Hacker News: martinsnow

New comment by martinsnow in "Claude 4"

martinsnow — Thu, 22 May 2025 18:19:57 +0000

When you get outside the scope of a cruddy app, they fall apart. Trouble is that business only see crud until we as developers have to fill in complex states and that's when hell breaks loose because who tought of that? Certainty not your army of frontend and backend engineers who warned you about this for months on end.....

The future will be of broken UIs and incomplete emails of "I don't know what to do here"..

New comment by martinsnow in "Claude 4"

martinsnow — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:57:31 +0000

Our problem is that non coding stakeholders produce garbage tiers frontend prototypes and expect us to include whatever garbage they created in our production pipeline! Wtf is going on? That's why I'm polishing my resume and getting out of this mess. We're controlled by managers who don't know Wtf they're doing.

New comment by martinsnow in "Claude 4"

martinsnow — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:30:20 +0000

It seems like investors have bought into the idea that llms has to improve no matter what. I see it in the company I'm currently at. No matter what we have to work with whatever bullshit these models can output. I am however looking at more responsible companies for new employment.

New comment by martinsnow in "Show HN: Astra – a new js2exe compiler"

martinsnow — Tue, 20 May 2025 17:14:27 +0000

What's light enough when the average user in the western hemisphere has +300gb of storage?

I'm just asking since a 512gb disk has become the standard when ordering a laptop.

New comment by martinsnow in "Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview"

martinsnow — Wed, 07 May 2025 05:07:05 +0000

You're doing it wrong. Tailwind is endlessly customizable and after compilation is only kilobytes. But yes lets complain because we don't understand the tooling....

New comment by martinsnow in "Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview"

martinsnow — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:30:04 +0000

Bwoah it's almost as if react and tailwind is the bees knees ind frontend atm

New comment by martinsnow in "Redis is open source again"

martinsnow — Thu, 01 May 2025 19:25:11 +0000

They can seriously screw themselves with the rugpull they made. I reported so many bugs and helped diagnose them in the sentinel module. Seriously fuck them.

New comment by martinsnow in "O3 beats a master-level GeoGuessr player, even with fake EXIF data"

martinsnow — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:50:33 +0000

What do you do when it flags you or someone you know who's innocent? Blindly trusting these models without any verification will put innocent people in prison. Normal people don't understand why they are so confident. They're confident because they believe all the data they have is correct. I forsee a future with many faux trials because they don't understand critical thinking.

New comment by martinsnow in "How a 20 year old bug in GTA San Andreas surfaced in Windows 11 24H2"

martinsnow — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:00:49 +0000

Raymond is a wizard. Read his blogs for many years and love his style and knowledge.

New comment by martinsnow in "Charts.css"

martinsnow — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 14:53:17 +0000

Depends on the amount of data really.

New comment by martinsnow in "The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer"

martinsnow — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 12:15:16 +0000

In America. If you work in other markets the salary is much lower. The only engineers I know who make above 100k euro are either lead or founder level.

New comment by martinsnow in "Nvidia adds native Python support to CUDA"

martinsnow — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:00:02 +0000

Disagree. It's the name of the component and everyone working with it knows what capabilities it has. Perhaps you got old.

New comment by martinsnow in "Supervisors often prefer rule breakers, up to a point"

martinsnow — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 17:46:41 +0000

Your argument circles back to the posters point. Knowing which rule you can break at a specific point in time. Why are you being so anal about it?

New comment by martinsnow in "The April Fools joke that might have got me fired"

martinsnow — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:33:27 +0000

Nah. It was amazing back then.

New comment by martinsnow in "Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button"

martinsnow — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:11:15 +0000

Rarely is that a problem with react itself. Poorly written applications exist in every flavor of language, framework and library.

New comment by martinsnow in "Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers"

martinsnow — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:54:12 +0000

I would love to know counter points instead of just down voting. I guess not being on the gravy train doesn't satisfy the paid for advertisement.

New comment by martinsnow in "OpenWrt Two Approval"

martinsnow — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 12:53:58 +0000

I don't understand this comment. All electronics assembling happens in Shenzhen. Be it Apple, Cisco or Microsoft. If anything this is par for the course.

What I personally would have liked to see was an EU based entity overseeing and taking responsibility for the project since neither US nor China really should be trusted with privacy these days.

New comment by martinsnow in "You should know this before choosing Next.js"

martinsnow — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:15:36 +0000

No. These terms are not uniquely new.

New comment by martinsnow in "Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers"

martinsnow — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 17:59:23 +0000

Yes. This is a fancy electron browser.

New comment by martinsnow in "Matched and Deleted"

martinsnow — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 11:29:40 +0000

Are respondents truthful in interviews? I found my wife using a dating application. It was very easy, I just had to widen the geography I was searching.