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New comment by galkk in "Five Programming Books That Changed How I Think"

galkk — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 04:35:55 +0000

To me the book that changed the way I think is “pragmatic programmer”. I haven’t re-read it in a while, but for a long time it was my first recommendation.

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And I was recently thinking about books that my opinion has significantly changed about the longer I’m in my career, I realized that “Peopleware” truly sucks. It is such feel good fairy tale, that actually harms the reader. The real world is much different and much more cynical.

New comment by galkk in "Why are German heat pumps more expensive?"

galkk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:21:03 +0000

> So what makes up the remaining 40%? Under the Bundesförderung für effiziente Gebäude, households receive 30 to 70% of eligible costs. If an installer raises a €25,000 quote to €30,000 and the household receives a 50% subsidy rate, the household’s net cost rises by €2,500 while the installer receives €5,000. This means the pressure to negotiate a better deal is halved because of the way the policy is designed.

I’m sure that well designed kickback scheme is hiding somewhere here.

New comment by galkk in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

galkk — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:29:02 +0000

Agree. My mistake on that part, misread your message.

New comment by galkk in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:46:58 +0000

No. You made claims, it’s your job to provide evidence. And you already contradict yourself - per your message she was 2 years at ms, and then 4 years at startup.

Honestly, I hate defending multimillionaire and get that to climb that fast at those companies anybody needs to be, most likely, ruthless corporate warrior. But you just throw claims and sound like a baseless hater.

New comment by galkk in "Microsoft raises Xbox prices by up to 43%"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:52:35 +0000

Reading on tea leaves has more credibility and substance than your “analysis”.

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 17:30:07 +0000

You argue with a point that I don’t make.

If a director during montage or review will say: “that shot will be better if camera was 2 feet higher, we need to reshoot” or “that extra takes too much attention from main character, can we remove it digitally”, and the author will prompt the same to ai, for their generated videos (that I’m quite sure will be enabled in next years) - this is the same art. creative process is constrained by available tools, but they don’t define it.

Do you think that people posed for medieval family paintings at the same time?

I see your reasoning a lot in many areas, and in my pov it’s just a final, conceding attempt of gatekeeping.

Painters telling photographers that there is no soul in photography. Film photographers telling the same to digital photographers. Woodworkers telling that cnc’s are not woodworking. Musicians telling that only live music matters and recording doesn’t capture all nuances 100 years ago. Guitarists owning and used hundreds of pedals and amps telling that to digital modeling.

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:03:26 +0000

I don’t understand that. Even in my short clips that I do for my kiddo I iterate a lot. Yes, right now it’s mostly prompt and reference images but soon (I think/hope) it will be same tools that are used in real life - things like ability to draw on frames and tell what/how to change etc. reshoots exist in real life for a reason.

Look into photo editing where ai based tools can remove subjects, do generative fills and even transform 2d to 3d/video. Same will come to other ai art too. And this will again differentiate amateurs “prompt 3 lines” and pros “I have vision and I will pursue it using tools available to me”. AI is secondary here.

As I said before - ai helps to raise the floor, not ceiling.

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:50:37 +0000

I’m not talking about watermarks, I’m talking about hardware digital signature.

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:45:11 +0000

> That didn't make the movies and television series any less fun to watch.

Unfortunately it doesn’t apply to everybody :( Babylon 5 was mind blowing when I was a kid, and today the space and other sci fi parts from there, when I see them on YouTube, are quite cringe. Show is still great, but that’s the part where I’d be totally fine if some modern consistent ai re-rendered cgi to something more pleasant.

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:41:19 +0000

Could you tell more? Is it new iOS features?

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:40:34 +0000

It will change soon. Ai is enabler. Again, as with photography and especially digital photography- everybody can click button but not everybody is photographer. Ai helps to raise the floor, not the ceiling

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:38:27 +0000

This is the same level of arguing that only painting is the real art and photography is just clicking the button

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:37:23 +0000

I am not a film maker but I had some sketches on my head that I always wanted to try to make. Even Gemini scratched the itch for me, and my folder “projects” is growing with other ideas that I’d like to sketch

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:33:54 +0000

It will be solved. Walleted, vertically integrated Apple can do a digital authenticity signature and guarantee that the video you see was at least shot on iPhone, and I won’t be surprised if it will happen soon. This + some lidar info will be enabled and everybody except minority will say that this is a great thing to have.

New comment by galkk in "Seedance 2.5"

galkk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 07:30:14 +0000

Which might mean a lot for individual but is peanuts for a business

New comment by galkk in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

galkk — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:01:22 +0000

Good. Now please fix youtube. Amount of bugs that I'm getting in youtube app on iphone should be embarassing for company like Google. I cannot believe how bad it become in last couple years.

New comment by galkk in "Show HN: Yorishiro – a macOS terminal where AI agents live"

galkk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:24:31 +0000

It is cool and I don’t see myself moving from my honed iTerm2 m/kitty terminal setup to a completely new terminal app for it. I haven’t got time even to try all cool new kids like ghosttty…

If it was a vscode addon I could try it.

New comment by galkk in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

galkk — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:23:26 +0000

> How hard would it be to build a new Google Search with a small team and an LLM?

Impossible

New comment by galkk in "C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax"

galkk — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:21:04 +0000

Only people who saw nothing bad in passing pairs .begin(), .end() in tons of places in c++ for like 30 years can say that thing like ‘auto&&’ improves anything.

New comment by galkk in "Madison Sq Garden database tracks hundreds. Labels "LGBTQIA," & low/high "risk.""

galkk — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:54:48 +0000

The parent of my reponse, that you answered to, was about Joe Rogan’s club. You didn’t read the thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48846925