Hacker News: ponector

New comment by ponector in "My business partner sent a 5K vibe-coded PR that he didn't even test"

ponector — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:22:05 +0000

Pretty much anyone can volunteer and became an UAV drone operator in Ukraine. Get an experience you'll use in the WW3!

New comment by ponector in "How well do agents use test/verification techniques?"

ponector — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:01:58 +0000

Unfortunately for the users, testing has been pushed to them. You can deploy whatever slop you want - nobody cares. More lines of code!

New comment by ponector in "How well do agents use test/verification techniques?"

ponector — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:00:22 +0000

Most developers are not good at testing. That's why the role of test engineer exists.

I've seen in multiple projects things like assertTrue(true).

I'm sure the agent is better in testing than average enterprise developer.

New comment by ponector in "De-Brainrot Vacations"

ponector — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 21:53:15 +0000

It was perfect when the only way to connect to the internet was a computer.

Smartphones ruined it.

New comment by ponector in "Bug Blindness"

ponector — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 20:27:25 +0000

>> post the 100 bugs I hit that week.

But nobody cares. Posting bugs is mostly pointless, it's wasted time. Nowadays even for paid products quality is not a priority.

New comment by ponector in "You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It"

ponector — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:18:30 +0000

People are hating it untill goes abroad to the countries where no such regulations exists.

Like in Switzerland it's okay to charge double for the car insurance simply because you carry "unlucky" citizenship.

Or EU law about mandatory 14-day return policy for internet order. Ordered recently something in Switzerland and turns out it was a special sale where standard rules does not apply and items could not be returned.

Or mandatory USB-C charge socket. God bless EU regulations!

New comment by ponector in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

ponector — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:21:14 +0000

If you are traveling and need to rent a car in the airport - sometimes it is not possible to do without credit card. Otherwise you don't need a credit card.

New comment by ponector in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

ponector — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 06:01:53 +0000

You can buy a new Toyota car or SUV in USA for $25k. You can buy a used Toyota for $17k.

New comment by ponector in "New Mac mini, featuring M6 and M5 Pro"

ponector — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:52:07 +0000

I don't think sales be different. Not many people are ready to drop 100k+ and wait months/years for the delivery.

New comment by ponector in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

ponector — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:56:02 +0000

God bless America! Land of the free! Free to tip everyone you exchange money with.

New comment by ponector in "Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed"

ponector — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:28:48 +0000

You can get an additional phone with a screen, 5g radio, ram and everything for $150. An additional radio should not raise the price for another 300.

New comment by ponector in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

ponector — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 10:37:30 +0000

Coding is a solved problem. They simply don't care if the app is full of bugs. You are using it anyway, right?

New comment by ponector in "Geolocating a random island using geometry and CUDA programming"

ponector — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:26:59 +0000

Soviet space shuttle had autopilot based on the computer with 130kb of RAM.

New comment by ponector in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

ponector — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 08:00:50 +0000

Many android phones are under $300, not iPhones obviously.

New comment by ponector in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

ponector — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:23:42 +0000

>>I would much rather have someone on my team who ships less but whose work I can trust

Me too, but it is not what happening across the industry. Instead they are pushing for more LLM usage as well as more features. And faster, faster!

New comment by ponector in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering"

ponector — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:20:29 +0000

It's all about the process and the organization. No one is pushing for quality, everyone needs more features.

>>a rapid decline in software quality

It's hard to expect anything else if budget for QA teams is reallocated to cover llm bills.

New comment by ponector in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

ponector — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:14:51 +0000

The actual issue is not the "bad" engineers but the bad organization. While people are allowed to push and merge whatever crap is generated there is no point to do otherwise. Even if you do care about performance, "good" code your teammates don't and close more tickets and are better by many metrics.

If you are closing one ticket per week with "good" code but your teammate does three with "bad" code - it's actually you are a bad employee. Also they may say you are a toxic one.

New comment by ponector in "Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?"

ponector — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 08:47:57 +0000

>> Work at a soul sucking corporate for 17 years

I'm pretty much sure it is not soul sucking if you are a CEO.

New comment by ponector in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

ponector — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:05:58 +0000

Iphones are still with the same price tag attached, bit you also get more compute for the same buck.

You can find many examples like this.

New comment by ponector in "New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S."

ponector — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:02:45 +0000

Doctrine means nothing. Russian doctrine says they should use nukes against Ukraine. But there is no point in uaing it, no advantage to gain.

Russians will send you back 10x warheads. Are you going to use nukes knowing that?