Hacker News: marcuskaz

New comment by marcuskaz in "The AI backlash is only getting started"

marcuskaz — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:38:27 +0000

The US government employees around 3m people, I'm pretty sure 2.7m people losing their jobs would feel the difference.

Show HN: Lil Apps

marcuskaz — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:43:19 +0000

A collection of small static web apps I've made to fill personal needs. What are yours, do you share them out?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610640

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Gram, a source code editor forked from Zed

marcuskaz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:43:13 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/GramEditor/gram

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48503970

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by marcuskaz in "India's surprise baby bust"

marcuskaz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:43:59 +0000

The population doesn't just go from 100m to 50m instantly. It gradually changes over time, 100 years from now the smaller population will work itself out, but none of us will be alive for that. We still have 100 years of discomfort to get through.

Fewer children mean all the industries and gov't services who are employed now to service children will need to downsize, these are lost jobs now before the fewer children grow to adults where they would take over those fewer jobs. All of this will have a effect across the economy.

Pediatricians, Teachers, Toys & Games companies, Children Furniture, School Supplies, Electronics, etc.... All of these are sized with the expectation of the same consumer demand, but when there are less kids to buy and service each of these will be forced to downsize. Again in the long run it works out, but in the short run say next 50 years for people in these markets will see downsizing over time. Can the rest of the economies pick that up?

New comment by marcuskaz in "India's surprise baby bust"

marcuskaz — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:21:11 +0000

The basis of capitalism is on growth. How can you continue to grow revenue constantly if there aren't more people to buy products or use your services. Additionally tax revenue decreases as fewer people are working, so less government services and employment would be available.

Schools is a good example, as there are less children, you need less schools and consolidate. So there are less jobs for teachers, now it looks like an equilibrium issue since over time it will balance out. But those teachers who are losing their jobs are adults, tax payers, consumers now and the loss of spending has a cascading effect.

New comment by marcuskaz in "Slumber a TUI HTTP Client"

marcuskaz — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:41:55 +0000

These small utilities are great, now so quick and easy to create. I made a TUI version and then grew tired of it and ported it to Electron, took less than an hour for each. For those complaining about YAML format, you can create your own in less than an hour using whatever format you want.

The potentially disheartening thing about the ability to create apps like this, they are just low effort are they even worth sharing anymore? I have personal clones of Postman, Teux Deux, Goodreads and a few other utilities. Previously I would clean them up, document, and share out, but now I don't bother with most of it. Just not worth it, when people can make their own customized to their whims.

New comment by marcuskaz in "Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters"

marcuskaz — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:02:34 +0000

Much better, nice update!

New comment by marcuskaz in "Show HN: State of the Art of Coding Models, According to Hacker News Commenters"

marcuskaz — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:10:23 +0000

Also, the stacked graph only allows you to quickly see total mentions, really hard to compare negative or positive sentiment across models at a glance.

New comment by marcuskaz in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

marcuskaz — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:02:14 +0000

I wrote a brief intro to Jujutsu here: https://mkaz.blog/code/jujutsu-vcs

Sheets, terminal based spreadsheet tool

marcuskaz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:42:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/maaslalani/sheets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47623258

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by marcuskaz in "Apple's 512GB Mac Studio vanishes, a quiet acknowledgment of the RAM shortage"

marcuskaz — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:43:10 +0000

Inventory is tight too, if you look at delivery/shipping times for Mac Studio and Mac Mini, I'm seeing April/May

New comment by marcuskaz in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

marcuskaz — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:53:19 +0000

I just did this at work, I was working with Postman testing an API and wanted it work in a slightly different way and be able to do some bulk testing, saving responses, all slightly different then how Postman worked. I clone just the features I wanted in about 15 minutes and now have my own API test tool that works exactly how I want. It is not something I would ever release or need to share, just a local tool for me to use. If your software doesn't provide a service, like sync, storage, availability, if it is just local, it'll be a tough market.

This also got me thinking about open source might be dying. For this tool, there is no reason for me to open source it, anyone can create the same thing in minutes. I didn't add anything, the only maybe interesting part would be to share the prompt, but then someone else can create their own prompt to have their tool do what they want.

Software world is really getting weird.

Impact of AI on Tech Blogs

marcuskaz — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:30:14 +0000

Article URL: https://mkaz.blog/misc/the-wake-of-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488869

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by marcuskaz in "Parking Lot designs can be much safer"

marcuskaz — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:13:52 +0000

Brilliant, agree, that's much better and even more safer.

New comment by marcuskaz in "Parking Lot designs can be much safer"

marcuskaz — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:04:55 +0000

So would you make cul-de-sacs out of each column?

Parking Lot designs can be much safer

marcuskaz — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:44:28 +0000

Article URL: https://mkaz.blog/dataviz/parking-lot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403577

Points: 4

# Comments: 5

New comment by marcuskaz in "Show HN: Minimalist editor that lives in browser, stores everything in the URL"

marcuskaz — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 20:21:46 +0000

I have a similar one using localStorage https://github.com/mkaz/browser-pad

New comment by marcuskaz in "Your inbox is a bandit problem"

marcuskaz — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 17:15:11 +0000

Do you have a school age child? My inbox is flooded with school updates, fund raisers, random questions, and is double when my two kids aren't at the same school.

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

marcuskaz — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:40:41 +0000

:thinking-face:

- How builds and deploys are configured

- The simple aspect of connecting a GitHub repo and you get auto deploys

- Auto creating branch environments that make testing as easy as a new link

- Just configuring users and permissions and not seeing IAM anywhere is a huge win

My billing admins don't do any of this stuff.

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

marcuskaz — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:15:17 +0000

Developer experience matters. This is what Vercel figured out and why their admin screens are sooooooo much better than anything AWS or Google creates.