Hacker News: udave

New comment by udave in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

udave — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:20:29 +0000

Ive made my own agentic IDE centered around worktrees and containerization. it allows me to run multiple development environments on my machine with each development server running in parallel, allowing me to spin up feature branches and test them instantly.

New comment by udave in "Cisco workforce reductions"

udave — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:18:10 +0000

seems like the same trick as behind labelling price as $99.9

New comment by udave in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

udave — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:50:36 +0000

try distributing this spec amongst your team members, ask each of them to drive it to completion. no follow up edits. deploy to individual environments and then run a rigorous test suite against all of the deployments. see if all of them behave the same way.

New comment by udave in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

udave — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:43:10 +0000

Let's be real, if you and I both ask claude to generate a feature on the same project, what are the chances that it spits out 100% replicated code? But if we are to build the project using a Dockerfile, we will get the same binary and the same image. Products around LLMs are non deterministic unlike compilers.

New comment by udave in "The Importance of Being Idle"

udave — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:08:11 +0000

its a good idea in theory. But capitalists will make sure this does not happen because greed is never ending. today its AI, 10 years down the line it something else. Hence i think the right to be lazy is for a lucky few.

New comment by udave in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

udave — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:00:59 +0000

strongly agree. we keep giving away trust to other entities in order to make our jobs easier. trusting maintainers is still better than trusting a clanker but still risky. We need a sandboxed environment where we can build our software without having to worry about these unreliable factors.

On a personal note, I have been developing and talking to a clanker ( runs inside ) to get my day to day work done. I can have multiple instances of my project using worktrees, have them share some common dependencies and monitor all of them in one place. I plan to opensource this framework soon.

New comment by udave in "Spotify reportedly investigating Anna's Archive's scraping of their library"

udave — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:38:33 +0000

wasn't spotify started out as a collection of pirated songs? somethings go in full circle I guess.

New comment by udave in "The appropriate amount of effort is zero"

udave — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:29:21 +0000

that's true for some folks out there. But, ultimately its about these 3 questions: - what you are? - what you want to be? - when you want to be there? I think if you don't have an answer to the last question, you should be fine with 0 efforts.

New comment by udave in "Nook Browser"

udave — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:01:19 +0000

the sidebar was the best feature in Arc imo. I gave zen a shot just because of that and it was not a great experience to be honest. First, migration was buggy, then the sidebar lacked some basic features like renaming the tabs even though it looked similar. Nook seems to follow in the same footsteps I just hope that they nail the sidebar like Arc. Tab management is a mess and this has so much potential. All the best to both Zen and Nook.

New comment by udave in "OpenAI API user data exposed in Mixpanel security breach"

udave — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:01:01 +0000

too early at the time of writing, but did mixpanel got breached due to the recent NPM worm `Shad'hulud`? just speculating.

New comment by udave in "Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres"

udave — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 05:14:23 +0000

I find the distinction between queue and pub sub system quite poor. A pub sub system is just a persistent queue at its core, the only distinction is you have multiple queues for each subscriber, hence multiple readers. everything else stays the same. Ordering is expected to be strict in both cases. The Durability factor is also baked in both systems. On the question of bounded and unbounded queue: does not message queues also spill to disk in order to prevent OOM scenarios?