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New comment by kachurovskiy in "Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI"

kachurovskiy — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:01:31 +0000

I wonder if we're being overly selfish here and ignore the positive effects of democratizing programming and making software more accessible to less well funded causes and organizations. A good software engineer used to cost 100k/year, very few businesses could afford that.

I also disagree that AI results are lower quality. Codex Pro results I get are marvelous but they sometimes miss things that humans understand naturally - all of the edges - coherence of visuals, passage of time, etc.

New comment by kachurovskiy in "EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors"

kachurovskiy — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:04:37 +0000

Instead of the usual knee-jerk it would be nice to see some level-header analysis on mechanics of these things - who pays for the time of the people that decide to push this particular piece of legislation, how they manage to get into the door, who personally makes the proposal, how they gather support for it.

New comment by kachurovskiy in "Turn your site into a place people can bump into each other"

kachurovskiy — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:55:00 +0000

I've had a strange experience this week at a maker meetup in my city. Couple dozen people came to make a short presentation about what they're building and there was a somewhat lively networking with food and drinks. The project quality was all over the place but what struck me is that nobody really wanted to keep in touch after the meeting beyond adding each other on LinkedIn. I have even created a Telegram group and got several folks to join but they never replied or posted anything so today I had to just delete the group. Perhaps I didn't make the right impression or I've misunderstood the reasons people go to such meetups

New comment by kachurovskiy in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

kachurovskiy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:04:01 +0000

I've stopped using YouTube and Reddit since early April and it's been a mixed bag.

On one side my interest level has adjusted so that normal activities make sense again - like sitting in the garden or playing a game with my kid. I've also completed dozens of projects like replacing old silicon in the entire kitchen or updating the garden playground.

On the other side I'm feeling more isolated and lacking information / stimulation for creative output because I no longer have any idea what other people are doing. However given that massive amounts of time have been freed I'm more productive both at work and at home, more effort on health too.

It's definitely something to try but it's not all roses.

Show HN: Investing Withous Bias or Emotion

kachurovskiy — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:36:40 +0000

I've spent years actively trading and losing money. It affected my health and relationships negatively. I also realized that my opinion on what's worth buying is more than worthless, what matters is the opinion of the market.

But I didn't want to settle for index funds that hold a lot of under-performing stocks so I've built this tool that allows trading 12000 instruments (stocks, ETFs, metals, real estate, crypto) via statistically proven strategies.

Project is open source, tool is self-hosted, at the very minimum it requires an Alpaca brokerage account, they also provide the necessary market data, alternatively you can use Tiingo or EODHD.

I'm currently running 2 paper trading accounts, fine-tuning parameters like slippage, planning to start ADX on real money soon.

I'm not trying to beat hedge funds and other big players here, instead I'm looking to join them by waiting for a trend to be established (daily time frame, wide stops, long duration trades) and naturally diversifying over all countries and hundreds / thousands of assets.

Overview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMWcJGPedQY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47404534

Points: 1

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New comment by kachurovskiy in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"

kachurovskiy — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 21:33:35 +0000

Try contacting YouTube creators in your area. Much more cost efficient than any other kinds of ads especially if you pick channels with your target audience IF you can actually get creators to promote you (most won't reply).

New comment by kachurovskiy in "A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union"

kachurovskiy — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 18:45:09 +0000

Just so that you understand, what that inevitably brings is alcoholism, domestic violence and other depressive deformities. My grandpa died from daily drinking with his factory pals and my grand-grandma has axe damage on her wooden furniture and it was normal.

New comment by kachurovskiy in "A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen"

kachurovskiy — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 21:57:42 +0000

That's with federal incentive and likely before they factored in the tariffs. Those 500 parts aren't all coming from US. I wouldn't expect any usable version of it to be below 30k once it's actually available.

New comment by kachurovskiy in "My second year without a job"

kachurovskiy — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 22:23:04 +0000

I wonder if a part-time remote job coupled with full time traveling on a budget would have been a more sustainable, enjoyable and productive approach. Hanging with pals in Montreal is cool but it's expensive and not very productive.

