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journal··on Tell HN: I'm having the worst career winter of my life
You'll find a job eventually, you just have to survive long enough to find one.
journal··on Global software engineering job postings outlook – 2026
I would not be surprised if the answer is NO.
journal··on Ask HN: What do you use to manage your coding projects?
What is a file system?
journal··on Ask HN: How to go back to listening to MP3s?
you can't bring mp3 to hell
journal··on Ask HN: What percentage of code do you still write by hand?
Before ~ 2022 it was around 100%. Now it's about 1% and it's not code. I might open a bracket once in a while to get it to complete, but mostly I'm wearing out my SPACE, TAB, and ENTER. Using LLMs when it's cheap is similar to investing in bitcoin. LLM prices will only go up from here.
journal··on TP-Link only works with a permanent internet connection
it probably checks if the firmware needs to be updated.
journal··on Ask HN: Does reading HN make you happy?
hn: you can close the tab but you can never leave. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BciS5krYL80&t=260s
journal··on ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests
You only need that info if you know you need it in your rag. Over the last two years of usage I don't recall where I'd need those timestamps but I know there are cases. Still, this would have to be an option because otherwise it would be waste of tokens. However, we have to consider they are competing for the quality AND length of the response even if a shorter response is better. There's a pretzel of considerations when talking about this.
journal··on Ask HN: What would you do if you didn't work in tech?
I'd run a chicken farm and a restaurant.
journal··on Vince Zampella, developer of Call of Duty and Battlefield has died
"A passenger was ejected, and the driver died after being trapped in the burning vehicle"
journal··on Three ways to solve problems
be first, smart, or cheat.
journal··on Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use
I wish they had CRUD application awards.
journal··on Ask HN: Is Stack Overflow Dead?
If not, I bet everyone is waiting for it to die, and take hn with it.
journal··on Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest
Before I consumed calories over days to figure out syntax. Now, a language model exhausts those calories away in seconds. Eventually we will advance too far into the future that the tail end of humanity will forget how to make pants.
journal··on Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?
voice transcription is silly when someone is listening you talking to something that isn't exactly human, imagine explaining you were talking to AI. When it's more than one sentence I use voice too.
journal··on Doxers posing as cops are tricking big tech firms into sharing people's data
One day all your clouds will be made public.
journal··on Is any of you using LLMs to create full features in big enterprise apps?
The quality of an LLM outputs is greatly dependent on the inputs. Your brain is Swiss cheese and LLMs are a filler.
journal··on Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri
by that logic if we help them see why don't we help them understand as well?
journal··on Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration
Won't be adding them then. Not worth the struggle from what I read here. You think it's plug-n-play just swap a model id and endpoint, nope, Chuck Testa.
journal··on How do you handle lost webhooks in production?
anomaly detection, checks to make sure something is still happening.
journal··on Visual Studio 2026
Everything was working fine.
journal··on Ask HN: What's the point of starting a startup if the failure rate is so high?
Because you might die, waiting for failure rate to come down. Failure rate comes down, more people will try, causing failure rate to rise.
journal··on Ask HN: What open source projects are you grateful for?
https://github.com/ShawInnes/SshKeyGenerator change your life. this saves me so many clicks of what would otherwise be a really stupid alternative method of automation regarding these deployments i have to do. i couldn't prompt chatgpt for this code if my life depended on it.
journal··on Show HN: Runprompt – run .prompt files from the command line
i literally vibe coded a tool like this. it supports image in, audio out, and archiving.
journal··on A Vibe Coded SaaS Killed My Team
depends on what you're trying to make. i suggest trying to vibe code a tool like i have called llm.exe which takes contents of predefined md file and sends it for response which is added to the end of the file. then incrementally add new flags to the tool to have more features and use other models, anything from generating audio using audio models to archiving and image input. Then try to create something in framework you are not familiar with and come up with your own methods allowing you to go much further than one shot. i tried to vibe code winapi and it's hard, but i think doable even for large scoped projects, the problem is context hoisting and you need to keep track of a spec. try to think what is the minimum text you need to describe what you are doing. ask models to generate one file or method at a time. i don't use fancy ide.
journal··on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Now we have to stop people from consuming cold turkey.
journal··on Show HN: Build the habit of writing meaningful commit messages
ok, but did they have to make commit message required, or is there a way to disable it? i think of git as checkpoints, nothing more. the day i have to explore history is the day i quit.
journal··on Ask HN: How would you architect a RAG system for 10M+ documents today?
ranked hierarchical pagination and intermediate context control. also, text documents in database or text data in worth of 10 million documents? If you OCR, why not cache result? Also, Lucene white space tokenization is pretty good for dumb exact or close enough to get a filtered result that might fit the context windows better. imagine having to ocr and llm, instantly. i would do everything to avoid architecting a system like that. not sure if you're pointing the right end of the stick at the right problem. are you intending to max out your allowed context? what's going on here? you can usually extract rough set before you llm so ideally you'd never exceed 50% of context. How big of responses do you expect? you have a lot of options, just throw everything at the problem that's easy to implement first and see what sticks. make sure you got terminal access whereever you do this for max flexibility. i obviously prefer aspnet with psql. what kind of data do you need indexed? lets say you have something stupid like origin and destination based on locations and you need geo index and maybe zipcode database, and some intermediate step to calculate assets within radius, calc some distances and make a decision, adding geo to any problem is a nightmare, but fun, but only the first time. cause you know how to do it now but it takes so long you don't want to. if you have terminal and source you have enough space to maneuver updates, it'll end up being probably a one line to execute an update that takes some time to rebuild your solution and then it seems to automatically slide it under the working app i never experienced any problems. as for database schema changes, push out your production release to where the time between schema changes go down to less than 5% or something extreme but be aware there could be schema changes that are hard to implement even later, but after you're in production it's much harder.
journal··on Ask HN: What does "legacy code" mean to you?
Whatever no one is doing anymore.
journal··on Facebook has made it impossible to delete Pages – dark patterns everywhere
just wait until op finds out they can't delete this post.
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