<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gcbirzan</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gcbirzan</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:12:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gcbirzan" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Trump's landslide victory in 2024.<p>What are you talking about?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:56:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178263</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178263</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Many Small Queries Are Efficient in SQLite"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We shouldn't compare doing stupid stuff on sqlite vs doing stupid stuff on postgresql, we should compare doing stupid stuff on sqlite vs not doing stupid stuff on sqlite.<p>How much faster are the better queries?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:47:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747506</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747506</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Scott Adams has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>He, on the other hand, was an absolute piece of shit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:16:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608168</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608168</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608168</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Scott Adams has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're talking about his political views, try to keep up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:15:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608144</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608144</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608144</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm using Easy Move+Resize, though, I don't recommend using cmd as the only modifier (you're already using ctrl+cmd, so shouldn't be a big deal), since that screws up with cmd clicking on links to open in a new tab.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:19:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586456</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you got it wrong. It might be better for Venezuela, but it will for sure be great for those companies.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:47:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481975</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481975</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46481975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But they still READ. So, if you 'interact' (and by that I mean do any write-like action, like commenting, posting, liking, whatever) less, that's gonna show up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2025 23:32:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427407</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46427407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Graphite is joining Cursor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What I don't understand why people would go all in on one IDE/editor and refuse to make plugins for others. Whether you prefer the CLI or the integrated experience, only offering it on vscode (and a shitty version of it, as well) is just stupid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:54:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328767</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328767</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46328767</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I see it as a competent software developer but one that doesn't know the code base.<p>I know what you mean, but the thing I find windsurf (which we moved to from copilot) most useful (except writing opeanapi spec files) is asking it questions about the codebase. Just random minutiae that I could find by grepping or following the code, but would take me more than the 30s-1m it takes it. For reference, this is a monorepo of a bit over 1M LoC (and 800k YAML files, because, did I mention I hate API specs?), so not really a small code base either.<p>> I will break down the tasks to the same size as if I was implementing it. But instead of doing it myself, I roughly describe the task on a technical level (and add relevant classes to the context) and it will ask me clarifying questions. After 2-3 rounds the plan usually looks good and I let it implement the task.<p>Here I disagree, sort of. I almost never ask it to do complex tasks, the most time consuming and hardest part is not actually typing out the code, describing it to an AI takes me almost as much time as implementing for most things. One thing I did find very useful is the supertab feature of windsurf, which, at a high level, looks at the changes you started making and starts suggesting the next change. And it's not only limited to repetitive things (like . in vi), if you start adding a parameter to a function, it starts adding it to the docs, to the functions you need below, and starts implementing it.<p>> For me this method allows me to focus on the architecture and overall structure and delegate the plumbing to Copilot.<p>Yeah, a coworker said this best, I give it the boring work, I keep the fun stuff for myself.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:01:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266283</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46266283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Mixpanel Security Breach"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Only the supervisory authorities are required to be informed in 72 hour, and even there, it's not a hard rule, you can have excuses.</p>
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<p>There's also itertools.groupby, maybe not much shorter (need to define the keyfunc, sort, then iterate), but it does make the intent obvious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:47:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060955</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060955</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I say history, I mean more than just the decision, which might look like "oh, they didn't like the results", but also the events that lead up to it, the campaign. I'm not even going to go into the coup d'etat he attempted after the elections with a group of far right mercenaries, or the things that came out about the campaign and Georgescu that weren't known at the time (which, obviously, couldn't have been a factor, but confirm that this was the right decision).<p>I'm not sure what the accusations you're talking about are</p>
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<p>I don't. I do remember when they were annulled after Russian interference and there were other fundamental issue with the first first round and Georgescu's campaign that broke the law.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:49:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046944</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046944</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46046944</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sure you're very familiar with the politics of both countries, but tell me...<p>How is Nicusor Dan a puppet of the EU? More than Calin Georgescu? The guy who actively tried to stage a coup? More than George Simion? Granted, there's no PROOF he's a Russian puppet, but he's a far right twat that has views friendly to Russia.<p>How is Maia Sandu and PES a puppet of the EU? And... let's look at BEP. Voronin, Russia friendly ex President, he was very against Moldova trying to get closer to the West. And Dodon? The guy who is being indicted for treason, who's a friend of Plahotniuc (he stole 1 billion dollars from banks and fled the country)? Yeah, sure, puppets of the EU, vs corrupt fucking puppets of Russia.<p>I know it's easy to look at this stuff from the outside and say, oh, yeah, the EU is interfering in elections, but there's a lot of history here that you obviously don't have. I like Maia Sandu more than Nicusor Dan (his positions on gay rights were disgusting a while back, he now just stopped talking about them), but compared to the obviousness of the Russian support for their opposition, I think the fact that the EU supports them is just insignificant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:10:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037870</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, Durov has been trying to push for Russian puppets to get elected in Romanian and Moldovan elections, by pushing to everyone (at least in Romania, he might've just posted on twitter for Moldova) that the French government is trying to interfere in the Romanian elections. I mean, it turns out, Russia was, on behalf of the candidate he was talking about... so take from that what you will.<p>Oh, yeah, and he calls himself DuRove now. Hats off for that one, but I hope he rots in prison for advancing the Russian agenda.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:52:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037627</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46037627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Europe is scaling back GDPR and relaxing AI laws"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You run a merch store. You want to share with your suppliers order data so that you can get the right number of sizes/colors/etc. Is this PII under GDPR rules? Technically, yes!<p>Not at all. Your shirt size is not PII. Given this information, you couldn't be identified.<p>> Under the new proposal, sharing this data is okay, so long as you use pseudo-anonymous identifiers (customer-1234, customer-1235).<p>This was okay even before. Given this information (and your shirt size), you couldn't be identified.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:21:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984598</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The reason my wife (I have coins) uses them is that it's just easier to access. No need to go through your coins (if you have any), you just put it in.</p>
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<p>Yes, but they do cost money and effort to get. A 25-50 eurocent coin is probably equivalent.<p>The only thing that's useful about those things is that it's easier to get them faster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:36:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957300</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's not a lock pick for the carts, you need to leave it in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:34:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957278</link><dc:creator>gcbirzan</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957278</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45957278</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gcbirzan in "Why don't people return their shopping carts?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If it's on their keychain, do you really think they'd leave their keychain there?</p>
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