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New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "What About Rails?"

zsoltkacsandi — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:56:41 +0000

> I've seen this one a few times lately. People should stop building UIs, nobody wants to interact with a UI. Everyone's app should just be an API that you can use with a chatbot.

Same happened when the first smartphones came out, and everything was about "mobile first". Everyone will use their mobile phones for everything, desktop is dead, every app should be primarily designed for smartphones, everything comes after. Turned out smartphones just another interface that are good for some things, and not good for some other. Same for the "cloud native" movement.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "The darker side of being a doctor"

zsoltkacsandi — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:57:56 +0000

Prevention is not about age related diseases, but early onset cancer, diabetes, high blood pressure caused by alcohol and tobacco use, unhealthy diet, and sedentary lifestyle.

A significant amount of cases could be prevented before they need medical intervention (and put burden on the medical system). There are several researches about this, the number of people with type 2 diabetes doubled in the past decades.

This is why some healthcare systems reward for example doing 10.000 steps a day with lower insurance fees. They recognized they save a huge amount of money if they get people to move.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "The darker side of being a doctor"

zsoltkacsandi — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:49:13 +0000

> The reality is we need more doctors. A lot more.

I think building a better prevention layer is more important.

Don't get me wrong, I agree that we need more doctors (and nurses, and physios, and dietetists, and ...), but it is much easier to scale a good prevention system than the number of workers in healthcare.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Linux from Scratch"

zsoltkacsandi — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 06:55:32 +0000

> LFS takes the wrong approach in my opinion.

Shameless plug: I started a series of blog posts exactly because this. https://serversfor.dev/linux-inside-out/

Unfortunately due to some cervical spine issues and a surgery I wasn't able to finish it, but I am planning to pick it up and continue.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "If coding is solved, what now?: Measuring the sloppiness of code"

zsoltkacsandi — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:28:28 +0000

That is very well put and summarizes what distinguishes real software development from vibe coding.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Apple Watch Series 12"

zsoltkacsandi — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:12:55 +0000

No, it’s not. 24 hours is the same as series 11. And you are comparing to series 10, not 11, that already had this improvement. I do not work out 10 hours a day, so that number is literally meaningless/pointless.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Apple Watch Series 12"

zsoltkacsandi — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:10:44 +0000

I have hearth issues too, and the metrics Apple provides still do not help detecting them. Not to mention that there is no improvement of their high blood pressure detection. So despite the marketing that they have the most accurate sensor, there is no real advancement here.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Apple Watch Series 12"

zsoltkacsandi — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:03:34 +0000

Disappointing. Instead of making battery life better that would benefit all of the Apple Watch users, here are some random AI features that most of you never gonna usa, and some new colors.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Show HN: Open-Source eInk Bike Computer"

zsoltkacsandi — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:25:22 +0000

I've found e-ink displays super fragile for this use case. They break from a little fall, or even from the constant shaking.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "GPT-6 Astra"

zsoltkacsandi — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:31:20 +0000

Yeah, but if OpenAI provides a cheaper model with the same capabilities the megacorps will buy from OpenAI. If you want to target enterprises you need to have some competitive advantage, it's not enough that "I wanna target them".

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

zsoltkacsandi — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:06:46 +0000

> either fix opus 5, make it completely free, or delete it entirely

They should pay for us for using it!

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Dr. Melvin Scheinman: 40th Anniversary of Catheter Ablation"

zsoltkacsandi — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:31:30 +0000

> He spent the next three years pursuing this vision.

I had the chance to try this procedure out when I was 20, and it saved my life. Without it there is a high chance I would be dead. And it is because he had an idea that he pursued.

It is fascinating what modern medicine is capable of.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

zsoltkacsandi — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:47:43 +0000

That is what happens when someone without a clue what is he (khm, DHH) doing vibe codes a distro.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

zsoltkacsandi — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:18:16 +0000

Favourite conversation with Opus 5:

Me: why did you add HTMX?

Opus 5: you asked it twice.

Me: quote the exact sentence(s) where I asked it.

Opus 5: I can’t because you didn’t.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

zsoltkacsandi — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:31:42 +0000

> It tends to bail occasionally for me once auth-related code comes into play.

I have the same experience. I found that if I add to the prompt: “but it’s not security related, we only focus on the auth library design”, it “bypasses” the safeguard.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)"

zsoltkacsandi — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:03:04 +0000

Or just using a VPN, Wireguard, or Tailscale if you don’t want to configure Wireguard yourself.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)"

zsoltkacsandi — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:01:14 +0000

If you mean fail2ban by “battle hardened service”, it manipulates the firewall rules as well. And OpenSSH has the same functionality built-in, without any additional service (PerSourcePenalties).

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

zsoltkacsandi — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:20:44 +0000

A Golang web framework.

https://github.com/gofabrik/fabrik

I’ve been waiting for a spine surgery and to do something with my time I started experimenting with an idea I had. It completely pulled me in, and helps me to distract myself.

It is work in progress, lacks of documentation, I am not even sure I will release it.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

zsoltkacsandi — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:24:32 +0000

Seemingly Cloudflare’s strategy nowadays is shipping “open-source” projects that are coupled with their own infastructure. First EmDash CMS, now this.

New comment by zsoltkacsandi in "What's the largest software project AI can complete on its own?"

zsoltkacsandi — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:27:30 +0000

I agree, Opus 5 is terrible. Worse than Opus 4.8.