Hacker News: tmstieff

New comment by tmstieff in "PHP 8.2.35"

tmstieff — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:39:51 +0000

They are being backfilled now starting from the 8.0 images it looks like.

New comment by tmstieff in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

tmstieff — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:43:01 +0000

Has it been confirmed this RC contains the fix?

New comment by tmstieff in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

tmstieff — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:51:49 +0000

It does use React for rendering the terminal UI.

New comment by tmstieff in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

tmstieff — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:01:23 +0000

I have the same issue. It gives this very weird minor sense of public speaking anxiety where I almost feel the need to write down what I'm about to say, which negates the whole purpose. Only solution I've found is using push-to-talk with some of the system wide STS applications.

New comment by tmstieff in "Interviewing a software engineer who prepared with AI"

tmstieff — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:28:25 +0000

The easiest alternative is using a where clause and filtering by an ID range. Eg: "WHERE id between 1000 and 1200". But this introduces a ton of limitations with how you can sort and filter, so the general advice of not using LIMIT and OFFSET has a ton of caveats.

New comment by tmstieff in "Thunderbird 115 “Supernova”"

tmstieff — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 07:24:54 +0000

Firefox also started moving away from a shared memory model towards sandboxed tabs during that period, which had an effect on memory consumption.

New comment by tmstieff in "AI powered realtime fluid simulations are here"

tmstieff — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 13:59:30 +0000

Curious if you're referring to Maya the 3d application or something else?

Godot 3.5

tmstieff — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 15:10:09 +0000

Article URL: https://godotengine.org/article/godot-3-5-cant-stop-wont-stop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32357248

Points: 179

# Comments: 115

New comment by tmstieff in "I fell in love with low-JS"

tmstieff — Thu, 05 May 2022 13:49:51 +0000

This seems like an outrageous statement on its face. They probably have React on their resume because that is where the job market has drifted. No one is getting hired these days, even at old-school Fortune 500 type companies, for listing "Java-Server-Pages" or "Jinja SSR templates" on their resume for a frontend position.

New comment by tmstieff in "We need someone who has done “it” before"

tmstieff — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 14:46:46 +0000

Good point, I immediately read it and replaced "role" with programmer since it was posted on HN.

New comment by tmstieff in "We need someone who has done “it” before"

tmstieff — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 13:25:58 +0000

Isn't the point of having a PM to bridge the gap between leadership that knows the domain of "it" and IT who knows how to implement general business needs onto a technical solution? Of course that would require having a PM to begin with, instead of expecting your developers to become subject matter experts in your obscure domain.

New comment by tmstieff in "Unit Testing is Overrated (2020)"

tmstieff — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 14:53:01 +0000

The article actually argues the opposite. Developers should move their focus to integration / "real-world" tests. The major summary bullet point being:

"Aim for the highest level of integration while maintaining reasonable speed and cost"

My experience mirrors the author's. In any "real" business application, the unit tests end up mocking so many dependencies that changes become a chore, in many cases causing colleagues to skip certain obvious refactors because the thought of updating 300 unit tests is out of the question. I've found much better success testing at the integration level. And to be clear this means writing a tests inside the same project that run against a database. They should run as part of your build, both locally and in CI. The holy grail is probably writing all your business logic inside pure functions, and then unit testing those, while integration testing the outer layers for happy and error paths. But good luck trying to get your coworkers to think in pure functions.

New comment by tmstieff in "State of JavaScript 2021"

tmstieff — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:01:06 +0000

I'm working on a codebase that evolved at the same pace as React, but without any thought for idiomatic principals. As a result, you have class-based components, purely functional components, hook based components, HOCs, Redux state passed in through the older functional way, Redux state passed in through an HOC, styled components, traditional CSS styled components, and anything else you can think of that was in vogue at some point. It's a mediocre code base that generally works as advertised, but the performance is trash due to misuse of styled components, and the state management is a nightmare to traverse. I think this is the reality of a lot of 3 - 5 year old React frontends, and it has definitely soured my opinion on React / Redux a bit. I'm not sure if this effects other frontend frameworks as much, but it does seem like React was always pushing for a "new way to do things" every year.

New comment by tmstieff in "Starting with microservices"

tmstieff — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 09:33:23 +0000

I think I agree with you as well. Although it is hard for me to picture exactly how you've structured your dependency graph. In any case, extracting the business logic into some sort of static method / class has definitely been one of the only useful things I can carry across projects that works in nearly all use cases. It also makes unit testing the actual business logic extremely easy. That said, you can end up with a static method that takes 20 parameters, which is always fun. But, in those cases, you are lefty dealing with complexity that is intrinsic to the business, rather than complexity introduced through some bad architectural decision, so at least it is isolated.

New comment by tmstieff in "Fleet, a Lightweight IDE from JetBrains"

tmstieff — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:34:04 +0000

I've tried this now on my 2019 Macbook pro, and my 2018 Thinkpad T480 running Linux. On Mac, I can't say I really noticed a difference. Also there were quite a few font rendering issues that were resolved with whatever patches Jetbrains has applied. On Linux, certain actions are definitely faster. For instance, Ctrl+Tab to either quickly tab switch or bring up the tab switcher menu was always instantaneous, where-as beforehand there was sometimes a pretty long delay.

New comment by tmstieff in "Hackerrank DMCA Notice"

tmstieff — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 13:48:56 +0000

SHA-1 collisions have been proven as an attack vector for a few years now.

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha...

Ask HN: Alternative YouTube recommendation engine?

tmstieff — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 12:19:01 +0000

The general consensus on HN seems to be that the Youtube recommendations are subpar. You can watch a seemingly benign video and suddenly Youtube assumes you are interested in going down the rabbit-hole on some unrelated fringe topic.

Has anyone worked on an alternative to the default recommendations engine?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27760242

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by tmstieff in "Switch from Ruby to Crystal"

tmstieff — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 09:26:53 +0000

Anyone have production experience with Crystal? I know it's not 1.0 yet, but there are some fairly mature web frameworks available that make the language look pretty attractive.

New comment by tmstieff in "76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space"

tmstieff — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 14:38:42 +0000

Germany and Sweden are the top 2 most litigious countries in the world, so I guess perception is off.[1] The USA is still in the top 5 though.

[1] https://www.academia.edu/35495485/The_Most_Litigious_Countri...

OpenRCT2 0.3

tmstieff — Sun, 16 Aug 2020 10:17:25 +0000

Article URL: https://openrct2.org/downloads/releases/latest

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24176639

Points: 79

# Comments: 9