Hacker News: ahallock

New comment by ahallock in "Facebook is cooked"

ahallock — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:07:42 +0000

This is just clickbait. Yeah there is brain rot on there, and what he was presented with is questionable, but he hadn't used it in 8 years. If he started using it, he would see more of what he's interested in. It's not a mind reader.

New comment by ahallock in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

ahallock — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 03:10:25 +0000

Regulation is freedom? Peace is war, too, I guess.

New comment by ahallock in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

ahallock — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:06:29 +0000

Banning ads? That's just so authoritarian and absurd. I hope you never become king

New comment by ahallock in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

ahallock — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:21:52 +0000

It's really not. It takes many generations to assimilate. You cannot just invite a huge influx of people and not expect a major cultural shift.

New comment by ahallock in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

ahallock — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:20:22 +0000

That's no longer immigration; that's an invasion. You can't just let unfettered immigration into a country because that would drain resources and have a negative cultural impact. Yes, people in a country pay taxes and as such should enjoy protections against invaders.

New comment by ahallock in "Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds"

ahallock — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:05:17 +0000

Are we getting income tax breaks then?

New comment by ahallock in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

ahallock — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:20:05 +0000

You act as if they don't have loopholes for this or that there will be consequences when the military industrial complex is behind things. Were there any consequences for Iraq WMD BS

New comment by ahallock in "Building a Toast Component"

ahallock — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 17:38:30 +0000

Developers reach for Toasts because they're zero effort. Good user experience takes a lot of thought and you can skip all that with Toasts haha.

New comment by ahallock in "Show HN: Cuq – Formal Verification of Rust GPU Kernels"

ahallock — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 03:00:19 +0000

Aren't we more mature than this? Granted, it's the first thing I thought of as well

New comment by ahallock in "Doing Rails Wrong"

ahallock — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:05:36 +0000

I'm going to make the case that it's actually the opposite. Rails might seem simpler out of the box, but this is all surface level. Rails is massive and extremely complex, especially its ORM, which encourages really bad database practices in my experience. And it doesn't have strong typing.

If you went head-to-head with Rails on a slightly complex project with say shadcn/ui, Convex DB, and TanStack Start, I guarantee you, the TypeScript app will be much simpler and give you more power than Rails, especially when building the UI. And to top it off, you will have strong typing everywhere -- from the DB schema to the URL routes.

And bonus, deployment is simple. ConvexDB already takes care of the backend and the frontend could be deployed to something like Cloudflare Pages.

New comment by ahallock in "Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it"

ahallock — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:27:33 +0000

While these technologies are interesting, React has built a moat with its component ecosystem. It doesn't matter how intuitive or simple your new frontend solution is when I can `bunx add` a component from shadcn/ui and be instantly productive. Not to mention most companies with frontend integrations are shipping their own React components. You get composability and familiarity.

And while there are decent component libraries in plain JS, the top talent is building in React.

New comment by ahallock in "Building websites with lots of little HTML pages"

ahallock — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 04:15:47 +0000

I love the how he simulates the hamburger menu with a page navigation. It just feels so wholesome in a sea of complex JS frameworks

New comment by ahallock in "When did estimates turn into deadlines?"

ahallock — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 22:20:18 +0000

Working in smaller steps is how you should build software. Constantly get feedback and re-evaluate what you're working on with other members of the team. Instead of giving an estimate, use t-shirt size.

With constant feedback, the whole team is participating in the emergent complexity, instead of being passive and just annoying you with "is it done yet"?

New comment by ahallock in "Segmenting Credit Card Customers with K-Means"

ahallock — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 16:53:04 +0000

Why was it deleted?

New comment by ahallock in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

ahallock — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 13:43:24 +0000

What does that have to do with present day? You're comparing two different times and circumstances

New comment by ahallock in "Omega-3 intake counteracts symptoms of anxiety and depression in mice"

ahallock — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 12:57:22 +0000

General feeling. At night I could definitely feel it going to sleep, and it went away after decreasing the dose. It could be a coincidence, but regardless of my personal experience, there's actual science behind it. Too much o3 can affect the blood vessels.

New comment by ahallock in "Omega-3 intake counteracts symptoms of anxiety and depression in mice"

ahallock — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:05:57 +0000

Have they made any mice immortal yet (with continuous treatments of stem cells and other therapies)?

New comment by ahallock in "Omega-3 intake counteracts symptoms of anxiety and depression in mice"

ahallock — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:03:02 +0000

You have to be careful with such high doses over a long period of time. It can cause heart arrhythmia.

New comment by ahallock in "Omega-3 intake counteracts symptoms of anxiety and depression in mice"

ahallock — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:01:17 +0000

There are conflicting studies, but recently, it was determined you need adequate vitamin B levels to support omega-3.

As an aside, you can definitely over-dose on omega-3 which can cause afib, and increase your chance of stroke. I was taking 2 grams per day and definitely had arrhythmia issues. Decreasing the dosage to 500mg per day eliminated the arrhythmia.

New comment by ahallock in "Ask HN: Which movies did you watch multiple times?"

ahallock — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 01:20:39 +0000

Terminator 1 & 2, Predator, Ghostbusters, Office Space, Step Brothers, Idiocracy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (I find comedies the most re-watchable)