Hacker News: malkosta

New comment by malkosta in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

malkosta — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:35:14 +0000

That was exactly my same question. Then I finished reading the post. The reason is pretty clear, and written in the post: it is faster than ollama+mlx.

New comment by malkosta in "Doing nothing at work"

malkosta — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:55:42 +0000

What about just getting work done because you like to code, and not giving a damn about what others think because we will get rich anyways…I wonder why people are always trying to win instead of just having fun.

New comment by malkosta in "CSS is DOOMed"

malkosta — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:17:57 +0000

What a master class in linear algebra…

New comment by malkosta in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

malkosta — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:50:37 +0000

Yes, it describes human nature better than psychology. We can’t fight even knowing about it.

New comment by malkosta in "Show HN: Jido 2.0, Elixir Agent Framework"

malkosta — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:02:41 +0000

How do you ensure security? Does it have a proper container? Otherwise, it's impossible to prevent leaking prod secrets.

New comment by malkosta in "Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document"

malkosta — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:10:24 +0000

How do you intend to conquer the preemptive scheduler? System-wide fairness and preventing starvation are essencial steps for this to work well.

New comment by malkosta in "Show HN: SQLite for Rivet Actors – one database per agent, tenant, or document"

malkosta — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:03:53 +0000

It’s crazy how pretty much every tool people post to support AI systems is already in Erlang/OTP or in elixir standard libraries.

New comment by malkosta in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

malkosta — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:08:58 +0000

Elixir + Postgres is the microservices killer...last time I saw VP try to convince a company with this stack to go microservices he was out in less than 6mo

New comment by malkosta in "Show HN: I made a memory game to teach you to play piano by ear"

malkosta — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:02:57 +0000

You read my mind sir! Also, great work by OP, I really needed this since a long time!

New comment by malkosta in "Writing your own BEAM"

malkosta — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:53:13 +0000

Beautiful! :clap:

New comment by malkosta in "Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS"

malkosta — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 14:18:44 +0000

Rectangle+Apptivate made me stop looking for an i3 alternative, after years. The first for moving windows, the second for switching between them with super+number, just like i3.

New comment by malkosta in "Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code"

malkosta — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:08:03 +0000

I fight against this by using it mostly on trivial tasks, which require no comprehension at all, also fixing docs and extending tests. It helps me to focus on what I love, and let the boring stuff automated.

For complex tasks, I use it just to help me plan or build a draft (and hacky) pull request, to explore options. Then I rewrite it myself, again leaving the best part to myself.

LLMs made writing code even more fun than it was before, to me. I guess the outcomes only depends on the user. At this point, it's clear that all my peers that can't have fun with it are using it as they use ChatGPT, just throwing a prompt, hoping for the best, and then getting frustrated.

New comment by malkosta in "Next.js 15 Markdown Boilerplate"

malkosta — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 19:13:57 +0000

I do almost the same, with a simple bash script, and no JS junk: https://github.com/alexandremcosta/alexandremcosta.github.io...

New comment by malkosta in "TODOs aren't for doing"

malkosta — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:24:06 +0000

TODO is a pretty clear name. If it's not to be done, then it should be just a regular comment, no need to tag as TODO.

New comment by malkosta in "TODOs aren't for doing"

malkosta — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:55:51 +0000

If it's not intended to be done, then you are using the wrong name. Don't call it `TODO`.

New comment by malkosta in "ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action"

malkosta — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 17:20:42 +0000

It's just a ~~reduce~~ loop, with an API call to an LLM in the middle, and a data-structure to save the conversation messages and append them in next iterations of the loop. If you wanna get fancy, you can add other API calls, or access to your filesystem. Nothing to go crazy about...

New comment by malkosta in "Building Modular Rails Applications: A Deep Dive into Rails Engines"

malkosta — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 19:49:23 +0000

Offset-based pagination will be a problem on big tables.

New comment by malkosta in "Membrane: Media Framework for Elixir"

malkosta — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:38:08 +0000

The official ones are still the best: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html and https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/introduction.html

New comment by malkosta in "Show HN: Mizu.js – Lightweight HTML templating library for any-side rendering"

malkosta — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:23:00 +0000

I have a 60 LOC [bash script][1] to do something similar to my personal blog

[1]: https://github.com/alexandremcosta/alexandremcosta.github.io...

New comment by malkosta in "Mouseless – fast mouse control with the keyboard"

malkosta — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 19:42:57 +0000

Also [Homerow](https://www.homerow.app/) is really good