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New comment by szatkus in "One item purchased, ten emails"

szatkus — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:09:52 +0000

I don't use the app (I guess it's about InPost). I usually just scan a QR code that I recieve to my inbox. Code from SMS also works just fine.

New comment by szatkus in "ARC-AGI-3 [pdf]"

szatkus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:53:27 +0000

> Only environments that could be fully solved by at least two human participants (independently) were considered for inclusion in the public, semi-private and fully-private sets.

Apparently those games supposed to be hard.

New comment by szatkus in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

szatkus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:16:13 +0000

So far AI doesn't seem even close to replacing senior engieeners. Hell, it can't even replace junior engieeners entirely.

I use AI agents every day at work and I'm happy with that, but it took over two years and billions of dollars in investment to deliver anything useful (Claude Code et al). The current models are amazing, but they still randomly make mistakes that even a junior wouldn't make.

There's another paradigm shift to be made certainly, because currently it feels like we scaled up a bug brain to spit out code. It works great for some problems, but it's not what software developers usually do at work.

New comment by szatkus in "The three pillars of JavaScript bloat"

szatkus — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:09:52 +0000

Somehow I doubt they use it to access another Next.js app created by some startup from SV.

New comment by szatkus in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

szatkus — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:20:04 +0000

I just found out about pi yesterday. It's the only agent that I was able to run on RISC-V. It's quite scary that it runs commands without asking though.

New comment by szatkus in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

szatkus — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:55:11 +0000

I have Pro Edition and for me Copilot only added two icons. One in Notepad and another one in Paint. I ignore both. There's also the Copilot app that I didn't even know I have installed.

I don't know what happens with Home Edition, but I though the pushback was mainly from Insider Preview?

New comment by szatkus in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

szatkus — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:31:02 +0000

That's more or less my experience with Copilot on Windows.

New comment by szatkus in "AI coding is gambling"

szatkus — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:20:23 +0000

This. A lot of people on HN acts as you can only write code manually (almost, generators and snippets are allowed, because we are used to them) or vibe coding the whole project through a WhatsApp conversation. As if there was nothing in between and the same approach should work for all kinds of projects.

Personally I use coding agents for boring parts (I really don't enjoy putting the same piece of string to 20 different classes just to register a new component) and they work quite well, I'm going to use them for foreseeable future, because they make coding much more enjoyable for me. On the other hand I don't have an OpenClaw box burning billions of tokens weekly for me, because I usually don't have ideas that could be clearly specified.

New comment by szatkus in "Java 26 is here"

szatkus — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:17:32 +0000

That's weird. Back when Java 7 was a new thing, people used Spring (Boot wasn't there yet) even more to compensate for the lack of language features. Also back then most projects still used XML configuration, so you actually write more Java code in modern Spring. Because Spring Boot uses Java configuration classes by default (although you can still use XMLs if you need for some reason).

New comment by szatkus in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

szatkus — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:18:08 +0000

That's why coding agents usually scans various files to figure out how to work in a particular codebase. I work with very large and old project, and Codex most of time manages to work with our frameworks.

New comment by szatkus in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

szatkus — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:47:32 +0000

Pay as you go. I never spent more than $10/month working on my side project (usually a few evenings per month).

Elite Russian squad targeting enemies abroad was exposed throug Google Translate

szatkus — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:55:40 +0000

Article URL: https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/03/14/russia-created-an-elite-hit-squad-to-target-its-opponents-abroad-one-of-its-agents-was-compromised-by-using-google-translate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47376195

Points: 11

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New comment by szatkus in "Stephen Colbert going down swinging"

szatkus — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:22:28 +0000

Maybe there should be a limit how many items a user can flag?

New comment by szatkus in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

szatkus — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 10:01:17 +0000

> What more does notepad need?

Most of the features that were added in later versions: unicode, tabs, auto-reload, support for large files. CTRL+S is also nice.

New comment by szatkus in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

szatkus — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:50:35 +0000

The main problem with Firefox OS was that it was really slow. At the same time it was targeting budget phones.

But on the other hand progress was quite good. Back in the days I was maintaining unofficial images for Alcatel Fire. Each version was a little bit faster, but you really can't do much when the whole OS is a browser running on a device with with 256MB of RAM and a single core CPU.

New comment by szatkus in "AI has a deep understanding of how this code works"

szatkus — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:03:44 +0000

This is just incredible.

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/commits/ce372a60bd...

New comment by szatkus in "Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again"

szatkus — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 19:40:05 +0000

That one order of magnitude is about 7 years behind the Moore's Law. We're still progressing but it's slower, more expensive and we hit way more walls than before.

New comment by szatkus in "Java 25 officially released"

szatkus — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 21:06:50 +0000

IntelliJ use wasn't that widespread until about 10-15 years ago. Java was thriving before that.

New comment by szatkus in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

szatkus — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:34:12 +0000

I mean, Apache Commons are still widely used. But it's just a handful of libraries maintaned by one organisation.

New comment by szatkus in "Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility"

szatkus — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:40:20 +0000

Switch 2 seems to be more up to standard. I was able to charge it with a normal phone charger and also the Switch 2 charger seems to work with everything else unlike the one for Switch 1. Fortunately I never bricked anything with that, but it just never worked with anything other than the console.