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New comment by mkoryak in "The worst job interview I ever had"

mkoryak — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:46:21 +0000

Back when I was younger and interviewing candidates for a startup where I was one of the oldest engineers my favorite "fit" question used to be "tell me your favorite 4 letter word".

I never actually based my decision on that one, only the technical questions.

This is an example of where I (probably) contributed to making some people feel uncomfortable and I wouldn't do it now.

New comment by mkoryak in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

mkoryak — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:44:35 +0000

I find that it often pulls a solution that is good enough for this problem today. Sometimes that is great, and other times it's just creating a pile of shit

New comment by mkoryak in "Guy Goma's Accidental BBC Interview Lives on After 20 Years"

mkoryak — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:03:25 +0000

Gift nyt link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/business/media/bbc-guy-go...

New comment by mkoryak in "Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth"

mkoryak — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:38:54 +0000

This is exactly what I need for printing as 14x10 4x6 photos stitched together!

New comment by mkoryak in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

mkoryak — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:49:25 +0000

no no, not asking why use CLI. If I was less lazy, I would use it more often

New comment by mkoryak in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

mkoryak — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:19:45 +0000

Can you explain to me why either of these is useful?

I've somehow gotten by never really needing to pipe any commands in the terminal, probably because I mostly do frontend dev and use the term for starting the server and running prodaccess

New comment by mkoryak in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

mkoryak — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:04:00 +0000

Someone should ban this bot, I've seen it before and it's always pretending to run this place

New comment by mkoryak in "Is beef tallow making a comeback?"

mkoryak — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:55:27 +0000

Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/dining/beef-tallow-food-p...

New comment by mkoryak in "Show HN: RAMBnB.xyz P2P marketplace for RAM rentals"

mkoryak — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:05:26 +0000

Why?

New comment by mkoryak in "Checkers Arcade"

mkoryak — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 03:05:20 +0000

I'm pretty sure I found a way to always win this one as hounds when I was a kid.

New comment by mkoryak in "Project Gemini"

mkoryak — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:24:19 +0000

I reserved go/poop years ago, but the ability to name a project with that name is diminishing

New comment by mkoryak in "Show HN: Shorter – search for shorter versions of your domain"

mkoryak — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 06:00:31 +0000

Nothing shorter than dogself.com ?!

New comment by mkoryak in "Show HN: Dagger.js – A buildless, runtime-only JavaScript micro-framework"

mkoryak — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:51:44 +0000

no prob. I have written code like that, and there is some allure to cram as much logic as possible into a single line.

The problem is that the nice feeling you get from writing it is inversely proportional to the nice feeling I have when reading it.

New comment by mkoryak in "Show HN: Dagger.js – A buildless, runtime-only JavaScript micro-framework"

mkoryak — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 22:56:24 +0000

Yes, there are places to find worse code, but this isn't what I would call clean, readable code.

Some of it feels like it was written with the goal of not pressing enter. Can I read it and debug it? Certainly. Do I want to? Certainly not.

New comment by mkoryak in "Show HN: Dagger.js – A buildless, runtime-only JavaScript micro-framework"

mkoryak — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:47:26 +0000

Ive done this before, I have used a bespoke micro framework to build a webpage. A couple of years later I wanted to update it, but discovered that I couldnt do it because of a bug in this framework and the framework also didnt exist anymore. I could fix the bug myself by reading all their code, or I could start over and use something that would still exist next year.

Also, have you read the dagger.js code? https://github.com/dagger8224/dagger.js/blob/main/src/dagger...

Its written like the developer has a limited supply of lines of code. No comments, ton of declarations on the same line, and lines that run longer than most widescreen monitors.

Its all super compact and dense. I would not want to try to fix a bug here.

Suggestion: Add a build step that runs before your code is published to npm so that you can have readable source AND small source.

New comment by mkoryak in "Show HN: Dagger.js – A buildless, runtime-only JavaScript micro-framework"

mkoryak — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:42:40 +0000

Seems neat. I wouldn't use it for personal stuff because I'd be afraid of getting locked into a framework that might not exist next year.

Once this project is about a year old, if it still has any commits, then I'd consider it.

New comment by mkoryak in "Show HN: Turn Markdown into React/Svelte/Vue UI at runtime, zero build step"

mkoryak — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:06:29 +0000

What enterprise uses a free open source github project to make bespoke toy html from markdown?

"It won't scale" is how over engineered code gets written

New comment by mkoryak in "Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras"

mkoryak — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 14:26:00 +0000

I see this is clearcam. What is clearam? The readme mentions it a few times so it's probably not a typo.

New comment by mkoryak in "AI doesn't lighten the burden of mastery"

mkoryak — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 18:46:39 +0000

I find that AI is really good at the easy stuff like writing tests for simple class without too many dependencies that we have all written hundreds of times.

Things go wrong as soon as I ask the AI to write something that I don't fully grasp, like some canvas code that involves choosing control points and clipping curves.

I currently use AI as a tool that writes code I could write myself. AI does it faster.

If I need to solve a problem in a domain that I haven't mastered, I never let the AI drive. I might ask some questions, but only if I can be sure that I'll be able to spot an incorrect hallucinated answer.

I've had pretty good luck asking AI to write code to exacting specifications, though at some point it's faster to just do it yourself

New comment by mkoryak in "Show HN: An endless feed with history, science, tech., business"

mkoryak — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 03:27:15 +0000

Ok, I tried to read something, also on mobile. It's not really possible to scroll one screen at a time, which makes reading anything really hard.