Hacker News: tananaev

New comment by tananaev in "The OSS Sabotage Manual Became Corporate Best Practice"

tananaev — Wed, 27 May 2026 03:30:59 +0000

Excellent article. I agree with a lot of points. One think that wasn't mentioned is globalization and bailouts. Companies are getting bigger and more concentrated than ever before. And we bail them out when they fail due inefficiencies. There's no purge in the cycle. And all technological gains are eaten by bureaucratic inefficiencies.

I want to believe AI is the solution, but it's far from certain.

New comment by tananaev in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

tananaev — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:14:14 +0000

I did a bit of research on this some time ago and it's not as bad as I originally thought. Index funds would need to count only liquid float of the company. So if Space X total valuation is 2 trillion, but float is 5%, then they need to count it as 100 billion for the purposes of index weight. Still more than I want, but not catastrophic.

New comment by tananaev in "Laws of Software Engineering"

tananaev — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:40:27 +0000

With modern tools it should be pretty easy to build scalable solutions. I take premature optimization as going out of your way to optimize something that's already reasonable. Not that you should write really bad code as a starting point.

New comment by tananaev in "Open Source Isn't Dead. Cal.com Just Learned the Wrong Lesson"

tananaev — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:29:53 +0000

Of course everyone should do their own due diligence, but my point is mostly that open source will have many more eyes and more effort put into it, both by owners, but also community.

New comment by tananaev in "Open Source Isn't Dead"

tananaev — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:17:26 +0000

I have an open source project and started receiving a lot of security vulnerability reports in the last few months. A lot of them are extremely corner cases, but there were some legit ones. They're all fixed now. Closed source software won't receive any reports, but it will be exploited with AI. So I definitely agree with the message of this article.

New comment by tananaev in "Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API"

tananaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:20:13 +0000

Good catch, thanks. Updated the readme. The planet can be downloaded directly from OSM.

New comment by tananaev in "Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API"

tananaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:17:58 +0000

Most or all existing solutions are universal (not just reverse geocoding) and rely on database. The purpose of this project is to make it super fast to do one thing. The result is 100x - 1000x speed of Pelias and other universal tools like that.

New comment by tananaev in "Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API"

tananaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:16:06 +0000

It took about 8-10 hours for me on a 192GB Hetzner cloud machine. The resulting index was just 18GB, so once the index is created it's really efficient and you can easily run it on a small VM.

New comment by tananaev in "Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API"

tananaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:38:51 +0000

Self-hosted reverse geocoder with sub-millisecond query latency. C++ builder parses OSM PBF files into a compact binary index using S2 geometry cells. Rust server memory-maps the index and serves a Nominatim-compatible API. Docker support with automatic HTTPS.

Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API

tananaev — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/traccar/traccar-geocoder

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47440309

Points: 66

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New comment by tananaev in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

tananaev — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:25:59 +0000

I've been using WeChat. My hope is they won't dare to block Chinese messenger. China is pretty much the only remaining lifeline for Russia.

New comment by tananaev in "Traffic from Russia to Cloudflare is 60% down from last year"

tananaev — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:45:12 +0000

Russia has been slowly cracking down on popular communication and media platforms. First they slow down connection to unusable speeds. This happened to YouTube at some point last year. At first they even said that it's something wrong with Google and it's not them. I think the intention is to slowly get people off the platform without completely blocking it. Then eventually they block access completely. Same happened to messaging apps, like WhatsApp and Telegram. Telegram is still working for messaging, but not calls. It's kind of funny because Telegram is used by Russian military to coordinate a lot of things, so they complain a lot about the block.

New comment by tananaev in "Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android"

tananaev — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:07:18 +0000

No link to source and just says "The source code is available from Open Camera's SourceForge page." Why not link it?

New comment by tananaev in "Facebook's Fascination with My Robots.txt"

tananaev — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:44:51 +0000

Maybe they’re trying to DDoS it, and once an error is returned, they assume that no robots.txt file exists and then crawl everything else on the site?

New comment by tananaev in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

tananaev — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:53:06 +0000

I think it's really poor argument that AGI won't happen because model doesn't understand physical world. That can be trained the same way everything else is.

I think the biggest issue we currently have is with proper memory. But even that is because it's not feasible to post-train an individual model on its experiences at scale. It's not a fundamental architectural limitation.

New comment by tananaev in "A macOS app that blurs your screen when you slouch"

tananaev — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:10:16 +0000

Are you serious? It's open source. And there's less than 1000 lines total. Get Codex or Claude to review it if you're paranoid.

New comment by tananaev in "Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance"

tananaev — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:42:17 +0000

I recommend checking history of deregulation of agricultural industry in New Zealand. It didn't lose the industry. Actually the opposite happened.

Persistent government subsidies are almost never a good idea long term. I understand that some temporary support might make sense in some cases, but not permanent one. It prevents innovation and optimization. And in the long run it usually makes more damage.

New comment by tananaev in "GPT-5.2-Codex"

tananaev — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:58:40 +0000

I was very skeptical about Codex at the beginning, but now all my coding tasks start with Codex. It's not perfect at everything, but overall it's pretty amazing. Refactoring, building something new, building something I'm not familiar with. It is still not great at debugging things.

One surprising thing that codex helped with is procrastination. I'm sure many people had this feeling when you have some big task and you don't quite know where to start. Just send it to Codex. It might not get it right, but it's almost always good starting point that you can quickly iterate on.

Developers can now submit apps to ChatGPT

tananaev — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:27:29 +0000

Article URL: https://openai.com/index/developers-can-now-submit-apps-to-chatgpt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46306456

Points: 191

# Comments: 125

New comment by tananaev in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

tananaev — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:07:45 +0000

Is it just a Bluetooth mic in a form of a ring? Or is there something more to this device?