Hacker News: xenator

New comment by xenator in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

xenator — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:28:36 +0000

If you don't have adv from platform itself it doesn't mean that site content is not flooded by endless spammers content. LinkedIn is great example where you have both.

New comment by xenator in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

xenator — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:34:43 +0000

Unfortunately true, but this time shady KYC is involved

New comment by xenator in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

xenator — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:12:06 +0000

More interesting that LinkedIn use fingerprinting everywhere and connect your personal data to every device you are using and connect to other services connected to their network.

New comment by xenator in "The End of Licenses"

xenator — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:23:22 +0000

At work, I meet many people with similar experiences. But the number of people who are able to use new tools is gradually increasing. I myself spent many hours learning how to make my AI work and make workable code. Moreover, I treated it as something important and new. So much so that I began to view my own old code differently. Not as something with sentimental value. But at the same time, it can easily become obsolete in the face of new realities.

I don't mean to devalue your feelings about your code. But I myself I went through devaluing my own work. Perhaps people who did carpentry in the old days treated their tools with care, creating beautiful engravings for the hard-polished handles. But now you can saw a board with a power tool, and we have lost the culture of these craftsmen.

AI is changing the attitude toward code. It may sound painful, but the value of old work has diminished. On the other hand, the main goal of developers has not changed. We're still solving problems, not writing code for the sake of code.

New comment by xenator in "The End of Licenses"

xenator — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:45:11 +0000

Honestly, I couldn't care less about the rights to my code in today's world. What you're describing probably really bothered me a couple of years ago. But today, I'm not even sure what programming language my next project will be in. Everything has changed so much and is changing so rapidly that perhaps in a couple of years, corporations will be worried about their huge and important products.

What if, in a couple of years, you can create your own Photoshop with video editing capabilities? Maybe that will be possible too.

The End of Licenses

xenator — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:33:15 +0000

Article URL: https://myblog.ru/the-end-of-licenses

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000795

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

Internationalization and Localization in the Age of Agents

xenator — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 09:23:43 +0000

Article URL: https://myblog.ru/internationalization-and-localization-in-the-age-of-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922506

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by xenator in "Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere"

xenator — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:53:25 +0000

For incoming traffic you can use ?from=rss or utm. To measure traffic to rss itself just parse server logs

New comment by xenator in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

xenator — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:40:18 +0000

Imagine you are in a marriage and your spouse say: "I can sleep with other people, doesn’t want to do that. It feels off-mission".

I don't understand context, but my honest reaction will be: "WTF, you just said? What type of relationship you think we have if we discuss such things?"

I definitely understand why people worry. This is just crazy to weight trust in money. If this is on the table and discussed internally, then what we are talking about?

'T' in Mozilla Firefox means 'Trust'.

New comment by xenator in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

xenator — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:48:09 +0000

We use Gitlab for CI/CD and tbh it is amazing. Simple, predictable, debuggable.

New comment by xenator in "iPhone Pocket"

xenator — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 15:02:00 +0000

Pffff... No AI? Who need it? Even my shower gel is AI already.

New comment by xenator in "Why we migrated from Python to Node.js"

xenator — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 10:01:19 +0000

Just simple arithmetics.

New comment by xenator in "Python Steering Council unanimously accepts "PEP 810, Explicit lazy imports""

xenator — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:15:08 +0000

Does it conform Occam's razor rule to have something that can be easily done very similar way without changing language?

New comment by xenator in "Why we migrated from Python to Node.js"

xenator — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:23:02 +0000

So basically you just rewrote boilerplate code with complexity of "hello world" and deploy scripts. Without any dependencies, data migrations, real user data and downtime SLA. And after that you had time to write quite long article.

What honest reaction you expect from readers?

New comment by xenator in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"

xenator — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:31:33 +0000

I blocked Disqus locally on my computer via /etc/hosts many years ago. Reason is very simply. Because comments as genre is almost useless.

New comment by xenator in "Auth.js is now part of Better Auth"

xenator — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 12:07:38 +0000

Labuba driven development

New comment by xenator in "YAML document from hell (2023)"

xenator — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:57:34 +0000

This one is amazing, I almost pissed myself laughing reading it. So true about YAML. Another caveat is using --- as section separator in the file. It will starts new file inside your existing file.

Still love it.

New comment by xenator in "Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks"

xenator — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 05:17:44 +0000

To be honest, right now I'm thinking about isolating of build process for frontend on my local environment. It is seems not hard to send my local environment variables like OPENAI_API_KEY or .ssh/* to some remote machine.

I know it is not very different comparing to python or projects in any other language. But I don't feel that I cannot trust node/js community at this point.

New comment by xenator in "iPhone dumbphone"

xenator — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:17:20 +0000

Wow! It is crazy how much money people will to pay for such problems.

I restrict myself from distractions by disabling hosts via custom rules in my nextdns account. It is enough and free.

New comment by xenator in "iPhone dumbphone"

xenator — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 18:12:37 +0000

I think it only disable the icon, not underlying frameworks, etc