Hacker News: tkzed49

New comment by tkzed49 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

tkzed49 — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:15:58 +0000

They're offering to subsidize the cost that the individual would normally pay for COBRA coverage. They're only required to offer the coverage, but not to pay for it.

However, I don't think this is that unusual in SV layoff packages.

New comment by tkzed49 in "Make your own microforest (2025)"

tkzed49 — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:18:37 +0000

really feels like an article begging for photos

New comment by tkzed49 in "NASA Force"

tkzed49 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:19 +0000

Pixel 10 absolutely ate shit when I opened the page!

New comment by tkzed49 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

tkzed49 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:58:21 +0000

You said it better than I could! As someone who does software for a living, do I want to come home and maintain a homelab that hosts photos, email, decentralized social, etc? Hell no!

Even if it's fun as a hobby, I don't want to be on call for my own basic online services.

New comment by tkzed49 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

tkzed49 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:11:30 +0000

Every time I hear about commit messages on HN, this is my first thought. I can't imagine not working in a squash workflow. No matter how good your commit messages are, I do not want to read all of them. The squashed commit will direct me to the original PR in case I need more detail.

New comment by tkzed49 in "JSON Canvas Spec (2024)"

tkzed49 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:01:08 +0000

It strikes me as odd that boxes are placed precisely using pixels, but the size of text is not specified, as far as I can tell. So you use real pixels to specify boxes, but still can't render a canvas exactly/consistently?

New comment by tkzed49 in "Don't Wait for Claude"

tkzed49 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:21:18 +0000

was this written using a LinkedIn skill

New comment by tkzed49 in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

tkzed49 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:08:59 +0000

from my perspective--I have to use React, Lit, and all kinds of other creative solutions at my day job--I'm going to immediately devalue someone's argument if it starts with "I hate React".

React is not popular simply because engineers hate themselves or enjoy pain. There are problems it solves, and problems it creates. Explain what problems your solution solves, and feel free to dunk on React while you're at it, but write a tagline like this and I'm not gonna take you seriously.

New comment by tkzed49 in "Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets"

tkzed49 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:50:34 +0000

"GitHub's own security guidance recommends pinning actions to full commit SHAs as the only truly immutable way to consume an action"

Why doesn't GitHub just enforce immutable versioning for actions? If you don't want immutable releases, you don't get to publish an Action. They could decide to enforce this and mitigate this class of issue.

New comment by tkzed49 in "JavaScript Is Enough"

tkzed49 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:55:06 +0000

you continue to contradict yourself by introducing concepts and saying they are not concepts.

I get what you're trying to say, that React hooks have special semantics, and that your abstraction feels more "native".

again, not sure how this is more "native" than Solid signals, just as an example.

New comment by tkzed49 in "JavaScript Is Enough"

tkzed49 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 01:52:06 +0000

> Solid has signals and createEffect... Gea takes a different path. It introduces no new concepts at all.

proceeds to introduce Stores and Components

what makes this magically easier than Solid, or any other Proxy-based reactive store frameworks?

New comment by tkzed49 in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

tkzed49 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:52:07 +0000

out of curiosity, what makes Geekbench 6 better?

New comment by tkzed49 in "Just Send the Prompt"

tkzed49 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:25:03 +0000

mid take ngl

New comment by tkzed49 in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

tkzed49 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:59:28 +0000

Can I buy them for my underage friends at different stores? Is there revocation and hence a database that maps codes to identities?

How are the codes minted? Can I pretend to be a gas station and buy a big pack of ID cards, then just not check ID?

New comment by tkzed49 in "Smartphone market forecast to decline this year due to memory shortage"

tkzed49 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:49:24 +0000

The average LLM writes cleaner, better-factored code than the average engineer at my company. However, I worry about the volume of code leading to system-scale issues. Prior to LLMs, the social contract was that a human needs to understand changes and the system as a whole.

With that contract being eroded, I think the sloppiness of testing, validation, and even architecture in many organizations is going to be exposed.

New comment by tkzed49 in "Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs"

tkzed49 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:45:19 +0000

Can I get an AI that automatically nitpicks AI PRs with the goal of rejecting them?

New comment by tkzed49 in "LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio""

tkzed49 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 23:43:24 +0000

Hey man, if you ever see this, not your fault it ended up on HN early! I'm sure this is solid for your usecase. That's just something that would dissuade me from choosing it!

New comment by tkzed49 in "ai;dr"

tkzed49 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 18:09:10 +0000

I've gone back to using two dashes--LLMs typically don't write them that way.

New comment by tkzed49 in "LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio""

tkzed49 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:33:50 +0000

I clicked on Dropdown, thinking it's one of the more complex things to implement. It doesn't even have a picture.

New comment by tkzed49 in "Turbopack: Building faster by building less"

tkzed49 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:07:45 +0000

The fact that there's no tangible plan for any plugin support in Turbopack is actually what made me not choose Next.js.

The answer for people who need basically any build plugin is "use the webpack mode", and I have zero faith in Vercel maintaining that past the next major version.

I guess we'll see whether they figure out a story for plugins by then.