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New comment by wesammikhail in "Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really)"

wesammikhail — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 01:00:51 +0000

if("false" === true) echo "PHP sucks";

else echo "You're full of shit!";

// output

> You're full of shit!

New comment by wesammikhail in "Learn PHP in 2026 (Yes, Really)"

wesammikhail — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:39:40 +0000

Been using PHP for 20 years and have built multiple startups with it that went from ideas to exits.

Today's PHP is better than it has ever been. Are there some things that are rough around the edges? yes ofc. But there is no language that doesn't have that. It's all trade-offs.

Last week I switched from Nginx+FPM to FrankenPHP and my god even the deployment experience got 10x better.

Safe to say that if you haven't tried the language, give it a shot. Within a few days you'll know if it's a good fit for you or not!

New comment by wesammikhail in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

wesammikhail — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:41:22 +0000

I dont know what it is with products names these days. Antigravity, Antimatter, Composer, Clay, Ramp, Bolt, etc.

You'd think the founders would Google for naming conflict before choosing a name.

New comment by wesammikhail in "Cursor Introduces Composer 2.5"

wesammikhail — Tue, 19 May 2026 08:54:34 +0000

Models consume more tokens than ever for the same tasks.

New comment by wesammikhail in "Qwen3.6-27B: Flagship-Level Coding in a 27B Dense Model"

wesammikhail — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:05:54 +0000

you'd be surprised how good small models have gotten. Size of the model isnt all that matters.

New comment by wesammikhail in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

wesammikhail — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:12:33 +0000

I've seen sources like this before. It's all hearsay and promo. I was asking for any publicly available verifiable information regarding the cost of inference at scale. I haven't seen any such info personally which is why I asked.

I'm dying to see S-1 filing for Anthropic or OpenAI. I don't actually think inference is as cheap as people say if you consider the total cost (hardware, energy, capex, etc)

New comment by wesammikhail in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

wesammikhail — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:22:14 +0000

“people start with a k8s cluster for 5 users” doesn’t really exist

Most people in the BiP these days barely know how to deploy a database or host something using nginx. it's all vercel, supabase, aws, clerk, yada yada. Cost aside, I think that people are addicted to complexity.

New comment by wesammikhail in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

wesammikhail — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:11:59 +0000

source?

Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs

wesammikhail — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:47:03 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605636

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by wesammikhail in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

wesammikhail — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:51:33 +0000

One of the stipulations is that OpenAI achieves "AGI"... Need I say more?

Also a lot of this "money" is in cloud compute and credits not cash so...

New comment by wesammikhail in "Show HN: A list of websites and directories where you can promote your projects"

wesammikhail — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:06:23 +0000

Pick a few each day and go from there. Easy as that.

New comment by wesammikhail in "Show HN: A list of websites and directories where you can promote your projects"

wesammikhail — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:45:32 +0000

You're welcome. And yes indeed it does

New comment by wesammikhail in "Show HN: A list of websites and directories where you can promote your projects"

wesammikhail — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 12:01:17 +0000

you're welcome :)

New comment by wesammikhail in "Show HN: A list of websites and directories where you can promote your projects"

wesammikhail — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:17:48 +0000

put in a shot of tequila in it. that ought to get you to perk up real nice.

Show HN: A list of websites and directories where you can promote your projects

wesammikhail — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:55:08 +0000

Hey guys,

Spent some time compiling this list of websites and directories. Figured I'd share it in case anyone needs it!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538245

Points: 29

# Comments: 9

New comment by wesammikhail in "Show HN: I made a tool for converting text snippets to shareable image"

wesammikhail — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:25:55 +0000

I post some stuff on social media like code snippets and some markdown instructions. Most platforms have terrible support for rich formatting. So I decided to do it this way instead. I can now just post screenshots.

Also, when creating technical docs and presentations, this turned out to be super helpful.

Just a fun side project I figured others might find useful!

Show HN: I made a tool for converting text snippets to shareable image

wesammikhail — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 09:39:42 +0000

Hey guys, I needed a way to convert Code, CSV, and Markdown snippets to shareable images so I built this over the weekend. It all runs locally in the browser using a few lines of jQuery. Nothing fancy.

Sharing in case someone else might find it useful!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47487167

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by wesammikhail in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

wesammikhail — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:13:29 +0000

The is the most totalitarian bullshit I've ever heard on HN. The fact that you're okay with another human, just because they have a robe, to compel you to do as they ask OR rot away without a conviction is utter madness.

Imagine if this was the 1500s and the man in the robe was a priest. Would you be okay with that? and if your answer is some form of distinction without a difference argument, I'd urge you to not even reply.

New comment by wesammikhail in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

wesammikhail — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:55:50 +0000

> This attitude is ill informed.

> Renewables are cheaper now than most forms of energy production. Grids need investment.

> Now we are rich it’s only fair we lead in transitioning to renewables.

> I despair at these short sighted and fairly wrong on the facts views.

The level of arrogance is unmatched while being both factually wrong AND self-contradictory.

Absolute cinema!

New comment by wesammikhail in "Building a new Flash"

wesammikhail — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:34:03 +0000

God I love the look of those old school sites. Takes me back to a happier time. Whatever happened? :(