Hacker News: zihotki

New comment by zihotki in "Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved"

zihotki — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:06:37 +0000

Have you tried reading/reviewing the code claude generates? That could have prevented the issue with the accounts.

New comment by zihotki in "Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown"

zihotki — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:36:38 +0000

If everyone starts applying cooldowns, won't it postpone the problem? So now there is a considerable amount of users who are affected and someone from the affected group discovers the infection and reports it.

But if everyone will be delaying updates, won't be there less chances to catch it in time? I'm not fully sure if it's possible to preventively scan all NPM packages or how much compute it would require.

New comment by zihotki in "YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database"

zihotki — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:44:28 +0000

That's a good question indeed. Also I wonder why they picked java as the implementation language.

New comment by zihotki in "Show HN: HTMLDrive – serve HTML files from your Google Drive"

zihotki — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:39:49 +0000

Since LLM can create the pages for non-techical people, it for sure can also help publishing the page

New comment by zihotki in "Dev productivity metrics suck. Ops reviews are key for AI-accelerated eng orgs"

zihotki — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:32:38 +0000

That sound interesting. Would you mind sharing it?

New comment by zihotki in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

zihotki — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:07:03 +0000

That resonates a lot with my experience in Netherlands. It's way friendlier for expats but the barrier is there

New comment by zihotki in "I built a 10 inch mini rack from aluminium extrusions"

zihotki — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 08:29:21 +0000

Similar - no (I'd be glad to be proven wrong), but you can find some small suppliers focused on specific niche like https://www.motedis.com if you need the profiles.

New comment by zihotki in "NixOS 26.05"

zihotki — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:34:46 +0000

I'm building a homelab as well and fully second the ode. It feels incredible to do the setup via llm, like they are the perfect fit.

New comment by zihotki in "MaralGPT "Mythos" 9B just released, and this is why I'm proud of my project"

zihotki — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:02:21 +0000

tldr - Qwen 3.5 9B finetuned on a "simple secret dataset" (500 million tokens of Claude 4.8 Opus, Claude 5 Fable, GPT 5.5 and similar models)

New comment by zihotki in "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"

zihotki — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:57:44 +0000

I found that a good tool helps a lot once I switched to Github Copilot app. It solved the friction and mental tax for me. I easily manage 4 sessions in parallel on same or different projects while 2 was max in the past. The bottleneck now is only in review and decision making.

New comment by zihotki in "Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM"

zihotki — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:58:10 +0000

Not that much - a bit better but still negligible. Prefill is highly parallelizable and benefits from many cores. NVidia GPU's simply have several times more cores than even Pros.

New comment by zihotki in "Ask HN: MacBook vs. Dedicated GPU for LLM"

zihotki — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:54:43 +0000

From personal experience - it works, but you won't get a comfortable time to first token (latency is high). The reason is that prefill on Macs is bad. You need to have a lot more cores to do it quick. It's close to instant for small models on NVidia GPU's but on Macs it takes a few seconds to get the answer for a simple prompt. And the time grows proportionally with your context size.

New comment by zihotki in "Show HN: OpenKnowledge – open source AI-first alternative to Obsidian/Notion"

zihotki — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:50:50 +0000

I wonder how it compares to https://github.com/refactoringhq/tolaria They look similarly scoped. I haven't used it yet and it's great that there is more choice now

New comment by zihotki in "Who Does What? Team Topologies for the Agentic Platform"

zihotki — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:20:07 +0000

In real life only a minority of teams achieved good results according to Circle CI report.

And there is one notable anecdotal source proving that it is possible - https://ideas.fin.ai/p/2x-nine-months-later

New comment by zihotki in "Package Managers need global hooks"

zihotki — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:15:28 +0000

The solution is called curated package feed. Using private one instead of default public package source, you get a trusted source. All updates should be done by first pulling the new packages to the private feed and only after passing the reviews - update.

A little bit of bureaucracy in form of best security practices helps with supply chain attacks.

New comment by zihotki in "Stop wasting tokens and re explaining your project between sessions"

zihotki — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 22:13:53 +0000

Are there any benchmarks/evals to back the claims? Or how do you know that it helps reducing waste?

New comment by zihotki in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

zihotki — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:44:56 +0000

Isn't that exactly the marketing part? He is the marketing and the channel, he has optimized marketing process.

New comment by zihotki in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

zihotki — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:42:34 +0000

And the best recommendation security teams can give - keep your SBOM strict, use min release age policy (sounds more like band-aid). That's a scary world to live in.

New comment by zihotki in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

zihotki — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:38:51 +0000

I wonder if adding an artificial barrier in form of a donation could help. That's probably the only remaining way to show the good faith.

New comment by zihotki in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

zihotki — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:55:39 +0000

Pencil and paper - that's the classical way a lot of developers from western europe were taught to code. Back to the basics