Hacker News: simon84

New comment by simon84 in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"

simon84 — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:51:39 +0000

Rate limit from Cloudflare, so much for moving to EU Stack :/

New comment by simon84 in "Show HN: GreenType – That Mechanical Keyboard You've Always Wanted"

simon84 — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:39:22 +0000

I keep it open in the background, sound helps pretend I'm not alone when remote working.

As simple as can be, entirely useless, love it :)

New comment by simon84 in "Referer Reality"

simon84 — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:54:18 +0000

Opinionated: I dont get the issue about people (incl. bots) visiting your website, regardless of where they originate from and what url they use.

Publishing something online means I want it to be seen.

Relying or enforcing Referer or query string basically contradicts the intent. Wanting to know where your users come from could be legit but then you basically distort the "public web" aspect to a "public trap" where you try to sneak on visitors.

Not my vibe

New comment by simon84 in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

simon84 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:50:16 +0000

Actually it was sort of fun to see that the AI started writing comments to itself by gradually explaining what it was trying to do and ways it failed to do it.

Then it spent more time appending comments to its own comments rather than writing code ^^

New comment by simon84 in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

simon84 — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:47:52 +0000

Personally, i've taken a serious step back from 'unsupervised' vibe-coding. When the codebase is clean and you want some additional fix or small feature, Claude is quite good at mimicking your style and does a pretty good job.

When asking for a new major feature, despite hard guidelines and context (that eat half your context window), then it quickly ships bloat. The foundations are not very well organized and this is where you acknowledge it is all about random-prediction of the next word-thing.

Overall, i've wasted more time reviewing the PR and trying to steer it properly than I expected. So multi-layer agent vibe coding is no longer the way to go *for me*. Maybe with unlimited tokens and a better prompt, to be investigated...

New comment by simon84 in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

simon84 — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:38:39 +0000

Link this with the fact that anyone can use any name/email in commits and appear as the legitimate contributor on GitHub and it completes the chain. Love it :)