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RicDan commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) · Posted by u/david927

RicDan · 3 days ago

I've been working on and off on flagforge.dev

I have always hated how we deal with feature flags; often times as a dev I implement it, but then business decides how the flags are used, which comes back to us having to set them. I want to make this something that can be used by both easily, and priced fairly - looking at how much others charge for a feature flag SaaS is insane.

Currently I'm in heavy testing by myself, as I am quite worried about issues (that's just my personality), but yeah. It started as a normal side project for me to train a bit, then I added a bit of agentic coding to it to also learn it, and now it's here.

RicDan commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026) · Posted by u/david927

BrunoBernardino · 4 days ago

I've been working with my wife on Uruky [1] for a couple of months, now. It's a EU-based Kagi [2] alternative (privacy-focused and ad-free search with domain boosting/exclusion rules).

We've been using it with friends and family semi-successfully (hashbangs work for edge cases we're still working on).

It's really difficult to get bigger indexes other than Mojeek and Marginalia to want to work with us and improve the results further, so that's something I've been researching more, lately. EUSP (the new Ecosia/Qwant-effort-related index) has finally replied to me last week, but I'm still waiting on an API key.

If you're interested in trying it for a few days and are a human, reach out with your account number and I'll give you a couple of weeks for free. We're pushing improvements daily.

[1] https://uruky.com

[2] https://kagi.com

P. S. It's weird to see this duplicate (posted less than a week ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874385), but this post has a lot more comments!

RicDan · 3 days ago

Great one, I've been hoping for a kagi alternative in the EU, will check it out :)

RicDan commented on Two kinds of AI users are emerging martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

netdevphoenix · 11 days ago

> The second group is one that thinks talking to a chatbot will replace senior developer

No one is going to replace senior developers. But senior developer pay WILL decrease relative to its historical values.

RicDan · 10 days ago

Not really. If pay decreases it's because you're not required anymore or less, which is contrary to what has been shown. IF educating and enabling juniors etc. is not handled correctly, then senior pay will explode, because whilst they are much more efficient, their inherent knowledge is required to produce sustainable results.

RicDan commented on iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA macrumors.com/2025/12/22/... · Posted by u/Tomte

kibbber · 2 months ago

I quoted a couple.

RicDan · 2 months ago

Is this a bot account? Why is it green and spouting nonsense? There is nothing quoted in the previous comment

RicDan commented on Claude Skills anthropic.com/news/skills... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

Imnimo · 4 months ago

I feel like a danger with this sort of thing is that the capability of the system to use the right skill is limited by the little blurb you give about what the skill is for. Contrast with the way a human learns skills - as we gain experience with a skill, we get better at understanding when it's the right tool for the job. But Claude is always starting from ground zero and skimming your descriptions.

RicDan · 4 months ago

Skills are literally technical documentation for your project it seems. So now we can finally argue for time to write doc, just name it "AI enhancing skill definitions"

RicDan commented on High-resolution efficient image generation from WiFi Mapping arxiv.org/abs/2506.10605... · Posted by u/oldfuture

jychang · 4 months ago

The image examples from the paper are absolutely insane.

Is this just extremely overfitted?

Is there a way for us to test this? Or even if the model isn't open source, I'd pay $1 to upload a capture from my wifi card on my linux box and upload it to the researchers and have them generate a picture and see if it's accurate

RicDan · 4 months ago

Yeah this seems too insane to be true. I understand that wifi signal strength etc. is heavily impacted by the contents of a room, but even so it seems farfetched that there is enough information in its distortion to lead to these results.

RicDan commented on Pricing Pages – A Curated Gallery of Pricing Page Designs pricingpages.design/... · Posted by u/finniansturdy

RicDan · 6 months ago

I've always wanted to know: Are people actually interested in more granular pricing options? I.e. give me 10x more tokens but miss me with that image generation, or give me more bandwith but still only one domain. It feels like nowadays 80% of stuff in pricing packages isn't really used by people paying for it, but they can't opt out of it...

RicDan commented on Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out sfstandard.com/2025/05/20... · Posted by u/nradov

seemsclear · 9 months ago

The delusion is the public’s belief they can ignore political action and everything will work out for them.

RicDan · 9 months ago

Definitely agree. I blame educational institutions (I know, they can't do much without enough freedom + budget) for not advocating enough to our democratic responsabilities. I do wish we adapted some stuff from early history (Athens to be precise) - democratic participants got a very low base salary, and they also could vote to ban people from democratic participation (and hence the city) whenever they got too power hungry. Seems like a loss of responsibility allows too much incompetence to prevail.

RicDan commented on Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out sfstandard.com/2025/05/20... · Posted by u/nradov

gjsman-1000 · 9 months ago

Well, in that case, if I may draw a stereotype, there’s a simple solution:

“If there’s a data breach, and a significant percentage of your programmers are offshore, penalties double.”

We all generally agree here that while some talent is excellent, the majority of companies outsource to the cheapest (or 2nd cheapest, just to be safe) option possible. Turn that into a calculated risk - if you hire a company and their sloppiness causes a data breach, that's on you with heavy penalties for negligence for not validating their work - not the company you hired.

Change the law so that if Bank of America hires Infosys, and Infosys outsources to some sweatshop, Bank of America is the one who must be directly held responsible for a failure.

RicDan · 9 months ago

We all wish that would be the real world - finally some good pressure to prioritise technical debt and issues. And some heads that would roll.

RicDan commented on Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out sfstandard.com/2025/05/20... · Posted by u/nradov

corp8drone8sf · 9 months ago

))) Wiped out is maybe the wrong word - they are more heavily being off-shored right now.

Once the next year of grads come, it is a wipe-out, because you now have multiple years of graduates competing for the same one position. Also, you often dont want damaged goods -- better to hire the fresh grad from this year's batch than a grad from 1 or 2yrs ago who has been unemployed.

the market is brutal

RicDan · 9 months ago

No counter point there. It's a real issue, and I don't know how to handle it. There is also an issue of the current world not being in a very investment heavy mood - unless you're talking military...