Hacker News: shams93

New comment by shams93 in "Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude"

shams93 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 22:07:37 +0000

It has a number of security issues which have not been fixed which could be used for really interesting exploitation.

New comment by shams93 in "Donald Trump Is the Crypto President. Why Is It Struggling?"

shams93 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:19:32 +0000

Seems like the heavy focus by institutions is a mistake because you have huge mining issues where ai is eating the miners, while etherium with proof of stake rather than proof of work has none of these issues, and perhaps in the long run will eventually be more valuable than btc which is it loses all its miners will actually vanish.

New comment by shams93 in "Native Linux VST plugin directory"

shams93 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 23:41:47 +0000

This is a nice resource. Personally I use linux vst plugin on bespoke synth. But bitwig, renoise and reaper all support linux for those who want or need commercial audio applications on linux. With pipewire and new kernel changes everything is coming together for linux to perform much better than windows + asio.

New comment by shams93 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

shams93 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:04:32 +0000

For me I made the switch in 1998 when Windows Me was so terrible it was unusble. I went to CompUSA and found this cool box of cd roms with a lizard logo - suse linux and I was done with MS forever (except at work).

New comment by shams93 in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

shams93 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:22:05 +0000

It didn't need Ai to create something as horrific as windows vista.

New comment by shams93 in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

shams93 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:48:59 +0000

The lock in with Safari is horrifc though, the browser on a $20 prepaid android phone is better than the browser on your most expensive ios device. Apple says well you need to write a native app, stop using the web and PWA's. Allow Apple to mediate absolutely everything.

New comment by shams93 in "KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer"

shams93 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:22:32 +0000

Actually you can change the keys up so much you can do microtonal scales on it, but at the end of the day its a metallaphone so not likely to ever be the only piece of gear you'd want to use, you'd want to mix this with other gear to make a full sound.

New comment by shams93 in "A smartphone that runs Android, launches Debian, and dual-boots Windows 11"

shams93 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:01:31 +0000

Even if it couldn't do win11 it would be amazing, but also transforming into a work pc setup is ingenious. Then there are the environmental benefits of reducing the footprint of eventual e-waste.

New comment by shams93 in "What happened to WebAssembly"

shams93 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:39:44 +0000

X used yew and rust to rebuild their client and had success in that they are dealing with lots of heavy lifting where these tools start to show their value for large scale products.

For most products its immense overkill, for a lot of stuff even react is total overkill where htmx is a better choice.

New comment by shams93 in "Vibe coding lead to my project's downfall (in 4 months)"

shams93 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 21:57:40 +0000

I have had things melt down before where Gemini got stuck and then would say it did something and didnt, etc...

Howver asking the same question on a new fresh context fixed it, kind of context pollution can happen.

New comment by shams93 in "Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer"

shams93 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 16:44:43 +0000

I agree, I was always annoyed in projects where these kids thought they were still in school and spinning up incredible levels of over abstraction that led to some really horrible security problems.

New comment by shams93 in "Ask HN: 5th Month of Unemployment and Still No Job"

shams93 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:06:52 +0000

I've been unemployed for 3 years now have been continuously applying for 3 years and being 53, being non-stop rejected despite all my skills and 25+ years of experience. Its utterly gruesome and the government put me onto welfare to work which basically gives me 9 months to find work or have my access to food and healthcare taken away which they don't even do to people on death row in prison. The way we are treating non-billionaires right now is breath taking.

New comment by shams93 in "AI job loss – example, perhaps"

shams93 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:47:18 +0000

An even bigger problem is that Trump is developing a system of brutal punishment for the poor while AI is taking away a huge chunk of work out there while the rich people who own Ai pay no taxes, so if nothing changes we will see a total collapse of local government and state government as their tax income goes to less than 0.

New comment by shams93 in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

shams93 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:57:41 +0000

How smooth an experience you have with react really depends upon which framework you use, how old the code is. I have seen many react apps using outdated versions of react that break in interesting ways.

New comment by shams93 in "AI adoption linked to 13% decline in jobs for young U.S. workers: study"

shams93 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 04:11:58 +0000

Yeah this is what we are seeing today, also its not just junior jobs going, according to Amazon they are using it to get rid of expensive senior employees while they are actually holding onto juniors using ai tools.

We have seen a lot of use of h1b and outsourcing despite the massive job shortage. Seeing lots of fake job sites filled with ai generated fake openings and paid membership for access to "premium jobs."

They're using ICE to effectively pay half the country to murder the other half, but the ICE budget is limited so that automated systems can then gun down the ICE community to replace 99.9% of humans with machines.

Ultimately this is great for Russia because they'll still be able to invade even if they have only 300 soldiers left in their military, after they hit a low orbit nuke blast to shutdown the Ai US, basically only Melania swinging her purse at the troops will be one of the few left alive to resist.

New comment by shams93 in "US Supreme Court limits federal judges' power to block Trump orders"

shams93 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:56:07 +0000

There is also the damage done by the Supreme Court ending the Voting Rights Act, had the act been in place in 2024, Kamalah would have won by a landslide. Millions of minority voters were targeted for disenfranchisement in 2024.

New comment by shams93 in "Ask HN: How do novelists feel about LLMs?"

shams93 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 02:03:17 +0000

There's no point because there's few things as human as writing a novel. Also I think these models work great for technical generation of things like code, but it doesn't take imagination to do engineering work. Also look at the way these data centers compete with humans for resources like power and clean water, and the surveillance nightmare we're looking at with the dovetailing of authoritarian rule and total information awareness.

New comment by shams93 in "Sen. Padilla is forcefully removed from Noem's news conference and handcuffed"

shams93 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:11:31 +0000

With Ai killing so much employment I could see them weaponizing famine to try to unalive roughly 70-80% of the entire us population.

New comment by shams93 in "The National Guard in Los Angeles"

shams93 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 16:37:06 +0000

Who's the criminal the one paid to violate rights or those who rise up non-violently to protect their community?

New comment by shams93 in "60–70% of YC X25 Agent Startups Are Using TypeScript"

shams93 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 21:03:47 +0000

The agent layer is a kind of client and since typescript thanks to node and the browser has become a universal language for client sides, whether the client is used by a human or used agent to agent.