Hacker News: snicky

New comment by snicky in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

snicky — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:00:45 +0000

God, those self-indulging posts on LI are the worst. Sometimes it feels like half of the world's compute is wasted on that.

New comment by snicky in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

snicky — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:35:30 +0000

I played it years ago and sorry, it didn't rock my world even for 5 minutes. It's a very naive story with a jump-scare sort of ending that totally didn't work for me, because it was well expected. The story felt very underwhelming comparing to most books, movies or games even. IMHO a complete waste of time.

New comment by snicky in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

snicky — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:26:58 +0000

Cool, but unfortunately, it has the same same drawbacks as cash. If you get scammed, accidentally pay too much or lose your wallet you will never get it back. I sleep safer knowing that there is some protection in the banking system against losing money all of sudden.

New comment by snicky in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

snicky — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 03:18:22 +0000

IIRC BLIK asks you if you want to skip the verification next time you buy from the same merchant.

New comment by snicky in "Ask HN: Hiring in the age of AI-assisted coding: what works?"

snicky — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:31:45 +0000

> * take home assignments where they say "we recommend you to not spend more than x hours on this", but then, they expect a very sophisticated work and will reject you if you turn-in a "simple" implementation. Maybe they expect speed and quality?

I never finished a take-home assignment within the given time frame. Once I even spent a whole weekend working on a solution to something that was described as a 2h problem. I feel it's just a way for the companies to make it look like it's a small commitment and they are not wasting your time excessively. If you decide to spend 2 days instead of 2 hours then "it's on you" ... But if you don't you'll fail.

New comment by snicky in "Everything Changes, and Nothing Changes"

snicky — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:49:04 +0000

I'm in a similar age and career point and have similar feelings about my SE job atm. Can you share more about your transition to the researcher role? What field are you in, how did you get there, what problems did you encounter, etc.

Ask HN: Is there anyone working at Meta who could help with a stolen FB account?

snicky — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:46:16 +0000

A friend of mine has lost access to his FB account due to malware. Is there a way to get hold of a human being who could help to retrieve it? He runs a couple of businesses that rely on their FB pages heavily and all that is becoming a wall of random spam now.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47125786

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by snicky in "I hate AI side projects"

snicky — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:39:47 +0000

I agree with you in general, but come on - learning is easier (unless you need to dive into highly specialized stuff), writing shorter chunks of code is faster, simple photo editing ("remove this and that from the background") doesn't need any skills now. Image generation isn't terribly too if you put some effort and don't stick with the same 3-4 drawing styles that all the cheapskate companies use.

New comment by snicky in "Show HN: Off Grid – Run AI text, image gen, vision offline on your phone"

snicky — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:12:56 +0000

GitHub Releases link is broken.

The dash in "off-grid" is missing.

New comment by snicky in "I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams"

snicky — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:25:32 +0000

A friend of mine owned a site once. At some point he couldn't figure out how to fix a frontend bug that appeared on IE only. In the end he was so pissed that instead of fixing the bug, he decided to stick a couple of additional Adsense banners . His revenue went up drastically.

New comment by snicky in "Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones"

snicky — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:56:01 +0000

> 2. The writing system, which because it's not phonetic requires essentially the same level of effort as learning an entirely new language (beyond spoken Chinese).

This is an interesting observation. Another one that I sometimes mention to my friends who didn't have an occasion to learn Chinese before is that in this language speaking, reading and writing are actually 3 separate components. You can read characters without knowing how to write them properly or even remembering them entirely. Lots of my Taiwanese acquaintances forget how to write certain characters, because nowadays most of the text they write is in bopomofo on their phones. Bopomofo represents sounds, so basically knowing how an expression sounds and being able to read the character (pick it from a set of given characters for the chosen sound) is enough to "write" it.

New comment by snicky in "East Germany balloon escape"

snicky — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 01:22:15 +0000

This reminds of a person I read about on HN years ago - a Russian guy who escaped from the USSR jumping off a cruise liner and swimming a couple of days to Philippines.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Kurilov

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Alone-Ocean-Slava-Kurilov-S/dp/965555...

New comment by snicky in "Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)"

snicky — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 02:59:45 +0000

It could also explain why most of us can eat like pigs in all-you-can-eat buffets.

