<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: swe_dima</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=swe_dima</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:00:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=swe_dima" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>fair enough, thanks for elaborating</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:55:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47229038</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47229038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47229038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe my pockets are not deep enough, but I completely fail to understand the value proposition of iPad Air vs the regular iPad. If you want something powerful or big - go with Pro, if not - choose the "regular", much cheaper.<p>What am I missing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:46:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224617</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224617</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47224617</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Since everyone is showing their flow, here's mine:<p>* create a feature-name.md file in a gitignored folder<p>* start the file by giving the business context<p>* describe a high-level implementation and user flows<p>* describe database structure changes (I find it important not to leave it for interpretation)<p>* ask Claude to inspect the feature and review if for coherence, while answering its questions I ask to augment feature-name.md file with the answers<p>* enter Claude's plan mode and provide that feature-name.md file<p>* at this point it's detailed enough that rarely any corrections from me are needed</p>
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<p>Definitely my experience as well.<p>Another dimension to this is native vs 2nd language speakers.<p>For those of us who had to learn English, we put a lot of effort into grammar, while native speakers whip out half-baked sentences without a second thought.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:34:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038449</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "2 in 5 Americans did not read a single book in 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I admit I have not properly read a single book in a couple of years.<p>These days when it comes to technical stuff I much more prefer to fill in gaps by reading articles or documentation. Technical books are so long it feels like authors are paid by words.<p>And when it comes to fiction I have really leaned into audiobooks. My eyes are too tired from computer work, and I can combine audio with other activities like jogging or cooking.<p>There are some "technical" audiobooks as well, but only a small category of technical books makes sense in the audio format.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:38:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891359</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46891359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>my runner friends hate it, suddenly your Garmin can't show your pace and distance properly.
(I am very much aware it's a 1st world problem to have in times of war)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:35:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767770</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46767770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>my parents live in Russia and my grandma has alzheimer's, so as a present "for her" I bought an airtag - so in case my mom loses grandma in a crowd she can be found.<p>Little did I know, GPS jammers around the city make my grandma appear 50km away.<p>Not Apple's fault of course.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:58:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766407</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766407</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46766407</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I no longer reside in Russia, so I am not being targeted by these.<p>But I think that it mostly comes down to companies being able to pay for these ads. Mastercard / Visa payments no longer work in Russia. If a company has a way to pay (by having another business entity in another country), then it probably works.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:38:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46752811</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46752811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46752811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>oh, right! Didn't have my coffee yet :-)<p>But one difference is Rustore actually has payments and subscriptions, which hurts Google more.</p>
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<p>I am not very well educated when it comes to alternative stores landscape.
But I do know that in Russia there's now Rustore: <a href="https://www.rustore.ru/en" rel="nofollow">https://www.rustore.ru/en</a>
which functions by automatically downloading and updating APKs for you.<p>During the APK install, however, you do see the ugly Android prompt about how this app may be dangerous.<p>Rustore has its own app payment system, which obviously circumvents Google Play fees.<p>This works on regular Android phones.<p>Are there other examples of such stores? Perhaps it's Google's answer to that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:20:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751888</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751888</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751888</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>in the ideal situation - yes, but since Russia is big and the climate is cold almost everywhere the government usually does not do it except in big cities.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:27:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430862</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430862</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46430862</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "Growing up in “404 Not Found”: China's nuclear city in the Gobi Desert"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My grandfather, who is a nuclear scientist, and my mom also come from a small closed-off city in Siberia (Russia).<p>Visiting my grandparents I remember we had to go through a sort of border control to get there.<p>My mom told stories of how the government would change the asphalt every year in that city to cover the nuclear dust.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 12:26:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410586</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46410586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "Structured outputs create false confidence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>OpenAI structured outputs are pretty stable for me. Gemini sometimes responds with a completely different structure.
Gemini 3 flash with grounding sometimes returns json inside ```json...``` causing parsing errors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:45:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345626</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My wife asked today which plants growing in Mauritius can grow well at home,
it answered for one plant that it:<p>"grows fucking great in a humid environment"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:34:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915347</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915347</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45915347</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Personally, I like Amnezia VPN, it has some ways to work around blocks: <a href="https://amnezia.org/en" rel="nofollow">https://amnezia.org/en</a>
You can very easily self-host it, their installer automatically works on major cloud platforms.<p>Though if Indonesia has blocked VPNs only now, possibly they only block major providers and don't try to detect the VPN protocol itself, which would make self-hosting any VPN possible.</p>
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<p>There goes one of the main arguments why I've been using Android over iPhone</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://erikras.com/blog/final-form-to-typescript">https://erikras.com/blog/final-form-to-typescript</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214697">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214697</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 05:16:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://erikras.com/blog/final-form-to-typescript</link><dc:creator>swe_dima</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214697</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44214697</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by swe_dima in "Older Americans Are About to Lose a Lot of Weight"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last year I decided to give a try to semaglutides,
at the time I was exercising pretty heavy, both weight lifting and long distance running.<p>And then I went to vacation to Maldives for a couple of weeks.
Not much chance to exercise when you are locked on a tiny island.<p>I surely lost some fat during these 2 weeks, but the amount of muscles I lost? Jeeez! I think it offset my training goals by 2 months.<p>I realized how unhealthy it was, you are literally starving and not feeling it,
and I kept myself on a low dose!<p>When you consume food it's not just calories, it's also nutrients, if you eat a lot less you are body is missing out on all the essentials!<p>So it might be a magic pill in some sense, but in other it's extremely unhealthy.<p>Later that year I have actually lost more weight by doing more long-distance running, that motherfucker burns calories big time and in a healthier way.</p>
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<p>Also seeing a 400% increase in pricing after this.
Mostly due to cache reads / writes if I had to guess, the dashboard isn't showing any data currently.<p>Overall, it's really not clear how this can be optimized.
It's... cache... You could have less cache writes, but it means your users see stale content, which isn't an acceptable solution.<p>The wording that 92% of people see smaller bills since many people host projects that aren't really being used, anyone who has traffic is going to get higher bills.</p>
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<p>I haven't, I don't think it was even an option for me, it's easier for clinics to get a legal clearance if you inject your own cells.</p>
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