Hacker News: szastamasta

New comment by szastamasta in "Scaling PostgreSQL to power 800M ChatGPT users"

szastamasta — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:59:13 +0000

Article has so much fluff and only some very coarse information like (we sharded writes, yay!). Almost no detail just keywords for SEO, or whatever they’re aiming for.

There’s also a lot of repetition. Maybe it was AI generated…?

New comment by szastamasta in "Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy"

szastamasta — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 07:00:19 +0000

I think that we cannot separate it from amount of free cash people have. Inflation, layoffs, etc. People simply want to limit their spending on less important things.

It just has to be cheap enough and you have to have enough free time to pay for media. Not something you can do when your utilities and taxes are 100% up from 3 years ago and you’re constantly boarded with layoff news.

New comment by szastamasta in "Proposal: JavaScript Structs"

szastamasta — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:11:56 +0000

I just mean you won’t write a video codec or a 3d renderer in JS. It will never get there. Just leave these things to WebAssembly where needed and leave JS as a slow, dynamic language we use for web apps.

New comment by szastamasta in "Proposal: JavaScript Structs"

szastamasta — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:10:03 +0000

Nobody needs classes nor prototypes in JS. Objects + functions is more than enough. I stopped using these few years ago and miss nothing.

New comment by szastamasta in "Proposal: JavaScript Structs"

szastamasta — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:36:09 +0000

Please stop. What a nonsense. JS is a dynamic language where everything is a Hashtable. It will never be really fast as your structs won’t be in single cacheline, you won’t be able to calculate field address during compile time by pointer offsets. There’s no simd, no multithreading, no real arrays.

JS is such a simple, dynamic language. It should just stay this way. Please stop bloating it with every feature that’s trendy this year. We already have classes that we didn’t need. We don’t need structs for sure.

New comment by szastamasta in "Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales"

szastamasta — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 11:51:27 +0000

It’s just like with cookies. I believe that lawmakers were honest and really wanted for companies to limit amount of tracking in the web. What we did get instead is a lot of „we value your privacy” popups and 5 pages of checkboxes to check if you don’t want to be tracked.

I just think that this will end up the same way. Nothing really changes, but we’ll just get more useless „lawyer talk” in more and more license documents to click on.

New comment by szastamasta in "Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales"

szastamasta — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 07:43:38 +0000

You see, I just don’t think more honest wins us anything. I’ve seen too many „We value your privacy” popups already.

New comment by szastamasta in "Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales"

szastamasta — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 06:40:00 +0000

Maybe I have misunderstood the article, but for me it looks like another „cookies” law.

They are not proposing to force media companies to make sure you have access to your media forever. Or force them to give you a downloadable copy when they remove media from store. They’ll just replace „Buy” button with „Get Access” or whatever and add some lawyer mumbo-jumbo above it.

Looks like a smokescreen to me.

New comment by szastamasta in "Yaak is now open source"

szastamasta — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 13:48:34 +0000

Yeah, maybe I've got too old-school thinking. Or maybe just worked on too many failed startups :). But the overall cheapness of our industry is driving me crazy.

I happily use proprietary software - IntelliJ, Sublime, Affinity, MacOS, etc. In my experience if you get software for free, you are the product, or you will be charged x10 more when they finally get their "business model".

New comment by szastamasta in "Yaak is now open source"

szastamasta — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:42:12 +0000

Of course money != value, but don't pretend that REST client is charity or fight for freedom or something. It's a wrench. And wrench should have its price on the shelf.

Unfortunately most business models around free software are ads and user profiling. Rest is just noise.

New comment by szastamasta in "Yaak is now open source"

szastamasta — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:32:34 +0000

Yeah, exactly because of that we have no nice tools for devs. All is built either to get a better job (and then abandoned) or you cannot sell it (and then you abandon it). If we were not that cheap maybe we would have more Jetbrains like companies.

Every company is replaceable.

I just don’t see doctors or lawyers giving away their work for free. They are just smarter than us.

New comment by szastamasta in "Yaak is now open source"

szastamasta — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 10:01:14 +0000

I still wonder why people do this. Build an end-user product and give it away for free.

It’s just making our work look worthless and kills small software companies.

Cool, share your library or web server, as it allows others to build products around this and you will benefit from theirs. But consumer products? Why are we so cheap? Will we do just anything for „likes” and „internet points”?

New comment by szastamasta in "Lego to replace oil in its bricks with pricier renewable plastic"

szastamasta — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 18:55:40 +0000

Exactly. The most eco product is the one you don’t produce. Longevity and reuse is what we really should strive for.

New comment by szastamasta in "DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source"

szastamasta — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 09:32:19 +0000

Yeah, I mean they are all different when it comes to tools around web page itself, but compatibility & web performance will be similar to the rendering/js engine.

New comment by szastamasta in "DuckDuckGo for Mac is now open source"

szastamasta — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 03:40:45 +0000

It’s JSC + Webkit => so it’s just Safari in disguise

New comment by szastamasta in "Show HN: Robata, macOS window selector: put it on the grill"

szastamasta — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:21:08 +0000

I just wanted to say that I love you man.

We are so crazy as devs. We’re outraged when someone wants few dollars for their app. Especially when it’s a one guy trying to make a living from building small apps like this. In the meantime we dream about opening a 1 person software shop selling small apps and getting out of corp work.

This is total madness.

New comment by szastamasta in "Home to Anything JavaFX Related"

szastamasta — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:59:54 +0000

I just thought that people moved to Electron for cross-platform and to native otherwise. Java was not particularly fast nor native-looking on desktop. I’ve spent quite a few years in Swing, and am not sure it’s much better than Electron. But with GraalVM, maybe…

New comment by szastamasta in "AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care"

szastamasta — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:52:50 +0000

I’m not sure about that. I think the OpenAI deals the cards here. They have the model and the data. If these media outlets fire creative people there’s nothing they have that OpenAI hasn’t got.

New comment by szastamasta in "AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care"

szastamasta — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:13:35 +0000

I hope that these media companies realize sooner than later, that if their content is AI generated, there’s no reason to go there. We’ll just skip the middlemen and go straight to OpenAI or whatever. No need to go to their site.

New comment by szastamasta in "Home to Anything JavaFX Related"

szastamasta — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:09:25 +0000

Hmm, I thought that JavaFX is effectively dead, after it was removed from JDK. Haven’t seen any app made with it for ages.

But maybe now, that we have GraalVM Java will make a comeback to desktop?