Hacker News: DonThomasitos

New comment by DonThomasitos in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

DonThomasitos — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:41:36 +0000

„Claude, merge these branches and resolve conflicts. Ask me if unclear.“

16M$ VC money saved.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "VR Is Not Dead"

DonThomasitos — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:07:22 +0000

Exactly. It sounds like a detail that you can‘t eat and drink while you‘re in VR - but for casual experience it‘s friction and you resort back to a screen.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "VR Is Not Dead"

DonThomasitos — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:05:48 +0000

„Clearly, VR technology isn’t fully ready yet.“

Disagree. It‘s quite mature and usable.

I worked on a software that offered VR as a feature. The user‘s started enthusiastically with eg. dedicated VR rooms. But it became clear that the immersive delta to a screen is surprisingly low. We‘re all trained to immerse into 2D screens on a daily basis. If you then observe how people are ridiculed while wearing a VR headset by their colleagues or how people with complicated hair style hesitate wearing a headset: then you understand why it‘s just not a good fit for B2B.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:20:02 +0000

What else should they do? Stop releasing any updates until they reproduced any obscure bug report?

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Having Kids (2019)"

DonThomasitos — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:07:41 +0000

Thanks for making me laugh - great poetry :D and so true. I can‘t stand people w/o kids complaining about their parents.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "What happens when US economic data becomes unreliable"

DonThomasitos — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:05:38 +0000

Impressive thought. It could also be a built-in mechanism by nature to reshuffle the cards.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Dolphin Progress Release 2603"

DonThomasitos — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:12:41 +0000

Fantastic! I always wonder if the original console devs would be able to provide bonus insight.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:58:38 +0000

The irony is that this guide is written like a system prompt. We‘re all working with LLMs too much these days.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams"

DonThomasitos — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:55:12 +0000

But even on campus? Weird.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "A CPU that runs entirely on GPU"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:14:10 +0000

I don‘t understand why you would train a NN for an operation like sqrt that the GPU supports in silicon.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

DonThomasitos — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:38:34 +0000

Everything in git can and must be merge-able when merging branches. After all, git is a collaboration tool, not a undo-redo stack.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "The happiest I've ever been"

DonThomasitos — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:15:22 +0000

Isn‘t it ironic that we software devs laughed for decades when we automated other people‘s work with our code - „it‘s called progress, deal with it, dinosaur!“ But now we see that a meteor might have hit our planet too.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "The happiest I've ever been"

DonThomasitos — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:12:58 +0000

One part of me tries to resist and tell you that our craft is not becoming an archaic relic, the other half already knows you‘re right. We just can‘t put the ghost back into the bottle and now‘s a good time to re-calibrate your passion.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Learnings from 4 months of Image-Video VAE experiments"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:47:03 +0000

Nice summary! I missed the mention of EQ-VAE when it comes to generation quality. Tiny trick, huge impact! Have you tried it?

New comment by DonThomasitos in "I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over"

DonThomasitos — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:04:17 +0000

LinkedIn is Tiktokified social media brainrot disguised as serious work. „Hey - you‘re not wasting time, you‘re building your network and gather industry knowledge!“

LinkedIn is full if so called professionals who make a living by leveraging their brand. If you‘re not one of them, leave

New comment by DonThomasitos in "BarraCUDA Open-source CUDA compiler targeting AMD GPUs"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:07:03 +0000

Does anybody really understand why this hasn‘t been done? I know about ongoing efforts but is it really THAT difficult?

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia"

DonThomasitos — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 17:06:30 +0000

Cool! But isn‘t that already common wisdom and the basis for the omega3 fanboy culture?

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

DonThomasitos — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:44:22 +0000

Since most application run in the browser nowadays, the OS becomes less meaningful and more of a layer between browser and hardware.

If you see your PC as a tool, not a gimmick to consume, Linux is the only choice. Even MacOS crappifies over time and becomes a Windows copy over time.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak"

DonThomasitos — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:31:48 +0000

Since they ship globally, never. At least not if it‘s ONLY Germany who‘s declining.

New comment by DonThomasitos in "Tesla's Germany Sales Down 72% from Their Peak"

DonThomasitos — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 22:23:24 +0000

They peaked at a time where the competition‘s offering was still immature, partially even retrofitted combustion cars.

Now the landscape has changed and TSLA lacks innovation. Personally, i still enjoy fanboy talk from first-gen Tesla drivers while they try to dream of a come back once Elon‘s wonder weapons finally arrive to turn the war.