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New comment by p2detar in "Big tech is here to let us down"

p2detar — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 21:30:10 +0000

Indeed, given that there was a post this spring by ex-Microsoft employee on the poor state of Azure.

"The team had reached a point where it was too risky to make any code refactoring or engineering improvements. I submitted several bug fixes and refactoring, notably using smart pointers, but they were rejected for fear of breaking something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616242

New comment by p2detar in "Rust 1.100"

p2detar — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 17:23:26 +0000

I thought the same thing. My current Gradle cache folder sits around 6GB and it includes cache from around 20 to 40 projects, including different wrapper versions.

New comment by p2detar in "Microsoft Outlook/365 still down after 12 hours"

p2detar — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 16:56:11 +0000

> Lotus Notes Blue

I believe nowadays the general solution is HCL Traveler (server side) wit HCL Verse as client. The latter offers email access over pretty nice looking mobile, desktop and web apps.

New comment by p2detar in ""Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding""

p2detar — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 08:59:40 +0000

I think we need to hold our horses a bit here. Do we have evidence they used AI and what exactly did they use? Was it the same dev team? The post doesn’t mention anything except this line:

> turns out to be an AI shop.

If you check Reddit, people had been already complaining about HB functionally and design 6 years ago.

My bet is they outsourced to get cheaper devs, who did a sloppy job, even if they were using AI.

New comment by p2detar in ""Humble Bundle just killed most of their security through vibecoding""

p2detar — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 08:45:45 +0000

A fool with a tool is still a fool.

New comment by p2detar in "Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game"

p2detar — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 07:53:18 +0000

I played for about 10 minutes and I swear - this was fun. There are a bunch of bugs to polish: collision detection is sometimes weird, you can catch enemies at the end of the map and just beat them up forever, adding tons of score, Pudding's animations feel quite off, and Stage 3 is VERY hard. However, the game still looks and feels quite polished. I loved the music as well. FWIW, I'm glad I'm not a game developer these days.

New comment by p2detar in "Fold Epic Paper Airplanes"

p2detar — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 13:49:35 +0000

Impressive and a bit uncanny, since I was just looking for something like this just yesterday, to help the kids fold.

New comment by p2detar in "I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists"

p2detar — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 09:28:28 +0000

People will need compute. And if the Chinese economy can transition into providing not only factory output but cheap compute, then yes - the future is indeed theirs. Every single country on this planet will need compute.

New comment by p2detar in "I'm not convinced the AI bubble exists"

p2detar — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 09:26:01 +0000

And what if the demand does not sink?

New comment by p2detar in "Goodbye Claude, hello Pi"

p2detar — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 07:52:22 +0000

I use both but I’m fairly new to Pi. For now things that I notably miss in Pi are plan mode and subtasks. I was also a bit surprised that it doesn't have default permission mode (deny all) like CC. It’d make sense when using an open router model. But I haven’t used extensions that much yet, so who knows what features I’m overlooking. I don’t see myself dropping CC for now though.

New comment by p2detar in "App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps"

p2detar — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:02:30 +0000

That and there would be a kind of service by Apple itself that builds apps for you on the fly.

New comment by p2detar in "App Store 2026 in numbers: AI, pricing, abandoned apps"

p2detar — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:58:04 +0000

I bet it's pretty close to a Pareto distribution with 20% of the apps making 80% of the total App store revenue. You can guess which apps those are from Apple's top/editor's choice charts.

LLMs bring new nature of abstraction (2025)

p2detar — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:37:10 +0000

Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/articles/2025-nature-abstraction.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50297217

Points: 2

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New comment by p2detar in "Meta Employees Denounce Interference in Brazilian Elections"

p2detar — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:26:16 +0000

The situation everywhere looks dire. These aren‘t social media platforms anymore but tools for propaganda and repression against opposition groups across different countries.

> 25.10.2026: Meta removed three prominent satire pages from Facebook the day before presidential elections in Bulgaria.

> Shortly after the deletion they were recreated and gathered tens of thousands of followers within hours. Less than 24h later Meta removed them again. Due to past incidents involvement of security forces is suspected. No meaningful response from Meta as usual.

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/yurukov.yurukov.net/post/3myozobbcy...

New comment by p2detar in "IKEA – 3D Guide"

p2detar — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:37:45 +0000

Great, now do the HASVIK sliding doors mount on a PAX, please. Joke aside, however good a manual is, reality is imperfect. Assembly often requires a bit of improvisation that can't be learned online.

New comment by p2detar in "Starcraft: Ashfall"

p2detar — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:52:08 +0000

Wow, well done! Please share your strategy.

New comment by p2detar in "It's still ok to enjoy programming"

p2detar — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:29:53 +0000

> but for personal projects that aren't shared, being able to vibe code a quick thingy

I'm doing exactly that right now. Vibe-coding a small MacOS app that I had for years. I bought it and all, but it never had all the features I needed, and it has stuff I never ever used. So, I wrote a spec, made screenshots and let the agent do its thing. It's coming out great, I will be using this thing daily. The plus for me is that I didn't need to learn/code a UI framework, wire up UI components, etc., which is knowledge that I honestly would have little need of in my daily job.

New comment by p2detar in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

p2detar — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:48:05 +0000

Exactly right. Many never check the release notes of those libs on bump either. To this add copy & paste from Stack Overflow we used to do. People are just afraid of losing their jobs now, so naturally we all got defensive.

New comment by p2detar in "Starcraft: Ashfall"

p2detar — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:34:15 +0000

It’s actually very addicting once you play a couple of sessions. The scoreboard is crazy. Still don’t know how anyone makes it past wave (layer) 35-37.

New comment by p2detar in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

p2detar — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:05:17 +0000

Not all mistakes are code, a lot are feature design mistakes, and if SWEs would always be responsible about PM mistakes, then why not use Claude anyway?