Hacker News: gitgud

New comment by gitgud in "Show HN: Wyzer Programming Language"

gitgud — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:18:03 +0000

I love this choice. As I began reading, it was immediately clear that it was deliberately written by the author, not AI marketing slop

New comment by gitgud in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

gitgud — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:36:48 +0000

> They're at 93.91% uptime over the past 90 days, according to https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ , and that doesn't even include today's outage yet.

I don’t love GitHub, but that number is a little misleading… That’s the intersection uptime of all GitHub services, most of which I (and most users) do not care about; code spaces, copilot, packages etc…

When you take out those uptimes, it becomes a lot higher. I’ll admit there seems to be a lot more incidents than usual though…

New comment by gitgud in "The AI Aesthetic"

gitgud — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:49:39 +0000

I assume they signal what menu item does what, to make it less confusing on different screen sizes.

I.e. Large displays get “icon + label”, whereas small displays just get “icon”

New comment by gitgud in "The AI Aesthetic"

gitgud — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:19:53 +0000

Good UX abstractions out perform bad ones, which means they endure, are copied, and eventually become the implied standard UX… some examples of this are; the hamburger menu, tiny icons and auto-scroll for streaming text

New comment by gitgud in "My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents"

gitgud — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:11:00 +0000

So no human in the loop then? Sounds like a recipe for tech debt…

New comment by gitgud in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

gitgud — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:25:22 +0000

> Mainframes survive, but serving a much tinier portion of the market than they used to.

I would argue mainframes rebranded to "cloud" which is ubiquitous and more people interact with this computer than any other type of device... only difference is that it's a browser instead of a terminal

New comment by gitgud in "Speech Recognition and TTS in less than 500kb"

gitgud — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:32:03 +0000

So at that tiny 500kb size I imagine it could be compiled to web assembly, and run entirely in the browser right?

Couldn’t find a link, is that hard to do?

New comment by gitgud in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

gitgud — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:10:16 +0000

This is one of the reasons why native proprietary coding agent runners like claude-code, codex, grok-build etc are so dangerous for privacy… you just don’t know what “secret sauce” they’ll add in the next update…

It’s much safer to use something like opencode and use models via their API… however, the tradeoff is that it will never perform as well as it does in their native agent runners…

New comment by gitgud in "ChatGPT Work"

gitgud — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:56:35 +0000

Not allowing full screen is the most insane thing for a “chat app ported from the web”… the browser probably has a better experience now…

New comment by gitgud in "Is This the Dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?"

gitgud — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:45:08 +0000

> Kirsten: All of this, to me, illustrates how quickly things are moving. I mean, when you really think about it, the whole tokenmaxxxing thing has become a thing, peaked, and now is seen disfavorably, within six months

Pretty sure from inception the phrase “tokenmaxxing” was never seen in a positive light…

New comment by gitgud in "NPM Packages Attacks"

gitgud — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:12:04 +0000

Article and this post seems to be AI generated… but this is a good quote

> AI coding assistants hallucinate package names. They confidently suggest npm install some-plausible-sounding-package for packages that do not exist. Attackers monitor those hallucinations and register the names - a technique now called slopsquatting

Slopsquatting is a hilarious name for this

New comment by gitgud in "Ask HN: Any advice on how to learn good software architecture practices?"

gitgud — Sat, 30 May 2026 08:26:10 +0000

> I realize I don’t have much knowledge about the best way to architect applications

There is no “best way”, it always depends on what you are building.

The main advice I would give is to always remember that there’s trade-off’s in every architectural choice…

I guess some general tenants might be… “great architectural solutions…”

- Allow new features to be added, without much complexity

- Have reliable and clear abstraction layers

- Allow tests and typing to validate it’s correctness

- Manage clearly understood limitations, rather than implicit surprise limitations

New comment by gitgud in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

gitgud — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:07:15 +0000

> we need to stop filming people, and we need a societal norm that treats a violation of this ban on par with spitting someone in the face.

Agreed. Filming strangers in public is making everyone scared to have fun trying anything new, as they’re afraid of online mockery…

New comment by gitgud in "Ask HN: When and why did you start believing in God?"

gitgud — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:03:36 +0000

I started believing at 4 years old when going to a christian school, then stopped believing a few years later when I realised I couldn’t see any proof of any god watching, planning or influencing the world in any way at all…

New comment by gitgud in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

gitgud — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:25:04 +0000

Finding bugs in PR’s are exactly what GitHub copilot, GitHub cursor bot and tonnes of other PR bots already do…

New comment by gitgud in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

gitgud — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:10:34 +0000

What does the AS stand for?

A polite fyi, when skim reading this, it looked like it said AssNotes…

New comment by gitgud in "The Future of Obsidian Plugins"

gitgud — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:16:57 +0000

Well damn, start the countdown till the inevitable exploit of this.

I’m thinking maybe 1 or 2 weeks from now…

New comment by gitgud in "Lessons for Agentic Coding: What should we do when code is cheap?"

gitgud — Tue, 05 May 2026 09:37:41 +0000

It's cheap to change code, it doesn't mean you have to add more of it...

New comment by gitgud in "Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API"

gitgud — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:27:45 +0000

Considering they’ve become a 1 trillion USD company, they’re truely moving fast and breaking things…

New comment by gitgud in "Ask HN: How do solo devs protect their work in the age of vibe coding?"

gitgud — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:49:11 +0000

> I’m a new solo dev with almost no audience. If a large org or a well-known developer sees the idea and ships a similar implementation, they can get more attention immediately than I can get in months. And in the end I get nothing for open-sourcing my project.

This has always been a fear of open source development… but in reality it’s over exaggerated, thousands of FOSS ideas are posted every day…

My advice would be to treat posting your project like a launch, and get all the readme’s, docs etc ready before posting, so it has the best chance of growing an audience, which seems to be your goal.

But if you really don’t want other people to recycle your idea, then open source is not for you…