Hacker News: yarekt

New comment by yarekt in "I solved my mystery fatigue with AI"

yarekt — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:46:10 +0000

I get it, and it draws parallels with debugging and incident response in software dev. Your best tool is good data, if you have more data, you’re able to make good judgement in short time. If AI helps you collect good data about your condition, then presenting that to a clinician is certainly better than “it hurts, idk” because there’s only so much they can do at the time

New comment by yarekt in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

yarekt — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:30:56 +0000

I sort of wish there was a google "ad" search, where its like google search but only for ads, for the rare cases you want to buy something, and are looking through for a compatible product. Make advertisers differentiate by providing more information about their product to help me make a choice rather than shoving the product everywhere else hoping that I'll buy the thing out of fatigue

New comment by yarekt in "Show HN: I made a tactical map-based WWII submarine simulator (public beta)"

yarekt — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:50:49 +0000

very cool, i’m in

New comment by yarekt in "Maladaptive Frugality"

yarekt — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:31:50 +0000

Honestly I struggled to get further than 2nd paragraph. Other commenters here also have similar spectrum of opinions, far down the "Enjoy later" mindset

New comment by yarekt in "Maladaptive Frugality"

yarekt — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:42:27 +0000

Jesus no, you could be dead or decrepit by 60. What’s wrong with finding happiness within your limits all the time?

New comment by yarekt in "If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you"

yarekt — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:40:01 +0000

except Juniors with Claude are now “seniors”.

In all seriousness even though deep down I know there’s no replacement for experience, I’ve seen a bunch of new people get impressively far with just hacking stuff together. And in the end if you’re making money with that for a long time, isn’t that all that matters to the companies?

New comment by yarekt in "If you stop hiring juniors, your senior engineers own you"

yarekt — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:37:43 +0000

I would say it’s more short term profit. They are happy to cut off the nose and put the rest in the backlog

New comment by yarekt in "Simulacrum of Knowledge Work"

yarekt — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:16:30 +0000

You’ve missed the point of original article about the proxy for quality disappearing. LLMs are trained adversarially, if that’s a word. They are trained to not have any “tells”.

Working in a team isn’t adversarial, if i’m reviewing my colleague’s PR they are not trying to skirt around a feature, or cheat on tests.

I can tell when a human PR needs more in depth reviewing because small things may be out of place, a mutex that may not be needed, etc. I can ask them about it and their response will tell me whether they know what they are on about, or whether they need help in this area.

I’ve had LLM PRs be defended by their creator until proven to be a pile of bullshit, unfortunately only deep analysis gets you there

New comment by yarekt in "The great Scouse pasty war"

yarekt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:36:39 +0000

goddamnit, read for a solid 5 minutes until I realised the rest is paywalled, sigh. No pasty facts isn’t worth another subscription. I have many other interesting things to do

New comment by yarekt in "Simplenote is no longer in active development"

yarekt — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:03:33 +0000

That’s a shame, though I do see that it is difficult to make any money from what it is. I’m glad they didn’t sell it to someone big for all the user’s data, though it is still early

New comment by yarekt in "LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra"

yarekt — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:33:29 +0000

In the UK I've not been able to find high wattage (10-20W) LED lightbulbs with high CRI, some don't even mention it in listings, let alone SSI, which I have never seen.

Where are you seeing these? Is this industrial/commercial suppliers?

New comment by yarekt in "AI is a horse (2024)"

yarekt — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:51:39 +0000

except chess is a solved problem given enough compute power. This caused people to split into two camps, those that knew it was inevitable, and those that were shocked

New comment by yarekt in "The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity"

yarekt — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 13:53:57 +0000

Since no-one mentioned the Cynefin framework yet: Notice that there's a little fold at the bottom centre of the diagram: Chaotic (unknowable unknowns, etc) things will always resolve themselves to simple states.

Fires will eventually burn out, the result will be simple to understand. Simply your business won't exist anymore.

There are more nuanced examples but I believe the above explains the principle.

The Key is to handle things early, before the most probable/default resolution, if its one you're not happy with.

New comment by yarekt in "Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS"

yarekt — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:29:07 +0000

Nice, download a random binary off the internet and give it your AWS credentials.

Please people, inspect the source to your tools, or don't use them on production accounts.

New comment by yarekt in "OOP: The worst thing that happened to programming"

yarekt — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:01:35 +0000

No-one uses that original OOP at all, no-one sane anyway. The way its used now is for dependency injection. All your logic is in services that are injectable and unit tested. All your data is in simple immutable DTOs.

All the OOP tricks, classes, instances, interfaces, polymorphism, its all good for wiring up your logic, replacing bits at runtime. No-one actually models their domain with pure OOP. Urgh, that would be awful.

But also to echo other commenters, this isn't interesting insight...

New comment by yarekt in "My stages of learning to be a socially normal person"

yarekt — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:37:44 +0000

not original commenter, but I have. Either through their manipulation, or just being in the same place, doing the same things. Didn't like them as a person, but they were decent to me, so some sort of reciprocation happened, didn't last though.

New comment by yarekt in "My stages of learning to be a socially normal person"

yarekt — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:35:04 +0000

It's almost the same argument, but backwards: You think they are a good person, so you want them to do well. Because they are good, they also want you to do well. Same result, but intentions are backwards.

New comment by yarekt in "Chrome's SSL Bypass Cheatcode"

yarekt — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:33:18 +0000

Err what? That certificate may well have been leaked, but because it expired the bank doesn’t not consider it an issue, no need to revoke it.

Certificate validity is binary. either it all is, or it isn’t. this included “not before”

New comment by yarekt in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

yarekt — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 07:41:06 +0000

Pay for services that you use instead of forcing companies to rely on ad revenue to run their useful service?

I get it though, no one wants to pay for 100s of little free marginally useful things we use every day, but if you look back at what whatsapp did in the beginning, the £3 a year they were asking is so worth it

New comment by yarekt in "Successful people set constraints rather than chasing goals"

yarekt — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 08:46:46 +0000

Yea I also spotted that. Never liked the format of “Successful people do X. You should do it too”.

Interesting article though, somehow I found goal setting never worked for me well, but I find clarity in constraints.