Hacker News: DaanDL

New comment by DaanDL in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

DaanDL — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:49:39 +0000

I never really understood what exactly is so readable about python. I've been developing in Python for 8 years now, and before that I was a C# developer, and I don't find Python to be that more readable.

Sure there's less ceremony, and yes, you can have your project going with just a single file, but other than that...?

New comment by DaanDL in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

DaanDL — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:54:42 +0000

But that's costly. Speaking of my own experience: going from a webapp fully hosted on an EC2 instance to a railway and vercel setup reduced my costs 10x.

New comment by DaanDL in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

DaanDL — Mon, 04 May 2026 07:37:11 +0000

Okay, but not all results on there are valid, ForgeCode for instance has been cheating in the past:

https://debugml.github.io/cheating-agents/#sneaking-the-answ...

New comment by DaanDL in "My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary"

DaanDL — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:47:08 +0000

Hi Rod,

I know nothing about astrophotography, but while reading your article I wondered: what happens when a truck passes your house while you're taking these shots, don't the vibrations mess up with the results?

New comment by DaanDL in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

DaanDL — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:25:00 +0000

Today, we proudly announce, the Meta Rayban 365

New comment by DaanDL in "The MacBook Neo"

DaanDL — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:23:21 +0000

Why couldn't they just've called it Macbook, instead of Macbook Neo?

New comment by DaanDL in "The MacBook Neo"

DaanDL — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 08:21:18 +0000

Especially with things like: will my pencil work with this iPad.

New comment by DaanDL in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

DaanDL — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:04:11 +0000

Was about to comment the same. It's a common mistake/gotcha.

New comment by DaanDL in "Simple screw counter"

DaanDL — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:07:51 +0000

Then just use a small cup to scoop out some screws.

New comment by DaanDL in "Ars Technica fires reporter after AI controversy involving fabricated quotes"

DaanDL — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:02:52 +0000

I hope you will too escape from your echo chamber.

New comment by DaanDL in "Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]"

DaanDL — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 21:13:43 +0000

I wonder how much of their own guidelines they violated with MacOS Tahoe.

New comment by DaanDL in "FreeBSD doesn't have Wi-Fi driver for my old MacBook, so AI built one for me"

DaanDL — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:53:05 +0000

Correct, my ex couldn't even be bothered to update the notification settings on her iPhone, let alone she'd be generating and deploying an app using an LLM. Most people just don't want to have anything to do with tech, they just want it to work and get out of their way.

I did the same with my car, technically I could do maintenance myself and troubleshoot and what not, but I just couldn't be arsed, so I outsource it at a premium price.

New comment by DaanDL in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

DaanDL — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:40:04 +0000

So...30% of the people at Rapidata are LLM bots?

New comment by DaanDL in "Xbox UI Portfolio Site"

DaanDL — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:07:24 +0000

Bonus points for including Lcd Soundsystem

New comment by DaanDL in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"

DaanDL — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:05:32 +0000

I chuckled at "Wayland will never be supported" :-D

New comment by DaanDL in "ADHD and Methylphenidate Use in Prepubertal Children and Adult BMI and Height"

DaanDL — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:29:14 +0000

Maybe they have a higher BMI because they become less active :D

New comment by DaanDL in "ADHD and Methylphenidate Use in Prepubertal Children and Adult BMI and Height"

DaanDL — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:28:40 +0000

Anecdotical...Also: "clinically modest, reduction in adult height"

New comment by DaanDL in "TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe"

DaanDL — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:01:42 +0000

What an unworldly remark. So, we should also not ban hard-drugs then?

New comment by DaanDL in "I miss thinking hard"

DaanDL — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:17:24 +0000

"I still encounter those occasionally, but the number of problems requiring deep creative solutions feels like it is diminishing rapidly."

Just let it try and solve an issue with your advanced SQLAlchemy query and see it burn. xD

New comment by DaanDL in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

DaanDL — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:20:26 +0000

The problem is also that every other year contracts/paradigms/... are broken, introducing bugs in libraries and documentation.