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Good news, MTP support is already included in this release. Not sure why they haven't made this clearer.

zazibaron Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

This looks exactly like every other web UI built by Claude.

zazibaron Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

The subject matter is interesting but the amount of slop makes it difficult to read through. Yeah, it's great that you can throw your technical problems at Claude without caring much about the generated output but treating your own writing that you actually want to share with the world the same way is a terrible idea.

zazibaron We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

LLM-generated slop about LLM-generated slop, wonderful.

zazibaron Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

A month ago the company I work at with over 400 engineers decided to cancel all IDE subscriptions (Visual Studio, JetBrains, Windsurf, etc.) and move everyone over to Claude Code as a "cost-saving measure" (along with firing a bunch of test engineers). There was no migration plan - the EVP of Technology just gave a demo showing 2 greenfield projects he'd built with Claude Opus over a weekend and told everyone to copy how he worked. A week later the EVP had to send out an email telling people to stop using Opus because they were burning through too many tokens.

Claude seems to be getting nerfed every week since we've switched. I wonder how our EVP is feeling now.

zazibaron Coding after coders: The end of computer programming as we know it?

>I think though that the day is coming where I can trust the code it produces and at that point I'll just by writing specs. It's not there yet though.

Must be nice to still have that choice. At the company I work for they've just announced they're cancelling all subscriptions to JetBrains, Visual Studio, Windsurf, etc. and forcing every engineer to use Claude Code as a cost-saving measure. We've been told we should be writing prompts for Claude instead of working in IDEs now.

zazibaron Agents that run while I sleep

This account constantly posts LLM-generated comments.

zazibaron Beyond agentic coding

A "you're holding it wrong" with the implication that the author is a bad engineer as the cherry on top. Brilliant stuff.

zazibaron I Avoid Async/Await

Now maybe it’s just my familiarity with Promises, but I look at the third example and I can quickly see an opportunity.

This entire article is built around the author's ignorance and could easily be summarised as "I avoid async/await syntax because I'm more familiar with promises". The author doesn't even appear to understand that async/await is syntactic sugar for promises.

zazibaron Hacking your face to dodge the rise of facial recognition tech

Corporate greed has no bounds.

zazibaron Apps of a Feather

I've clicked that action every single time I've seen it for at least the past year and it still continues to show the very thing I want to see less often. It's absolutely infuriating.

zazibaron Mozilla Awards Over Half a Million to Open Source Projects

A wonderful surprise to see Phaser on that list!

zazibaron Show HN: Coinhive – Embeddable JavaScript Crypto Miner

I love this idea, congratulations on the launch.

zazibaron Kotlin vs. Java – An Android Developer's First Impressions

Off-topic but is anyone else unable to scroll on this page?

zazibaron Ask HN: What is the worst software that you have to use?

Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet - Xcode!

The frequent plain text display of code, freezes and outright crashes really makes me feel like Apple has a completely different internal tool for iOS/macOS development.

zazibaron Ask HN: Coding notes – how do you do them?

Great insight, thanks for posting.

zazibaron What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)

Interesting. Thanks for the detailed response!

zazibaron What's all this fuss about Erlang? (2007)

Can you elaborate on how you implemented those servers? Would you still use Clojure or Go for them now? If not, what alternative do you suggest?

zazibaron Simplify Your Message, and Repeat Often

Thanks for posting about this, more people should know about it!

zazibaron Show HN: A reference use of Hashicorp's Raft implementation

For those unfamiliar with how the Raft protocol works (as I was) this site[1] provides a great step by step visualization.

1. http://thesecretlivesofdata.com/raft/

zazibaron Ask HN: Cheap dedicated hosting options for side projects

I highly recommend Scaleway. https://www.scaleway.com/