HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

puszczyk

449 karma · joined May 16, 2010

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/ikupczynski; my proof: https://keybase.io/ikupczynski/sigs/g5c6bMNZ8d_EOgVgdthdXabIqacCICP5wZmEDTNrT4k ]
submissionscomments
puszczyk··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
It doesn’t tell anything about the valuation, but I prefer it over Claude Code, and I even stopped using JetBrains IDEs because of it.

Vs Claude Code: I like the option to change the models, as I often prefer ChatGPT or Composer to Opus. I have a slight preference towards TUI, but not so strong to drop the models.

Vs JetBrains. I really love JetBrains but the tab complete just works so well for me.

puszczyk··on I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
This is a good write-up and useful content, but edit-wise it could be simplified significantly. Additionally, phrases like "let that sink in" are characteristic of poor LinkedIn content, which is a bit of an irony :)
puszczyk··on MinIO repository is no longer maintained
> Just be honest since the start

While I agree with the sentiment, keep in mind that circumstances change over the years. What made sense (and what you've believed in) a few years ago may be different now. This is especially true when it comes to business models.

puszczyk··on OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been
Why? What don't you like about them?
puszczyk··on Over-regulation is doubling the cost
Please just stop being antisocial.
puszczyk··on Plan Mode
I really like plan mode with Claude Code, it was missing from Cursor imho. Good they are addressing this
puszczyk··on I Use AI
I really like the ownership angle:

> You own the code your AI produces. Use your own name to commit AI code so that if something breaks, everyone blames you. This is critical. How well do you need to know the code your AI produces? Well enough that you can answer for its mistakes.

puszczyk··on Lossless Listening Arrives on Spotify Premium
Finally Spotify adds a feature I look forward to
puszczyk··on AirPods Pro 3
The in-ear HR is interesting. I wonder if Apple can make it accurate, e.g., Sennheiser Momentum are not very accurate[0]:

> Look, I’m not gonna waste your time – this thing is dumpster-fire inaccurate level in almost every realm of heart rate accuracy except for indoor cycling.

[0]: https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2024/05/sennheiser-momentum-temp...

puszczyk··on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations
Good marketing, but also possibly the start of the conversation on model welfare?

There are a lot of cynical comments here, but I think there are people at Anthropic who believe that at some point their models will develop consciousness and, naturally, they want to explore what that means.

puszczyk··on Study mode
Looks like we were unable to correct them over the last 3k years. What has changes in 2025 that you think we will succeed in correcting that behavior?

Not US based, Central/Eastern Europe: the selection to the teacher profession is negative, due to low salary compared to private sector; this means that the unproductive behaviors are likely going to increase. I'm not saying the AI is the solution here for low teacher salaries, but training is def not the right answer either, and it is a super simplistic argument: "just train them better".

puszczyk··on What would an efficient and trustworthy meeting culture look like?
I agree in principle, although specifically with slack this is problematic. With emails, wikis, repos, it's easy to index them, or share them with a search engine or LLM. Slack is a moving target; they have the Slack AI, but if you don't enable it, it's hard to just grab all messages from a channel or a thread (and god forbid, you have a channel with multiple relevant threads). A lot of clicks required.
puszczyk··on A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)
Because some of their taxes will fund human safari in Kherson https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_safari_(terror_campaig...
puszczyk··on A three month review of kagi search and the orion web browser (2024)
What do you use now? I mix Perplexity and Google depending on the query, I wondered how that compares to Kagi. Yandex is a no-no for me as well
puszczyk··on Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Interactive Tutorial
Also, why would you ask this question to LLM? It's not a hammer, there are things is very useful for; adding numbers and math in general is not one of them.
puszczyk··on UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite
What about Irak!
puszczyk··on Germany's solar panel industry, once a leader, is getting squeezed
> Most people in Germany can't afford to buy an apartment let alone build a new house and you're taking as if your situation si representative for the average German.

- 2.84 million people in Germany were able to afford a new car in 2023 [0] - 1.25 million dwellings were constructed in 10y 2011-2021 [1] - The homeownership rate in Germany is very low compared to other countries but still around 50% [2]

While parent's situation is likely above the median, it doesn't mean it is not representative.