New comment by kachurovskiy in "I quit Google to work for myself (2018)"

kachurovskiy — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 08:02:06 +0000

By now the author missed on approx. 2 million dollars of income.

New comment by kachurovskiy in "BYD quarterly sales beat Tesla for first time"

kachurovskiy — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 07:28:11 +0000

There's no issue delivering a car from China to Germany but it would have a different charging port, localization issues likely, registration problems imminent and 10% customs + 19% VAT + 17.4% BYD duty.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BYD/comments/1f5jg4g/byd_in_europe_...

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

New comment by kachurovskiy in "BYD quarterly sales beat Tesla for first time"

kachurovskiy — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:10:04 +0000

I really wanted to buy BYD in Germany this year but the car prices are 2x what they are in China - e.g. Seal is 45k EUR vs 25k USD with 3m delivery lag, no repair shops or spare parts on hand.

Their software game is also quite lacking but I was ready to cut them some slack there due to their superior battery tech.

New comment by kachurovskiy in "The EU Throws a Hand Grenade on Software Liability"

kachurovskiy — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 15:56:01 +0000

There was a lot of commotion about 2018 GDPR but it turned out to be rather uneventful, some basic practices have been adopted, very few companies were fined a small amount and the question is largely settled. For small companies and individual devs, pretty much nothing changed apart from adding a boilerplate ToS and PP to their projects.

I would expect this this legislative change to follow a similar path. If you run a business, liability is a big concern from the start and this extension of the liability scope seems reasonable overall. I'd say they even tread lightly here as "damages for professional use are explicitly excluded".

New comment by kachurovskiy in "How America's universities became debt factories"

kachurovskiy — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 23:26:40 +0000

There's a certain point in time for any industry where it has a chance to capture both the user and the legislator. Once that happens, prices for consumers start to grow faster than wages because the industry has more money for lobbying, it's a positive feedback loop.

https://www.abi.org/newsroom/chart-of-the-day/price-changes-...

Political solution to this is very unlikely unless there's a major stress in the system that, at least temporarily, takes out the one piece of the price growth puzzle.

New comment by kachurovskiy in "Piku: Allows git push deployments to your own servers"

kachurovskiy — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:59:19 +0000

I just added a magic URL in my app that GitHub calls whenever a commit is pushed and the server does `git pull` which in turn causes pm2 to reload the app. So committing anything shows up in production in seconds. Great for smaller projects.

New comment by kachurovskiy in "Microsoft will switch off Recall by default after security backlash"

kachurovskiy — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 19:56:52 +0000

Classic 2-step move, introduce what you want to ship but add a red herring, remove red herring on the outrage, ship it.

New comment by kachurovskiy in "[dead]"

kachurovskiy — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:07:06 +0000

Seems like the bar on reporting has fallen so low that they don't bother to provide any details to check their opinion whatsoever.

What are the actual new requirements that aren't already a de-facto standard? What's the median expected price increase per development?

New comment by kachurovskiy in "H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts"

kachurovskiy — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 08:10:43 +0000

As per by neighbor: "Not the semiconductor industry. We are looking for qualified engineers everywhere. I don't see this having any impact on salaries."

New comment by kachurovskiy in "H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts"

kachurovskiy — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:24:40 +0000

EU citizens always had an option to come and work so work visas only apply for non-EU. Also, the debate in Germany is mostly about asylum seekers and not skilled migration. I haven't heard the thesis "less people, more pay" but instead "more workers, more taxes". https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAGerman/comments/178iy0w/questio...

New comment by kachurovskiy in "H-1B visa fraud alive and well amid anti-abuse efforts"

kachurovskiy — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:50:02 +0000

When companies only have a 25% chance of approval they'd just submit 4 applicants per position. Most of this volume wouldn't be present if there was no limit.