Hacker News: shadeslayer_

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "CursorBench 3.1"

shadeslayer_ — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:20:28 +0000

Do these benchmarks even add any value at this point? This one is basically Cursor saying that their model is as good as the frontier ones at a fraction of the price. The independent benchmarks are probably part of training data now and the models are pattern-matching against them all the time. The final test of a model (and the harness, probably) is how good it works FOR YOU - since most of the models can pretty much do most of our tasks on a daily basis - it boils down to which one has the least friction to its usage.

Volkswagen reportedly planning to axe 100k jobs

shadeslayer_ — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:49:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/26/economy/volkswagen-job-cuts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700678

Points: 10

# Comments: 4

Multi-Tenancy in Spring Boot: A Practical Guide

shadeslayer_ — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:42:04 +0000

Article URL: https://anomitra.me/blog/multi-tenancy-in-spring-boot-a-practical-guide/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48327525

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

shadeslayer_ — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 06:30:35 +0000

My friend from work showed me this a couple of weeks ago, and now we all play it as a daily office ritual. Great game!

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "iTerm2 removes AI feature from core, creates separate plugin"

shadeslayer_ — Thu, 23 May 2024 19:12:35 +0000

The sense of entitlement that people have for something they will never pay for is.. crazy.

Ola launches AI chatbot trained on Indian languages

shadeslayer_ — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 05:53:07 +0000

Article URL: https://chat.olakrutrim.com/home

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39520591

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Shots: Create Mockups"

shadeslayer_ — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:26:27 +0000

The site loads like I'm on a dial-up connection but I'm actually on a 300Mbps fiber line. Pass.

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?"

shadeslayer_ — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:49:40 +0000

I exclusively use Lambda with Cloudwatch Rules for all the crons I write these days. It just works out of the box.

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Best ecommerce UX practices from mcmaster.com"

shadeslayer_ — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 18:34:15 +0000

Funny thing is that the site doesn't even work right now. Kiss of death and all that..

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Ask HN: Good resource on writing web app with plain JavaScript/HTML/CSS?"

shadeslayer_ — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 09:02:22 +0000

Lags while scrolling on a 2021 MBP as well.

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Why is the terminal input so weird?"

shadeslayer_ — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 19:38:26 +0000

I have been using Warp for the past couple of days and the autosuggestions when I'm working over SSH are pretty nifty, it probably saves me a fair amount of time everyday.

Making a login required is absolutely unnecessary, though.

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "My project is now an easter egg in Microsoft Flight Simulator"

shadeslayer_ — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 08:16:13 +0000

Strange that Microsoft used OP's project in their game, but didn't bother to let him know.

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Show HN: Generate quiz questions using AI"

shadeslayer_ — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 07:43:47 +0000

This is not working anymore, getting 500's on every attempt.

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Apple asks suppliers to shift AirPods, Beats production to India"

shadeslayer_ — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 18:20:55 +0000

Because India is not a democracy :)

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Tell HN: A disabled 40-year-old person founded a startup and makes a living"

shadeslayer_ — Mon, 03 Oct 2022 05:58:20 +0000

Love your story Michael. More power to you!

To succeed, cloud gaming needs to disappear

shadeslayer_ — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 06:56:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/23/22547334/cloud-gaming-xbox-xcloud-microsoft-streaming-google-stadia-amazon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33031818

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Ask HN: How did you find your current job?"

shadeslayer_ — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 12:52:04 +0000

One of my managers in a previous company hired me. No interviews involved.

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Stop Interviewing with Leet Code"

shadeslayer_ — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 10:01:09 +0000

I can relate so hard with the part which says it does not favour slow thinkers. I've faced this countless times - person at work asks me something, I reply "I'll think about it and get back to you", which inevitably leads to their disappointment.

I am okay with disappointing people, but it can be unnerving when that disappointment means I miss out on a good opportunity.

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "A different approach to note-taking and research"

shadeslayer_ — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 15:08:50 +0000

Oh great, another note taking app I can buy for $9 a month.

New comment by shadeslayer_ in "Roy Fielding's Misappropriated REST Dissertation (2020)"

shadeslayer_ — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:16:14 +0000

"..today it would not be at all surprising to find that an engineering team has built a backend using REST even though the backend only talks to clients that the engineering team has full control over."

This bit is particularly important to me personally because I have been that guy in the past. As a new grad fresh out of college, someone taught me REST and I was.. impressed. I thought it was the only way to design web backends. It was my hammer and everything else I saw was a nail.

A few years on, I can look back and understand how stupid I was.