Hacker News: zazibar

New comment by zazibar in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

zazibar — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:35:23 +0000

The subject matter is interesting but the amount of slop makes it difficult to read through. Yeah, it's great that you can throw your technical problems at Claude without caring much about the generated output but treating your own writing that you actually want to share with the world the same way is a terrible idea.

New comment by zazibar in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

zazibar — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:40:13 +0000

LLM-generated slop about LLM-generated slop, wonderful.

New comment by zazibar in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

zazibar — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:03:54 +0000

A month ago the company I work at with over 400 engineers decided to cancel all IDE subscriptions (Visual Studio, JetBrains, Windsurf, etc.) and move everyone over to Claude Code as a "cost-saving measure" (along with firing a bunch of test engineers). There was no migration plan - the EVP of Technology just gave a demo showing 2 greenfield projects he'd built with Claude Opus over a weekend and told everyone to copy how he worked. A week later the EVP had to send out an email telling people to stop using Opus because they were burning through too many tokens.

Claude seems to be getting nerfed every week since we've switched. I wonder how our EVP is feeling now.

New comment by zazibar in "Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?"

zazibar — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:39:32 +0000

>I think though that the day is coming where I can trust the code it produces and at that point I'll just by writing specs. It's not there yet though.

Must be nice to still have that choice. At the company I work for they've just announced they're cancelling all subscriptions to JetBrains, Visual Studio, Windsurf, etc. and forcing every engineer to use Claude Code as a cost-saving measure. We've been told we should be writing prompts for Claude instead of working in IDEs now.

New comment by zazibar in "Agents that run while I sleep"

zazibar — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:14:07 +0000

This account constantly posts LLM-generated comments.

New comment by zazibar in "Beyond agentic coding"

zazibar — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 14:05:23 +0000

A "you're holding it wrong" with the implication that the author is a bad engineer as the cherry on top. Brilliant stuff.

New comment by zazibar in "I Avoid Async/Await"

zazibar — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 11:26:03 +0000

Now maybe it’s just my familiarity with Promises, but I look at the third example and I can quickly see an opportunity.

This entire article is built around the author's ignorance and could easily be summarised as "I avoid async/await syntax because I'm more familiar with promises". The author doesn't even appear to understand that async/await is syntactic sugar for promises.

New comment by zazibar in "Hacking your face to dodge the rise of facial recognition tech"

zazibar — Mon, 18 Mar 2019 11:51:42 +0000

Corporate greed has no bounds.

New comment by zazibar in "Apps of a Feather"

zazibar — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 22:03:01 +0000

I've clicked that action every single time I've seen it for at least the past year and it still continues to show the very thing I want to see less often. It's absolutely infuriating.

New comment by zazibar in "Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects"

zazibar — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 08:17:41 +0000

A wonderful surprise to see Phaser on that list!

New comment by zazibar in "Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner"

zazibar — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 11:02:45 +0000

I love this idea, congratulations on the launch.

New comment by zazibar in "Kotlin vs. Java – An Android Developer's First Impressions"

zazibar — Wed, 03 May 2017 18:50:39 +0000

Off-topic but is anyone else unable to scroll on this page?

New comment by zazibar in "Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?"

zazibar — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 21:29:35 +0000

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet - Xcode!

The frequent plain text display of code, freezes and outright crashes really makes me feel like Apple has a completely different internal tool for iOS/macOS development.

New comment by zazibar in "Ask HN: Coding notes – how do you do them?"

zazibar — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 14:31:09 +0000

Great insight, thanks for posting.

New comment by zazibar in "What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)"

zazibar — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 21:39:05 +0000

Interesting. Thanks for the detailed response!

New comment by zazibar in "What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)"

zazibar — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:30:36 +0000

Can you elaborate on how you implemented those servers? Would you still use Clojure or Go for them now? If not, what alternative do you suggest?

New comment by zazibar in "Simplify Your Message, and Repeat Often"

zazibar — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:33:53 +0000

Thanks for posting about this, more people should know about it!

New comment by zazibar in "Show HN: A reference use of Hashicorp's Raft implementation"

zazibar — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 08:29:59 +0000

For those unfamiliar with how the Raft protocol works (as I was) this site[1] provides a great step by step visualization.

1. http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

New comment by zazibar in "Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects"

zazibar — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 15:54:16 +0000

I highly recommend Scaleway. https://www.scaleway.com/

Ask HN: How do I choose the right set of tools for web app development?

zazibar — Wed, 11 May 2016 15:05:00 +0000

I have an idea for a side project that is essentially a web app but I'm struggling to find the right tools for the job.

The number of frameworks/libraries for web app development is quite overwhelming and it's difficult to determine which one I should be using.

Should I go the "pure" route with React and its related libraries (Redux, etc.)? Should I use something that tries to provide everything out of the box like Ember or Vue? Ditch it all and just roll vanilla JS? I could go on but my point is that I honestly don't know which of these is right.

For context the web app I want to build is essentially a chat app at the core. I already know what I'll be building the backend with (Phoenix/Elixir) but the frontend remains a mystery for now.

Any insight on the issue would be appreciated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11675967

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