Hacker News: stefanos82

New comment by stefanos82 in "Show HN: Musql, JIT-compiled SQL, up to 300x faster than SQLite, 1000x vs. Turso"

stefanos82 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:37:52 +0000

> Result: musql. Pronounced "muscle."

You mean it's pronounced "muscal", like Mezcal, but with an "ah" LOL!

New comment by stefanos82 in "At 19, founder raises $11M for Ghost, maker of a $3,499 computer for personal AI"

stefanos82 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:53:48 +0000

I'm curious...isn't the name `ghost` an infringement between ghost, the app / CMS alternative to WordPress and this project?

https://ghost.org/

New comment by stefanos82 in "40 years of writing code. I didn't see the end coming"

stefanos82 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:52:39 +0000

Professionally speaking, at least for me, it's not worth it anymore.

But personally? I won't stop using technology and I do my best to avoid AI as much as possible.

I like exercising my mind, to develop new ways of thinking and above all, cultivate critical thinking!

If there's no critical thinking, there's no creativity, no arts, no nothing!

New comment by stefanos82 in "LinkedIn is a terrible quality website"

stefanos82 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:46:01 +0000

It's slow because AI runs continuously behind the scenes tracking you non-stop, if you type, if you navigate, if you click somewhere, and so forth...I have the impression that every single end point belongs to different webservice, because if I refresh it, sometimes it fetches partial data, sometimes it won't pull anything at all, and at random times it works as expected.

In conclusion, LinkedIn is dead as we once knew it and has become a massive AI slop, a dating app believe it or not(!), and full of narcissists that have supposedly succeeded in life, trying to convince themselves with their own lies. PATHETIC!

New comment by stefanos82 in "C3 0.8.4: The Last Keyword Renaming Before the Syntax Freeze"

stefanos82 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:51:33 +0000

Ew...that looks so ugly! LOL!

How about `cast(myage)`?

New comment by stefanos82 in "C3 0.8.4: The Last Keyword Renaming Before the Syntax Freeze"

stefanos82 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:36:24 +0000

Yeah, I just came here to write "on the other hand though...what about types, such as `(int*)myage`?" and got irritated with myself lol!

I guess I can define my own way of casting with a macro, `castAs(int *, myage);` and that should work just fine.

New comment by stefanos82 in "C3 0.8.4: The Last Keyword Renaming Before the Syntax Freeze"

stefanos82 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:26:07 +0000

The only thing I would like to see changing is C-style type casting: `(int)myage`

...for some reason, I can't stand this syntax! I find it visually intrusive lol! But if we could allow something like `int(myage)`, it makes it clearer, to me at least.

New comment by stefanos82 in "Stripe Withholding Balance of $100000"

stefanos82 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:48:33 +0000

This Stripe behavior has become an epidemic these years...they have fully automated their infrastructure, especially now with AI and they false positively flag the wrong companies and then they complain that people label them as the "baddies".

I have wrote a public post on LinkedIn addressing this issue of yours and hopefully someone will get notified and help you out.

Now we wait...

Update: I'm in discussion with their Stripe Support department right now.

Update2: ..and now, we wait!

Final Update: They told me, if you have a LinkedIn account, go there and contact "Stripe" account and tell them your issue; "Stripe Support" account will contact you within 5 to 10 minutes and verify your business data so they can help you.

Good luck!

New comment by stefanos82 in "Julian Assange Returns to X"

stefanos82 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:22:40 +0000

Oh the oxymoron in this announcement...why X exactly if we are not allowed to view thread discussion for free and we are forced to create an X account to do so?

New comment by stefanos82 in "PHP is Dead (and AI is to blame)"

stefanos82 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:52:59 +0000

> Make it a compiled language with virtual machine similar to Java. The times of recursively creating PHP-files to serve PHP-files are dated (*cough Smarty). Compilation with checks and strict typing will increase the code quality fundamentally.

