Hacker News: mehdix

New comment by mehdix in "The Eternal Sloptember"

mehdix — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:41:53 +0000

I have started to think of engineers who have entirely replaced their critical thought processes with AI agents, AI proxies.

New comment by mehdix in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

mehdix — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:28:10 +0000

haha, yes, that was a good laugh :)

New comment by mehdix in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

mehdix — Fri, 08 May 2026 08:29:31 +0000

Reminded me of The Tao of Programming [1].

Fantastic little read that brightened my morning (during a boring meeting).

[1]: https://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html

New comment by mehdix in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

mehdix — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:17:48 +0000

That reply was educational indeed. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by mehdix in "Keep Android Open"

mehdix — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:24:05 +0000

Writing this in GrapheneOS where Google Play and Services run just like another app in a sandbox. Moreover, there is a network access permission that allows you to block any app from accessing the network, which is surprisingly the reason why Google does not approve GrapheneOS as compatible to let it pass hardware attestation test (if enforced).

New comment by mehdix in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

mehdix — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 11:26:36 +0000

Malicious actors would always find them. Hiding information just creates a false sense of safety among public, which benefits politicians mostly.

New comment by mehdix in "The GitHub website is slow on Safari"

mehdix — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 10:19:10 +0000

Can't you simply make a PR against the other PR's branch?

New comment by mehdix in "My website is ugly because I made it"

mehdix — Thu, 29 May 2025 14:57:49 +0000

> It’s an itch – a feeling that something is really important, and you need to do something about it, and nobody else can possibly do it except you.

Might be difficult to believe, but I strongly believe there are things that no one else on this planet would do except one of us.

New comment by mehdix in "Ask HN: How to approach first days on a new job as a senior engineer?"

mehdix — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:55:35 +0000

To add to what others have said, I would ask every person in my team what's the most important think I need to know.

New comment by mehdix in "Show HN: SQLite Plugin for Jekyll"

mehdix — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:27:42 +0000

I'm running my website with Jekyll for around a decade. Interestingly I use sqlite for comments submitted to the server (cgi-bin, mind you) and populate the pages during build. Your plugin is a perfect match for my usecase. Will definitely consider it. Nice work!

New comment by mehdix in "Bluesky Is Booming in Japan"

mehdix — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 13:16:14 +0000

Filter this page [1] for newly created profiles and see how it grows in realtime.

https://firesky.tv/

New comment by mehdix in "418 I'm a Teapot"

mehdix — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 07:19:55 +0000

Well, I recently used it in a small PostgREST-subset query builder I wrote in case the query builder received an input more complicated that what it could handle. I found 418 a natural response in this case. In retrospect a 5xx (edit: or better 422) error is more appropriate, however.

New comment by mehdix in "Taming the beast that is the Django ORM – An introduction"

mehdix — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 06:02:11 +0000

FWIW, one python project I'm working on uses an obscure Framework, and ORM. I was contemplating to convert it to FastAPI+Pydantic, however the amount of effort needed was no different than rewriting the whole project.

New comment by mehdix in "AI paid for by Ads – the GPT-4o mini inflection point"

mehdix — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 14:45:31 +0000

This was literally among the best comments I've read today and I couldn't stop laughing out loud.

New comment by mehdix in "Brian Kernighan on “The Practice of Programming” [video]"

mehdix — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:05:51 +0000

Can only second you. His style is by far my most favorite among all other technical authors. And thanks for the reminder, time to get another one of his books.

New comment by mehdix in "lsix: Like "ls", but for images"

mehdix — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:58:22 +0000

I wish we had all these goodies in default linux console (I know about and try to use kmscon sometimes...)

New comment by mehdix in "lsix: Like "ls", but for images"

mehdix — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 10:55:38 +0000

I can only second this comment. I discovered it a while back and it has been a pleasant experience ever since. I still use both though, depending on availibility.

New comment by mehdix in "Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose"

mehdix — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:36:20 +0000

It's a common scenario. Bars, coffee shops, trains, universities, etc. all offer free public wifi with DHCP outside your control.

New comment by mehdix in "Dotfiles: Unofficial Guide to Dotfiles on GitHub"

mehdix — Tue, 07 May 2024 15:15:08 +0000

Just use your home folder as a git repo, rename .git, create alias "githome" to git cli pointing to that directory and viola, you have all you need.

New comment by mehdix in "Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced"

mehdix — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 07:45:27 +0000

Lennart's toots suggest they are replacing a complex SUID binary with an already existing component (systemd-run) with better workflow (service manager handling the elevated context), which sounds like a sane move to me.