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New comment by agumonkey in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

agumonkey — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:23:01 +0000

Who else thinks that this constraint will force new creative solutions. We got compression algorithms due to limitations.

my 2 cents

New comment by agumonkey in "Google changes its search box"

agumonkey — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:51:55 +0000

LLM integrate more kinds of information and allow bidirectional debates. I can't ask Google to do the same search session but change some parameters from far earlier.

ps: I'm not pro centralized corp. owning data and ai. But so far they are the cheap highway to answers

New comment by agumonkey in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

agumonkey — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:57:05 +0000

Transactional recursive agents ?

Nothing is committed until the final top-level transaction is accepted.

New comment by agumonkey in "Ask HN: When did computers stop being fun?"

agumonkey — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:14:53 +0000

The internet and computing started to eat the world. Monetization lead to enshittification.. social issues popping everywhere. What used to be a smaller things with lots of promise ended up as the bedsoil for a special kind of hell, and it makes me want to stay away from mainstream webdev / computing for a while (unless it's for a real benefit for some people or society)

New comment by agumonkey in "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

agumonkey — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:37:53 +0000

I wonder if this is a sign of bad value. Long ago you'd be willing to pay. The relationship was clearer , simpler, stabler. No sudden change of price or rules, no constant false improvement. It was less flexible, and riskier on a way, but it cleaned the noise.

My 2cts

New comment by agumonkey in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

agumonkey — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:29:34 +0000

Are juniors you ran into psychologically obsessed by being self-reliant ? or too proud of their own ideas ?

I also believe that some of seniors experience is flesh-level resilience. I'm no smarter than when I joined the industry, I just got used to being in the trenches, how to handle my own psychology, how all the easy-looking things are not and how the horrible ones aren't either.. I could explain this in detail to any junior, but until they're on the minefield it won't mean much.

New comment by agumonkey in "Why TUIs are back"

agumonkey — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:09:33 +0000

I think he probably wouldn't classify CMI UI as TUI. It was monochrome and without true type fonts like terminals, but it allowed for pixel drawing it seems. It's a hybrid.

New comment by agumonkey in "Why TUIs are back"

agumonkey — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:00:00 +0000

I'd argue that UX these days jumped the shark and that TUI constraints brings back some desirable simplicity, although I agree that they like automation.. but I would bet a few dollars that it's far from impossible (and a fun challenge). People are creative, I wouldn't be surprised if someone made a fun miniDAW in a TUI.

New comment by agumonkey in "Why TUIs are back"

agumonkey — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:54:40 +0000

Claude code amplified the trend hundred fold but there was already a significant increase of TUI since the days of go fzf, rust ratatui and python rich.

My bet would be a desire to do away with heavy browser based UI and the curiosity of trying to test the limits of terminal based rendering.

New comment by agumonkey in "Laws of UX"

agumonkey — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:19:05 +0000

Where's the option to switch to a two-pane layout so I can scroll through the rules without losing the one i'm reading ?

New comment by agumonkey in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

agumonkey — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:54:28 +0000

Some people are so dependent on it they can't even say it without twisting words to hide the fact that they're now stuck at zero

New comment by agumonkey in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

agumonkey — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:06:48 +0000

considering the scale involved, and the OSINT trend, is it possible that people could monitor and correlate stuff like airplane, or us navy activity to deduce when to enter ?

New comment by agumonkey in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

agumonkey — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:34:03 +0000

Yes, it's close to what I'm feeling. I booted a pentium 2 era Dell desktop and all the physical aspects (volume, surface, motor noise, activity led) made me feel happier. It's partly emotional but also informational, I'm informed of what is there and what is happening (for disk activity led it's also very very useful, I miss that on hdd and usb keys all the time). Todays machines are unbelievably powerful but it's basically a nanoscopic blackbox out of reach for your mind.

New comment by agumonkey in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

agumonkey — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:08:36 +0000

the nostalgia doesn't check all the boxes, even though yeah it's hard to deny, but it embodies a different mindset, a strange limited visual form that promised the future. it was also its own kind of design and aesthetic, today we have infinitely capable machines and all possible fonts but we lost that difference.

ps: i have the same relationship to vintage desktop computer form factor, something about an old blocky box, an hdd led, a cd drive

New comment by agumonkey in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

agumonkey — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:20:08 +0000

I often question myself on why the aesthetics of personal computing were so special our brains that it sticks to this day.

New comment by agumonkey in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

agumonkey — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:01:17 +0000

Maybe it's a start to find conflict-prone regions ?

otherwise you're right, it could be a long linear list of appends where people are happy to contribute.

New comment by agumonkey in "How to get better at guitar"

agumonkey — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:02:04 +0000

Add some distance and sensitivity. I used blunt / brute force repetitions and somehow wasted years. Music is very subtle, and keeping a focus on small details is worth thousands of hours.

New comment by agumonkey in "Talk like caveman"

agumonkey — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:40:43 +0000

How do we know if a token sits at an abstract level or just the textual level ?

New comment by agumonkey in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

agumonkey — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:18:37 +0000

Maybe people are too comfy with axios base path url and interceptor api ? or maybe fetch handles that as well ? (through a shim ?)

New comment by agumonkey in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

agumonkey — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:15:00 +0000

Have you run into other people doing the same ? it could be a nice new movement.

take care