Hacker News: namtab00

New comment by namtab00 in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

namtab00 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:26:36 +0000

if that's what you call a "friend"...

New comment by namtab00 in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

namtab00 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 06:13:28 +0000

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New comment by namtab00 in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

namtab00 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:29:29 +0000

you're describing https://github.com/steveyegge/beads

New comment by namtab00 in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

namtab00 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:28:40 +0000

I am such a dev (backend).

I'm working in a codebase of 200+ "microservices", separate repos, each deployed as multiple FaaS, CQRS-style. None of it my choice, everything precedes me, many repos I know nothing of. Little to no code re-use between them.

Any trace of "business logic" is so distributed in multiple repos, that I have no possible use of LLM codegen, unless I can somehow feed it ALL the codebase.

I've tried generating some tests, but they always miss the mark, as in the system under test is almost always the wrong one.

I guess LLM are cool for greenfield, but when the brownfield is really brown, there's no use for LLMs.

New comment by namtab00 in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)"

namtab00 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:23:20 +0000

The problem is knowing the "when", or better yet choosing the "right" one. Don't ask me about these targets I have on my back.

Many times and in many orgs, the window to speak up opens too seldomly and it's barely cracked open...

New comment by namtab00 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

namtab00 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:41:24 +0000

I'm pretty sure this might be a hot take, but I believe we need some sort of a Tech Police.

We have Road Police, Financial Police, Mail Police, Work Safety Police, Military Police...

New comment by namtab00 in "jQuery 4"

namtab00 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:19:50 +0000

Great generalization of an entire country's sector workforce.

I'm sure you'd 100% approve of such a statement of your country when based on one anecdotal recount (even if it true).

New comment by namtab00 in "Android and iPhone users can now share files, starting with the Pixel 10"

namtab00 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 19:46:53 +0000

Next time you give Android a try, you might like Solid Explorer https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pl.solidexplor...

New comment by namtab00 in "E-paper display reaches the realm of LCD screens"

namtab00 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:24:38 +0000

That game is beautiful, more so on the eink display...

New comment by namtab00 in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

namtab00 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:32:18 +0000

it's not a recipe, but I found this sufficiently interesting, at least for grasping the conceptual differences.

https://youtu.be/eeOANluSqAE

New comment by namtab00 in "MCP: An (Accidentally) Universal Plugin System"

namtab00 — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 22:29:12 +0000

"The hottest new programming language is English" - Karpathy

I call bullshit, mainly because any natural language is ambiguous at best, and incomplete at worst.

New comment by namtab00 in "Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search"

namtab00 — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:42:11 +0000

I envy your bubble.

New comment by namtab00 in "Why Tracebit is written in C#"

namtab00 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 11:27:47 +0000

I only know C#'s async/await, and know nothing about goroutines / virtual or green threads.

You seem knowledgeable on the matter, care to share some resources that might help me grok the differences?

New comment by namtab00 in "Every System is a Log: Avoiding coordination in distributed applications"

namtab00 — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 11:57:38 +0000

we're a very short step away from a "hardware" database

New comment by namtab00 in "Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15"

namtab00 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 12:14:54 +0000

And in sw dev, especially the US flavor, individual workers are highly directly incentivized to hit that next earnings target via vesting programs...

New comment by namtab00 in "Let's talk about animation quality"

namtab00 — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 13:22:56 +0000

> A very cool technology to produce products that nobody wants.

creative power without control is like a rocket with no navigation—sure, you'll launch, but who knows where you'll crash!

New comment by namtab00 in "The "email is authentication" pattern"

namtab00 — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 01:13:21 +0000

medium.com too... I hate it

New comment by namtab00 in "JavaScript dates are about to be fixed"

namtab00 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:40:51 +0000

You come from a weird place.

New comment by namtab00 in "JavaScript dates are about to be fixed"

namtab00 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:39:07 +0000

In your support: https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...

New comment by namtab00 in "JavaScript dates are about to be fixed"

namtab00 — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:37:25 +0000

It's long, and has examples in C#, but this article by Jon Skeet should instill some healthy doubt in your convictions:

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a...