Hacker News: kossae

New comment by kossae in "Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update"

kossae — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:21:31 +0000

The point on investment is apt. Even if they achieve twice as much as they’re able to today (some doubts amongst experts here), when the VC funding dries up we’ve seen what happens. It’s time to pay the piper. The prices rise to Enterprise-plan amounts, and companies start making much more real ROI decisions on these tools past the hype bubble. Will be interesting to see how that angle plays out. I’m no denier nor booster, but in the capitalist society these things inevitably balance out.

New comment by kossae in "The Grug Brained Developer (2022)"

kossae — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:47:02 +0000

I still don't understand how, with a properly configured debugger, manually typing print statements is better than clicking a breakpoint at the spot you were going to print. Context overload might be an issue, but just add a 'watch' to the things you care about and focus there.

New comment by kossae in "Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?"

kossae — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 14:43:44 +0000

This is my experience as well, and for now comes down to a workflow optimization. As I feel the LLM getting off track, I start a brand new session with useful previous context pasted in from my previous session. This seems to help steer it back to a decent solution, but agreed it would be nice if this was more automated based off of user/automated feedback (broken unit test, "this doesn't work", etc.)

JPMC: An open letter to third-party suppliers

kossae — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:32:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jpmorgan.com/technology/technology-blog/open-letter-to-our-suppliers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43815673

Points: 36

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New comment by kossae in "Glamorous Toolkit"

kossae — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 01:21:14 +0000

Yeah I made a decent effort to dig in, as it seemed interesting, but I still have no idea what this is.

New comment by kossae in "Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises"

kossae — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:49:38 +0000

Why not both?

New comment by kossae in "Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises"

kossae — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 19:47:34 +0000

There are 10s if not 100s of articles on it, and even a paper written about it: https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/politics/documents/The.... One does not have to be in China or observe it personally to know of its existence.

New comment by kossae in "Trying to Recreate iOS on the Web"

kossae — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:37:12 +0000

Accelerometer data from the phone in order to determine the position for the parallax effect.

New comment by kossae in "Why is it so hard to find a job now? Enter Ghost Jobs"

kossae — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:57:28 +0000

On the hiring side of this, we receive a _ton_ of resumes that have no experience in the technologies we're hiring for. Each day there are 5-10 automated resume submissions to our job portal for a single position, and we're a fairly small company. Perhaps hiring managers are both being (more) selective and becoming overloaded with the amount of AI/recruiter-sanitized resumes coming in as well.

New comment by kossae in "When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study shows"

kossae — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:56:02 +0000

Probably not the best delivery, but perhaps use of anabolic steroids in bodybuilding could have a counteracting detrimental effect to the brain (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000632231...).

New comment by kossae in "ScreenPlay Is an Open Source Live-Wallpaper App for Windows and OS X"

kossae — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 13:27:21 +0000

Sort of a related question: How many of you actually see your desktop on a daily basis? I feel like even with 3 monitors I have either tiled windows, or full-screen windows taking up the entire desktop. I oftentimes even forget what my wallpaper is.

New comment by kossae in "Pornhub Blocked in Texas"

kossae — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 20:59:35 +0000

I assume this would be more complex than that. Logging (storing personal data), ad revenue from viewers in TX, etc could easily make this a much larger task than the revenue is worth. Even if those were done, you’re then serving content to an entire state completely for free, which makes no business sense.

New comment by kossae in "Transforming Postgres into a Fast OLAP Database"

kossae — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 01:25:16 +0000

I’m actually in the same boat right now (primary DB -> Clickhouse). We’re currently trialing Airbyte but it appears they’re removing normalization support for Clickhouse this year. Did you land on a custom solution, or some other ETL/ELT tool?

New comment by kossae in "Why Postgres RDS didn't work for us"

kossae — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 03:26:21 +0000

Lol I get what you’re saying but it’s funny your description is essentially “storage that is networked”.

New comment by kossae in "Google podcasts is shutting down"

kossae — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:33:42 +0000

Seconding Fastmail here. Everything just works for a reasonable price.

New comment by kossae in "Docker Compose best practices for dev and prod"

kossae — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:05:10 +0000

To mitigate this, I usually always require a .env file for docker-compose containing directories with at minimum a `COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME` envvar to prevent these naming issues. As long as the env file travels with the directory there are no issues.

New comment by kossae in "Spotify Platform Rules"

kossae — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 23:44:19 +0000

It appears that this is new: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.spotify.com/us/pla...

New comment by kossae in "Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)"

kossae — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:59:09 +0000

I use Overcast (https://overcast.fm/) which I believe has a one-time purchase fee to remove ads. It also has pretty nice features such as audio boost and silence trimming.

New comment by kossae in "FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization"

kossae — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 20:59:49 +0000

I think the FTC will deal with that as it comes. Including that in this case would be speculating the future of the Oculus business.

New comment by kossae in "Flash Animations Live Forever at the Internet Archive"

kossae — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 14:58:02 +0000

That would be awesome! Thanks for the heads up. My username at gmail if you get a chance to send it. Thanks again!