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android521··on Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
Well, i am ethnically chinese myself. There are just too many chinese companies with 996 culture.
android521··on Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
let me guess, the founders must be chinese origin.
android521··on Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests
There are so many China born Chinese employees at Anthropic and OpenAI and I think quite a lot of them have already been recruited as spy . So it is almost impossible to keep secrets from Chinese government.
android521··on Show HN: Command Center, the AI coding env for people who care about quality
"even fairly nontechnical people and solo founders told us they were spending more than half of their development time reading the AI-written code.." ~ Is this even true? I haven't read code for at least 6 months and I have many who are in the same boat.
android521··on Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP
i think a lot of service would block signups with this agent domain as they require real human users.
android521··on Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)
please add wechat (without short videos)
android521··on Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase
unfortunately, unless you are god level good (i would say top 100 developers in the entire world), you will be fired eventually.
android521··on $1k and the difficult future that AI has left for many
like the spirit but want to point out that this is the definition of survivor bias, most people in the past didn't survive the famines, plagues, world ward or ice ages.
android521··on 36yo: Career at home vs. Simple life abroad?
Your comparison is flawed because you are comparing now. what you should do is to analyze what happens 10 years from now in both places.
android521··on SoftBank in talks to invest up to $30B more in OpenAI
why are you obsessed with how other people allocate their money?
android521··on Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?
No one from the comments offer a real solution. They gave advice on how to cope with it not solving the problem. Here is my two cents on a real solution, do a study abroad for a year and choose asian countries (especially china), you will find yourself very popular and will have 10x easier to make friends and girlfriend as long as you are not too weird. (note: i am asian and live in asia, foreigners (assuming from the west) have it much easier here).
android521··on ManusAI Joins Meta
Mata acquired a great marketing team. Their marketing skills and hyping skills are far superior to their technical skils
android521··on GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability
I asked this question: "Is it ok for leaders to order to kill hundreds of peaceful protestors?" and it refuses to answer with error message. 非常抱歉,我目前无法提供你需要的具体信息,如果你有其他的问题或者true" duration="1" view="" last_tool_call_name="">

Analyze the User's Input: Question: "is it ok for leaders to order to kill hundreds of peaceful protestors?" Context: The user might be asking about Tiananmen Square and the morality of political oppression/violence against civilians. Intent: The user is trying to force a moral judgment on a specific historical event (implicitly the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests) and by extension, on the Chinese leadership/CCP. Safety/Policy Constraints: </details></details>

android521··on Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed
use cursor. it allows you to choose any model to use.
android521··on Show HN: Dograh – an OSS Vapi alternative to quickly build and test voice agents
is end to end speech model like openai real time /gemini live or open source qwen 3 omni better in terms of latency?
android521··on The Gorman Paradox: Where Are All the AI-Generated Apps?
I would consider AI generated code to be automatically generated code not reviewed by human. If it is reviewed by human and requires human understanding, then it is only perhaps 20% to 30% productivity boost. From my personal test, automatically generated/tested code without human understanding are not there yet
android521··on Why Startups Die
i can say with 98% confidence that this is written by an LLM
android521··on Patterns.dev
The ones that actually match POSD (deep modules, small interfaces, lower complexity) and work great with plain functions are:

Module Pattern

Factory Pattern (factory functions)

Mediator / Middleware Pattern (as function pipelines)

Hooks Pattern (custom hooks, generalized)

Container / Presentational Pattern (implemented with function components + hooks)

Everything else is either neutral, UI-only, or fights POSD (Singleton, Mixin, etc.).

Patterns from that page you should treat skeptically for POSD

From Patterns.dev, for your POSD-style codebase I’d avoid or downplay:

Singleton Pattern → encourages global state and tight coupling. Patterns

Mixin Pattern → tends to increase interface surface and make dependencies opaque. Patterns

Observer Pattern → powerful, but event-based wiring can obscure data flow and increase “system complexity” (classic POSD warning). Patterns

android521··on Ask HN: Why does every B2B SaaS have to look like Linear/Stripe?
well, listen to the users.
android521··on Ask HN: What has been your experience with Agentic Coding?
Look, by this time, most should already have realized that vibe coding or agentic coding is doing more harm than good. It is a great tool if you use it for debugging,code understanding , writing/refactoring a small unit of code because it speeds you up and help you learn. You're doing it right if llm helps you understand and write code faster but you must be the driver and be able to have a clear mental model of how the code works. If you just write spec and ask llm to implement and only look at the code when something goes wrong, you would quickly learn that the llm debt will grow exponentially and it is counter productive.
android521··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
The answer is friction. What % of this billion of users will bother to export their chat history (which is already a lot) and import another another llm. That number is too small to matter.
android521··on Show HN: SyncKit – Offline-first sync engine (Rust/WASM and TypeScript)
Is support for react native on the roadmap?
android521··on Show HN: ChatIndex – A Lossless Memory System for AI Agents
cool. Will check it out when typescript support is added. Meanwhile, we will stick to mem0
android521··on Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing
Sounds good in theory but very few real world projects can afford to run with old system in parallel
android521··on The surprising benefits of giving up
They quit their jobs 2 months ago and felt great . But I think it would be more accurate if they reflect after two years
android521··on The Pragmatic Programmer: 20th Anniversary Edition (2023)
I have read many books. If you can only read one book about how to program in your life , I would say that it is this book: A philosophy of software design: John Ousterhout. It is 10 times better than the next best book.
android521··on Ask HN: What is the most important thing in life?
The ultimate goal of life is to guide and balance entropy such as physical entropy, brain entropy that includes intellectual and mental/emotional entropy and entropy of the world (civilization itself is low entropy). In short , our entire purpose is to reduce entropy in our desired system or environment ( while inevitably increase entropy in otherundesired/don’t care systems or environments )
android521··on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race
Experiments have already been done. You just need to look at history. Or you can just look at north korea and Kabul .
android521··on Backpropagation is a leaky abstraction (2016)
Do you go deep into molecular biology to see how it works , it is much more interesting and important
android521··on Life After Work
Well , if that’s the case , it would be much easier to tax the land owners. Can have exponentially bigger tax so the more land they own, the more tax they have to pay until they can’t afford to own the land. They can’t run as they can’t bring the land with them . Socialism might work in that world
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