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ing33k··on Leaving DigitalOcean, one site at a time
So the service is fine .. no downtime, no surprise bills, support works, and the tech is mostly fine. The whole issue is that DigitalOcean sponsored an open-source project led by someone whose politics you don’t like. dig deep enough and you’ll find views you disagree with behind almost every tool, company, repo/dependency you might be using out there. Once that’s the bar, where do you actually draw the line?
ing33k··on Write code like a human will maintain it
And hope it works?

I’m pretty sure many people who use AI to write emails or blog posts add "make it sound like a human wrote it" to their prompts. We all know what the result usually looks like.

If AI is writing my code, I'd rather have it focus purely on correctness and efficiency than on making the code easy to read.

heck! I might even ask it to imitate Arthur Whitney’s style.

/s

ing33k··on Looking Ahead to Postgres 19
The Authors avatar looked familiar, crunchydata ?
ing33k··on "Fix" MacBook Neo Cursor Lag: Record 1 Pixel of the Screen Every 10 Seconds
is any one here using the neo for any coding work ? how is it ?
ing33k··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
Yes. Do the heavy lifting in Claude code , Codex.

Basic tasks in cursor. It's decent and damn fast.

All my team members also use it.

ing33k··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)
I’m working on "Fetch", a native macOS client for ClickHouse.

The idea is to make querying ClickHouse feel more like using a polished desktop with ClickHouse native features :

It’s built in Swift/SwiftUI with Monaco as the SQL editor.

Screenshot: https://ibb.co/gbW4rW7G

ing33k··on CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs
lol, what does it mean ?
ing33k··on Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?
how is autocomplete implemented ?
ing33k··on Cisco workforce reductions
sounds like a daft punk song !
ing33k··on Telus Uses AI to Alter Call-Agent Accents
https://www.sanas.ai/#playground check the Accent Translation section
ing33k··on We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git
this is bad developer UX ( in my opinion). Please reconsider . I lost interest the moment I was not able to commit using normal git commands.

  ⎿  Error: Exit code 1

     GITBUTLER_ERROR: Cannot commit directly to gitbutler/workspace branch.

     GitButler manages commits on this branch. Please use GitButler to commit your changes:
       - Use the GitButler app to create commits
       - Or run 'but commit' from the command line

     If you want to exit GitButler mode and use normal git:
       - Run 'but teardown' to switch to a regular branch
     … +5 lines (ctrl+o to see all)

but was not installed ( I installed the mac app ) .

I still haven't uninstalled the app and will try to figure out the working model.

Also please offer some skill file or a text I can add to my CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md so that when I ask claude to commit , it will go through gitbutler...( edit: looks like it is there, but the discovery is hard ) .

ing33k··on So where are all the AI apps?
Agree. I’ve also noticed that feature creep tends to increase when AI is writing most of the code.
ing33k··on Agentic Software Engineering Book
Book ends with "There’s a fundamental truth about this transformation that no book can fully convey: work- ing with AI teammates is something you must experience to understand"
ing33k··on Show HN: Sweep, Open-weights 1.5B model for next-edit autocomplete
can it be integrated in monaco editor ?
ing33k··on Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
https://www.anthropic.com/news/updates-to-our-consumer-terms
ing33k··on Launch HN: Golpo (YC S25) – AI-generated explainer videos
it created this video for an app I am working on. https://video.golpoai.com/share/8de80271-1109-48e4-ac52-9265...
ing33k··on Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped into Funding AK-47s for Coup
SEBI’s investigation into Jane Street is ongoing.

Sources:

https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulat...

https://www.business-standard.com/finance/news/explained-jan...

https://www.outlookbusiness.com/markets/jane-street-under-se...

https://www.rediff.com/business/report/why-is-sebi-probing-a...

ing33k··on Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App
UV just works. Easily one of the best things to happen to Python packaging in years.
ing33k··on Launch HN: Exa (YC S21) – The web as a database
Quick question : How does it compare to what Diffbot offers?
ing33k··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)
Shipped a new programmatic ads debugging tool https://floors-check.mile.so/ .

It has these capabilities for now : - Prebid flooring insights ( uses an LLM to generate a summary )

- screenshot at various times

- real time console logs

- Prebid detection

ing33k··on I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days
I tried Claude Code and gave it very clear instructions to build a web based tool I wanted to build over the weekend. It did exactly that ! sure, there were some minor modifications I had to make, but it completed over 80% of the work for me.

As for the app itself, it included a simple UI built on React with custom styling and real-time support using WSS . I provided it with my brand colors and asked it to use chadcn. It also includes a Node.js-based backend with socket.io and puppeteer. I even asked it to generate a Dockerfile and Kubernetes manifests. It almost did a perfect job—the only thing I had to fix manually was updating my Ingress to support WSS.

After studying the K8s manifests, I learned a bunch of new things as well.. spent around $6 for this session and I felt that it was worth it.

ing33k··on A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers (2022)
haha, true. Just got blocked because I opened the link once and clicked on refresh.
ing33k··on Elasticsearch Was Great, but Vector Databases Are the Future
ES can handle vector search quite well. I have used it in prod and it's scaled well too.
ing33k··on Winamp Legacy player source code
Cursor can do it.
ing33k··on What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code
Yeah with the added advantage of reduced latency. The system I worked on had a CRUD application which was in Django , ultimately the rules was stored in a Redis.. The ad serving application was in golang that connected to this local redis instances that were replicas of the central redis..

https://redis.io/docs/latest/commands/replicaof/

ing33k··on What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code
well, redis manages the replication without fuss. Unless the framework / language one uses supports it out of the box, there is no point in re implementing replication.

https://www.erlang.org/docs/17/reference_manual/distributed

ing33k··on What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code
I tried a similar approach with a team I was working with. We were building it on top of redis and after some basic benchmarks gave up the idea and figured out from the docs that that eval script is blocking.
ing33k··on Show HN: Open-Source Video Editor Web App
No please. It's a security nightmare.
ing33k··on How Figma's databases team lived to tell the scale
"Additionally, over the past few years, we’ve developed a lot of expertise on how to reliably and performantly run RDS Postgres in-house". Isn't the whole point of paying AWS the premium is that they do it for you ?
ing33k··on End of Life for Twilio Authy Desktop App
Yeah. I have always wondered what they gain by doing this.
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