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szatkus··on Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?
That's why coding agents usually scans various files to figure out how to work in a particular codebase. I work with very large and old project, and Codex most of time manages to work with our frameworks.
szatkus··on Claude March 2026 usage promotion
Pay as you go. I never spent more than $10/month working on my side project (usually a few evenings per month).
szatkus··on Stephen Colbert going down swinging
Maybe there should be a limit how many items a user can flag?
szatkus··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
> What more does notepad need?

Most of the features that were added in later versions: unicode, tabs, auto-reload, support for large files. CTRL+S is also nice.

szatkus··on Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo
The main problem with Firefox OS was that it was really slow. At the same time it was targeting budget phones.

But on the other hand progress was quite good. Back in the days I was maintaining unofficial images for Alcatel Fire. Each version was a little bit faster, but you really can't do much when the whole OS is a browser running on a device with with 256MB of RAM and a single core CPU.

szatkus··on AI has a deep understanding of how this code works
This is just incredible.

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369/commits/ce372a60bd...

szatkus··on Failing to Understand the Exponential, Again
That one order of magnitude is about 7 years behind the Moore's Law. We're still progressing but it's slower, more expensive and we hit way more walls than before.
szatkus··on Java 25 officially released
IntelliJ use wasn't that widespread until about 10-15 years ago. Java was thriving before that.
szatkus··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
I mean, Apache Commons are still widely used. But it's just a handful of libraries maintaned by one organisation.
szatkus··on Nintendo Switch 2 Dock USB-C Compatibility
Switch 2 seems to be more up to standard. I was able to charge it with a normal phone charger and also the Switch 2 charger seems to work with everything else unlike the one for Switch 1. Fortunately I never bricked anything with that, but it just never worked with anything other than the console.
szatkus··on The share of Americans having regular sex keeps dropping
Please, this is HN. Don't make moot points. Smartphones existed before 2010, but few people had them.
szatkus··on It is worth it to buy the fast CPU
The author used kernel compilation as a benchmark. Which is weird, because for most projects a build process isn't as scalable as that (especially in the node.js ecosystem), even less after a full build.
szatkus··on HN Search isn't ingesting new data since Friday
Yup, I noticed yesterday that all items were a few days old. It seems to work now.
szatkus··on Infinite Pixels
According to the spec:

These constants are defined mostly to make serialization of infinite/NaN values simpler and more obvious, but can be used to indicate a "largest possible value", since an infinite value gets clamped to the allowed range. It’s rare for this to be reasonable, but when it is, using infinity is clearer in its intent than just putting an enormous number in one’s stylesheet.

szatkus··on Constitution of the United States Website has removed sections
Considering that only the last part of one article is missing it really looks like a bug.
szatkus··on Most people who buy games on Steam never play them
Also collections. I almost finished Tomb Raider II.
szatkus··on Nintendo unveils Switch 2 ahead of June 5 launch
Most Nintendo games are on modest -33% sale from time to time. The only exception is Pokemon games. These are never on sale. Just look up on Deku Deals.
szatkus··on Gemini 2.5
I recently watched some Claude Plays Pokemon and believe it's better measure than all those AI benchmarks. The game could be beaten by a 8yo which obviously doesn't have all that knowledge that even small local LLMs posess, but has actual intelligence and could figure out the game within < 100h. So far Claude can't even get past the first half and I doubt any other AI could get much further.
szatkus··on The Dumbest Trade War Fallout Begins
It's one of those weird HN things...

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2550

szatkus··on Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location
Just yesterday I got a phone call from a recruiter asking about my LinkedIn account. I said that I don't have one.

About an hour later she called me again with an invitation for a job interview.

I don't really know what LinkedIn would change here...

szatkus··on Google Demands That We Censor Our Content
For opening hours, usually Facebook pages. Google is too unreliable for that, especially when it's a holiday.
szatkus··on AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A surprisingly fascinating sub-$200 CPU
Usually you can modify the amount of RAM dedicated to the GPU in BIOS.
szatkus··on AMD's 22 year old GPUs are still getting updates
Yeah, I looked up the author and the changes were comitted from a gmail account. The official contibution from AMD would be made from an account with amd.com domain.
szatkus··on How many legs do ten elephants have, if two of them are legless?
I did some re-adjustments and...

https://imgur.com/a/0Ww2Uln

szatkus··on Are Open-Source Large Language Models Catching Up?
Given I'd get through registration can I talk with it in English?
szatkus··on Ubisoft blames 'technical error' for showing pop-up ads in Assassin's Creed
I recall that Shogo, which was released in 1998, had billboards advertising the real world products.
szatkus··on Google paid $26.3B in 2021 to be the default search engine
Visibly worse than searching for English content, but not bad overall. You still get random English results in between, like in DDG, which doesn't happen in Google.
szatkus··on Explorer.exe randomly taking focus – Windows 11
Yes, apparently HN corrupted it, because the link does a redirection if you accesss it with empty cookies. Thanks for letting me know.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/explor...

szatkus··on The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”
I coded a credit card payment a few times in my career and from what I saw it's always just a token. That token could be only used to make transactions from your account to the specific vendor's account. Of course there's always could be some incompetent developer who thought that saving credit card data into a database is a great idea, but overall it's not as risky as people think.
szatkus··on Java 21: The Nice, the Meh, and the Momentous
AFAIK Java 8 added a few methods that helps you handle integers as if they were unsigned, like `toUnsignedString`. I think it's enough for any exotic cases.
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