Hacker News: theappsecguy

New comment by theappsecguy in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

theappsecguy — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:16:48 +0000

They have made a fair bit of improvements, as performance was a big complaint. It's still not perfect, but VSCode also isn't nearly as powerful in my experience and needs a million plugins to match basic features.

New comment by theappsecguy in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

theappsecguy — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:32:00 +0000

Wow, this really sucks. With all the money flocking to companies that trained LLMs on stolen data, we may lose the only set of IDEs that offer high quality professional development tools

New comment by theappsecguy in "LinkedIn Larpmaxxing"

theappsecguy — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 13:51:34 +0000

Their entire business model is targeted ads and selling overpriced linkedin premium to thought-leader wannabes. If they lose the ads surface, they are dead in the water, so it makes sense to block headless experiences at all cost

New comment by theappsecguy in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

theappsecguy — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:49:16 +0000

How long will that last? It's evident that they are trying to squeeze the engineers to the max.

New comment by theappsecguy in "GPT-6 Astra"

theappsecguy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:23:27 +0000

Are you doing less work now because of AI? Not sure about you, but I'm doing a lot more work. Not saying I like doing more, or how it's getting done, but nonetheless I don't feel like AI is doing what the CEOs of AI labs want to convince everyone of.

New comment by theappsecguy in "GPT-6 Astra"

theappsecguy — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:18:33 +0000

who's buying your coffee or bikes when the rest of people are broke? Neither of those is a survival necessity.

New comment by theappsecguy in "GPT-6 Astra"

theappsecguy — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 21:26:09 +0000

Unless you're a techno-billionaire, not sure why you'd hope for our society to collapse in this way.

New comment by theappsecguy in "AWS Acquires DuckLabs"

theappsecguy — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:58:09 +0000

This is awful news.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

theappsecguy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:22:34 +0000

It may have been the normal before we had the technology to remove that need. Obviously it may be the normal for certain types of work still, but I don't see why it needs to be that way for office work. This ends up greatly affecting housing markets too and making life more expensive for everyone.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees"

theappsecguy — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:08:58 +0000

A big issue with non-remote is access to opportunities. A lot of organizations don't have offices everywhere, and I having to relocate every time there's a job change is absurd.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

theappsecguy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:09:27 +0000

The party in the pocket of BigCorp, that party...?

New comment by theappsecguy in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

theappsecguy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:54:54 +0000

Well they heavily limit free tier usage and for paid users they are charging a tiered pricing model that ramps up very aggressively. Github is a lot more generous in this sense and it has a lot more surface area in terms of the functionality it serves

New comment by theappsecguy in "Incident with Github.com"

theappsecguy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:19:12 +0000

Any engineered system where an individual can accidentally cause a 7 figure outage is poorly designed. And engineering leadership that decider to terminate an individual due to such failure (as long as there was no malicious actions) is completely clueless.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Show HN: Eve Software Factory"

theappsecguy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:14:44 +0000

vercel just pumping out slop left and right...

New comment by theappsecguy in "Incident with Github.com"

theappsecguy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:55:16 +0000

They've had an insane influx. It seems that they should more aggressively limit free tier activity or isolate paid users, this has become unbearable...

New comment by theappsecguy in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

theappsecguy — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:48:52 +0000

a lot harder to ban software than hardware the size of EVs

New comment by theappsecguy in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

theappsecguy — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:34:39 +0000

I think most fields are like that..?

New comment by theappsecguy in "When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs"

theappsecguy — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:17:02 +0000

they might manage to get a semi passable AI movie... but will people pay to watch it? I certainly would not.

New comment by theappsecguy in "Delta"

theappsecguy — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:11:47 +0000

I love zed but i wish they'd focus on the IDE for those of us that still love, write and read a ton of code for serious work. Webstorm continues to be better for TS, Goland better for Go and so on; Zed lacks too much of core functionality at the moment to be the main interface of choice

New comment by theappsecguy in "Pixel Watch 5"

theappsecguy — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:46:11 +0000

I love how light and comfortable the fitbit air is, but I find that the data quality blows. Both steps and sleep (pretty much the only two things it can really track) are not super accurate when comparing to other devices. Hopefully they can sort it out with software updates