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khaledh··on Ask HN: Getting depressed day by day, how to cope?
In the 1950s, computers were starting to go mainstream and everyone panicked that they'll lose their job due to "automation". Some jobs were lost for sure, but so many other jobs were created that computers "demanded".

The same thing happened in the late 50s / early 60s when high-level programming languages and compilers started to appear. Almost all software at that time was hand-written assembly. Compilers took a decade to reach the same quality (sometimes even better) of hand-written assembly. Programmers adapted and started thinking at a higher level of abstraction.

Another example is virtual memory. Up until the late 1960s most software used manual physical memory management techniques (mainly overlays) to decide which part of the program should reside in memory at certain points of time. Everyone was skeptical and thought that virtual memory would be less optimal than manually-designed overlays. There was a lot of research in that area during the time to prove that virtual memory can have the same or even better performance than hand-rolled approaches.

The point is: AI may well be disruptive to the way we develop software, but we're still in a transition phase where trust in AI output is very shaky. It's impressive, but it hasn't established itself yet as an abstraction we can trust and build on without thinking about what it's producing. It will take time, and humans will always have more work to do no matter how technology advances.

khaledh··on Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'
If you want to understand the mentality of the zionists, watch this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CzL5_JhA_QT
khaledh··on Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'
If the UN is not a credible source then I think establishing the state of Israel in 1948 should be thrown in the garbage.
khaledh··on Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'
> they aren't the actual cause of the terror

Are you sure? Here are some stats of settler attacks from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:

    Year    Total Incidents   Daily Average
    2021    540               1 incident / day
    2022    852               2 incidents / day
    2023    1,189–1,291       3 incidents / day
    2024    1,420–1,449       4 incidents / day
    2025    1,828             5 incidents / day
khaledh··on Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'
You're using the term "terrorist" to describe people indigenous to the land that Israel stole. If you use logic, that makes Israel that terrorist group since they used violence to kick Palestinians out of their land and homes, not the other way around.

Lookup the Jewish terrorist groups Irgu, Lehi, and Haganah. Lookup the assassination of Lord Moyne by Lehi and the 1946 Irgun bombing of the King David Hotel. The leaders of these terrorist groups eventually became Prime Ministers of Israel.

While you're at it, lookup the attack by the Israeli military on the USS Liberty that killed 34 Americans.

khaledh··on Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'
Ever wondered why Israel has disproportionate amount of settlers in the West Bank, a land that doesn't belong to them? I bet that makes them a legitimate target.
khaledh··on Killing of Hind Rajab (2024)
Acting in a way (by a minority, some of which are in power) that is clearly against the teachings of the religion doesn't mean it's false. It's the other way around: it makes their actions a sin. If you take a wider look you'll see that the majority are trying to adhere to the true teachings, which when implemented on a large scale you get what is known as the Golden age of Islam: a period of over 1000 years of prosperity, compassion, and advances in almost every aspect of life, some of which is still benefiting all humanity until today.
khaledh··on Ask HN: Is Codex really on Par with Claude Code?
I haven't used Codex for UI work, but you might find this helpful: https://developers.openai.com/blog/designing-delightful-fron...
khaledh··on Killing of Hind Rajab (2024)
In the Quran it says "You have your way, and I have my Way" (or roughly "You have your religion, and I have my religion"). It also says "There shall be no compulsion in the religion". Islam doesn't want to force itself upon those who do not believe in the One God. It just calls people to believe if they choose to do so.
khaledh··on Killing of Hind Rajab (2024)
Believe it or not, jews and christians were practicing their religion freely and were protected during the Islamic golden age. What we're seeing today is extremists (in any religion) rising to position of power (or taking up arms), thus skewing the view that this is how all followers of that religion believe. It's much more nuanced than that. Most people are peaceful and happy to coexist as long as they're respected and their rights are not violated. Take that away and extremisim will rise.
khaledh··on Killing of Hind Rajab (2024)
Let's remember that this is not an isolated incident, it's a repeated pattern of the IDF intentionally targeting and killing civilians and aid workers:

- Flour massacre

- World Central Kitchen drone strike

- Gaza aid distribution massacres

- Rafah paramedics massacre

And many others. Each one of these alone is a war crime. But unfortunately the west is happy to look the other way. Had it been the other way around, we'd never hear the end of it.

khaledh··on Iran Ceasefire: Israel intensifies Lebanon strikes and Iran closes the strait
Well said. Israel is having a tantrum because they were so close to beating Iran but didn't get to do so, so they took it all out on Lebanon.
khaledh··on Trier OS – Industrial Operating System
I appreciate the effort, but the word "Operating System" here is misleading. It's just an Electron application. A better term would be "Industrial Operations Platform" or "Plant Operations Platform".
khaledh··on Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal
Remember Trump's tweet from 2019[0]. I wonder which other country benefits the most from dragging the US into this war? Oh, right.

