Hacker News: mdavid626

New comment by mdavid626 in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

mdavid626 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:15:49 +0000

I wonder were are the software engineers. No senior devs at Apple anymore?

Just interns pushing to prod without any review? What the hell is going on in the software industry?

Such mistakes a trillion dollar company can not allow to happen.

New comment by mdavid626 in "We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput"

mdavid626 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:44:21 +0000

It's not about Bun, but more about sqlite and zod replacements. Why interpret this as "Bun is faster"?

New comment by mdavid626 in "H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means"

mdavid626 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:35:54 +0000

AV1 lacks hw support…

New comment by mdavid626 in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls"

mdavid626 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:06:05 +0000

Yeah, but how does the sandboxed process “know” that it has to go through the proxy? How does it trust your certificate? Is the proxy fully transparent?

New comment by mdavid626 in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file and network restrictions"

mdavid626 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:04:36 +0000

You know, the thing is, that it is super easy to create such tools with AI nowadays. …and if you create your own, you can avoid these unnecessary abstractions. You get exactly what you want.

New comment by mdavid626 in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file and network restrictions"

mdavid626 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:47:55 +0000

How do you intercept network traffic on mac os? How do you fake certificates?

New comment by mdavid626 in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file and network restrictions"

mdavid626 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:34:08 +0000

I trust sandbox-exec more, or Docker on Linux. Those come from the OS, well tested and known.

MITM proxy is nice idea to avoid leaking secrets. Isn’t it very brittle though? Anthropic changes some URL-s and it’ll break.

New comment by mdavid626 in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

mdavid626 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:51:53 +0000

How the hell is it 500k lines?

New comment by mdavid626 in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

mdavid626 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:45:43 +0000

It’s time to run development in sandboxes. Docker or sandbox-exec (for Mac).

New comment by mdavid626 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

mdavid626 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:14:55 +0000

Oh boy, you couldn't be more wrong. If something, LLM-s need MORE readable code, not less. Do you want to burn all your money in tokens?

New comment by mdavid626 in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

mdavid626 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:39:46 +0000

There is no such thing as agentic codebase. If humans don’t understand it, nothing really does. Agents give zero fuck about anything. If they burn 100 or million tokens to add a feature, they don’t care. It’s the developers responsibility to keep it under control.

New comment by mdavid626 in "StackOverflow's questions per day have fallen 99%"

mdavid626 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:50:01 +0000

Isn’t that good advice? Rewriting it in C can prove that the problem is not in your programmin language.

Outdated OS can be the problem as well.

What kind of advice did you expect?

New comment by mdavid626 in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

mdavid626 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:35:33 +0000

Is it though?

On my Mac Docker runs Linux virtualized. It’s a resource hog.

Compare that with simple native binary.

New comment by mdavid626 in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

mdavid626 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:22:57 +0000

Yeah, compare this with downloading single binary approach.

Downloading JDK, setting up the correct env variables, or running Docker, all this is just pain, compared to single binary approach.

New comment by mdavid626 in "Floci – A free, open-source local AWS emulator"

mdavid626 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:48:03 +0000

I’d be happier if this could run as one binary without Docker. Java is so much harder to setup.

New comment by mdavid626 in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

mdavid626 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:03:37 +0000

Firefox doing everything, but being a good browser.

New comment by mdavid626 in "What 81,000 people want from AI"

mdavid626 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:57:27 +0000

Sigh… that’s not how it works.

New comment by mdavid626 in "JPEG Compression"

mdavid626 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:24:12 +0000

JPEG still rules the world. Many new alternatives were developed, none of them really that much better than JPEG.

New comment by mdavid626 in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

mdavid626 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 07:59:56 +0000

Mixed feelings.

I use Opus 4.6 with pi.dev (one agent). I give detailed instructions what to do. I essentially use it to implement as I do it manually. Small commits, every commit tested and verified. I don’t use plan mode, just let the agent code - code review is faster than reading plan. This approach works only if you make small changes. I create mental model of the code same way, as when writing it manually.

Some people on my team codes with AI without reading code. That’s mostly a mess. No mental model, lower quality. They are really proud of it though and think they are really smart. Not sure how this will turn out.

New comment by mdavid626 in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

mdavid626 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:41:46 +0000

No, they can’t.

It has nothing to do with inconvenience.

I really like that layman now make these statements - they know better than people working in the industry for decades.