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New comment by marekful in "Pay the Subscription Fee (2026)"

marekful — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:52:09 +0000

Superb mini essay, BS philosophy... I'ts not that there's so much in between these two extremes, but that model we need is completely outside of it.

New comment by marekful in "Ask HN: How do you stay focused while working from home?"

marekful — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:26:00 +0000

We desperately look for ways to force ourselves to stay focused. What that tells me is that we don't like our jobs. What it shows is that our work culture is toxic. The job should be interesting and even exciting enough that staying focuesed is the base line. We should be forcing ourselves to take a break from it. Of course, it's small wonder in a society where 85% of the jobs is just an alibi to produce the numbers that the establishment of free market demands, and where we don't do 95% of the jobs that we should be doing to future proof a liveable civilisation.

New comment by marekful in "Ask HN: How do you stay focused while working from home?"

marekful — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:17:31 +0000

Looking out the window with hot mug of latte in hand while mild melody plays in background. Sounds like focused, not distracted :)

New comment by marekful in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

marekful — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:39:06 +0000

I think LLMs are the great filter of software engineers. They can do a lot reasonable well, but they lack the ability to be an overarching architect of complex projects (and it's my conviction that they can never achieve that).

Only the best humans with insight, intuition and pattern recognition and application in non trivial scenarios can fill that gap.

New comment by marekful in "GitHub is (partially) down again. Do you look for alternatives?"

marekful — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 08:33:57 +0000

Source Hut has been around for 6-7-ish years (https://sr.ht). A rather different approach to Git, closer to its original intentions. No PRs in the classical sense, just email patches (that's how the Linux kernel is developed to date). You can do most things though that you can on GitHub using tools and CLI.

New comment by marekful in "Clean City Law: Secrets of SãO Paulo Uncovered by Outdoor Advertising Ban"

marekful — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:21:12 +0000

This is so awesome! Every city and town should follow suite. Then live TV, streaming and internet platforms. No forced advertisements at all, the entire industry should move into an on-demand model. Do you know why? BECAUSE NOBODY F***G WANTS THEM, and they or forced down our throat by the ton every freaking day!

This would be good, because the entire industry would shrink to a few percent of its current size, and, let's be honest, who wouldn't be glad that they don't have to a job any more that didn't make any sense whatsoever but in exchange it frustrated millions of people on a daily basis? If all those people now become a useful member of our societies then we are one step ahead.

New comment by marekful in "What Dot.com Bandwidth Taught Me About the AI Token Cost Panic"

marekful — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:05:33 +0000

What made you think we'd ever need AI tokens as much as we do bandwidth, or that they are even comparable.

Bandwidth is abstract, it's information flow. LLMs are a specialised tool, they are based on noise and randomness, and thus are inherently imperfect.

We could have guaranteed the elimination of famine world-wide for 100 years from the resources we wasted on the AI infrastructure in the last 5 years. Shame on us.

There's usefulness in LLMs but not that much. They are definitely not the future.

New comment by marekful in "Solving the Worlds Hardest Problems with AI"

marekful — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:00:17 +0000

The world has enough of everything in abundance to create a global civilisation without any major problems. There's only one problem standing in the way: we can't regulate ourselves. We can't achieve equal distribution of resources because we can't stop bigotry and greed. AI can do exactly nothing about this.

New comment by marekful in "The empty field that wasn't"

marekful — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:08:38 +0000

Better hyperlink: https://lsc-pagepro.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=...

New comment by marekful in "Furthering Windows as the trusted platform for development"

marekful — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:45:18 +0000

Dude must have misplaced his pills... That has always been Linux. Period. Windows is the trusted platform for unwarranted data collection and unwanted ads. Undeniably. Also, for people who never knew anything else, and so haven't grown up yet for the task.

New comment by marekful in "Skipper: The closed-loop coding agent"

marekful — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:05:13 +0000

Maybe don't monetise the demo video because I will watch exactly zero adverts in order to get closer to your product, thanks!

New comment by marekful in "Show HN: I built a linter for undocumented linter warnings. AI hates me now"

marekful — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:16:49 +0000

Awesome! I accumulated 9 shames in the last 2 years working on a medium sized TypeScript project. I tried your tool which encouraged me to take another look at them, and now I have 0 shames.

New comment by marekful in "[dead]"

marekful — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:17:46 +0000

Is that developer right to also dislike you for wanting master? Where does that lead? Conventions aren't based on feelings, and you should have none towards them. Everything has a reason, and reasons can be compared and weighed. Main is shorter, for one,, I like that, and also newer, master being the legacy convention. What are your arguments?

New comment by marekful in "Ask HN: Has anyone became successful on their own?"

marekful — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:00:04 +0000

What do you expect to achieve as a business? Assuming you live in a country with fractional reserve banking, free market and "wild west" capitalism, your options are dire. Be selfish, ruthless, lack all empathy, be corrupt, cheat and steal. You cheat more you win more. Are you great at exploiting other people and looking the other way? How about being dishonest and deceitful? Then you have excellent prospects. Ah, wait, you want a decent _and_ honest business that self sustains and doesn't kneel to disgraceful, corrupt giants? Good luck with that.

New comment by marekful in "Show HN: Elytra – A 420g CNC aluminum, wireless split keyboard"

marekful — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:57:32 +0000

Looks neat, could be the keyboard that makes me try / switch to split design, unless...

Did you release it without an option for ISO layout, and you thought that was OK? Not for Europe...

New comment by marekful in "Anybody know what happened to the GNU site?"

marekful — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 10:12:52 +0000

It's a message from aliens. In a nutshell, it says that all efforts to keep humanity alive are futile, and good luck for our self destruction. They say it's not entirely but mostly because of Windows. If you look carefully, there are some intergalactic phone numbers hidden in the script. I guess it's for desperate measures, just in case someone wants to be saved.

New comment by marekful in "Transparency fears over plan to redact 2,000 staff names on Commons register"

marekful — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:30:09 +0000

Accept all cookies or pay $5 a month, and even if I pay up, you will still show ads, really, Guardian? This must be the new low of enshittification. Wouldn't read your crap if you paid me $5 a month...

New comment by marekful in "Thoughts and Observations on the MacBook Neo"

marekful — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 09:03:39 +0000

8GB RAM? Lol. Apple thinks we're in 2010. But in a world where RAM is $200+ per GB, nothing surprises you any more. Tim Cook, when you are in hell and burn in the fire of greed, I'll be there to rip your heart out, and feed it to my dogs.

New comment by marekful in "Lock your session without logging out in Keycloak by using a PIN code"

marekful — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:50:25 +0000

It should be rather disappointing that when I enter the 11th working hour of the day, the KeyCloak session expires anyway. Who wants to always work less than 10 hours?

New comment by marekful in "AI Is a Productivity Revolution, Not a Collapse"

marekful — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:32:56 +0000

The problem with AI is that it's not intelligent but we desperately want it to be Super AGI, so we can stay dumb. AI will be a great everyday concept seamlessly integrating into our societies once we start using it right. Currently, it gives us more slop than good, and it became the main driver behind the enshittification of the internet...