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kaishinon Show HN: Critic – Review code with the agent that wrote it

I looked at this landing page for 5min and still have no idea what this is. The description above is doing a better job.

kaishinon Show HN: Friday – Self-hosted persistent memory for AI coding agents (MCP)

How many times do we need to solve this problem using glue and hacks?

kaishinon Show HN: FrontierHarness Eval – 9 harness, same model, cost per pass varies 17x

Putting only the tasks and results in the repo is a poor decision. These conclusions would be far more credible if anyone could re-run the benchmark.

kaishinon Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents

Lots missing on the landing page for me to trust this vs. just building my own using YouTube-dl.

kaishinon Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation

To solve what exactly? Sure you will punish Sony but that won't bring optical media back. We need to accept and move on with the times.

kaishinon Show HN: I speak 5 languages. Common apps taught me none. So I built lairner

Just wanted to let you know that some pronunciation audio in Japanese are completely wrong.

kaishinon There is an AI code review bubble

We used Greptile where I work and it was so bad we decided to switch to Claude. And even Claude isn’t nearly as good at reviewing as an experienced programmer with domain knowledge.

kaishinon Show HN: Learn Japanese contextually while browsing

Nice concept but the design could use some love as it looks a bit on the vibe coding slop side of things.

kaishinon Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI

That take was such bad taste. I get where he's coming from, and I don't like it one bit.

kaishinon Show HN: I built the literal Duolingo Killer

I appreciate the prompt engineering effort, but it's a lot of claims and not much substance. Also, I wouldn't call Japanese used in anime "real Japanese", especially from anime like Attack on Titan. And how do you get around the copyright issue? Does this fall under fair use?

kaishinon Gazzetta, an RSS Reader for Mastodon

No worries. Will do.

kaishinon Gazzetta, an RSS Reader for Mastodon

Neat idea but I keep getting an error when I try to login to mastodon

kaishinon Swift – A great language strangled by governance?

I like how the conclusion of the article paints a very positive picture for the language. It’s as if the entire negative tone of the article was a poor attempt to sound insightful for clicks.

kaishinon Swift – A great language strangled by governance?

This article is full of statements that are not backed up by any material proof. The author claims that Swift features no longer compose without giving a single example. I write Swift SDKs for a living and I have never thought that any of the recent features felt incompatible, incongruous, or redundant. Sure, each has its strengths and weaknesses, but that results in an expressive language where every problem has several solutions with different tradeoffs.

When it comes to governance, it’s not without wrinkles, but it’s not as bad as the author makes it sound. If anything, things got a bit less “dictatorial” since Chris left. Different core team members pull in slightly different directions which made the language more balanced in my view.

kaishinon Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub

I doubt hosting on Gitea or Gitlab would have helped in this case since Nintendo reached an agreement with the lead developer.

kaishinon CA law means stores can't say you're buying a game if you're merely licensing it

Apple uses “Get”.

kaishinon Accidental database programming

Any plans to support mobile? That’s where I’d consider using this most.

kaishinon Apple developer boycott of Feedback Assistant

One reason they are charging is to weed out bad actors or people not serious enough about publishing apps on their stores. That said they could do this as a one off like Google, and make it cheaper too.

kaishinon The next generation of serverless

This going to be a naive question due to my lack of familiarity with WebAssembly, but what does it it being to the table that wasn’t possible to do with any other standalone program packaged as a binary?

kaishinon OpenAI API keys leaking through app binaries

As an iOS developer I’ve learned to never put 3rd party secrets in the app. I typically go with a proxy backend server and attach a request-unique nonce that’s created using an obfuscated secret key stored as an array of integers on the client.

kaishinon Apple is not defending browser engine choice

Are Web apps competing with Android apps where users can use Blink-based browsers? I’m not so sure about that… I’d like to see some data points that’d prove otherwise though.

kaishinon Apple, FedEx and the cookie apocalypse

I’m quite confused by the paragraph arguing that advertisers don’t want to violate my privacy. So if I’m a parent and rather keep that private from everyone, how’s showing me diaper ads by obtaining that information from somewhere I didn’t suspect not a violation of my privacy?

kaishinon How Swift achieved dynamic linking where Rust couldn't (2019)

Swift has unfortunately no choice but to solve this problem if it is to be used to build native software for Apple platforms.

kaishinon Why is Apple acting like an asshole?

Oh please point me to the latest Web innovations that do something else other than track me or pester me with junk I don't need.

kaishinon NeutralinoJS: Lightweight Electron alternative using native browser controls

I don’t see Apple going the route of bundling Chromium. Catalyst does allow porting iOS apps to macOS but it’s been not great so far.

I think there will always be a category of people who prefer using native apps for performance, security, or access to OS features. Anecdotally I looked at the apps I have installed and I found out that I don’t have many electron apps on my Mac beside chat apps and VS Code. I suspect non tech-savvy people might have even less, since they do a lot more inside their browsers compared to before.

I’m not sure what you refer to when you say “native desktop apps aren’t coming back”, given that they never left t begin with.

kaishinon SapphireDb – Open-Source Alternative to Firebase

Thanks! Will keep an eye on it.

kaishinon SapphireDb – Open-Source Alternative to Firebase

Is it supposed to be self-hosted? Wasn’t clear to me after taking a quick look.

kaishinon Show HN: Try, FormSubmit 2.0 with most advanced features

Any plans to open source this?

kaishinon Ask HN: Show Us Your Personal Website/Blog?

https://redalemeden.com/

Just deployed a new design, rewritten in Gatsby (source: https://github.com/kaishin/redalemeden.com). I still have plans to add some additional bells and whistles but I am happy with the result so far!

kaishinon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)

Kaching AB | Stockholm, Sweden | 3 Roles | Full-time, Onsite preferably

We are Stockholm-based startup founded in 2016 and we're building cloud infrastructure and mobile apps to support the next wave of brick-and-mortar and online retail innovations (self-checkout, mobile POS, RFID applications, machine learning, etc). We're looking for cloud engineers, backend, and Web developers.

Career Page: https://www.indeedjobs.com/kaching-ab/

* Cloud Engineer: Experienced cloud engineer with razor sharp knowledge about cloud architecture.

Keywords: AWS, Cloud Formation, Cloud Front, Cloud Watch, Elastic Compute Cloud, Lambda, Route 53, API gateway, pm2, Apache Kafka, Networking, Security, GDPR Link: https://www.indeedjobs.com/kaching-ab/jobs/3db2068f08a445282...

* Backend Developer: Experienced backend developer with strong interest in system design.

Keywords: NodeJS, TypeScript, pm2, CQRS, Kafka, Event Sourcing, Micro Services Link: https://www.indeedjobs.com/kaching-ab/jobs/7828451b61553d4e1...

* Lead Web Developer: Experienced Web developer to take ownership and bring our web platform to the next level.

Keywords: JavaScript, client-side frameworks such as VueJs, ReactJS, webpack, CSS, npm, TypeScript Link: https://www.indeedjobs.com/kaching-ab/jobs/3867a157e5249d648...