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wooque commented on Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole bytemash.net/posts/i-went... · Posted by u/jcusch

andy99 · 25 days ago

I also winced at "impossibly fast" and realize that it must refer to some technical perspective that is lost on most users. I'm not a front end dev, I use linear, I'd say I didn't notice speed, it seems to work about the same as any other web app. I don't doubt it's got cool optimizations, but I think they're lost on most people that use it. (I don't mean to say optimization isn't cool)

wooque · 25 days ago

Second this. I use Linear as well and I didn't noticed anything close to "impossibly fast", it's faster than Jira for sure, but nothing spectacular.

wooque commented on Cognitive decline can be slowed down with lifestyle changes smithsonianmag.com/smart-... · Posted by u/ulrischa

sys32768 · a month ago

My mother had Alzheimer's for 20 years. I would not recommend it for more than 10 years no matter how healthy you are.

I have one copy of the APOE4 gene and am ~40lbs overweight and probably drink too much, and will definitely double my weight and triple my alcohol consumption if I get it.

I have always said the heathier you are when you begin to die, the longer it takes to die.

wooque · a month ago

I had 2 grandparents die from Parkinson's and I would definitely pick up heroin addiction if I get diagnosed.

wooque commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

jamesjyu · a month ago

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wooque · a month ago

The best, not sure, but it's sure the most saccharine job listing I’ve read in my whole life.

wooque commented on The current hype around autonomous agents, and what actually works in production utkarshkanwat.com/writing... · Posted by u/Dachande663

infecto · a month ago

Link does not work for me but as someone who does a lot of work with LLMs I am also betting against agents.

Agents have captivated the minds of groups of people in each large engineering org. I have no idea what their goal is other then they work on “GenAI”. For over a year now they have been working on agents with the promise that the next framework that MSFT or Alphabet publishes will solve their woes. They don’t actually know what they are solving for except everything involves agents.

I have yet to see agents solve anything but for some reason this idea that having an agent that you can send anything and everything will solve all problems for the company. LLMs have a ton of interesting applications but agents have yet to grasp me as interesting, I also don’t understand why so many large companies have focused time around it. They are not going to be cracking the code ahead of a commercial tool or open source project. In the time spent toying around with agents there are a lot of interesting applications that could have built, some of which may be technically an agent but without so much focus and effort on trying to solve for all use cases.

Edit: after rereading my post wanted to clarify that I do think there is a place for tool call chains and the like but so many folks I have talked to first hand are trying to create something that works for everything and anything.

wooque · a month ago

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wooque commented on Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts github.com/cloudflare/wor... · Posted by u/gregorywegory

wooque · 3 months ago

Not surprised, this is perfect task for AI, boilerplaty code that implements something that is implemented 100 times. And it's small project, 1200 lines of pure code.

I'm surprised I took them more than 2 days to do that with AI.

wooque commented on Computer science has one of the highest unemployment rates newsweek.com/computer-sci... · Posted by u/zdgeier

zettapwn · 3 months ago

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wooque · 3 months ago

What happened to Michael O. Church? I enjoyed his writings

wooque commented on ClickHouse raises $350M Series C clickhouse.com/blog/click... · Posted by u/caust1c

devops000 · 3 months ago

only 2k users?

with 200$/month I have a good database. $1-5M revenue?

wooque · 3 months ago

we use smallest cluster and it's $450/month, most companies probably pay much more.

wooque commented on The UI future is colourful and dimensional flarup.email/p/the-future... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

afavour · 3 months ago

Not a new thought but it always surprises me how much groupthink applies in these situations. Airbnb announced a new design and we’ve all just collectively accepted that it’s the future? …what?

I don’t hate the trend but I am underwhelmed. Just loaded up the Airbnb site and… it’s new icons. The actual UI I’m interacting with hasn’t changed a jot, though. Google’s Material UI stuff from a few days ago felt much more interesting.

wooque · 3 months ago

Yeah new icons are ugly and looks like they are ripped from Sims 1. It's just designers trying to justify their existence in the company.

wooque commented on Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs? · Posted by u/bjackman

gyomu · 3 months ago

There are two kinds of engineers.

Those who can’t stop raving about how much of a superpower LLMs are for coding, how it’s made them 100x more productive, and is unlocking things they could’ve never done before.

And those who, like you, find it to be an extremely finicky process that requires extreme amount of coddling to get average results at best.

The only thing I don’t understand is why people from the former group aren’t all utterly dominating the market and obliterating their competitors with their revolutionary products and blazing fast iteration speed.

wooque · 3 months ago

Because code is small part of making successful business and usually not the bottleneck.

wooque commented on Working on complex systems: What I learned working at Google thecoder.cafe/p/complex-s... · Posted by u/0xKelsey

RenThraysk · 4 months ago

There is a certain amount of irony when the cookie policy agreement is buggy on a story about complicated & complex systems.

Clicking on "Only Necessary" causes the cookie policy agreement to reappear.

wooque · 4 months ago

Same here, it's because you have third party cookies blocked.