Hacker News: theappsecguy

New comment by theappsecguy in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

theappsecguy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:19:19 +0000

It's popular because they have the best models and they are burning obscene amounts of money handing out tokens via subscriptions (for now) at a huge discount compared to what the API costs are.

Claude Code itself is incredibly buggy and as we have seen the codebase is a complete mess of slop.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Port React Compiler to Rust"

theappsecguy — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:27:57 +0000

The reviews don't happen...

New comment by theappsecguy in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

theappsecguy — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:55:12 +0000

Nothing about the information it feeds you is novel. It's all stolen repetition of someone else's work.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

theappsecguy — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:28:10 +0000

Slack has suffered the same thing under Salesforce.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Warp is now open-source"

theappsecguy — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:54:59 +0000

Maybe someone will finally add tmux/zellij support…

New comment by theappsecguy in "GPT-5.5"

theappsecguy — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:54:58 +0000

I would argue it couldn't be more different. I can dive into the source code of any library, inspect it. I can assess how reliable a library is and how popular. Bugs aside, libraries are deterministic. I don't see why this parallel keeps getting made over and over again.

New comment by theappsecguy in "xAI has Released Grok 4.3 (beta)"

theappsecguy — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:29:03 +0000

> I literally use my tesla every time with FSD and browse twitter while it drives.

You realize if your vehicle kills someone this would put the blame on you, right?

New comment by theappsecguy in "Need advice: Back end engineer → infrastructure: how do you make the transition?"

theappsecguy — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:27:07 +0000

One path is that you could try to transitions within your current org. This should be particularly easy in startups, which is where you say your experience is, as startups have a lot less rigidity in roles/responsibilities and you could contribute to infrastructure efforts to build up context/knowledge.

From there, you can leverage that into an "official" infra role.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Parallel agents in Zed"

theappsecguy — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:46:22 +0000

I do wish they'd focus on closing the gap to Jetbrains by implementing the QOL features that are missing. I understand they have to do what VC wants to see, but this agentic stuff is so tiring.

New comment by theappsecguy in "xAI has Released Grok 4.3 (beta)"

theappsecguy — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:24:44 +0000

Tesla self drive was also supposed to take over the world 5 years ago. Still waiting

New comment by theappsecguy in "Claude Opus 4.7"

theappsecguy — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:31:41 +0000

I have unfortunately found myself doing stuff like this too, although maybe not as egregious.

I think part of the problem is that our brains are wired to look for the path of least resistance, and so shoving everything into an LLM prompt becomes an easy escape hatch. I'm trying to combat this myself, but finding it not trivial, to be honest. All these tools are kind of just making me lazier week over week.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Allbirds, Inc. Announces Expansion into AI Compute Infrastructure"

theappsecguy — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:21:29 +0000

Are we in a bubble yet? Still no? Ok...

New comment by theappsecguy in "What is jj and why should I care?"

theappsecguy — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:24:21 +0000

Hmm, it was a while back so now I'm struggling to recall, but I remember feeling like I'm going against the grain of easily using GitHub. I followed this exact tutorial at the time and it looks like there are now sections on how to work with GitHub.

Perhaps I need to force myself to commit for longer...

New comment by theappsecguy in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

theappsecguy — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:36:49 +0000

I'm still struggling most with the fact that my day-to-day work involves a git first platform like GitHub.

Although jj as a vcs system, it does feel better, working with git through it still feels like a chore, but to be fair I only gave it a day before going back to git.

Does anyone have any good resources on how to augment a git flow through the lens of a git hosting platform to work smoothly and still reap the benefits of jj?

New comment by theappsecguy in "If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true"

theappsecguy — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:00:00 +0000

Seems extremely disingenuous to say that one year ago models could barely write a working function. In fact, there were plenty capable of writing a working function with the right context fed in, exactly as today.

New comment by theappsecguy in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

theappsecguy — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:42:04 +0000

I would urge you to take a look at the founding team here, I doubt that they vibe coded this tool.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Show HN: I pipe free sports streams into Jellyfin – no ads, just HLS"

theappsecguy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:23:48 +0000

any chance you'd be willing to share what the service is? I use streameast all the time but it's not reliable enough

New comment by theappsecguy in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

theappsecguy — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:27:06 +0000

Man, this is such an odd take. I don't need to imagine, I grew up in a country where math teachers would laugh you out of the classroom if you asked to use a calculator. Guess what? We did everything manually.

I then moved to North America for my last year of high school, and was appalled how much behind a typical 90th percentile student was compared to me and my peers back home. I was probably about 3-4 years ahead. It also took me 30 minutes to learn how to use the TI calculator that I now needed, but I was ahead in just about every other measurable way. So I would urge you to think twice about this. AI won't help your children develop their brains, it's offloading thinking to a statistical black box.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Honda is killing its EVs"

theappsecguy — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:10:49 +0000

Building hydro energy requires a very specific geography. You can't just take any river and turn it into an efficient hydroplant.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

theappsecguy — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 20:00:34 +0000

I think this is exactly what/how C-suite thinks. It's incredibly dumb because of how much hiring/firing costs in terms of ramp up/context/productivity etc, and inevitably, they will have fired people that are great and have kept people that suck but know how to play the game.