Hacker News: freddref

New comment by freddref in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"

freddref — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:59:51 +0000

What are these bottlenecks specifically that you feel are essential?

Am trying to compare this to reports that people are not reviewing code any more.

New comment by freddref in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

freddref — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:36:41 +0000

https://batsign.me

The world's simplest personal Email notification API.

New comment by freddref in "Travel agents took 10 years to collapse, developers are three years in"

freddref — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 09:47:37 +0000

Definitely feels like a good amount of dev work is writing the same things over and over, in a different language, codebase or context. And it seems like llms are particularly good at translating, specializing and contextualizing across existing knowledge.

New comment by freddref in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

freddref — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 13:26:58 +0000

It might be financial beneficial once as an up-front payment, but long term, as others have mentioned, really not good for the project to remove the only feature that gives firefox a defensible way to fill it's niche in the market.

New comment by freddref in "Thoughts on a Month with Devin"

freddref — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 10:30:54 +0000

How is Devin different from cursor?

I recently used cursor and it has felt very capable in implementing tasks across files. I get that cursor is an IDE but it's ai functionality feels very agentic.. where do you draw the line?

New comment by freddref in "World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating"

freddref — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:54:27 +0000

Two lads set themselves up in the business of selling conkers one year.

Any accidentally dropped conkers were stamped on by any and all in the vicinity.

A conker that survived to the next year was considered "seasoned", although many's the wizened tippex-covered lump of questionable provenance appeared under this explanation.

New comment by freddref in "Show HN: Detect if an audio file was generated by NotebookLM"

freddref — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:34:57 +0000

Any stats available on accuracy?

New comment by freddref in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

freddref — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 08:44:07 +0000

I'm curious here too, I only flipped through your channels for a minute, but found something interesting immediately.

I go to youtube and seem to run out of quality quickly. I even went as far as crawling the HN frontpage for videos - see hacker news TV - https://xiliary.com/bck/hn-tv.html

New comment by freddref in "Vista Equity writes off PluralSight value, after $3.5B buyout"

freddref — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 02:19:59 +0000

Can you say more about flow?

I'm curious about practical use cases, could you share some examples?

New comment by freddref in "Ask HN: Who buys the long tail of cryptocurrencies?"

freddref — Wed, 29 May 2024 07:25:19 +0000

I would guess there's a sizable chunk of people who but these coins are not investors as such.

The long tail of people buy the long tail of coins.

I bought coins when I first discovered them, driven by curiosity mostly.

New comment by freddref in "What We Learned from a Year of Building with LLMs"

freddref — Wed, 29 May 2024 07:19:46 +0000

Humans probably have about the same error rate. It's easy to miss a comma or quote.

These systems compete with humans, not with formatters.

New comment by freddref in "How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?"

freddref — Mon, 27 May 2024 22:42:57 +0000

Agree on walkable, although I really like the idea of personal public transport that would be door-to-door and on-demand. I expect it would distribute cities more, and alleviate the hub-and-spoke model that public transport is sometimes built to, e.g. Dublin, Ireland.

New comment by freddref in "How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?"

freddref — Mon, 27 May 2024 22:35:47 +0000

My car is empty 99% of the time, it could be very highly utilised by the general public.

New comment by freddref in "How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?"

freddref — Mon, 27 May 2024 21:04:45 +0000

How about self driving cars as public transport?

New comment by freddref in "Dave Cutler on Windows [video]"

freddref — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 17:42:37 +0000

youtube as curated by HN https://xiliary.com/bck/hn-tv.html

New comment by freddref in "We migrated to SQL. Our biggest learning? Don't use Prisma"

freddref — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:16:43 +0000

This scenario emerges as often when starting from the toy as it does starting from the "correct" full implementation.

New comment by freddref in "We migrated to SQL. Our biggest learning? Don't use Prisma"

freddref — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 16:15:22 +0000

yes hopefully, that's the best scenario.

New comment by freddref in "We migrated to SQL. Our biggest learning? Don't use Prisma"

freddref — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 11:07:07 +0000

I am amazed at the number of engineers I've worked with who jump straight into the full implementation. I've done it myself on a few occasions thinking "how hard can this be".

Building the "toy" first is great.

In my experience, about one third of the time the toy is all you need, you can stop there, and what you were going to build fully would be over-engineering. About one third of the time, building the toy tells you you're taking the unworkable approach as you mentioned. And the other third of the time you can extend the toy.

New comment by freddref in "Microsoft has made Azure Linux generally available"

freddref — Mon, 29 May 2023 09:00:59 +0000

"We're scratching an itch we had and offering it back to the community."

Is there a git repo one can peruse?

New comment by freddref in "Devex: What actually drives productivity"

freddref — Fri, 19 May 2023 22:45:12 +0000

How do you maintain that as things grow?