Hacker News: kh_hk

New comment by kh_hk in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

kh_hk — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:47:05 +0000

I am still unsure if the complexity is an inherent trait of any big organization or a byproduct of using kubernetes

New comment by kh_hk in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

kh_hk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:54:24 +0000

Let me paraphrase the summary of Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen:

    It’s easy to write correct Ruby code, but to gain the fluency needed to
    write great Ruby code, you must go beyond syntax and absorb the “Ruby way”
    of thinking and problem solving

New comment by kh_hk in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

kh_hk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:36:29 +0000

Doesn't it come from folks that are forced to work with dynamically-typed languages but can't be arsed to understand them?

New comment by kh_hk in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

kh_hk — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:40:54 +0000

I believe that all the speed gains are running on loaned time, and that time will need to be spent sooner or later.

New comment by kh_hk in "Voxel Space (2017)"

kh_hk — Sat, 30 May 2026 19:57:06 +0000

I bet

New comment by kh_hk in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

kh_hk — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:26:07 +0000

In Neal Stephenson's fall or dodge in hell there's a timeline where the internet is so flooded by fake AI generated news that characters have their own agent both filtering info and maintaining their fake social presence.

The book in particular is of a debatable quality but I keep going back to those introductory chapters as prophetic the more we go into this.

New comment by kh_hk in "Local LLMs perform better when you teach them to ask before they answer"

kh_hk — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:41:39 +0000

Isn't this akin to including all the (missing) keywords from the prompt? YMMV but to me we have found the less optimized way of using LLMs

New comment by kh_hk in "SQLite Code of Ethics"

kh_hk — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:51:08 +0000

Regardless of my own view on these ethics, the quality of SQLite is for me a testament to the usefulness of truthfully adhering to a (sub)set of noble precepts.

New comment by kh_hk in "Googlebook"

kh_hk — Wed, 13 May 2026 10:24:32 +0000

A laptop with footnotes. Thanks, I would like a computer

New comment by kh_hk in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

kh_hk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:21:39 +0000

The same reason I would not use a proprietary text editor applies to harnesses. It's enough of a constraint to use a proprietary service, for me the line is at the tooling. Sunk cost and all it's things.

New comment by kh_hk in "A Programmer's Loss of Identity"

kh_hk — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:26:58 +0000

Prompting AI feels a bit like that feeling I had when I was copypasting random javascript and java applets for my first website. The website had MIDI, a scrolling status bar on the bottom, particles that followed the mouse, you name it. Never understood any of it, nor made me deep dive because it was too complicated. But then at some age I reached out for fundamentals and that's when I started building things.

All this to say, no, software developer probably not. Script kiddie?

New comment by kh_hk in "Make.ts"

kh_hk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:28:29 +0000

You can also inline python inside shell scripts, does that make them equal sets? :)

    life() {
      python3 << EOF
    print(42)
    EOF
    }

New comment by kh_hk in "Make.ts"

kh_hk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:24:02 +0000

python does EOL releases after 5 years. I guess versions are readily available for downloading and running with uv, but at that point you are on your own.

bash is glue and for me, glue code must survive the passage of time. The moment you use a high-level language for glue code it stops being glue code.

New comment by kh_hk in "Make.ts"

kh_hk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:24:04 +0000

I guess we have wildly different expectatives of what a language is responsible for and what not.

New comment by kh_hk in "Make.ts"

kh_hk — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:50:55 +0000

Well, at least I will be able to run my bash scripts in 5 years

New comment by kh_hk in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

kh_hk — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 10:08:58 +0000

Cries in DeaDBeeF

New comment by kh_hk in "Yes, It's Fascism"

kh_hk — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:22:08 +0000

Portugal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnation_Revolution

New comment by kh_hk in "Gas Town's agent patterns, design bottlenecks, and vibecoding at scale"

kh_hk — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:46:26 +0000

Brought to you by the creators (abstractly) of vibe coding, ralph and yolo mode. Either a conspiracy to deconstruct our view of reality, or just a tendency to invent funny words for novelty

New comment by kh_hk in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"

kh_hk — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:12:04 +0000

Thanks! That kind of makes sense. It's always interesting to me when I see patterns that make videos work well, and I usually have a lot of questions about the production.

Another question that I hope is not disrespectful: does PCBWay and JLCPCB pay for brand placement during the video or was it just a tribute from your side?

New comment by kh_hk in "I built a light that reacts to radio waves [video]"

kh_hk — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 12:24:46 +0000

Cool project. Here's some OT: where do people learn to make these videos? Fast paced but calm narration with chill music and sped up action mixed with regular speed. It's a matter of consuming a lot of this content until the form clicks, or you need to go to influ-school?