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Omar Abid
Personal blog · omarabid.com · on HN as csomarprogrammingeconomicsbusiness
Omar Abid's personal blog at omarabid.com covers programming, economics and business. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 79 times, most often “Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Personal blog of Omar Abid
Most-linked posts?
- Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-06-12
- Rust as a productive high-level language2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-10
- Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-17
What Hacker News says?
Maybe you are not reading what we are writing :) Here is an article of mine https://omarabid.com/gpt3-now > But for certain use cases (e.g. simple script, written from scratch), it's absolutely fantastic. I agree with that. I've found it to be very useful for "yarn run xxx" scripts. Can automate lots of tasks that I wouldn't bother with previously because the cost of coding the automation vs. doing them manually was…
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on “Claude 4”Submitted The modern web is becoming unusable as a story · 512 points
HN discussionI've had the same problem trying to find a WordPress theme for my weblog^. Well, I ended up hacking it myself. The reason? Despite hundreds of premium WordPress themes, they were all bloated. Even the ones claiming "Minimalist theme". I wonder if there is a real market for such theme. ^ https://omarabid.com
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on “The Website Obesity Crisis”Submitted Next.js 15.1 is unusable outside of Vercel as a story · 155 points
HN discussionAnyone who is running back-end code in Next.js has no idea what they are doing. It could be acceptable if it is a toy project and you want to get something quickly but even for a small operation or MVP, the whole thing is not coherent. I've wrote previously about nextjs: https://omarabid.com/nextjs-vercel My opinion remains the same: Most of the issues in Nextjs are not a bug but a feature. A feature that only funct…
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on “Next.js is infuriating”Submitted Claude Code feels like magic because it is iterative as a story · 105 points
HN discussionPlateauing overall but apparently you can gain in certain directions while you lose on some. I've written an article a while back that current models are not that far from GPT-3.5: https://omarabid.com/gpt3-now 3.7 is definitively better at coding but you feel it lost a bit of maneuverability at other domains. For someone who wants code generated, it doesn't matter but I've found myself using DeepSeek first and then…
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on “Claude Integrations”Submitted DropBox client defected and lost my files as a story · 21 points
HN discussionhttps://omarabid.com I just realized I haven't posted in over a year...
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on “Ask HN: Share your personal site”Submitted Why Cryptographic Currencies Matter as a story · 18 points
HN discussionI have my own test to measure performance: https://omarabid.com/gpt3-now So far the only model that showed significant advancement and differentiation was GPT-4.5. I advise to look at the problem and read GPT-4.5 answer. It'll show the difference to other "normal models" (including GPT-3.5) as it shows considerable levels of understanding. Other normal models are now more chatty and have a bit more data. But they do…
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on “The Rise of Whatever”Submitted I no longer use my iPad as a story · 17 points
HN discussionMining BtC has a carbon footprint from hell (as they get more computationally expensive to generate, electricity consumption soars). This essay has some questionable numbers, but the underlying principle is sound. I didn't do the math (not even back of the envelope) but my sense tells me it'll be less footprint than the current mega banks. Bitcoin mining software is now being distributed as malware because using som…
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on “Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire”Submitted Rust 2020: A Better Ecosystem as a story · 11 points
HN discussionIt depends on the problem but Claude sometimes does. You need do need an alternative prompt where you make him suspicious to explore other paths. Here is an article I wrote a while back: https://omarabid.com/gpt3-now GPT 4.5 was able to detect a Rust ownership issue, something which requires "ahead of time" thinking.
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on “Grok 4”Submitted Infinite scrolling doesn't work as a story · 10 points
HN discussion> When interest rates are zero or negative, the value of future cash flows is huge and that is how you get PE and EBITDA ratios of over 100 and price/revenue multiples approaching 100. If you are interested on how zero interest rates raise prices for assets, I wrote a detailed article about the technicalities: https://omarabid.com/zero-rates-world
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on “How this Ends”Submitted Why Ads are becoming more annoying as a story · 9 points
HN discussionOP gives no proof that Tether is not holding 1:1 reserves. There is, however, a good proof that they do: Tether has held the 1:1 beg pretty well recently. Bitcoin price dropped to $4.000 last year and Tether exchange rate has held pretty well. It is important to mention that USDT is still liquid despite the lack of USD on/off-ramps. People regularly sell USDT on the offline market, and can exchange to USDC on many e…
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on “Tether price manipulation”Submitted Dealing with Severe dry eyes syndrome as a story · 8 points
HN discussion1- I agree that speed is intelligence[+], but you're suggesting we can reduce accuracy, increase speed, and get better results. I don't buy it. 2- I'm confused. Claude Code and a Neovim plugin I used both do edits/diffs. Are you saying they're actually rewriting entire files instead? 3- Aren't "simple tasks" just things you train the model on? If so, are you solving a bunch of simple tasks or offering custom trainin…
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on “Launch HN: Morph (YC S23) – Apply AI code edits at 4,500 tokens/sec”Submitted How to recover your Bitcoins even if you lose the private key as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> you agree Circle is free to use the funds provided for its own purposes prior to redemption subject to the terms of this Agreement. > Circle may also invest these fiat funds in highly-liquid, AAA-rated fixed income securities. I wrote about this here: https://omarabid.com/usd-stable-coins Only Gemini USD is fully backed by US treasuries. Everyone else is using this money to play roulette.
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on “Tether reserves backed by 2.9% cash”Submitted Bad Businesses as a story · 5 points
HN discussion> For comparison there are 7.5 bn USDC circulating and these are emitted by Centre/Coinbase and these are known to be real (Coinbase being an HN unicorn to soon do its IPO). Fun fact: USDC is not backed by real USD. Circle is using these dollars for its trading purposes and that's actually in the ToS. Pretty much no stable coin is: https://omarabid.com/usd-stable-coins
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on “Bitfinex, the Italian network behind the boss that makes Bitcoin tremble”Submitted LLMs have burned Billions but couldn't build another Tailwind as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI have recently switched to Linux (ArchLinux)[1] after a not so happy ending with macOS. The new features that Apple keeps adding to macOS helps no developer and are consumer-oriented. I feel this is the new direction they are taking. As Apple gained momentum in the smartphone space, they want to capitalize that on the laptop market. And what's better than giving your users something they are already familiar with:…
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on “Is macOS Becoming Unmaintainable?”Submitted Rust as a productive high-level language as a story · 4 points
HN discussionYou have to realize you are part of the problem. The old traditional forums didn't die because of AI but because you stopped contributing to them. There is a reason HN is still alive. If you want to maintain the "old" web, you have to keep browsing and interacting with the old web. I keep an old fashioned website ( https://omarabid.com ) and there are barely any viewers. Google completely de-ranked the site for no r…
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on “Fucking Tired of AI”Submitted Rust as a productive high-level language as a story · 4 points
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