    The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....
[0] https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181905659568283648
khaledh··on Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal
Exactly. Remember Trump's tweet from 2019[0]. But the zionist lobby is holding the US hostage.

    The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....
[0] https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1181905659568283648
khaledh··on Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal
The sad thing is that rulers never learn from history. There's no winner in this.
khaledh··on The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes
Constraints breed creativity.
khaledh··on I Am Not A Number. In memory of the more than 72,000 Palestinians killed
It's a poem called "On This Land": https://readalittlepoetry.com/2025/10/06/on-this-land-by-mah...
khaledh··on She Spoke Out About Gaza. Now She Can't Use a Credit Card
Francesca got balls more than all world leaders combined.
khaledh··on Ask HN: I burnt out from software development. What now?
> If I don't use AI to build my own SaaS / business

This was going to burn you out no matter what, unless you got the business chops and the stamina to be in it for the long term.

My advise: stay at your job and ride this wave, don't try to go under it. To countrbalance, work on hobby projects that scratch an itch for you. Work at your own pace for fun, not for profit. The value you get out of it is satisfaction rather than money (which is what your day job is for).

khaledh··on Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention
And the killing of Hind Rajab, her family, and the paramedics that went to help her.
khaledh··on Ask HN: What's the latest concensus on OpenAI vs. Anthropic $20/month tier?
I use both at the same time:

- Claude Opus for general discussion, design, reviews, etc.

- Codex GPT-5.4 High for task breakdown and implementation.

I often feed their responses to each other (manual copy/paste) to validate/improve the design and/or implementation. The outcome has been better than using one alone.

This workflow keeps Claude's usage in check (it doesn't eat as much tokens), and leverages Codex generous usage limits. Although sometimes I run into Codex's weekly limit and I need to purchase additional credits: 1000 credits for $40, which last for another 4-5 days (which usually overlap with my weekly refresh, so not all the credits are used up).

khaledh··on Gaza toddler returned with alleged torture wounds after Israeli detention
The list keeps growing.

- Flour massacre

- World Central Kitchen drone strikes

- Gaza aid distribution massacres

- Rafah paramedics massacre

- Targeting of journalists

- Forced starvation

- Crop destruction

Israel will deny all of those. But the world have seen it with their own eyes.

khaledh··on Elevated error rates on Opus 4.6
It's a shame that such a good product is tarnished with reliability and capacity issues. I hope they get their act together, otherwise trust is eroding by the day.
khaledh··on Laws Suppressing Boycotts of Israel Violate Civil Liberties
It's incredible that a foreign country has so much power over US politicians.
khaledh··on Zero-Cost POSIX Compliance: Encoding the Socket State Machine in Lean's Types
Interesting take on enforcing state machine rules using a proof system. I'm interested in this space, and have been developing a new programming language to enable typestate / state-machine representation at the type system level[0].

I don't know where it will end up on the spectrum of systems languages; it may end up being too niche or incomplete, but so far I think I'm scratching the right itch, at least for myself.

[0] https://github.com/khaledh/machina

khaledh··on [dead]
Unfortunately this will continue to happen as long as Israel doesn't face real consequences and is not held accountable for its war crimes.
khaledh··on AEP (API Design Standard and Tooling Ecosystem)
I miss the days when "API" meant any programming interface - not just web/rpc - and good API design was about providing the right level of abstraction and making doing the right thing easy and the wrong thing hard, not just CRUD.
khaledh··on GitHub having issues [resolved]
> If folks have literally nothing to do when GitHub is down, I question that a bit.

It's not about a single person. I work at a company with over 10k employees, most of them rely on GitHub one way or another. It's not just about PRs and issues; there's a huge amount of automation, workflows, and integrations that depend on GitHub, round the clock. With this kind of uptime it has material impact on productivity of the company as a whole.

khaledh··on GitHub having issues [resolved]
Frequent enough to interrupt the flow of an entire organization, wasting thousands of hours. Take a look:

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses

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