjoy the vacation!

New comment by fnoef in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

fnoef — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:57:59 +0000

I don’t, nor I want to. If I’m forced to train my replacement by using these tools, I might as well enjoy the time it takes the agent to do work by doing something I like and enjoy in the meantime.

New comment by fnoef in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

fnoef — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:21:03 +0000

When I was working in a small company (3-4 devs), we used to build stuff that clients needed. We built billing systems, JS widgets (back when widgets were a thing), analytics, and full on CRM. As long as it helped our customers. We ran all this on VPSs.

When I joined big tech, I understood that most of work is going around and “proposing” solutions or “solving inter team blockers”. People who did the actual job, got very little recognition. People who did peacocking were promoted.

At that time I realized how fucked up corporate is.

New comment by fnoef in "Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore"

fnoef — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:50:22 +0000

"The fun part was never lifting weight. The fun was in being buffed with a 6-pack and picking up women. The fun is in bullying those who are weaker than me. I never liked going to the gym and lifting weights. What I actually love is the result of the lifting, but I never wanted to do the hard work".

Not saying this is a 1:1 parallel, or that writing is what makes you a good coder, but I do wonder - if you remove the entire process of making something, what is left there? Sure, people keep arguing that architecting or "managing" AI agents is the actual moat, but is this really? If you do not participate in the craft itself, how would you get better?

I mean, I have amazing ideas for wooded furniture I'd like to build. I doubt that if you give me an LLM connected to a router that I would be able to build something by "architecture, review, push back, and argue". I simply lack the knowledge to make something out of wood. And the only way to get this knowledge is to go and make something and not "architect, review, push back, and argue".

New comment by fnoef in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

fnoef — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:05:47 +0000

You need to use full isolated VM with its own kernel. But then again, I've read somewhere that this malware is also trying to escape the VM isolation as well...

New comment by fnoef in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

fnoef — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:35:05 +0000

Yeah, I agree, but then you are at the mercy of whatever vulnerability is found in the current version(s). It just feels like a lose-lose situation no matter what you do.

New comment by fnoef in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

fnoef — Tue, 19 May 2026 07:29:18 +0000

I’m honestly at a point where I’m afraid to update any of my project’s dependencies, and I’m also afraid to run the locally without some locked down VM

New comment by fnoef in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

fnoef — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:05:04 +0000

The US is not winning anything. This is not a fucking war. The only thing that this “AI race” is winning is a speedrun to the destruction of any meaning humans had as well as the massive build of data center and absurd amount of water consumptions to cool them off.

If only people would stop thinking in terms of who is winning, jeez.

New comment by fnoef in "Claude for Small Business"

fnoef — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:19:34 +0000

You are absolutely right. I shouldn’t have paid that invoice from ScamInc. Would you like me to help you file for bankruptcy?

New comment by fnoef in "Googlebook"

fnoef — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:20:54 +0000

So Google will kill it in a year or two when the AI hype will be over, and the average consumer won’t care about AI showed into their face. But hey, at least they created more e-waste.

Ask HN: Is software cooked with all the recent malware?

fnoef — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:31:50 +0000

Feels like malware and security vulnerabilities are thriving recently. Are we witnessing a potential collapse of the way software is being developed, or am I just stuck with selection bias and it was always a shit show?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109792

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by fnoef in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

fnoef — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:06:55 +0000

“At this point, I think a know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on earth” - Elon Musk [0]

[0] https://m.youtube.com/shorts/S2Bo3S99Tas

New comment by fnoef in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

fnoef — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:05:26 +0000

This is such an absurd take.

For starters, if I'm a "house builder" by trade, then yeah, I am going to build the house myself. Otherwise, why should the client pay me, and not the guy I'm subcontracting?

Secondly, there is no such thing as a "house builder" profession. It consists of a lot of different trades people, some of them having legal power to sign off your house build (for example an electrician). Now, we could try to push for something similar in software engineering, and say require you to have an "authentication engineering certificate" in order to handle code related to auth, and only a person holding the certificate can allow such code for production use. But I'm pretty sure all the vibe coders and tech bros will cry how unfair and bureaucratic the system is.

But of course the entire SWE profession is based on grifting, and extracting as much money as possible from the customers while cutting the costs. If you are so afraid to save passwords to a database, then at least don't call yourself a software engineer.

New comment by fnoef in "Programming Still Sucks"

fnoef — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:31:17 +0000

Get a VPS and host it there. Costs less than a cup of coffee a month, with tens of TB of traffic.

Nice article by the way!

New comment by fnoef in "Programming Still Sucks"

fnoef — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:47:06 +0000

Isn’t it a bit ironic that a (presumably statically generated) blog post about “programming sucks” is being chocked to death by HN?

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

fnoef — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:03:18 +0000

"Make sure to double check everything, and MAKE NO MISTAKES!!!"

New comment by fnoef in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

fnoef — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:06:25 +0000

Record the existing container id, rescale the service to 2 instances (hence bringing a second container up), wait for the second one to be healthy, (optional) stop directing traffic to the old container, wait a few seconds, stop the old container, rescale the service back to 1 instance.

New comment by fnoef in "I am worried about Bun"

fnoef — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:07:21 +0000

I’m wondering why Anthropic, who has “the most powerful, hold me bro, AI in the world” just didn’t vibe code their own, better, version of bun? haven’t Dario said that coding is cooked in 6 month, like 12 months ago?

New comment by fnoef in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

fnoef — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:24:45 +0000

Looks like coding is in a downward spiral towards complete chaos