Hacker News: fpauser

New comment by fpauser in "My AI-Assisted Workflow"

fpauser — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:33:00 +0000

> What is AI actually good at? Implementation.

AI is good in generating a lot of spaghetty code.

New comment by fpauser in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"

fpauser — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:56:32 +0000

Bodyless classes only for carrying annotations... too much magic for my taste.

New comment by fpauser in "Returning to Rails in 2026"

fpauser — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:53:11 +0000

rails = ruby = oo/mutable && slow && resource hungry

New comment by fpauser in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

fpauser — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:11:55 +0000

Yes!

New comment by fpauser in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

fpauser — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:10:20 +0000

But they have to make money somehow! ;)

New comment by fpauser in "Ask HN: Anyone else struggle with how to learn coding in the AI era?"

fpauser — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:40:02 +0000

1. https://exercism.org/

2. disable copilote

3. only "talk" about concepts and patterns with AI

New comment by fpauser in "Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome"

fpauser — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:39:21 +0000

> [..] the "creative power" of Nano Banana [..] This “creative power” is used everywhere to produce fake news and spread lies...

New comment by fpauser in "Putting Gemini to Work in Chrome"

fpauser — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:36:20 +0000

One more reason not to use chrome. I don't want this AI bloat. And for sure I don't want to redirect my personal website content through googles privacy sucking data pipelines.

What I just discovered: The good old google search without AI bloat but with privacy via https://www.startpage.com. Highly recommended!

New comment by fpauser in "Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing"

fpauser — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:50:42 +0000

Adding "No smalltalk and no emojis" to the instructions helps a lot.

New comment by fpauser in "Show HN: Nogic – VS Code extension that visualizes your codebase as a graph"

fpauser — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:00:36 +0000

Closed source vscode extensions: not for me.

New comment by fpauser in "AI is a business model stress test"

fpauser — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:03:57 +0000

nah

New comment by fpauser in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

fpauser — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:05:47 +0000

I switched from Windows to Linux ~20 years ago because and never came back to Windows. First years I used Ubuntu and experimented with Xubuntu, Lubuntu etc. Later went to Fedora Linux with Gnome Desktop which is still my preferred Linux Distribution. Nice to see so many people thinking about free and open alternatives to big tech!

New comment by fpauser in "ChatGPT Health"

fpauser — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:14:26 +0000

I'd rather not talk to a commercial LLM about personal (health) details. Guess how they will/do try to make this completely overhyped chat bots profitable. OpenAI could sell relevant personal health related data to insurance companies, or maybe the hr department of your next job. Just saying...

New comment by fpauser in "What I've Learned Writing Gleam"

fpauser — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:02:15 +0000

Nice gleam patterns, well explained. Worth a read!

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

fpauser — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:53:34 +0000

> Oh, and I did this all without ever opening a single source file or even looking at the proposed code changes while Opus was doing its thing. I don't even know Kotlin and still don't know it.

... says it all.

New comment by fpauser in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

fpauser — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:15:11 +0000

Young kids exposed to overly attracting games cannot limit these activities by themselves. This has nothing to do with a lack of explanation, but rather with how the brains of young kids function. Thus, accessible parental controls with a simple mechanism that limits the access to games, blocks ads, disables marketplace access and sets a maximum gaming time per day are a much-needed tool that parents should have in their hands.

New comment by fpauser in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

fpauser — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:03:53 +0000

> Companies generally want good parental controls

Nope, parental controls are fucked up since ages. And this is by design, and not because of some "b-list developers".

New comment by fpauser in "Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer"

fpauser — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:59:46 +0000

> I don't care if it hallucinates if it solves my problem with code that is half decent. Which it does.

Sometimes.

New comment by fpauser in "Why more American seniors are getting high"

fpauser — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:47:30 +0000

Even responsible use of cannabis does not per se prevent cannabis psychosis.

New comment by fpauser in "Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA"

fpauser — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:24:47 +0000

Mass surveillance in the "Land of the Free" [tm]. LOL