Hacker News: ale

New comment by ale in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

ale — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:56:05 +0000

Besides the new form factor, resizable apps are also meant to further bridge the gap between macOS and iOS right?

New comment by ale in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

ale — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:35:30 +0000

The article does not come from someone who relies of Figma for a living. It's easy to call it a "proposal doc" when you're working on a specific issue for a specific product. There are still millions of designers who use Figma to define and maintain design systems that span across products and platforms, where Figma is the source of truth.

New comment by ale in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

ale — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:54:58 +0000

Incoming rust rewrite branch ready to merge: +1,009,257 -4,024

New comment by ale in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

ale — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:45:52 +0000

Well put. SQL gets put in this category of foundational technology that has passed the test of time when in reality it’s more like an example of path dependence.

New comment by ale in "Can You Stop a Hypersonic Missile?"

ale — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:33:55 +0000

“A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.”

New comment by ale in "We replaced Zendesk"

ale — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:31:46 +0000

The devs doing these kinds projects no longer think of the code as maintainable, but disposable. It's quite the 180 for a community obsessed with reusable npm packages and not reinventing the wheel. Last year Cursor bragged about ditching their CMS in 3 days: https://x.com/leerob/status/1999513884382597485

New comment by ale in "We replaced Zendesk"

ale — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:26:51 +0000

The first sentence being "I was not planning to write this article" is the cherry on top.

New comment by ale in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

ale — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:18:32 +0000

I’d start with the immense packaging waste and shameless overconsumption tricks that are banned in basically any other industry.

New comment by ale in "Warm up your MacBook (2019)"

ale — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:03:13 +0000

Honestly i prefer my macbook frosty

New comment by ale in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

ale — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:20:38 +0000

They got their priorities right for sure

New comment by ale in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

ale — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:19:42 +0000

I think it’s about time to backup all of my GH repos.

New comment by ale in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

ale — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:16:09 +0000

Not really, realistically speaking it's now possible to use an agent to read code and make sensible summaries of a codebase faster than ever before, and it's exactly the thing you'd use to onboard yourself or someone else on the team.

New comment by ale in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

ale — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:04:42 +0000

This is just so much fluff. All the focus on "orchestrating" is ultimately accidental complexity.

New comment by ale in "Last.fm is now independent"

ale — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:59:46 +0000

Man i love last.fm even though it's been technically superseded (for most people) by Spotify's recommendation features. It just fit so well in the zeitgeist of 2000's indie scene, microblogs, early social media.

New comment by ale in "Ferrari Luce"

ale — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:38:51 +0000

Technically it also means you can do whatever you want and yet still nobody does.

New comment by ale in "Deno 2.8"

ale — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:57:41 +0000

I think if Deno had held on to their initial values for a little longer the pressure towards node compatibility would have been mended by AI agents, because a lot of the pressure is the result of skill issues: if the only way you know how to set up is using express.js then any subsequent tool or runtime must provide a similar abstraction for a “smooth” transition, regardless of how bad the first solution was in the first place. Nowadays you introduce devs to new tech by delivering your product with a set of skills that in practice have replaced documentation and sometimes can be very good at showing better alternative approaches to whatever you’re building.

New comment by ale in "Deno 2.8"

ale — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:56:44 +0000

"standard" IT tools?

New comment by ale in "HTML Lists"

ale — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:15:06 +0000

Now i need one that explains the css counters

New comment by ale in "HTML Lists"

ale — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:44:26 +0000

I thought of the 2000 version first which made this much funnier in my head

New comment by ale in "My Thoughts on Bun's Rust Rewrite"

ale — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:46:20 +0000

Great point about testing. The knee jerk reaction to defend this enormous rewrite because it passes a test suite reminds me of a Rick Hickey classic: what’s true of every bug found in the field? It passed all the tests.

https://youtu.be/LKtk3HCgTa8?t=938