Hacker News: krisgenre

New comment by krisgenre in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

krisgenre — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:35:37 +0000

Its an actual issue, Claude included all the relevant code and filed a detailed one so I don't see whats wrong with that.

New comment by krisgenre in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

krisgenre — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:00:44 +0000

While exploring an open-source project recently, I noticed a bug in the initial setup. I asked Claude to verify it, and the AI confirmed the issue. When Claude asked if I wanted to file a bug report, I agreed, assuming it would simply generate a formatted text block for me to copy and paste. However, I soon realized it had actually submitted the issue directly to GitHub. It turned out I had the GitHub CLI installed and was logged in with my work account.

Out of curiosity, I then asked Claude to draft an enhancement request for a new feature. It created a highly detailed issue and went on to generate the corresponding code for the enhancement.

I haven't submitted a pull request because the code is written in a language I don't know. Part of me considered submitting it anyway since it works and could be useful, but after reading this post, I think I'll just keep it under wraps.

New comment by krisgenre in "Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence"

krisgenre — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:45:33 +0000

In 2009, I worked for a company that was developing a modified version of Ignite Realtime's Spark IM client and I have vague memory of sending messages to Gtalk from it. Because of Google's support, XMPP was all the craze back then.

It's great to see that Openfire (Ignite Realtime's XMPP server) has had a release even last week! https://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/

New comment by krisgenre in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

krisgenre — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:13:57 +0000

Yes, I am surprised that no one talks about the 'live' feature in Gemini app. With camera turned on, it has helped me fix things which I have no clue about.

Gemini CLI not working for 100s of paying users for more than a month

krisgenre — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:48:00 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/24517

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47958629

Points: 1

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New comment by krisgenre in "The End of Eleventy"

krisgenre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:34:25 +0000

Eleventy + Decap CMS + gitlab has been working well for our marketing team for the past 3+ years. Also, with Claude/Gemini/Copilot it is a lot easier to edit templates and add new pages when all of the files are right there on your filesystem.

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

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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.