Hacker News: krisgenre

New comment by krisgenre in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

krisgenre — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:45:26 +0000

.. and Claude Code for Linux, the CLI binary is 200+ mb :(

New comment by krisgenre in "The Claude Code Leak"

krisgenre — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:08:18 +0000

Reminds me of a question that I asked couple of years ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37176689

New comment by krisgenre in "Skip is now free and open source"

krisgenre — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:00:12 +0000

+1. AI agents can also fix minor bugs easily in open source software (it already did in two of the apps I use).

New comment by krisgenre in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

krisgenre — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:29:28 +0000

18 years here (more if I can count my non professional years). Agreed, coding isn't as much fun as it used to be but AI has only increased my enthusiasm for tech. Its a lot more easier to learn and understand new stuff, build things (especially personal tools) and tinker in any programming language.

A High-Performance, GPU-Accelerated Redis Client Built with Rust and GPUI

krisgenre — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 06:19:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/vicanso/zedis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46550657

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by krisgenre in "Web development is fun again"

krisgenre — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:15:35 +0000

I have nearly two decades of programming experience which is mostly server side. The other day I wanted a quick desktop (Linux) program to chat with an LLM. Found out about Viciane launcher, then chalked out an extension in react (which I have never used) to chat with an LLM using OpenAI compatible API. Antigravity wrote a bare minimum working extension in a single prompt. I didn't even need to research how to write an extension for an app released only three to five months ago. I then used AI assistance to add more features and polish the UI.

This was a fun weekend but I would have procrastinated forever without a coding agent.

New comment by krisgenre in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

krisgenre — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:11:53 +0000

Filling out forms, booking tickets, summarizing content ...

Even at work, have seen few junior developers use AI browsers to attend mandatory compliance courses and complete quizzes. Not necessarily a good thing but AI browsers may win in the end and it might be too late for Firefox.

New comment by krisgenre in "Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features"

krisgenre — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:44:46 +0000

+ Children are growing up with ChatGPT and Gemini. It has already become the de facto standard for learning. AI in browsers is inevitable.

New comment by krisgenre in "Java FFM zero-copy transport using io_uring"

krisgenre — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:55:55 +0000

Okay, but is that a bad thing?

New comment by krisgenre in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

krisgenre — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:14:43 +0000

Maybe they want more free users to better train their models and don't care about the money (which they already have in plenty?).

In the grand scheme of things, paid users are minuscule. They are probably delighted because of all the free users.

Jetbrains Fixes 20 Year Old Feature Request

krisgenre — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 07:00:18 +0000

Article URL: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CPP-4141/Make-CLion-available-as-IntelliJ-plugin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46228483

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by krisgenre in "Launch HN: Nia (YC S25) – Give better context to coding agents"

krisgenre — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:14:53 +0000

Is this similar to the indexing done by Jetbrains IDEs?

New comment by krisgenre in "Gemini 3.0 spotted in the wild through A/B testing"

krisgenre — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:32:55 +0000

So far, I have had a very good experience using Gemini Live with the camera turned on. Just today, I wanted to find out the name of a spare part inside a bathroom faucet. First, Gemini said it was a thermostatic cartridge, but I responded that it couldn't be, as it doesn't control temperature. Then it asked me what it did, and I said it has a button that controls the flow of water between the tap and shower. It correctly guessed that it was a diverter cartridge.

New comment by krisgenre in "M5 MacBook Pro"

krisgenre — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:15:24 +0000

Exactly! I too bought the M1 Macbook Air in 2021 because of its great battery life. I wanted a powerful device for hacking on personal projects at home (I use a Dell running Ubuntu at work) but every time I opened it there was always something frustrating about OS X that made it unsuitable for dev stuff (at least for me)

* Finder - this is my most hated piece of software. It doesn't display the full file path and no easy way to copy it

* I still haven't figured out how to do cut/paste - CMD + X didn't work for me

* No Virtualbox support for Apple Silicon (last checked 1 year ago)

* Weird bugs when running Rancher Desktop + Docker on Apple Silicon

But still Apple hardware is unbeatable. My 2015 Macbook pro lasted 10 years and the M1 is also working well even after 4 years.

New comment by krisgenre in "Hurl: Run and test HTTP requests with plain text"

krisgenre — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 05:21:39 +0000

IntelliJ has one too https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-c...

New comment by krisgenre in "The Future of Flatpak"

krisgenre — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:41:35 +0000

For desktop integration you can use Gear Lever https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever. It can also update AppImages with some configuration changes.

New comment by krisgenre in "MacBook Air M4"

krisgenre — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 05:08:44 +0000

My wife is still using her 2020 M1 Air and it’s still as snappy as the day we got it, still works for all her use cases.

Ah! my early 2015 13" Macbook pro died only few weeks back. I don't think any other laptop will last nearly 10 years (TBF I did replace the battery and speakers for $280 in 2020 though)

New comment by krisgenre in "[dead]"

krisgenre — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 13:52:39 +0000

Why do people keep saying Steve Jobs invented the iPhone? He at best could have pushed people to do the best but that alone should not let him steal all the credit.

New comment by krisgenre in "The Google Willow Thing"

krisgenre — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 06:35:44 +0000

Thank you. Seeing this as the top comment actually makes me feel better as I now know that I am not alone.

New comment by krisgenre in "An invisible desktop application that will help you pass technical interviews"

krisgenre — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 13:59:23 +0000

I let candidates use the Internet (except AI tools) during coding interviews. All I care is if given a problem can they do the necessary research to solve it. It usually involves making them use a library which they are not already familiar with. This is more than enough for most of the programming jobs.