New comment by snicky in "Ask HN: Is anyone aware of a LinkedIn mirror like xcancel.com for X?"

snicky — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:39:46 +0000

And it feels like half of the world's compute is wasted on those self-indulgent cringe posts now.

New comment by snicky in "RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?"

snicky — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:14:36 +0000

Semi-related opinion, but it really boggles me how people can be such a*holes to leave spam all over the internet and keep turning it into a cesspit. If a company does it in such an obvious way it has to be systematic, meaning that someone somewhere comes up with an idea, his manager gives an okay to proceed and then they chop it into tasks and other employees pick them up. There are multiple people involved. All of them know about what's happening and that it's unethical. And for what? I doubt most people running/working for the YC companies need money that badly. Are they going to buy a boat? A higher Tesla model? Invite their friends to Michelin-starred restaurants to show how successful they are?

New comment by snicky in "Why didn't AI “join the workforce” in 2025?"

snicky — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 07:42:18 +0000

Back in my days this was called "trolling".

New comment by snicky in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

snicky — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:49:17 +0000

    Senior Backend/Full Stack Engineer | Team Lead

    Location: Poland, Europe

    Remote: Yes (10 YoE working remotely, EST/PST timezones OK too)

    Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity

    Tech:
    * Backend - Ruby on Rails (14 YoE), SQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Heroku, AWS, K8s, Datadog
    * Frontend - Javascript (14 YoE), Typescript, React, Vue

    Skills:
    * designing and implementing web apps across the entire stack
    * high-traffic optimizations
    * security
    * payment processing architecture and financial integrations
    * leading remote teams
    * hiring

    Résumé/CV: https://cutt.ly/RrnaORcb

    Email: in the resume

    Available full or part time

Hi, I'm Mariusz. I have 14 years of experience building scalable apps using Ruby on Rails with startups from US, Canada, Europe, Australia and Taiwan. Most recently, I've been a part of a hybrid team working on a content creators platform at Playboy. I'm interested in both tech lead and senior/staff level individual contributor roles alike and I'm open to work with other tech stacks too, e.g. Elixir, Golang, C, Node.js or help out with ML integrations.

New comment by snicky in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

snicky — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:52:31 +0000

I'm in the same boat regarding the CS education and the desire to learn C. I find the videos recorded by Antirez (the creator of Redis) that make up something you could call a C course quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjXBXBgfKyk&list=PLrEMgOSrS_... . He starts from the basics, but the pace is good and he quickly gets to nitty and gritty. The videos are in Italian, though the automated translations do the job. I think he releases one episode a week.

New comment by snicky in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

snicky — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:29:09 +0000

    Senior Backend/Full Stack Engineer | Team Lead

    Location: Poland, Europe

    Remote: Yes (10 YoE working remotely, EST/PST timezones OK too)

    Willing to relocate: For the right opportunity

    Tech:
    * Backend - Ruby on Rails (14 YoE), SQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Elasticsearch, Memcached, Heroku, AWS, K8s, Datadog
    * Frontend - Javascript (14 YoE), Typescript, React, Vue

    Skills:
    * designing and implementing web apps across the entire stack
    * high-traffic optimizations
    * security
    * payment processing architecture and financial integrations
    * leading remote teams
    * hiring

    Résumé/CV: https://cutt.ly/RrnaORcb

    Email: in the resume

    Available full or part time

New comment by snicky in "Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix"

snicky — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 21:30:00 +0000

> The Netflix catalog is full of not so good movies, and the video rental shops in the 90s were too.

I subscribed to Netflix for a year or two when the platform became popular, but I quickly realized it resembles those old school rental shops too much. Yes, you could get some popular classics like The Godfather or Goodfellas, but apart from that you were stuck with another crime story or a comedy with Steve Martin or John Candy. Actually, my analogy may not be 100% fortunate, because I still have good memories about watching these comedies as a kid with my dad. Now I wouldn't have time and patience to go through movies of "that" quality. Anyhow, my point is that you were very unlikely to get there anything that wasn't already proved to be popular. Forget about anything more niche / arthouse. Netflix has produced plenty by itself, but how many of those movies are actually any good? I remember a handful of them: Marriage Story, Roma, Don't Look Up and a movie for kids called Okja.