Hacker News: agos

New comment by agos in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

agos — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:04:07 +0000

If it’s not too hard why are people not doing it?

New comment by agos in "Don't classify, hallucinate"

agos — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:42:15 +0000

the trick is that it's not totally wrong to start with

New comment by agos in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

agos — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:28:08 +0000

hey it's their PR statement who insists it's not just for prototype but real apps which do real work are being used in production. "where are they?" is a fair question

New comment by agos in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

agos — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:24:59 +0000

are they making any profit?

New comment by agos in "Because It's Not Fun Enough: why languages fail"

agos — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 10:48:28 +0000

and despite all of its shortcomings, the ecosystem really grew. There are mainstream languages that to this day still can't match npm (looking at you, Python)

New comment by agos in "Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's"

agos — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:23:36 +0000

for those unaware, Scunthorpe is infamously relevant to computer science due to over zealous word filter. The problem has its own Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

New comment by agos in "Switching to electric stoves can dramatically cut indoor air pollution (2025)"

agos — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:06:32 +0000

they are definitely a minority, not "tons". On the Bosch website I can't even find them.

New comment by agos in "Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components"

agos — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:56:50 +0000

in this specific case, it's because authoring web components without any support is a bit of a pain, and stuff like lifecycle or reactivity gets boilerplatey very quickly.

We stopped using RSC on Tanstack.com

agos — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:37:22 +0000

Article URL: https://tanstack.com/blog/we-stopped-using-rsc-on-tanstack-com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135899

Points: 1

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New comment by agos in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"

agos — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:47:21 +0000

thanks for putting this in words much better than I could. I truly appreciated the bittersweet finale of RMI which told us all "hey you've grown up you have a family now, we all know this is fake, but you still love it and it's endearing that you care about this, even knowing if there's no big payoff or grand reveal of the secret"

New comment by agos in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"

agos — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:14:15 +0000

why didn't I know about this! thanks for the rec, it looks great

New comment by agos in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"

agos — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:10:51 +0000

that's a nice fan theory which does involve some very real elements from the game (the meta narrative, the genre awareness, the nearly constant fourth wall breaking, the multiple layers, the ambiguity) but speculates a lot and veers towards some wild hypothesis ("Stan is LeChuck" makes no sense however you put it).

I do appreciate the multi layered aspect, and it's the number one element which keeps me coming back to MI games, and I especially appreciated the way in which RMI felt like a fading dream, with stuff being ever more "slightly off" than before.

But if this is indeed the intended "meaning" of the whole thing, the authors didn't do a great job at it. We get only bits and pieces of this purported hidden "reality", and on the other side we have a couple of very easy to read narrative levels where The Secret is clearly a MacGuffin (a trope the authors love: see the rewards for the three trials, and the treasure being literally called "Big whoop"), the absurdity and the anachronisms are the point, and once it's over the only thing they can say is... the game is over, now turn this off and go do something more interesting, which is a nice joke and sufficiently meta. The issue is that it's ok the first time, but after the third time it's an overused trope

New comment by agos in "Ruby Central's Destructive Legacy"

agos — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:29:52 +0000

I checked and yes, dayssincerubydrama.com is saying 0

New comment by agos in "Ron Gilbert started production on Thimbleweed Park 2"

agos — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:58:05 +0000

it's clearly in that direction (and that's fine), but I would debate the "effort" part

New comment by agos in "The Cold Email"

agos — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:57:22 +0000

I'm here to make your itch worse! we're using Elixir to build a fintech SaaS and it's by far the most dependable, boring, lovable part of our stack. We built critical parts with it (syncing data with external services, for one) and were just able to basically forget about it for years because it just... ran?

Erlang/Elixir are definitely not the best for everything, but if there's a good match it's unbeatable

New comment by agos in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

agos — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:26:48 +0000

it is indeed a very commonplace blunder. I'm trying to evangelize as much as I can!

New comment by agos in "Ancient Rome's version of Google Maps: how long to reach the beach"

agos — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:15:37 +0000

ehhh Italy is sadly one of the most car-dependent countries in the western world, topping the number of vehicles per 1000 people in Europe (excluding microstates). No one's safe

New comment by agos in "They Stole Your Attention"

agos — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:10:47 +0000

why should I employ my time reading something the "author" didn't bother writing? my attention has been stolen, sure, but if wrestle it back I'll give it to anything else

New comment by agos in "Show HN: Physically accurate black hole you can put in your room"

agos — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:46:51 +0000

it's common to use a colormap, but not using a perceptually uniform colormap in the year 2026 is quite a blunder

New comment by agos in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

agos — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:14:57 +0000

I suggest looking at "consent-O-matic" which might not be AI but takes care of the issue for you