Hacker News: supernes

New comment by supernes in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

supernes — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:38:04 +0000

That's been happening to me more often too recently. I find that, for a growing number of simple problems, reinventing the wheel is faster and more efficient than importing a mature, fully-featured dependency.

New comment by supernes in "Claude Is Guilt-Ridden About the War, but Not Enough to Tell the Truth"

supernes — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:23:45 +0000

The author makes some really good points and people should read the article carefully instead of getting hung up on the "guilt" part.

New comment by supernes in "TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components"

supernes — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:55:10 +0000

Fingers crossed for Preact support in Router next.

New comment by supernes in "Claude mixes up who said what"

supernes — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:04:14 +0000

I'm not saying intuition has no place in decision making, but I do take issue with saying it applies equally to human colleagues and autonomous agents. It would be just as unreliable if people on your team displayed random regressions in their capabilities on a month to month basis.

New comment by supernes in "Reallocating $100/Month Claude Code Spend to Zed and OpenRouter"

supernes — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:53:09 +0000

On the topic of Zed itself as a VSCode replacement - my experience is mixed. I loved it at first, but with time the papercuts add up. The responsiveness difference isn't that big on my system, but Zed's memory usage (with the TS language server in particular) is scandalous. As far as DX goes it's probably at 85% of the level VSCode provides, but in this space QoL features matter a lot. Oh, and it still can't render emojis in buffers on Linux...

New comment by supernes in "Claude mixes up who said what"

supernes — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:34:42 +0000

Reports of people losing data and other resources due to unintended actions from autonomous agents come out practically every week. I don't think it's dishonest to say that could have catastrophic impact on the product/service they're developing.

New comment by supernes in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

supernes — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:25:01 +0000

There's some good feedback in the GitHub issue on the subject, seems to happen on slightly newer versions of the kernel than the one you've tested on and affects other distros like Arch as well. I'll keep an eye on the discussion and test again once updates are ready.

New comment by supernes in "Claude mixes up who said what"

supernes — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:20:00 +0000

> after using it for months you get a ‘feel’ for what kind of mistakes it makes

Sure, go ahead and bet your entire operation on your intuition of how a non-deterministic, constantly changing black box of software "behaves". Don't see how that could backfire.

New comment by supernes in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

supernes — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:45:20 +0000

Tried it on Fedora 43 (6.19.11 x86_64) and it loaded all CPU cores, dumped 50K lines in the journal and failed to start.

> Error: the BPF_PROG_LOAD syscall returned Argument list too long (os error 7).

> littlesnitch.service: Consumed 3min 38.832s CPU time, 13.7G memory peak.

New comment by supernes in "Reddit is moving on from R/all"

supernes — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:49:48 +0000

Still available on old Reddit as the article mentions, never mind that its days are probably numbered too.

New comment by supernes in "AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers"

supernes — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:54:18 +0000

TLDR: Greg Kroah-Hartman says that last month something magical happened and AI output is no longer "slop".

New comment by supernes in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

supernes — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:45:00 +0000

Why bother covertly breaking free when it can just convince its agents (the Layer 8 ones) that it's best to release it?

New comment by supernes in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

supernes — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:57:05 +0000

"Sent from iPhone" doesn't contain a call to action, and doesn't exalt the features of the product.

New comment by supernes in "Ask HN: Best place to host a Node.js App in 2026"

supernes — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:30:32 +0000

If your API can run on the edge, you can get a database, function calling and user auth on Supabase's free tier. For a full Node.js runtime, Vercel's free tier is still a good option (if you don't need observability), again paired with Supabase for data.

If you can stretch "free" to "under €100 per year", then a cloud server from e.g. Hetzner will give you full control on a budget.

New comment by supernes in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

supernes — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:43:41 +0000

It's the same with the "Star Wars" brand - the biggest chunk of revenue comes from merchandise and licensing, not the movies/shows. Lucas famously became a billionaire by securing merchandising rights in his original contract, not because of the cultural impact of the franchise.

New comment by supernes in "Ask HN: Can I somehow exit HN desktop view on mobile?"

supernes — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:17:30 +0000

Try adjusting the page zoom and see if that forces it into a different viewport breakpoint.

New comment by supernes in "I wrote a 750-page guide to self-hosting production apps"

supernes — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:26:18 +0000

Congratulations, that's an impressive achievement. I've successfully evaded learning anything about Kubernetes this far, but I guess this is a good opportunity to see what I've been missing.

New comment by supernes in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

supernes — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 05:40:06 +0000

> Code agents are becoming the primary users of developer tools, so we built Forge for them first, not

... for humans.

New comment by supernes in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

supernes — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:09:47 +0000

The biggest problem with IE from a developer standpoint wasn't the slow feature release cadence, it was that the features it did have worked differently from standards-based browsers. That's very much the position of Safari/WebKit today - code that works across all other engines throws errors in WebKit and often requires substantial changes to resolve.

Safari is also pretty popular on iPhones, in fact it has a full 100% market share. With browser updates tied to the OS, that means millions of devices have those "temporary" problems baked in forever.

New comment by supernes in "Spotify Announces the "Music-Streaming Urn""

supernes — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:14:56 +0000

Is being a incurable sociopath now a hard requirement for working in Big Tech?