> Just because you're wealthy enough to afford a new EV and to build a new modern house, doesn't eman Germany has no problems.

Parent commented on their energy usage change over the years, not on wealth or problems. Where does you comment come from?

Also, what's your point?

[0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/587730/new-car-registrat... [1]: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Society-Environment/Housin... [2]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/246355/home-ownership-ra...

puszczyk··on Joel Spolsky on Stack Overflow, Inclusion, and How He Broke IT Recruiting (2018)
What would you suggest instead to select 20 good candidates out of 700?
puszczyk··on Ask HN: Are height adjustable desks worth it?
It's good option to have an option to stand, regardless how good your chair is, sometimes you have enough of it.

I used to stand a lot 4-6h / work day. I used the "LIDKULLEN" stool most of the time instead of a proper chair. Nowadays, I picked up a cycling and train regularly and I find my legs are often tired and I rarely stand.

What's important to have comfortable shoes. I'm a "neutral" shoes person (vibram five fingers, barefoot running, etc.), but I hate them for standing desk, they are not comfortable when standing.

I guess it depends on the person, and their lifestyle in the end.

puszczyk··on US developers can offer non-app store purchasing, Apple still collect commission
I don’t care about trillion dollar company. I care about my experience. App Store purchases and subscriptions are a good experience for a user. I’ve never had problems canceling subscriptions, or getting refunds.
puszczyk··on The Closing of the Bulgarian Frontier
> Ironically under the Soviet Union Poland was one of the first Countries in the whole Europe (and probably the World) to have legal abortion

>> the law was first introduced in the Russian SFSR in 1920

Poland was never part of the Soviet Union. It became socialist and part of the eastern block only after WW2, so I doubt the legal abortion date.

Also I mean, yeah the eastern block was quite progressive in some ways, but human rights were not one of them. Some of the gain were hugely offset by the millions of people who were tortured and killed by the system. Also much more blood thirsty in the Soviet Union than in Communist Poland.

puszczyk··on Spotify will reduce total headcount by approximately 17%
They do have to payback the loans that were taken to do the leveraged buyout
puszczyk··on Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?
In some languages ”family name” maybe confusing. E.g . in Polish it sometimes (often) mean maiden name (women traditionally replace or add to their last name the last name of their husbands).

So the “pre-marriage” name is referred to as: - “nazwisko panieńskie” (maiden name) - or “nazwisko rodowe” (literally this is “family name”)

puszczyk··on Ask HN: How to handle Asian-style “Family name first” when designing interfaces?
In Poland informally it’s always <given name> <last name>. Formally, it depends most places are on the same as informal, but particularly military and some other bureaucracies will use <last name> <given name>. I always thought this is a holdout from the pre-computer days to make it easier to sort alphabetically (last names are a bit better distributed than the popular first names).

In France they seem to prefer <LAST NAME> (yes, all caps) <First name> even for less formal things.

puszczyk··on Twitter has officially changed its logo to ‘X’
What? Can you give some examples on how a different free speech definition make Europeans poorer?
puszczyk··on How to be a consultant, a freelancer, or an independent contractor (2009)
Is this a problem though? I a lot of countries you can open a 1 shop company, and any two companies can sign whatever they agree on into the contract. Of course some higher level laws may void (parts of) the contract.

Do you think that “nature of the relationship” is more important than wording of contract? Why?

If countries hate the idea of 1 person shop contractors they can still ban the “shadow employment” via higher level laws. If they don’t I don’t understand how this is a problem.

puszczyk··on For the sixth year, Algeria blocks internet to prevent cheating during exams
How come rest of the world don’t block the internet during the college admissions?
puszczyk··on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
I’ve only started playing with it recently, but they have CMD-d CMD-a shortcut to open a file in default editor.
puszczyk··on Tell HN: Nearly all of Evernote’s remaining staff has been laid off
No the OP. I think Notion targets SMBs and maybe teams within enterprises.

When they started the personal plan was paid (after first 1k blocks or so), then in 2020 they’ve lifted that restriction[0].

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23236786

puszczyk··on Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English
I’ve drapeaued this comment to favorites :)
← PreviousPage 2 of 6Next →