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dimgl commented on What makes Claude Code so damn good minusx.ai/blog/decoding-c... · Posted by u/samuelstros

1zael · 21 hours ago

Answered above, but to be concrete on features --> it helped me build an end-to-end multi-stage pipeline architecture for video and audio transcription, LLM analysis, content generation, and evals. It took care of stuff like Postgres storage and pgvector for RAG-powered semantic search, background job orchestration with intelligent retry logic, Celery workers for background jobs, and MCP connectors.

dimgl · 11 hours ago

We get it; it helped you build a bunch of stuff. Why not just post your company?

dimgl commented on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/pr337h4m

alecco · 11 days ago

"You're absolutely right" (song) https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1mep2jo/youre_abs...

dimgl · 11 days ago

This made my entire week

dimgl commented on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation theverge.com/news/757461/... · Posted by u/Handy-Man

sho_hn · 13 days ago

> Even among tech people, they have good will

Wait, do they?

I mostly remember:

- A neglected desktop OS with slowly deteriorating quality

- Aimless products like the Vision Pro that seems to have failed as the "get the devs excited" premium SDK launch everyone described it as

- Rocky start issues on Apple Intelligence, nerfed Siri, etc.

- Unexciting iPhone launch and lots of ridicule levied on Liquid Glass

It's the laptop to get for compute/battery, which definitely is not nothing, but I'd say few tech people have been excited about Apple otherwise lately, as product or platform.

dimgl · 13 days ago

> I'd say few tech people have been excited about Apple otherwise lately, as product or platform.

Maybe you're speaking for yourself? I absolutely love my Macbook and the M-series are the best devices I've ever owned.

> - A neglected desktop OS with slowly deteriorating quality

Really? I haven't noticed.

dimgl commented on Asyncio: A library with too many sharp corners sailor.li/asyncio... · Posted by u/chubot

mikert89 · a month ago

the real problem is python, great at the start of a project, by the end i am dying to rewrite in java.

dimgl · a month ago

Sounds like trading one problem for another

dimgl commented on Run TypeScript code without worrying about configuration tsx.is/... · Posted by u/nailer

fjcero · a month ago

Use bun

dimgl · a month ago

Bun is still unstable for me. I’ve had to switch back to Node for several projects and I end up falling back to tsx.

dimgl commented on Run TypeScript code without worrying about configuration tsx.is/... · Posted by u/nailer

dimgl · a month ago

tsx is such an amazing tool. A couple of years ago I discovered it and abandoned ts-node and all of the alternatives. I still use it today and I was a sponsor for many months.

Thanks again to the author. It has saved me (and my team) dozens of hours. And I was able to replace all of my ESBuild workarounds that I had made to easily run TypeScript. Cheers.

dimgl commented on Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database generalanalysis.com/blog/... · Posted by u/rexpository

arewethereyeta · 2 months ago

meanwhile people are crying for simple features like the ability to create a transaction (for queries) for years but let's push AI.

dimgl · 2 months ago

I think I know what you're talking about because I ran into this too. In defense of Supabase, you can still use transactions in other ways. Transactions through the client are messy and not easily supported by PostgREST.

The GitHub issue here sums up the conversation about this:

https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/issues/286

Regardless of Hacker News's thoughts on MCP servers, there is a cohort of users that are finding them to be immensely useful. Myself included. It doesn't excuse the thought processes around security; I'm just saying that LLMs are here and this is not going away.

dimgl commented on Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers blog.trailofbits.com/2025... · Posted by u/ingve

wavemode · 2 months ago

> Nothing in the article discusses a parser or anything like a parser bug.

And it doesn't claim to. The article is titled "footguns" not "bugs". A footgun is just something that is easy to misuse due to unintuitive or unexpected behavior.

dimgl · 2 months ago

> And it doesn't claim to.

Yes it does. The title is literally "Unexpected security footguns in Go's parsers". The article didn't identify a single footgun. This is just bad design.

dimgl commented on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts fly.io/blog/youre-all-nut... · Posted by u/tabletcorry

jatins · 3 months ago

Everything about that is true but, and that's a big BUT, the code I write with LLM I can only iterate on it with an LLM.

My mind doesn't develop a mental model of that code, I don't know where the relevant parts are, I can't quickly navigate through it and I have to reach the LLM for every small change.

Which is why I like Copilot style editing more than agents as a working model but agents are just so much more powerful and smarter thanks to everything available to them.

dimgl · 3 months ago

This is exactly right. This is what's happened with every vibe coded codebase I've made. As a result, I only selectively use LLMs now with sections of the codebase. Or I'll just relinquish control to the LLM. I think the latter will happen en masse, which is scary.

dimgl commented on Show HN: Every problem and solution in Beyond Cracking the Coding Interview · Posted by u/leeny

paxys · 3 months ago

People keep saying this, but no one ever shares any meaningful data to make their case. Tech companies have been using Leetcode-style interviews to hire programmers for decades, and have grown in value from nothing to trillions of dollars in that time. The industry as a whole is worth tens of trillions, and the software these fake Leetcode programmers have built has eaten the world. Large companies have all spent billions on recruiting and internal processes and have come to the same conclusion - coding interviews work, and are very effective. Why should they stop? Vibes? Online comments?

dimgl · 3 months ago

I used to agree with the anti-Leetcode sentiment like the OP, but changed my tune fairly quickly once I started doing actual production-grade software engineering that goes beyond just simple CRUD and realized the things that Leetcode tests are applicable everywhere. It just kinda clicked one day for me and I started passing Leetcode assessments.

Sure, some interviews are pretty hard and some algorithms/data structures are not as common on the job. But given a complex enough system, you'll run into lots of situations where having this foundation will pay off. I mean, it's just computer science.

That's the thing about software engineering. You can get a lot done without knowing the foundational stuff. But then you're just a blunt instrument. Everything looks like a nail to a hammer.