Hacker News: ritzaco

Two GitHub Alumni Are Rebuilding Developer Tools for the AI Era

ritzaco — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:31:51 +0000

Article URL: https://techstackups.com/articles/gitbutler-vs-entire-github-founders/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47715212

Points: 1

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Freestyle Ax Audit

ritzaco — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:30:58 +0000

Article URL: https://techstackups.com/articles/freestyle-ax-audit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47700407

Points: 1

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New comment by ritzaco in "[dead]"

ritzaco — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:00:25 +0000

so yes, it was clearly drafted by Claude. But I stand by the ideas, which I gave Claude to write this. We have a mix of automated and manual articles on the site, and the automated ones are all labeled Claude, and some people have been enjoying them. Happy to remove if against HN guidelines to have any claude-text.

AI Agents Still Need Passwords: Three Approaches to Credential Security

ritzaco — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:57:55 +0000

Article URL: https://techstackups.com/guides/unsolved-problem-ai-agent-security-passwords/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47573123

Points: 2

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What Is an AI Product Engineer?

ritzaco — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:25:45 +0000

Article URL: https://dwyer.co.za/static/what-is-an-ai-product-engineer.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47517776

Points: 1

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New comment by ritzaco in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

ritzaco — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:22:13 +0000

How much software do you need and how many computers are there to run it on?

After combine harvester, we produced the same food with less people.

At the moment, it seems like hardware is the constraint. Companies don't have access to enough machines or tokens to keep all their devs occupied, so they let some go. Maybe that changes, maybe we already have too much software?

Personally I think we already had too much software before LLMs and even without them many devs would have found themselves jobless as startups selling to startups selling to startups failed and we realized (again) that food, shelter, security, education etc are 'real' industries, but software isn't one if it's not actively helping one of those.

Delight is the only thing that's still rare

ritzaco — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:31:29 +0000

Article URL: https://techstackups.com/articles/delight-is-the-only-thing-thats-still-rare/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47451968

Points: 3

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Benchmarking Hosted Browser Providers: Speed, Stealth, Captcha, and Concurrency

ritzaco — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 10:08:21 +0000

Article URL: https://techstackups.com/comparisons/hosted-browser-benchmarks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47362481

Points: 2

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Agent Experience: Sentry vs. TrackJS vs. RayGun

ritzaco — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:42:01 +0000

Article URL: https://techstackups.com/comparisons/ax-sentry-vs-trackjs-raygun/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361980

Points: 3

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New comment by ritzaco in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

ritzaco — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:41:18 +0000

I don't care how much maths and encryption you use, you can't get out of the fact that things can be anonymous (no one can know how you voted) or verifiable (people can prove that you only voted once) but not both.

- Switzerland usually gets around this by knowing where everyone lives and mailing them a piece of paper 'something you have'

- South Africa gets around this by putting ink on your fingernail

I've read quite a bit about the e-voting systems in Switzerland and USA and I just don't see how they thread the needle. At some point, you have to give someone access to a database and they can change that database.

Until we all have government-issued public keys or something, there isn't a technical solution to this? (Genuinely curious if I'm wrong here)

New comment by ritzaco in "GPT-5.4"

ritzaco — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:35:37 +0000

I haven't tried the $200 plans by I have Claude and Codex $20 and I feel like I get a lot more out of Codex before hitting the limits. My tracker certainly shows higher tokens for Codex. I've seen others say the same.

New comment by ritzaco in "Google Workspace CLI"

ritzaco — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:26:47 +0000

interesting we have a very similar internal flow - we like working in markdown but our customers want to leave feedback in Google docs, so we also have an md -> gdoc tool. We don't do the reverse as we ask them to only leave comments/suggested changes and we apply those directly to the markdown and re-export.

I ran into similar issues as you for the image handling, and the work around I use is to use pandoc to convert to docx as a first step and then import that as a Google Doc using the API, as Google Docs seems to handle docx much better than markdown from what I've seen.

Replit vs. Amp

ritzaco — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:37:16 +0000

Article URL: https://techstackups.com/comparisons/replit-vs-amp/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249046

Points: 1

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New comment by ritzaco in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

ritzaco — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:35:53 +0000

This is a cool story but I'm really confused by the details. Like he seems to fly around and do pieces of this at a time, but then there's the weird bit of him walking 3000 miles in the US to get to the embassy, though that wasn't part of his 'walk'?

Also next time don't skip Africa xD

New comment by ritzaco in "He set out to walk around the world. After 27 years, his quest is nearly over"

ritzaco — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:34:17 +0000

have you tried? I'm a South African living in Europe and visas are a nightmare.

Many europeans have never had to apply for a real visa in their life (I don't mean the online ones, or the apply on arrival ones, I mean the ones where you submit a 20 page form of personal details and hotel bookings and letters from friends you'll be staying with and bank statements and a full travel history) and they assume that I'm just making life difficult for myself by not doing some simpler option that they assume must exist.

I don't know about what visa options UK citizens have for the EU since brexit, but I'd be surprised it was as simple as "I feel like spending more than the 90 days I get".

Getting Started with Bruin

ritzaco — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:08:23 +0000

Article URL: https://simpletechguides.com/guides/getting-started-with-bruin/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46058839

Points: 1

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Create and host a telegram bot with go

ritzaco — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:56:08 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.codecapsules.io/tutorials/create-and-host-go-ai-telegram-bot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057427

Points: 2

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Firebase vs. Supabase vs. Appwrite: We Built the Same App Three Times

ritzaco — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 10:56:08 +0000

Article URL: https://simpletechguides.com/comparisons/firebase-vs-supabase-vs-appwrite/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991344

Points: 1

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New comment by ritzaco in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

ritzaco — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:46:58 +0000

who is going to throw $10 at

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectors...

New comment by ritzaco in "Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs"

ritzaco — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:31:40 +0000

I've met a few people who genuinely believe that 'tax deductible' equates to 'essentially spending nothing' or somehow equate that the amount you donate would be an amount you would otherwise give to the Government in taxes so from your perspective it doesn't change anything.

This is definitely not the case. If you make $100 profit and you would have had to pay 20% corporate tax, then you pay $20 in taxes, you'd be left with $80 to buy chocolate or whatever you want.

If you donate $20 and deduct it from your profit, then your profit is now calculated at $80. So you pay $16 in taxes. So you saved $4 but spent $20, so you're $16 dollars down and now you only have $64 for chocolate, so not 'essentially nothing'.