Hacker News: terseus

New comment by terseus in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

terseus — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:40:30 +0000

Oh of course, that's the current standard, but I doubt it will be considered acceptable for much longer.

New comment by terseus in "The 'Hidden' Costs of Great Abstractions"

terseus — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:24:37 +0000

Is it, though? Can we really keep saying that "hardware will always be cheaper than human labour" when RAM prices are soaring, GPUs are becoming prohibitively expensive, and we're looking at a probably chip shortage?

I think the era of "poor software for fantastic hardware" is coming to an end.

New comment by terseus in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"

terseus — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:07:52 +0000

I don't know in other countries, but in Spain you definitely don't go to the doctor asking for anything more complex than a paracetamol.

You tell the doctor your symptoms, he explores you and perform any tests considered appropriate, and the doctor decides the prescription.

New comment by terseus in "Over-editing refers to a model modifying code beyond what is necessary"

terseus — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:54:52 +0000

If the cost is subsidized by another cash source (e.g. VC money) when the source stops prices can definitely go up.

New comment by terseus in "We automated everything except knowing what's going on"

terseus — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:04:26 +0000

AI may not be the source of the problem but can make it a hundred times worse.

The Great Filter, Why High Performance Still Eludes Most Dev Teams, Even with AI

terseus — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:15:40 +0000

Article URL: https://codemanship.wordpress.com/2026/01/12/the-great-filter-or-why-high-performance-still-eludes-most-dev-teams-even-with-ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609066

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The Great Refactor

terseus — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:20:23 +0000

Article URL: https://ifp.org/the-great-refactor/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44960817

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Fighting the AI Scraperbot Scourge

terseus — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 09:21:06 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43087678

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

The Sobering Reality of AI: A Researcher's Perspective

terseus — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:24:50 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@terrancecraddock/the-sobering-reality-of-ai-a-researchers-perspective-96c883445b29

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41600207

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

DeepMind Co-Founder: AI Is Fundamentally a "Labor Replacing Tool"

terseus — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:07:37 +0000

Article URL: https://gizmodo.com/deepmind-founder-ai-davos-mustafa-suleyman-openai-jobs-1851176340

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39082470

Points: 34

# Comments: 51

New comment by terseus in "Plane got to top spot in project management on GitHub in less than a year"

terseus — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 11:15:47 +0000

This one works: https://docs.plane.so/self-hosting/self-hosting

Europe: How to Become Poor Peasants Again

terseus — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 12:50:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.senecaeffect.com/2022/10/europe-how-to-become-poor-peasants-again.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33079563

Points: 29

# Comments: 65

New comment by terseus in "Docker Compose best practices for dev and prod"

terseus — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 16:36:31 +0000

Given that YAML it's a configuration language I'd say that not being turing complete it's a feature, not a bug nor a limitation; I always want my language files to be declarative to not suffer the perils of logic.

Edit: Also, I don't see the need for a turing complete language for something like docker compose, if you need something really complex you can always script a docker-compose.yml generator with all the logic and complexity you need.

Amazon Wants FTC Chair Khan Recused over Past Criticism

terseus — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 13:27:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-30/amazon-seeks-to-have-ftc-chair-khan-recused-on-company-actions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27698822

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

I Will Never Use a Microsoft Account to Log Into My Own PC

terseus — Mon, 28 Jun 2021 10:23:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/324134-i-will-never-use-a-microsoft-account-to-log-into-my-own-pc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27659988

Points: 927

# Comments: 644

Xiaomi introduces new 200W HyperCharge tech: 0% to 100% in just 8 minutes

terseus — Mon, 31 May 2021 10:17:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/xiaomi-200w-hypercharge-1230706/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27342443

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by terseus in "Using Rust Macros to exfiltrate secrets"

terseus — Fri, 14 May 2021 16:55:15 +0000

I can't believe that people is comparing opening a project in a code editor with running a build script.

The PoC doesn't even open a file, it just opens the directory. It's a pretty big difference, when you execute a build script you _expect_ to run code, when you open a directory in your editor you don't expect any side effect _at all_.

My guess is that since the proc_macros returns a TokenStream, rust-analyzer have no way to know what it provides except running it.

I'm not sure there's a solution for this that doesn't cripple macros in Rust, apart from being able to configure rust-analyzer to ignore the macros, which clearly limit its usefulness.

New comment by terseus in "Google have declared Droidscript is malware"

terseus — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 19:47:39 +0000

You don't need Termux for that, there are native clients for Android, I use this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.msfjarvis....

New comment by terseus in "Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage Now Has S3 Compatible APIs"

terseus — Mon, 04 May 2020 16:44:56 +0000

Rclone is really a fantastic tool, its configurability based on backends allow for amazing combinations!

You can configure any cloud storage backend (B2, S3, GCS ...) and combine it with other utility storage backends, like "crypt" [1], "cache" [2] and "chunker" [3], I highly recommend it to anyone searching for a backup solution.

The only feature I miss from Rclone is automatic directory monitoring and mirroring, which I solved using Syncthing (but forces me to host an additional server for it).

[1] https://rclone.org/crypt/ [2] https://rclone.org/cache/ [3] https://rclone.org/chunker/