Hacker News: nevir

New comment by nevir in "Cursor 3"

nevir — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:36:13 +0000

Same here. And just recently made the switch back to VS Code with CC

Also means you don't have to deal with Cursor's busted VS Code plugins due to licensing or forking drift (e.g. Python intellisence, etc)

New comment by nevir in "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"

nevir — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:09:35 +0000

https://gist.github.com/kieranklaassen/d2b35569be2c7f1412c64...

Looks like claude calls it just "teams" under the covers

New comment by nevir in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

nevir — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:00:54 +0000

Juniors are also more likely to be the MOST proficient/comfortable with AI tooling.

Pair them with a senior so they can learn engineering best practices:

And now you've also just given your senior engineers some extra experience/insights into how to more effectively leverage AI.

It accelerates the org to have juniors (really: a good mix of all experience levels)

New comment by nevir in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

nevir — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:52:31 +0000

I think a big part of the switching cost is the cost of learning a different model's nuances. Having good intuition for what works/doesn't, how to write effective prompts, etc.

Maybe someday future models will all behave similarly given the same prompt, but we're not quite there yet

New comment by nevir in "Claude Opus 4.5"

nevir — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:31:34 +0000

Same here. Gemini really excels at all the "softer" parts of the development process (which, TBH, feels like most of the work). And Claude kicks ass at the actual code authoring.

It's a really nice workflow.

New comment by nevir in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

nevir — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:58:04 +0000

It sure is a blast when they decide to cut off (or simulate the loss of) a whole DC just to see what breaks, I bet :)

New comment by nevir in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

nevir — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:42:32 +0000

It's really not that nefarious.

IAD datacenters have forever been the place where Amazon software developers implement services first (well before AWS was a thing).

Multi-AZ support often comes second (more than you think; Amazon is a pragmatic company), and not every service is easy to make TRULY multi-AZ.

And then other services depend on those services, and may also fall into the same trap.

...and so much of the tech/architectural debt gets concentrated into a single region.

New comment by nevir in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

nevir — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:36:38 +0000

It also doesn't help that most companies using AWS aren't remotely close to multi-region support, and that us-east-1 is likely the most populated region.

New comment by nevir in "OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months"

nevir — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:10:41 +0000

> but the US is going to ensure that the energy capability is there.

We're doing a pretty shit job of ensuring that today. Capacity is already intensely strained, and the govt seems to be decelerating investment into power capacity growth, if anything

New comment by nevir in "OpenAI Needs $400B In The Next 12 Months"

nevir — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:01:47 +0000

The capital cost is even less insane than the fact that power utility companies are the real constraint on this industry.

North American grids are starving for electricity right now.

Someone ought to do a deep dive into how much actual total excess power capacity we have today (that could feasibly be used by data center megacampuses), and how much capacity is coming online and when.

Power plants are massively slow undertakings.

All these datacenters deals seem to be making an assumption that capacity will magically appear in time, and/or that competition for it doesn't exist.

New comment by nevir in "The bloat of edge-case first libraries"

nevir — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 05:03:40 +0000

The Rust equivalent is more like using `unsafe` and derefing raw pointers

U.S. Executive Order Establishing a National Design Studio

nevir — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:31:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/improving-our-nation-through-better-design/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45185373

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

New comment by nevir in "New Mexico is first state in US to offer universal child care"

nevir — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 15:55:09 +0000

Like all things: the extremes are never good, and it's all about getting a healthy balance.

- Kids need lots of time with their parents

- Kids need lots of time around other kids

You can do that by sending them to daycare, and ALSO spending lots of time with them when they're home.

You can also do that by taking time off work, and then taking your kid(s) to places with other kids.

Both work; and it depends on your context which works for you.

New comment by nevir in "Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway"

nevir — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 03:36:14 +0000

This looks super neat!

But for the love of God, AWS really needs a better approach to naming products.

New comment by nevir in "Imagen 4 is now generally available"

nevir — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:23:48 +0000

Yes, but usage was very limited / restricted. Now it's widely available

New comment by nevir in "Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI"

nevir — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:01:58 +0000

IIRC that Android (at least Pixel devices) use fine-tuned Gemma model(s) for some on-device assistant things

Gemini rolling out personalization based on your chat history

nevir — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 20:31:36 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/google-gemini-will-now-learn-from-your-chats-unless-you-tell-it-not-to/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44893497

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nevir in "Claude Code is all you need"

nevir — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:30:56 +0000

I see this too, also for engineers that have only interacted with relational dbs via ORMs & query builders

Figma will IPO on July 31

nevir — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 22:24:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.figma.com/blog/ipo-pricing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44740222

Points: 333

# Comments: 244

New comment by nevir in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

nevir — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:01:19 +0000

If the regime survives, it is also going to target (and murder) a whole hell of a lot of innocent civilians that it suspects aided Israel (and many/most will almost certainly be innocent). Due process is not a thing with IRGC.