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New comment by tananaev in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

tananaev — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:38:07 +0000

For Android development I still prefer Android Studio (IntelliJ based). Maybe just a habit because I don't really write code there anymore. For everything else usually VS Code.

New comment by tananaev in "Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?"

tananaev — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:37:18 +0000

I think the box explanation is misleading. There isn't literally a box whose surface you measure. The idea is that the state of a higher-dimensional gravitational system can, in some cases, be completely described by a theory in one fewer dimension.

New comment by tananaev in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

tananaev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 08:19:10 +0000

The article completely misses the main MCP point - it's authentication handling. Sure you can login via CLI, but it's much more clunky to manage.

New comment by tananaev in "The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week"

tananaev — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:43:12 +0000

I think inconsistency is really annoying. Hard to rely on it. Most of our reviews clear with a couple hours, but sometimes it gets stuck for days.

New comment by tananaev in "Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers"

tananaev — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:36:02 +0000

Finally some evidence that the system is working. Most countries are borrowing like there's no tomorrow, so obviously rates should go up to compensate the risk of not paying back.

New comment by tananaev in "Live map of public transport in Belgium"

tananaev — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 03:10:28 +0000

I believe it's at least partially powered by my open source GPS tracking project - Traccar. Nice to see public access for this data.

New comment by tananaev in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

tananaev — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 16:35:44 +0000

I also see quite a bit of traffic from China and Singapore. I wonder if it's some scraping for AI training. It doesn't really bother me too much because traffic is still fairly low, but it skews all the analytics for me.

Show HN: Open-source background location tracking SDK for Android and iOS

tananaev — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:45:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.traccar.org/blog/traccar-client-sdk/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902056

Points: 4

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New comment by tananaev in "Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)"

tananaev — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:15:36 +0000

Presumably the whole point of AI is that we can start reducing that number. I am sure there's a significant number of people just working on various administrative tasks processing data and documents.

New comment by tananaev in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

tananaev — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:50:03 +0000

All of the increase is from energy. Oil prices.

New comment by tananaev in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

tananaev — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:39:40 +0000

It doesn't mean it's a good investment. It's just a personality cult. I suspect it might take a generation or more to settle on some reasonable price.

New comment by tananaev in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

tananaev — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:14:11 +0000

Wait until you hear about float multiple Nasdaq is doing.

New comment by tananaev in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

tananaev — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:16:05 +0000

You're misrepresenting things a bit. S&P 500 has not approved those changes yet and they have some other protections as well. Nasdaq and FTSE Russell definitely sold out and should not be trusted as good indexes going forward.

Most popular passive indexes are S&P 500 and some total markets. Total index, like the one used by VTI, is likely the best spot in this case. They have not changed any rules, as far as I know.

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.