Hacker News: SJMG

New comment by SJMG in "Safari Technology Preview 248 Released"

SJMG — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 01:37:01 +0000

Well this preview includes many changes made to WebKit which Kagi, a so called independent browser, depends on. It's good news for you.

New comment by SJMG in "Every Byte Matters"

SJMG — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:29:42 +0000

This looks to be the end of the conversation now. Just wanted to drop in and thank you for your time commenting, pron.

The common discourse is that "XYZ language is close to the metal and therefore Blazing Fast (tm)" people become tribalistic and forgot that this there are engineering considerations and trade-offs all the way down. I appreciate you making the argument for the JVM delivering performant code when a budget matters.

New comment by SJMG in "Which sparkling water is the best?"

SJMG — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:52:44 +0000

Spindrift is amazing. So much better that champions of other brands will disqualify it on the basis of it actually having a trace amount of sugar.

New comment by SJMG in "We replaced Zendesk"

SJMG — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:28:46 +0000

The problem — it's not that they don't write anymore; it's that they don't think anymore.

Ornadyne: We're building robot birds for surveillance

SJMG — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:13:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ornadyne

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48280152

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by SJMG in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

SJMG — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:20:05 +0000

You must not own property in Texas

New comment by SJMG in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

SJMG — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:53:57 +0000

I'm concerned about the cracking clearly visible on the heat shield tiles. It doesn't bode well for rapid reusability.

New comment by SJMG in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

SJMG — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:46:46 +0000

Quite a bit has changed. Here's the highlights: https://www.spacex.com/updates#starship-v3

New comment by SJMG in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

SJMG — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:22:24 +0000

Do you value the infinitesimal improvement of model quality more than your privacy?

New comment by SJMG in "Using Kagi Search with Low Vision"

SJMG — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:14:00 +0000

Do you think the potential upside is worth the $5 it would take to explore?

New comment by SJMG in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

SJMG — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:27:32 +0000

Great, as long as you don't mind the nexus of all human communication to be frozen in time three years ago.

New comment by SJMG in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

SJMG — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:35:50 +0000

Not to mention the entire well is "poisoned" now. You can avoid LLM points of entry. You can't go to a random source and expect to avoid generative output.

New comment by SJMG in "Flipper One – we need your help"

SJMG — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:28:26 +0000

You're right to complain. Writing code whose principal job is to be compiled and executed by a computer is not at all the same as writing prose whose job is (hopefully still) to be read by a person.

Up to a couple years ago, the latter was essentially a product of lever-less human attention.

New comment by SJMG in "Why I don’t vibe code"

SJMG — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:05:14 +0000

Indeed, I solve hard problem for a living, but those are mostly design. The actual engineering often decomposes to gluing things together with limited need for new primitives.

There are hard problems at every level of abstraction. TAGE predictor optimization up to handling data-center failover.

I don't really have a challenge for people like the OP, I get it. I too dragged my feet, even mourned the death of a type of work I had grown fond of. Then I got over it and realized I might prefer the romance of riding a horse into town, but I also like that there's semi-trucks delivering fresh produce to my grocery store year round. The leverage available right now is frankly insane. The one thing an "old dev" [as he self-labeled] can be sure of is that the younger generations will not share these hang-ups to the same degree and it's those people who will inherit the burden of maintaining and furthering the digital world.

New comment by SJMG in "Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024)"

SJMG — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:17:05 +0000

Nim is a cool language—not sure why this is being shared now though; this repo has been dormant for some time. A newer effort is Sarcophagus,

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/13879

https://github.com/elcritch/sarcophagus

New comment by SJMG in "Anthropic Is Preparing for IPO and We Should Be Worried"

SJMG — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:59:20 +0000

Not to mention Tesla.

New comment by SJMG in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

SJMG — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:42:44 +0000

No cell phone period or no smart phone? I'm not sure how people manage the former. Do you have a home with a land line? What do you do when you travel?

New comment by SJMG in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

SJMG — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:05:38 +0000

Likely https://taalas.com

New comment by SJMG in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

SJMG — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:16:30 +0000

Agreed. I use it basically every day. It's almost disquieting how quickly Apple inserted itself into payments, but it's frankly safer than a credit card and the NFC(?) works much better.

New comment by SJMG in "Talking to 35 Strangers at the Gym"

SJMG — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:33:00 +0000

I'm not missing the point; you made several. The one I engaged I quoted for you. You can see from the sibling comments that several of us took issue with it.

For what it's worth, I agree with your last position about just being honest. If anything, a finding like this should just move the asking of small favors from a stranger towards the norm.