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New comment by betageek in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

betageek — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:51:30 +0000

This is one of the vanishingly small instances of actually representing the tech industry well in media, even if there's a lot of exaggeration and they elide the boring stuff. There are so many scenes in that gave me deja vu. Everyone gets treated even handedly, no 2 dimensional heroes and villains, just a load of people trying to build something while their egos get in the way. I'd give it the highest recommendation possible, representation is important!

New comment by betageek in "Show HN: 1 Million Rows"

betageek — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:34:14 +0000

By "Lightning fast management tool" you mean "virtualised table"?

New comment by betageek in "What if we made advertising illegal?"

betageek — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:01:04 +0000

I too spent far too many years in the adtech industry before realising that what I thought I was doing (helping fund cool things on the web) was not what I was actually doing (destroying the web as I knew it.) Having left it behind in the early 10s it's got way worse than I ever imagined, there's effectively no regulation at all now, and certainly no way of knowing where the ads stop and the content begins. Having sat in ad industry self regulation meetings myself I know the author is completely right, they will never do anything about any of the many many problems, so what else is there to do than ban it, nothing else is going to work with the system that currently exists.

New comment by betageek in "The Origins of Wokeness"

betageek — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:24:16 +0000

Not even wrong

New comment by betageek in "It's hard to stop Math Acceleration once you start"

betageek — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 10:10:08 +0000

I think that's a bad misreading of the article, and life in general. When the author is saying "better" he's talking about the whole makeup of a person, not just a single advanced skill. Being amazing at maths is extremely useful, but it can be quite a narrow area of expertise, and I would imagine the author wants his child to be a good person, not a hyperfocused maths machine with no social skills. The children's achievements are combination or talent, effort and nurture that other children may not have, it doesn't make other children lesser, and they will have talents of their own.

New comment by betageek in "Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos"

betageek — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:12:11 +0000

+1 for this, I may end up buying this anyway but aside from the piano I have a Arturia Keystep Pro hooked up to a few synths that can sequence 4 channels, would be amazing to have this work with that setup and record all the midi channels and be able to select the channels in the app.

New comment by betageek in "The best $4 ever spent"

betageek — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:11:56 +0000

Just so you know, it's not just Sweden, kids around the world all love eating at Ikea ;)

New comment by betageek in "The man who killed Google Search?"

betageek — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:54:51 +0000

This isn't an article for computer scientists, and I think he covers this pretty well:

"While Levy calls him a “world-class computer scientist who has authored definitive texts in the field,” he also describes Raghavan as “choosing a management track,” which definitely tracks with everything I’ve found about him."

"Despite his history as a true computer scientist with actual academic credentials, Raghavan chose to bulldoze actual workers and replace them with toadies that would make Google more profitable and less useful to the world at large."

Remix web framework aquired by Shopify

betageek — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 14:16:01 +0000

Article URL: https://remix.run/blog/remixing-shopify

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33405997

Points: 558

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New comment by betageek in "Apple Mac Studio"

betageek — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 13:08:43 +0000

I'm kind of disappointed, Apple make such a big thing of being green but keep making machines that aren't upgradeable in these tiny form factors. I was really hoping for a more affordable Mac Pro with easily accessible memory/ram and some expansion slots.

New comment by betageek in "Some notes on using esbuild"

betageek — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 11:07:18 +0000

I don't understand why people are holding JS to a higher standard than other languages, is it just because it used to be easier?

Knowing nothing about Java, I wouldn't expect to open a Java file and know what every line means. There's a million reasons to find modern web dev complicated but not taking the time to google "js import" is not one of them. Also I wouldn't expect to "just know" how to take a Java program and build it in a way that I could host it somewhere, I'd expect to have to work at it.

New comment by betageek in "Esbuild – An extremely fast JavaScript bundler"

betageek — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 11:24:53 +0000

CTO and lead developer on a focused project are very different jobs - my guess would be he relaxes from the very strategy and soft-skill heavy day job by diving into a challenging problem that keeps his dev chops up and lets him focus on a finite problem.

New comment by betageek in "Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly"

betageek — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 17:11:20 +0000

This looks really great, something I could use and would pay for when polished but there's definitely a few issues for me at the moment:

* Why go fullscreen and modal? I want to drag in links from docs, email, other browsers, have it side by side while reading PDFs etc. etc. this stops me from doing any of that

* Please let me change the shortcut! I already have Option-Space bound.

* Let me put the browser window anywhere I want when it's in the single page non-fullscreen mode, don't levitate it to where you think I want it

* Unless I'm missing something the process of opening a page then adding it to a workspace seems to be three clicks - open page, hit + (plus) button, select workspace, select workspace/inbox - need to make this one click, maybe just show the inboxes? This also seems clunky, I'd much rather browse, drag that page to the workspace/inbox, continue browsing and adding further pages, then arrange all the pages in the workspace after i've added all the links. Seems a faster workflow.

New comment by betageek in "The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Past Decade"

betageek — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 16:16:20 +0000

Hard disagree on Ancillary Justice, I thought it was a standout book, and considering it won the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C Clarke, Locus First Novel, and tied for the BSFA award I wasn't the only one.

New comment by betageek in "Real-world CSS vs. CSS-in-JS performance comparison"

betageek — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 15:02:10 +0000

CSS-in-JS alone doesn't give you many tools for that kind of stuff, but if you use something that integrates more design system-style theming it's pretty easy - have a look at https://chakra-ui.com/ and click on the moon icon in the top corner for instant dark mode. Implementing various themes for high-contrast etc. would just be a case of changing the theme.

New comment by betageek in "Fierce Nerds"

betageek — Tue, 18 May 2021 15:22:05 +0000

PG essays === Tech Horoscopes

New comment by betageek in "Career advice for people with bad luck"

betageek — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 11:38:40 +0000

This is one of the most useful posts ever to grace the front page.

New comment by betageek in "Physics Travel Guide – Physics concepts explained in three levels of difficulty"

betageek — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 10:41:40 +0000

This is really great, would love something like this for pure maths.

New comment by betageek in "Show HN: Offline text extractor from screenshots in macOS"

betageek — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:19:23 +0000

+1, tried a few things and just get '0 screenshots imported' all the time, looked in Console and couldn't see anything obvious.

Also please add some kind of support contact method as the only link to you in the app is a Twitter account with direct messages locked.

New comment by betageek in "Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?"

betageek — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:42:25 +0000

It is one of the great mysteries of life how an author can write a couple of books (this and Speaker for the Dead) that are literally all about loving the 'other' and still be homophobic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Homosexuality