Hacker News: 1GZ0

New comment by 1GZ0 in "No-build, no-NPM, SSR-first JavaScript framework if you hate React, love HTML"

1GZ0 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:26:11 +0000

Yeah, no thanks..

I'll just stick with a $5 vps with lamp and jjquery

New comment by 1GZ0 in "Web development is fun again"

1GZ0 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 10:38:18 +0000

I hate the fact that modern webdev has become to unnecessarily complex that developers unironically turn to LLMs instead of realising that it doesn't have to be like this.

New comment by 1GZ0 in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

1GZ0 — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:43:23 +0000

Yes, and they've been at it for a while. its honestly hard to watch.

New comment by 1GZ0 in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue"

1GZ0 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 09:24:24 +0000

Darkreader plus 150-200% zoom and you have something pretty usable on hidpi displays. You could always try making your own frontend for HN, it's pretty trivial :)

New comment by 1GZ0 in "Baby Shoggoth Is Listening"

1GZ0 — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:50:08 +0000

Writing for AI honestly doesn't seem much different to writing for pagerank algorithms which SEO specialists have been doing for years. The only change is that almost all the SEO content on the web is now being written by AI, for AI to later summarise.

New comment by 1GZ0 in "Leaving serverless led to performance improvement and a simplified architecture"

1GZ0 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:08:31 +0000

Somewhere in Denmark, DHH is smiling

New comment by 1GZ0 in "UK toughens Online Safety Act with ban on self-harm content"

1GZ0 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:06:33 +0000

So they're going after mukbang YouTubers now?

New comment by 1GZ0 in "A critique of package managers"

1GZ0 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:21:48 +0000

Its not clickbait though.

You should try reading the article before passing judgement.

Its not like the article is called "5 facts that will make you hate package managers. Number 5 will shock you"

New comment by 1GZ0 in "A critique of package managers"

1GZ0 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 12:19:40 +0000

Liability: "Something for which one is liable; an obligation, responsibility, or debt."

Third party dependencies absolutely are liabilities. You are liable to vet them, inspect their licenses and keep them updated while ensuring that they continue working with your existing code.

This is not something package managers help you do. Package managers like NPM make it trivial to skip these steps entirely.

What is being argued for, is a more thoughtful approach to handling third party dependencies. Or at the very least, the need for people to realise that there are costs associated with bringing third party dependencies into your codebase.

Its not splitting hairs at all. Its more of an presumption on the part of a large number of readers, that the 2 points argued conflate to "Package manager suck, because third party dependencies suck and you should write everything from scratch instead".

New comment by 1GZ0 in "A critique of package managers"

1GZ0 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 08:23:19 +0000

> It's completely fair game to react to the provocation rather than the substance of the article itself.

Yeah, but its down right stupid to do so.

The title isn't even misleading or part of a Motte-and-bailey argument.

People just hear "Package Managers are Evil" and assume that the author means you shouldn't use third party dependencies. Which is NOT what's being argued.

But I guess you'd know that, if you read passed the title.

New comment by 1GZ0 in "A critique of package managers"

1GZ0 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 13:25:41 +0000

The Author isn't arguing for not using third party dependencies. He's arguing for developers to be more conscious of the dependencies they use, by manually vetting and handling them. That screams "I've been down the package manager route and paid the price". Not inexperience.

New comment by 1GZ0 in "DDoS is the neglected cybercrime that's getting bigger. Let's kill it off"

1GZ0 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 13:46:27 +0000

"let's kill it off" proceeds to offer no solutions.

New comment by 1GZ0 in ""I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI""

1GZ0 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:50:18 +0000

Why would anyone care who Paul Graham hangs out with?

New comment by 1GZ0 in "We'd be better off with 9-bit bytes"

1GZ0 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 07:14:46 +0000

But why stop there? based on your arguments 10-bit bytes would be even more better.

New comment by 1GZ0 in "LooksMapping"

1GZ0 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:25:27 +0000

I love how quick people are to dismiss the obvious technical skill involved in making something like this, just because of the off-color premise.

New comment by 1GZ0 in "The Frontend Treadmill"

1GZ0 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 13:02:13 +0000

This really strikes cord with me. I chose early on in my carrier not to use frontend frameworks, precisely because of the added abstraction and inherent complexity they tend to bring to your codebase. Its been tough and limited my prospects significantly as a junior dev. But these days, I'm happy that I chose to steer clear of frameworks. As it really does give you a much more broad understanding of how the web platform works.

Tl;Dr for the juniors out there, learn React if you want a job. Learn javascript if you want a good job.

New comment by 1GZ0 in "Anthropic: "Applicants should not use AI assistants""

1GZ0 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 09:20:13 +0000

You wouldn't show up drunk to a job interview just because its at brewery, would you?

New comment by 1GZ0 in "Alibaba releases AI model it says surpasses DeepSeek"

1GZ0 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:23:17 +0000

Try this: https://archive.md/20250129074531/https://www.reuters.com/te...

New comment by 1GZ0 in "OpenAI says Chinese rivals using its work for their AI apps"

1GZ0 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:00:08 +0000

Isn't that what being "Open" should be all about?

New comment by 1GZ0 in "We've lost our respect for complexity"

1GZ0 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 10:21:21 +0000

I feel like "Complexity" is the wrong word here.

Although I agree with the notion that deep knowledge of complex systems has decreased over the years, I'd argue that the problem isn't the lack of interest in gaining deeper knowledge that's the problem, nor a perceived lack of respect for expertise.

I'd argue its more to do with the nature of how large codebases morph over time as they're retrofitted to do more usercases. Its a lot easy in the short term to just hack in the functionality you need into an existing codebase, instead of rewriting the entire thing from scratch every time. This comes at the cost of maintainability and leads to a lot of headaches in the long term, as systems that where never designed to work together clash in unexpected ways.

I don't begrudge anyone for not wanted to dive into codebases like that.