Hacker News: Fervicus

New comment by Fervicus in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

Fervicus — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 21:53:32 +0000

> Here's hoping this one's different...

It won't be.

New comment by Fervicus in "June in Servo: real world compat, media queries, SharedWorker, and more"

Fervicus — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:18:10 +0000

Congrats on the new release. Anything that creates more competition in the browser space has my support. I was hyped about Ladybird but their recent adoption of LLMs and going source-available only has put a bit of a dent in it.

New comment by Fervicus in "Show HN: Whetuu – a zero-config cross-shell prompt written in Zig"

Fervicus — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:27:48 +0000

It used to be the case that seeing cool Show HN projects would get me excited. Ever since the advent of agentic coding, that has been completely lost for me. 9/10 times now they are just claude produced slop with a 3 day long commit history. Quite sad.

New comment by Fervicus in "How Our Rust-to-Zig Rewrite Is Going"

Fervicus — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:42:25 +0000

Roc seems interesting. But for some reason I find it very grating to have the type definition on a separate line. Very much prefer F# syntax for that.

New comment by Fervicus in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

Fervicus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:14:31 +0000

Somehow all the countries are suddenly proposing the same thing. You'd think at least one of these countries might try something different if they actually cared about the kids, like banning algorithmic feeds. Not suspicious at all.

New comment by Fervicus in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

Fervicus — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:10:16 +0000

Arguing about whether this is good or effective for kids or not is irrelevant. This isn't about kids at all. It's about surveillance.

.NET 11 Preview 5 is now available

Fervicus — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:03:46 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-11-preview-5/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48492217

Points: 1

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New comment by Fervicus in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

Fervicus — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:11:31 +0000

We need a Framework laptop equivalent for cars.

New comment by Fervicus in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

Fervicus — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:01:57 +0000

This points get brought up in every thread about this topic, and although I agree with it completely, I feel it's the wrong point to make. They don't want to raise our children. Caring about the children is just pretense. The goal is surveillance. So this is a moot point, really.

New comment by Fervicus in "Zed 1.0"

Fervicus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:49:45 +0000

No thanks.

New comment by Fervicus in "Zed 1.0"

Fervicus — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:24:07 +0000

Sorry, I am not going to use and get attached to a code editor that is VC funded. You know the enshittification will happen sooner or later.

New comment by Fervicus in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

Fervicus — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:22:04 +0000

What politicians run on and what they do after getting elected does not often match sadly.

New comment by Fervicus in "Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?"

Fervicus — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:30:52 +0000

By not using LLMs daily.

New comment by Fervicus in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Fervicus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:12:08 +0000

If you have worked at Mozilla then clearly you are going to have a better understanding of the company than I do. But my perspective, and I believe of many others from the outside looking in, is that the company is mismanaged, focusing on the wrong things, and paying their execs way too much.

New comment by Fervicus in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Fervicus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:54:24 +0000

How did you come to the conclusion that it's not? Google being bloated is not a good justification for why Mozilla should be bloated too. Someone in the comment below suggested that Ladybird was built by about 10 people. Call me naive, but I don't think you'd need 75x number of people to work on a browser that's already established for over 2 decades.

New comment by Fervicus in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Fervicus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:56:10 +0000

What do they do with all that money? According to wikipedia, they had about 750 employees. That's a lot of employees for the amount of useful products they have.

New comment by Fervicus in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

Fervicus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:46:45 +0000

I am not a bot and I am not associated with this company in any way. But I am a happy user of Ente Auth as well. This AI thing they made however just gives off "we have to do something with AI or we'll be left behind" vibes.

New comment by Fervicus in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

Fervicus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:58:32 +0000

> it just feels like betrayal

It was a VC backed tool. What did you expect?

New comment by Fervicus in "Tons of new LLM bot accounts here"

Fervicus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:54:21 +0000

I agree. But I am also sick and tired of humans prompting some LLM about the points that they want to say and having the LLM generate the response. Online communities will never be the same again.

New comment by Fervicus in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

Fervicus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:31:21 +0000

I (along with many others) always thought that Astral being VC backed is going to lead to a future disappointment for the community.