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cybice··on How Claude marks AI-generated content
на ху я?
cybice··on Claude Code helps me recover after surgery
After shoulder surgery, I was sent to a physical therapist.

In forty minutes, he showed me a dozen exercises: what to pull, how to hold it, what to move. I nodded carefully and pretended to understand everything.

Then I was given a sheet of exercises and went home. At home, it turned out that I had understood nothing and forgotten the rest.

The sheet said things like “move the shoulder blade back and down”, “rotate the lower angle up and out”, and “do not flare the ribs”. Each word made sense on its own. Together, they were nonsense.

Fortunately, I am a programmer. So Claude Code got the sheet. It found the sources and built a rotatable skeleton, step-by-step instructions, and an explanation of the tricky parts for every exercise.

I suspect rehabilitation handouts will look something like this in the near future: a live artifact with animated 3D skeletons like https://plecho.poke-method.work/en sources https://github.com/istarkov/pt

PS: It’s by no means a substitute for a real doctor, but it’s incredibly helpful for fully understanding what needs to be done and how to do it.

cybice··on Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal
Nothing beats tmux + iterm 2 integration. Its really my terminal.
cybice··on Is X down?
Yes
cybice··on MacBook Air with M5
m1 has perfect performance. Screen is the issue. Having all modern devices with 90-120Hz and good brightness, Im feeling headache switching on air on regular basis.
cybice··on SQL Studio
I've known and used SQL for 25 years; over the last year I haven’t written a single query by hand - AI is very good at it. I use SQL editors only to quickly see what I have there and to check the AI-generated query.
cybice··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)
Frontend, Backend, Devops Full Stack Engineer with 25+ years of experience in complex Frontend components, Backend, and DevOps. Open Source Creator of libraries with [~10k stars ](https://github.com/istarkov). Former maintainer of Recompose. Architected and built end-to-end systems from scratch, scaling platforms to 1 million+ users and 20M daily requests. Master's degree in Mathematics.

https://github.com/istarkov istarkov@gmail.com

Remote.

cybice··on Eels are fish
GPT-5 says that now its not. So while lampreys are technically fish under traditional definitions, modern evolutionary science places them as one of the most primitive branches of vertebrates—not part of the “true” jawed fish group.
cybice··on Eels are fish
While reading an article, I went to check how an eel differs from a lamprey - and I found out that a lamprey isn’t actually a fish
cybice··on Datadog's $65M/year customer mystery solved
An article that's basically an ad for Datadog: Pay us a ton of money - it’s still cheaper in the long run.
cybice··on Dusa Programming Language (Finite-Choice Logic Programming)
Any real life tasks examples?
cybice··on Understanding Round Robin DNS
Cloudflare results with worker as a reverse proxy can be much better.
cybice··on Show HN: Mitata – Benchmarking tooling for JavaScript
Hi! In your benchmark, do you use a fixed number of iterations to stop the test, or do you apply a statistical criterion, such as the Student's t-test, to determine when to stop?
cybice··on Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue
Why Hatchet might be better than Windmill: Windmill uses the same approach in PostgreSQL, very fast and has an incredibly good UI.
cybice··on PostgreSQL Row Level Security
Performance is huuuge issue with RLS, as it works like an optimization barrier. Because of security RLS rules are applied initially and then all/most indexes you have just not working at all. ITs not like single WHERE clause with injected RLS checks
cybice··on Terraform should have remained stateless
"None" state store definitely would be good for one of our case - automatic preview deploys for pull requests. Statefull approach works good 99.9% of time but rare errors like inability to destroy resource because of cloud provider issues cause that you need manual interventions - i.e. resource cant be created as not managed by state etc. Even rare errors are not rare when you have 20+ devs :-)

That needs some manual fixes i.e import state, killing resources etc but not all devs has access rights or knowledge to do this.

