Hacker News: iparaskev

New comment by iparaskev in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

iparaskev — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:46:26 +0000

Still working on Hopp, an oss pair programming app. A few months ago we ported part of the frontend in rust, to work around the webrtc limitations imposed by webkit (Hopp is written in tauri), which caused some stability issues. Now the app is more stable again but we are still making improvements and fixes.

https://github.com/gethopp/hopp

New comment by iparaskev in "Cherry, a filter for AI generated PRs"

iparaskev — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:47:11 +0000

Hi! Seeing how many maintainers and repos have issues with PRs made by bots, we decided to do something, and we started building cherry.

We are doing a private beta and we'd love to hear your thoughts on how to solve this without discouraging legitimate junior developers. What kind of heuristics do you currently use manually that we could automate?

Cherry, a filter for AI generated PRs

iparaskev — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:47:11 +0000

Article URL: https://cherry.gethopp.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47036474

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by iparaskev in "Ask HN: What book are you reading?"

iparaskev — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:31:12 +0000

The hobbit!

New comment by iparaskev in "Is human collaboration the answer to the skill formation risks by AI?"

iparaskev — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:21:31 +0000

> Biggest risk I've found building solo with AI isn't bad code — it's accepting plausible code without interrogating it

Totally agree. While I am aware of the danger, sometimes I become lazy and something slips.

> Adding AI to the mix might make it a harder sell, not easier.

100%. I think teams that already pairing could try something like this.

Is human collaboration the answer to the skill formation risks by AI?

iparaskev — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:02:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gethopp.app/blog/pair-prompting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46965082

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Compiling Rust to readable C with Eurydice

iparaskev — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:20:08 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1055211/6f51ebe751ce69a9/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947940

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

15 Months, 20k Visitors in the last 6, and 0 Product-Market Fit

iparaskev — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:23:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gethopp.app/blog/15-months-of-building-a-pair-programming-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46787938

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

15 Months, 20k Visitors, and 0 Product-Market Fit

iparaskev — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:14:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gethopp.app/blog/15-months-of-building-a-pair-programming-app

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767485

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by iparaskev in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

iparaskev — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:12:43 +0000

Working on migrating Hopp's [1] overlay window, which we use for drawing the remote cursors, from winit + wgpu to gpui. I used claude in the weekend to make a prototype and now I want to make a gpui app, which will replicate all of our requirements, in order to see what is missing and if I need to contribute upstream. I am planning to write a blog post when the migration is over.

[1] https://github.com/gethopp/hopp

New comment by iparaskev in "I know we're in an AI bubble because nobody wants me"

iparaskev — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:10:20 +0000

OP here, I didn't write the post, but found it interesting and posted it here.

> So i understand correctly, they spend more even thought They can, optimize and spend less

This is what I understand as well, we could utilise the hw better today and make things more efficient but instead we are focusing on making more. TBH I think both need to happen, money should be spent to make better more performant hw and at the same time squeeze any performance we can from what we already have.

New comment by iparaskev in "Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship"

iparaskev — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:04:01 +0000

Indeed Tuple is a great product. The goal is to match their quality and make it the OSS alternative, it's still early though, and I am trying to get some feedback.

New comment by iparaskev in "Confessions of a Software Developer: No More Self-Censorship"

iparaskev — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:17:00 +0000

What is your setup when pairing remotely? (Full disclosure I am building an OSS app for this purpose and just want to learn what is working for people)

I know we're in an AI bubble because nobody wants me

iparaskev — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 10:08:24 +0000

Article URL: https://petewarden.com/2025/11/29/i-know-were-in-an-ai-bubble-because-nobody-wants-me-%f0%9f%98%ad/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46086410

Points: 87

# Comments: 62

New comment by iparaskev in "Zed is our office"

iparaskev — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:24:18 +0000

With zed you can also share your screen in the editor which makes it a bit better, but still you can't take control of the other machine.

IMO if you only care about coding doing it in the editor is the best approach, you get zero latency and have all the context that you need (most of the times). But if you want to do more, like opening the browser for whatever reason, or teaching how to use a specific cli, etc, then taking control works better.

If you liked pop you might like gethopp.app, which is an OSS pair programming app (full disclosure I am the co-maintainer). Unfortunately because we have chosen tauri for the frontend we can only support macos and windows, but I am working on a solution for Linux too.

New comment by iparaskev in "Sudo-Rs Affected by Multiple Security Vulnerabilities – Impacting Ubuntu 25.10"

iparaskev — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:48:14 +0000

While I like rust and use it for my own projects I agree 100% with you. No reason to replace sw that has been working perfectly for many years.

Sudo-Rs Affected by Multiple Security Vulnerabilities – Impacting Ubuntu 25.10

iparaskev — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:33:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/sudo-rs-security-ubuntu-25.10

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45898154

Points: 6

# Comments: 4

New comment by iparaskev in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

iparaskev — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:21:34 +0000

I see your point and I agree that pair programming code reviews give a lot of value but you could also improve and learn from comments that happened async. You need to have teammates, who are willing to put effort to review your patch without having you next to them to ask questions when they don't understand something.

New comment by iparaskev in "Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview"

iparaskev — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:09:02 +0000

> this kind of interview is way harder to set up

This is a good point.

I will add a note in the post to highlight this.

New comment by iparaskev in "Casey Muratori: I can always tell a good programmer in an interview"

iparaskev — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 17:43:07 +0000

Yes you are certainly right that it will be much harder the more years of experience you have.

That said, I think that someone could remember a few things for past projects when preparing for an interview. Of course doing that on the spot might be very hard.