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New comment by knivets in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

knivets — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:54:36 +0000

What if your screen breaks or logic board? Top of the line MacBooks cost ~4-5k. I recently had to service a battery and they replaced a top case and a keyboard free of charge. I will continue paying for AppleCare as long as they will allow me

New comment by knivets in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

knivets — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:20:01 +0000

this is not their data though

New comment by knivets in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

knivets — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:43:55 +0000

The closer the bubble to popping the more desperate these people sound.

> 100% of today’s SWE tasks are done by the models.

Maybe that’s why the software is so shitty nowadays.

New comment by knivets in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

knivets — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:29:35 +0000

I have been building a code from phone web app and doogfooding a lot - https://x.com/knivets/status/2003023386080092235?s=46

New comment by knivets in "US to target more businesses after Hyundai raid"

knivets — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 18:53:55 +0000

Somehow this article is no longer on the first page[0] (or even second) of hn even though it has more upvotes (and is newer) than other articles with less upvotes (or older ones). Is HN hiding politically controversial articles?

[0] https://imgur.com/a/e7EplV6

Show HN: Lluminy – automate code comments for Python projects

knivets — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 22:50:23 +0000

Hi everyone!

I built lluminy to solve the pain of documenting Python code. It:

- Uses LLama 3.3 to generate code comments

- To avoid code hallucinations, it parses Python files into AST, and only modifies function docstrings

- Integrates with GitHub (submits results as pull requests)

- Handles projects of any size with minimal setup

Try it out: https://lluminy.com

Here's what I'm planning to work on next:

- Automatic documentation suggestions on GitHub PRs

- Sphinx integration

- Support for more languages (JavaScript and others)

- Alternative LLM options

Looking forward to feedback from the HN community!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562452

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by knivets in "I, Token: The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin's heart"

knivets — Sun, 01 Aug 2021 05:03:46 +0000

Cryptocurrencies create value by creating a financial system that solves some problems that traditional finance can't. For instance, a person in some underdeveloped country can accept a payment from US, however, if there was no Bitcoin then the person would have to rely on SWIFT network (which the country might not be a part of, or under sanctions like Iran). Or just a fact that you can't be randomly locked out from your account due to cancelling or any other reason. Buying a portion of Bitcoin is like buying shares of a bank which provides a service of accepting, sending and storing your money.

Ethereum creates value by providing an infra for dApps that provide financial instruments (like deposits, lending, etc) which also create value.

New comment by knivets in "The Importance of Learning CSS"

knivets — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 21:06:44 +0000

> As JavaScript developers, the sheer amount of stuff we're expected to know is enormous, and it grows bigger every day.

A question to ponder over: expected by whom?

New comment by knivets in "Cbonsai: Grow bonsai trees in your terminal"

knivets — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 00:25:18 +0000

We need more stuff like that

Django Rest Framework OpenAPI 3 Support

knivets — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 20:22:09 +0000

Article URL: https://knivets.com/django-rest-framework-openapi-3-support/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20751648

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by knivets in "Modern Front-end in Rails"

knivets — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 15:11:44 +0000

Wow, I like how readable the text is. The typography in the post is beautiful.

Facebook Messenger for Kids

knivets — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 17:17:58 +0000

Article URL: https://messengerkids.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15845504

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by knivets in "Django 2.0 released"

knivets — Sat, 02 Dec 2017 18:00:50 +0000

Rails is definitely more convenient to prototype, but the magic issue is real. You never know where a variable or a function comes from by reading the source -- you'd need to run a debugger to do that (in Python you can just follow the import statements). The overall Rails architecture feels convoluted and unnecessary complicated (Railties, Engines etc). I also dislike the fact that there is no single source of truth for data in Rails. You have schema.rb, but you can't edit that directly, it is generated by running `rails db:migrate`, so one might say that migration files are a single source of truth, which is inconvenient: I need to generate a migration, then edit the migration file to add any modifications not supported by generator script and finally add accessor and validators in model file. In Django we have a model definition as a single source of truth (data model, validations). Also, once I've created (or updated) a model definition, I run `manage.py makemigrations` and all necessary migrations (which capture the current data model state + what's necessary to do to perform a database migration automatically) are created automatically. I also like the fact that in Django data integrity is enforced by default.

Though, when it comes to prototyping, I think Rails is a much more convenient option. In Rails I can launch a working CRUD app with authentication in 10 minutes, literally. In Django I have to manually create directory structure, manually specify each route mapping, create and program controllers (views), etc. Django doesn't even have a built-in authentication templates, only controllers (views), so I end up writing this boilerplate over and over again. The other thing is that the authentication requires a username and password, which feels kind of clumsy, when every other authentication relies on email and it is not very trivial to modify that (built-in admin dashboard relies on built-in authentication for example).