So...an evolution of Hack language by FaceBook / Meta? https://hacklang.org/

New comment by stefanos82 in "Rui Ueyama: "We are rewriting the mold linker in Rust""

stefanos82 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:35:51 +0000

I'm curious to learn the reasoning behind this decision...yeah, I presume it's Rust's memory safety mechanism, but other than that, what other reasons are for switching from C++ to Rust?

New comment by stefanos82 in "Ask HN: Dear LinkedIn, do you want to do business, yes or no?"

stefanos82 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:31:52 +0000

UPDATE: After I posted here, within a couple of hours they sent me an email that "we have verified your information and removed the restriction from your account".

Coincidence? A very weird one!

Clarification: The account was locked for 2 days and as soon as I decided to write here about it TODAY, within 2-3 hours of posting here, they decided to sent an email out of the blue that they have reviewed my account, when I have attempted a request for a review via their helpdesk without any success; during the fill up form process it was redirecting me to other pages with plain data explaining to me what should I do with government ID verification process; that's all.

New comment by stefanos82 in "Ask HN: Dear LinkedIn, do you want to do business, yes or no?"

stefanos82 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:38:26 +0000

The whole situation is getting out of control; they have become completely useless using them nowadays. What's the point, really?

New comment by stefanos82 in "Ask HN: Dear LinkedIn, do you want to do business, yes or no?"

stefanos82 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:31:54 +0000

Yeah, I feel so stupid for it...I wish they could erase those data of mine permanently from their system. I need to find a way to ask this.

New comment by stefanos82 in "Ask HN: Dear LinkedIn, do you want to do business, yes or no?"

stefanos82 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:29:10 +0000

That's exactly what frustrated me the most!

Ask HN: Dear LinkedIn, do you want to do business, yes or no?

stefanos82 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:02:31 +0000

I have created my account while spending how many hours to organize my profile, send requests to old colleagues and acquaintances, only to find out the very next day that my account was deactivated for security purposes without me knowing the reason.

I have spend hours trying to find a way to communicate with LinkedIn helpdesk without success, only to receive an email late at night that the reason they deactivated my account is because I edited my Headline (!!!) and they considered this a phising attempt!

I went through the stupid process of providing my government ID and still cannot proceed as the third party service, Persona, still processes my request or so they say, and I'm stuck here without having a way to login so I can upgrade to a premium, or so I wanted to do but not anymore!

This is not a serious company anymore, they have lost the plot and the only thing they need to do is to close it down; they offer absolutely nothing other than spamming you with AI content (slop I believe they name it?), plus they monitor any character you type, making your computer almost unresponsive.

It's just shame that such important company end up the way it has become today.

It was good while it lasted.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464232

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New comment by stefanos82 in "My software development workflow is AI now & it feels exhausting and soulless"

stefanos82 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:19:33 +0000

Just use your browser's devtools to edit the link by replacing `old` to `www` and it should now work.

New comment by stefanos82 in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

stefanos82 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:51:33 +0000

There's also a hosting service for fossil repos which does a really good job for a number of years now https://chiselapp.com/repositories/

New comment by stefanos82 in "How we made hit video game Prince of Persia"

stefanos82 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:18:00 +0000

I have watched the creator explaining to us in great detail how he came up with so many tiny details that made it a perfect game for its time!

Just watch it yourself, you will be in awe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw0VfmXKq54

Ask HN: Is Facebook registration procedure broken?

stefanos82 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:26:46 +0000

I have tried to create a new account after many years I deleted my old and only account back in 2011.

As soon as I followed the steps required, it let me know I was going through an appeal procedure (!?) due to an uncertain activity with my account (!!!) and they will let me know whether I can get an account or not...I repeat, I have tried to create a new account after many years, no idea what they are talking about!

After an hour they disabled the account and sent me an email as well.

We disabled your account

We reviewed your account and found that it still doesn't follow our Community Standards on account integrity. You cannot request another review of this decision. To learn more about the reasons we disable accounts visit the Community Standards. You may have the right to challenge our decision in your country's courts, or refer our decision to a certified dispute settlement body.