Hacker News: gaanbal

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

gaanbal — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:31:49 +0000

if you've never had the experience of handing something off to someone else being more laborious and slower than doing it yourself due to having to set constraints and define success, then you simply haven't held a senior enough position to comment on this with any authority

New comment by gaanbal in "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

gaanbal — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:20:24 +0000

I tried to use a kinesis but my problem is that I don't touch type I learnt from scratch as a kid. and it's insanely difficult to adjust to only pressing certain keys with a certain hand/finger

New comment by gaanbal in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

gaanbal — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:49:29 +0000

it compares... unfavorably, on the side of ai

New comment by gaanbal in "We didn't ask for 'smart' cars – so why are we getting them?"

gaanbal — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:58:59 +0000

maybe if we keep buying them, they'll change their mind and roll it back

New comment by gaanbal in "Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills"

gaanbal — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:22:06 +0000

when could we?

New comment by gaanbal in "Crypto holder loses $283M to scammer impersonating wallet support"

gaanbal — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:43:18 +0000

is there a market to secure the crypto of rich but stupid people like this? all I have to do is not share the seed phrase, no brainer

New comment by gaanbal in "What happened to WebAssembly"

gaanbal — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:29:10 +0000

happened? past tense? it's still being worked on. expect massive things in the near future.

New comment by gaanbal in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

gaanbal — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 06:10:18 +0000

what about mirrors with tiny little windshield wipers?

New comment by gaanbal in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

gaanbal — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 22:13:39 +0000

OP tried zig last and is currently most fascinated by it

New comment by gaanbal in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

gaanbal — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:19:34 +0000

a lot of "actual people" are also suffering from dunning kruger and just love to build stupid shit that nobody wants in horrific ways.

New comment by gaanbal in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

gaanbal — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:09:13 +0000

it's faster to prototype in rust. this may seem counterintuitive, but when a rust program compiles, it generally works. not saying 100% and free from logic bugs, but a lot of the error handling, locks required, and checks for nulls have already been worked out by default.

New comment by gaanbal in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

gaanbal — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:03:01 +0000

sounds like something that could be solved with more learning

I wrote python for 15 years

I don't want to write python anymore. mainly rust if I can

New comment by gaanbal in "Arenas in Rust"

gaanbal — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:31:15 +0000

languages with a gc are using rust to deal with their horrific performance. look at python and javascript.

New comment by gaanbal in "Arenas in Rust"

gaanbal — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:29:55 +0000

yea it's already in the standard library and it's very straightforward

New comment by gaanbal in "A simple habit that saves my evenings"

gaanbal — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:47:03 +0000

coffee, even without caffeine, contains so much antioxidants, you can sort of imagine the coffee bean as carrying the antioxidant burden of the entire world on its back

New comment by gaanbal in "Ask HN: How Do You Journal?"

gaanbal — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 10:56:34 +0000

I set a timer for 4 minutes and then I let my hand write things until the timer goes off.

sometimes I feel like writing more, and I let myself

sometimes I have nothing left to write (rare lol) and I simply write down that I don't have anything else

New comment by gaanbal in "Show HN: Swapple, a little daily puzzle on linear reversible circuit synthesis"

gaanbal — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:32:00 +0000

me too and I absolutely cannot remember the steps I took

New comment by gaanbal in "Traefik's 10-year anniversary"

gaanbal — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:16:45 +0000

the closest thing is pingora which is a proxy framework, so you build your own proxy basically

New comment by gaanbal in "Traefik's 10-year anniversary"

gaanbal — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:15:50 +0000

isn't that just a way of running containers? yeah you can run envoy

New comment by gaanbal in "Traefik's 10-year anniversary"

gaanbal — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:13:36 +0000

I primarily use it outside containers on EC2, works exactly the same as it does in a container