Hacker News: mgraczyk

New comment by mgraczyk in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

mgraczyk — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:51:36 +0000

CSS is badly designed and uses a confusing, separate DSL with arbitrary rules designed before the Internet was widely used, before web apps existed, before smartphones etc

It's trash and throwing it out is good. Not learning it is good. Tailwind is a solution to a real problem.

More importantly, AI is good at it already and it's unlikely humans will need to understand HTML/CSS at all within a year or two. There's no reason to spend time learning how the gears work, just put the cover back on

New comment by mgraczyk in "The sigmoids won't save you"

mgraczyk — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:22:47 +0000

Don't bet on the sigmoid flattening out any time soon. I don't know when it will flatten, but it definitely won't be within the next 2 years

New comment by mgraczyk in "Claude Opus 4.7 costs 20–30% more per session"

mgraczyk — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:42:15 +0000

This will probably happen but I wouldn't plan on it happening soon

New comment by mgraczyk in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mgraczyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:41:47 +0000

What are you talking about, in what way is this supposed to be an argument about ads? It sounds like your dryer broke

New comment by mgraczyk in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mgraczyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:26:26 +0000

It's not a good reason to be skeptical about cars as a technology (and by analogy brain computer interfaces)

New comment by mgraczyk in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mgraczyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:12:35 +0000

I've never seen an ad delivered through any of these things. On smartphones I mean the phone/OS itself

It would be very easy to deliver ads via electricity. The utility could require you watch an ad before using more

New comment by mgraczyk in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mgraczyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:01:18 +0000

I didn't list fridges because I've seen ads there, but these seem to have gone away in newer models (people don't like ads)

New comment by mgraczyk in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mgraczyk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:54:32 +0000

Except this hasn't happened with electricity, cars, washing machines, smartphones, smart watches, Bluetooth headphones, ...

Not all technology is bad

New comment by mgraczyk in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

mgraczyk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:59:55 +0000

I don't understand in what sense they faked the process. What I've heard described is substantially similar to other SOC2 processes I've seen

And yes SOC2 is fake. Have you ever heard of a startup failing to get soc2 or doing more than a few hours of work to get into compliance?

New comment by mgraczyk in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

mgraczyk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:29:08 +0000

What evidence did you collect that was not automated?

New comment by mgraczyk in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

mgraczyk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:48:54 +0000

I haven't seen that and all the reports I got were under nda

New comment by mgraczyk in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

mgraczyk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:36:55 +0000

Having gone through the SOC2 process multiple times and having worked with and read SOC2 reports from many public companies, it's difficult for me to understand the outrage.

The specific fraud allegations are bad (lying about US based auditors) but it's completely normal and common for soc2 reports to be templates with no company specific information. It would be unusual for reports to include anything about the specific information found during an observation window as some have suggested.

SOC2 is basically fake and it isn't possible in practice to fail to be compliant. You really can apply the same template to all companies and automate the audit process.

New comment by mgraczyk in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

mgraczyk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:32:29 +0000

No the title is correct and you are misreading or didn't read. It was found with Claude code, that's the quote. This isn't a model eval, it's an Anthropic employee talking about Claude code. So comparing to other models isn't a thing to reasonably expect.

New comment by mgraczyk in "Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance"

mgraczyk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:15:37 +0000

How many people have you interviewed and hired? I have interviewed around 400 and hired around 20, and I've seen data compiled on over 100,000 interviews. I have never worried about a false negative, except DEI stuff pre-2021

Maybe this is a Europe vs US thing?

New comment by mgraczyk in "Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance"

mgraczyk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:07:29 +0000

> I am just not a fan of these types of interviews they tell absolutely nothing about the candidate.

Unfortunately this is wrong and I have seen tons of data at 5 companies showing this. These kinds of interviews really do correlate well with job performance

There is noise, but large companies in particular need a scalable process and this one works pretty well

Startups shouldn't do this though, but the reason is the opposite of what you're complaining about. It's too easy to accidentally waste your time on somebody who is good at leetcode

New comment by mgraczyk in "Brute-forcing my algorithmic ignorance"

mgraczyk — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:36:13 +0000

Still plenty of signal. You'd be surprised at how badly most people do at very simple questions.

New comment by mgraczyk in "We might all be AI engineers now"

mgraczyk — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:00:37 +0000

Sure let's do it. I am pretty confident mine will be more maintainable, because I am an extremely good software engineer, AI is a powerful tool, and I use AI very effectively

I would literally claim that with AI I can work faster and produce higher quality output than any other software engineer who is not using AI. Soon that will be true for all software engineers using AI.

New comment by mgraczyk in "We might all be AI engineers now"

mgraczyk — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:27:54 +0000

Somehow we went from writing software apps and reading API docs to research level astrophysics

Sure it's not there yet. Give it a few months

New comment by mgraczyk in "We might all be AI engineers now"

mgraczyk — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:12:48 +0000

How about we do the following.

I have not done win32 programming in 12 years. Maybe you've done it more recently. I'll use an LLM and you look up things manually. We can see, who can build a win32 admin UI that shows a realtime view of every open file by process with sorting, filtering and search on both the files and process/command names.

I estimate this will take me 5 minutes Would you like to race?

New comment by mgraczyk in "We might all be AI engineers now"

mgraczyk — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:42:55 +0000

Yes you have to be careful, but the LLM will read and process core and documentation literally millions of times faster than you, so it's worth it