cybice··on Google service outages in Europe
belgium affected too, auth service seems not working
cybice··on The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam
As webdeveloper I have a strong feeling that we are writing web for google bot and not for people. For any website I created I have a list from SEO what to add. Like 200 links at each page bottom, different titles, headers, metas, human readable urls without query params, all that canonical urls, nofollow rules etc. Most of this things invisible to users and created only for googlebot.
cybice··on Why Russians do not smile (2002)
Changed a little bit since that time. Mostly in cities, now we are smiling when meet with people we know well. This allows me to trick the system sometimes, every time I need something from government structure Im smiling there like an idiot, that cause unknown people to think that they know me and then help.
cybice··on We were promised Strong AI, but instead we got metadata analysis
Im working as web developer, and have a strong feeling that now we are writing web sites for google and not for humans. Most decisions about where and how to place content are coming from SEOs. UX etc doesnt matter.
cybice··on How I generated incomes as a web developer without working as a freelancer
Shitty medium links!!! What I see every time I click.

"How to read this story — and everything else on Medium. Not every story on Medium is free, like this one. Become a member to get unlimited access and support the voices you want to hear more from."

cybice··on Russia, after protests, tells Google not to advertise “illegal” events
And on "illegal" events, the main thing Russian citizen is asking - that government must use our constitution too
cybice··on Russia, after protests, tells Google not to advertise “illegal” events
Google can use Russian Constitution:

31. Citizens of the Russian Federation shall have the right to assemble peacefully, without weapons, hold rallies, meetings and demonstrations, marches and pickets.

Article 29

1. Everyone shall be guaranteed the freedom of ideas and speech.

2. The propaganda or agitation instigating social, racial, national or religious hatred and strife shall not be allowed. The propaganda of social, racial, national, religious or linguistic supremacy shall be banned.

3. No one may be forced to express his views and convictions or to reject them.

4. Everyone shall have the right to freely look for, receive, transmit, produce and distribute information by any legal way. The list of data comprising state secrets shall be determined by a federal law.

5. The freedom of mass communication shall be guaranteed. Censorship shall be banned.

PS. Im Russian and live here.

cybice··on Putin signs law that prohibits technology providing access to banned websites
As a Russian wanna say its true.
cybice··on Ask HN: Anybody who left IT?
I left IT 10 years ago, because of health problems and I was really tired of programming. After 3 years of working as non IT specialist (negotiator in investment company) I helped our analysts to develop a small script to parse some data, then again and again, and I got that I still love to develop. So now I'm in IT world again ;-)

BTW that non IT years were one of the best in my life as life is not a job.

Ivan Starkov github.com/istarkov

cybice··on Runnable Sandboxes: Full-stack environments for every GitHub branch
I wrote similar service on dokku few days before https://github.com/istarkov/create-your-own-heroku-review-ap...

And it's really cool that we have Heroku alternatives.

cybice··on Enable Node.js to Run with Microsoft's ChakraCore Engine
Node v8 memory limit is the big problem for me http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7193959/memory-limit-in-n... Sometimes I need to move data outside heap memory - Buffers etc. Looks like chakra have no such problem.
cybice··on Ask HN: ReactJS – Do you use it? Do you like it?
I've moved from angular to react and i'm happy. Simple, really simple!!! interface. All you need is to remember just few methods of one (ONE!!!) class. It's fast enough to create interfaces with a lot of objects.

With react and react-native i start publish my projects on github, because they has a simple structure and can be easily supported.

I almost forget jQuery, it's really rare situation when i need to access real DOM.

Big amount of flux frameworks (i love [flummox](https://github.com/acdlite/flummox) , [redux](https://github.com/gaearon/redux)).

I read discussions (in twitter, in github issues, in slack http://www.reactiflux.com/) of this guys @sebmarkbage, @Vjeux, @dan_abramov, @acdlite and many others as like "THE BEST PROGRAMMING BOOK I'VE EVER READ"

My [app](https://github.com/istarkov/google-map-react) hit the top trending github apps, thanks to react community. (it's not easy for developer to show his work to the world)

React is GREAT!!!

cybice··on Email Regex that works 99.99%
Why perl regexp is so long?