Hacker News: zahrevsky

New comment by zahrevsky in "Canceling "Hey""

zahrevsky — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:47:21 +0000

Yeah, the title is really misleading. I thought the same at first, and then I also thought that this will be a review of the actual “Hey” email client.

New comment by zahrevsky in "Git rebase -I is not that scary"

zahrevsky — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:09:30 +0000

Someone should collect all the cases when header capitalization on HN affected meaning

New comment by zahrevsky in "Stolen Buttons"

zahrevsky — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:13:28 +0000

Previous design of editing mode was better :-( Current design shows them as a list, which requires you to scroll a lot to go through all the items.

New comment by zahrevsky in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

zahrevsky — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:52:25 +0000

> why not do RL and make a penalty for bad design?

But this is clearly explained in the article. We can tell whether the design was good or bad only weeks or even months later, which is too long to wait for artificial trajectories. Tests, by contrast, provide validation in seconds or minutes.

Dot.dead: A Graveyard of Discontinued Projects

zahrevsky — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:33:45 +0000

Article URL: https://menyadanyazovut.github.io/dot.dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851276

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by zahrevsky in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

zahrevsky — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:55:11 +0000

Usually the longest answer is the correct one.

Also sometimes two options are the opposites of each others. In this case, one of them is correct.

I feel like you can get close to 70/100 with this heuristics, without actually knowing any words.

New comment by zahrevsky in "Dear Steve Lemay"

zahrevsky — Sat, 30 May 2026 17:32:46 +0000

yeah it was down for a few minutes, but now it's fine

Dear Steve Lemay

zahrevsky — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:59:58 +0000

Article URL: https://ilyabirman.net/meanwhile/all/dear-steve-lemay/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338385

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by zahrevsky in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

zahrevsky — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:15:52 +0000

In Idiocracy, they didn't ask if they're in Idiocracy or not, so no.

New comment by zahrevsky in "90% of Claude-linked output going to GitHub repos w <2 stars"

zahrevsky — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:41:22 +0000

Off topic, but it reminds me of another principle: every geographic heatmap is just a population map. https://xkcd.com/1138/

Launch: A terminal process manager to run your multiple-service project

zahrevsky — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:14:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/adamarutyunov/launch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522557

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by zahrevsky in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

zahrevsky — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:23:18 +0000

They even directly conclude at the end of the article that improvements in algorithm are more important than the choice of language:

> Algorithmic complexity improvements dominate language-level optimisations. Going from O(N²) to O(N) in the streaming case had a larger practical impact than switching from WASM to TypeScript.

Yet they still have chosen to put the “Rust rewrite” part in the title. I almost think it's a click bait.

Dyson spheres on H-R diagram

zahrevsky — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:56:05 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23270

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47265690

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

WC3UI: Warcraft III web-components library

zahrevsky — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 07:06:59 +0000

Article URL: https://wc3ui.banteg.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214738

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by zahrevsky in "I fixed Windows native development"

zahrevsky — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:38:38 +0000

It's so common, I wonder how no one made an extension that filters this AI slop

New comment by zahrevsky in "Vouch"

zahrevsky — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:15:47 +0000

The system could be set up to automatically refund, if your PR wasn't checked for over $AVERAGE_TIME_TO_FIRST_REVIEW$ days. The variable is specific to the project, and even can be recalculated regularly and be parameterized with PR size.

New comment by zahrevsky in "Claude Code for Infrastructure"

zahrevsky — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 01:39:21 +0000

I love how the landing page is straight to the point and has zero marketing BS. It achieves the opposite of AI-written text, while still being polished.

New comment by zahrevsky in "List animals until failure"

zahrevsky — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:05:18 +0000

Too bad it doesn't show some scoreboard or stats of other players.

New comment by zahrevsky in "Ask HN: How do you organize apps on home screen?"

zahrevsky — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:16:35 +0000

I've recently switched to by-color layout. Each screen has all the apps of the same color.

Fun fact: there's A LOT of blue apps, and almost none are purple.

Ask HN: How do you organize apps on home screen?

zahrevsky — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:15:55 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46768382

Points: 1

# Comments: 3