Hacker News: khaledh

Ask HN: Is HN's duplicate url detection broken?

khaledh — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 03:22:31 +0000

I noticed that recently some stories are submitted more than once, and the duplicates make it to the front pages. I thought HN detects this and redirects similar submissions to the first one.

Examples:

Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig (https://github.com/yamafaktory/whetuu)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991361

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48981557

Stop pretending billionaires built the future (https://www.elysian.press/p/billionaires-didnt-create-innovation)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49017118

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023161

What's Under Your Feet in New York City? (https://practical.engineering/blog/2026/7/21/whats-under-your-feet-in-new-york-city)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48994864

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49006049

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49030892

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by khaledh in "Best Coding Fonts for Developers in 2026"

khaledh — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:14:08 +0000

Ultimately, coding font preference is subjective. For me, it's been JetBrains Mono since it was released several years ago. There's something about it that makes it so clean and pleasant to read.

New comment by khaledh in "Ask HN: Resources for non-web software architecture?"

khaledh — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:28:32 +0000

I wish software had recipes for architecture. Design patterns are not the answer IMO. The problem with such approaches is that they tend to focus on the patterns themselves. Great software architecture emerges from modelling the problem itself, rather than trying to shoehorn the problem into a predefined set of patterns.

Start with deeply understanding the problem and let it guide you to choosing the right abstractions, dependencies, and arrangement of the various pieces into a system. It's more of an art than science: learn how to use a brush and mix colors then follow your vision, rather than using a set of cookie cutters that tend to produce something that obscures the obvious, and usually simpler, solution to the problem.

New comment by khaledh in "AI agents write Ruby but can't navigate it: a 5-model, 13-codebase benchmark"

khaledh — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:41:51 +0000

Mirrors my own experience, especially with Rails codebases: it's hard to navigate and find where something is declared due to the "convention over configuration" model.

New comment by khaledh in "BLISS"

khaledh — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:36:39 +0000

A very notable implementation in BLISS was the VAX/VMS operating system.

New comment by khaledh in ""No, I swear I wrote this.""

khaledh — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:16:17 +0000

What if the human is just transcribing directly from AI generated text?

New comment by khaledh in "Ask HN: What would justify writting an OS kernel in 2026?"

khaledh — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:04:16 +0000

> Linux won

Linux started at the peak of Unix, but also when Unix was getting fragmented across vendors and mired in lawsuits. At the same time, PC hardware was getting better and faster, making the timing great for a PC-level Unix-like OS. Also remember that Linux didn't win in a short period of time. It would take over a decade (I'd say maybe two) for it be taken seriously.

I've come to the conclusion that technical superiority doesn't matter much. What matters is grit, perseverance over a long horizon, building an ecosystem (especially hardware drivers), accepting collaboration (be kind, not necessarily nice), and fostering a welcoming community.

New comment by khaledh in "Agentic Resource Discovery Specification"

khaledh — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:03:37 +0000

This is reminiscent of Web Services Discovery (UDDI).

New comment by khaledh in "Stanford grads walk out on Google CEO Sundar Pichai speech"

khaledh — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:41:09 +0000

Free Palestine simply means a sovereign Palestinian state separate from Israel, which Israel has rejected many times over the years, most recently in the Knesset vote in February and July 2024, opposing the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. Any time there was outside attempts to recognize Palestine as a state (e.g. through UN efforts) Israel responded with building more settlements in the West Bank.

New comment by khaledh in "The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians"

khaledh — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:42:57 +0000

https://archive.ph/wCOUZ

West Bank settlers forced a Palestinian to dig up the body of his father

khaledh — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:55:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjrpnjpl39po

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089853

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

New comment by khaledh in "Ask HN: What do you still do manually in 2026 that should be automated?"

khaledh — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:34:53 +0000

Reviewing AI generated slop.

New comment by khaledh in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

khaledh — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:44:59 +0000

This reminds me off this famous quote by Tony Hoare:

    "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

New comment by khaledh in "The state of ARM64 on Windows in 2026"

khaledh — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:11:50 +0000

Pedantic note: "Windows on ARM64", not the other way around.

New comment by khaledh in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

khaledh — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:59:00 +0000

Those are not mutually exclusive. I can ask the AI to summarize the structure of the codebase before I dig deeper into the code.

New comment by khaledh in "Ask HN: Do you think AI will end up like dotcom?"

khaledh — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:40:19 +0000

AI is a step change, and like any step change, it overshoots before it settles down. We're in that overshoot phase now. So yes, it's a bubble, and will burst when the high expectations doesn't match reality and economics, but it's not going away.

New comment by khaledh in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

khaledh — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:39:37 +0000

What if I use AI to just understand the codebase?

New comment by khaledh in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

khaledh — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 02:12:13 +0000

What a wonderful idea: "This part of the world is unstable with unsustainable ethnic tension due to the arbitrary borders created by colonizers. Let's ethnically cleanse part of this area and give to jews and put arbitrary borders around it. That will definitely not have consequences."

New comment by khaledh in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

khaledh — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:07:45 +0000

Notice the four characteristics mentioned here (all of them must be satisfied):

- do not believe in Allāh or in the Last Day

- do not consider unlawful what Allāh and His Messenger have made unlawful

- do not adopt the religion of truth (doesn't necessarily mean Islam, since true Christianity and Judaism believe in one God)

- from those who were given the Scripture. That includes Muslims themselves by the way, since they were given a scripture. Elsewhere in the Quran when it refers to Christians and Jews it says "People of the scripture". In other areas it mentions "Those who were given the scripture", which includes Muslims.

What it essentially says: if you do not follow the law of the land, whether you are a Christian, Jew, or a Muslim, there are consequences. Every nation has laws, and if you break those laws you will be prosecuted. In this case it says those will have to pay a "fine".

New comment by khaledh in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

khaledh — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:20:00 +0000

If Israel cannot coexist with its neighbours then why plant it in this particular area of the world in the first place? Why not take part of Germany, the country which actually slaughtered millions of jews. Why do the Arabs have to pay the price of something they're not responsible for?

Imagine the opposite: an Arab group was planted to occupy part of Europe, occasionally gets into wars with its neighbours, and builds one of the largest weapons arsenals in the world, including nukes. How would Europeans feel about that?