Hacker News: breadwinner

New comment by breadwinner in "Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons"

breadwinner — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:34:42 +0000

Same as what it did in the original Tesla cars. They only removed the stalks recently.

New comment by breadwinner in "Volkswagen Brings Back Physical Buttons"

breadwinner — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:11:19 +0000

Tesla should take inspiration from this and at least bring back the physical gear shifter and the turn signal stalks.

New comment by breadwinner in "The Delete Act"

breadwinner — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:09:17 +0000

Are Experian, Transunion and Equifax included in the one-click deletion?

New comment by breadwinner in "Functional programming and reliability: ADTs, safety, critical infrastructure"

breadwinner — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 02:18:14 +0000

> that tends to get in the way of complex error handling.

Agree. In Java, Streams allow you to process collections in a functional style. This feature enables concise, expressive data manipulation with operations like map, filter, and reduce.

Some people point out that Java's checked exceptions spoil the simplicity and elegance of Streams by forcing you to handle exceptions.

But that's not a reason to not have checked exceptions, it is a reason to not do functional style composition when methods can throw exceptions. Streams was invented for collections, which tend not to throw exceptions. If proper error handling is important don't do Streams.

New comment by breadwinner in "Researchers develop a camera that can focus on different distances at once"

breadwinner — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 13:49:45 +0000

How is this different from using a small aperture size?

When you reduce aperture size the depth of field increases. So for example when you use f/16 pretty much everything from a few feet to infinity is in focus.

New comment by breadwinner in "Are we losing our democracy?"

breadwinner — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:59:58 +0000

https://archive.ph/xbm1E

Are we losing our democracy?

breadwinner — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 09:59:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/31/opinion/trump-autocracy-democracy-report.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45770201

Points: 16

# Comments: 5

New comment by breadwinner in "Ask HN: How does one build large front end apps without a framework like React?"

breadwinner — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:20:59 +0000

You don't need a large framework to build a maintainable, efficient web app. Here's an example: https://github.com/wisercoder/eureka/tree/master/webapp

It uses two 500-line libraries:

This 500-line lib lets you use TSX syntax without React: https://github.com/wisercoder/uibuilder

This 500-line lib implements MVC routing: https://github.com/wisercoder/mvc-router

New comment by breadwinner in "Like MS Excel, Pivot tables never die"

breadwinner — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:26:31 +0000

This is a better article if you are interested in the history of Pivot Tables: https://qz.com/1903322/why-pivot-tables-are-the-spreadsheets...

New comment by breadwinner in "Zed is now available on Windows"

breadwinner — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:45:19 +0000

That may be true if you're looking at all windows computers in existence. If you look at new laptops being sold you see different numbers. As of 2025, Arm processors hold about 13% to 20% of the market share for new Windows laptops. This is important because these are the people who are more likely to download and install your software.

New comment by breadwinner in "US Dept of Interior denies canceling largest solar project after axing review"

breadwinner — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:23:08 +0000

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45553487

New comment by breadwinner in "Zed is now available on Windows"

breadwinner — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:46:12 +0000

It is 18% according to this story: https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/projections-show-that-a...

New comment by breadwinner in "Zed is now available on Windows"

breadwinner — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:42:29 +0000

Ubiquity is pretty important when you're going to invest in learning a new editor. This is one of the advantages of vim for example. It is available everywhere... linux, windows, terminal, gui, etc.

New comment by breadwinner in "Zed is now available on Windows"

breadwinner — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:36:17 +0000

That's an interesting take. For whatever reason, frame rate is not one of my complaints about existing editors such as Emacs, VS Code, etc.

New comment by breadwinner in "Zed is now available on Windows"

breadwinner — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:15:17 +0000

I watched the video on the home page and thought it is weird that they spend an inordinate amount of time on frame rate. Who picks an editor based on frame rate?

If you want to talk about perf in the context of a text editor show me how big of a file you can load--especially if the file has no line breaks. Emacs has trouble here. If you load a minified js file it slows to a crawl especially if syntax highlighting is on. Also show me how fast the start up time is. This is another area where Emacs does not do well.

So Zed is available on Windows--but only if you have a x64 processor. Lots of people run Windows on Arm64 and I don't see any mention of Arm64. This is where the puck is heading.

Also noticed Emacs key binding is in beta still.

New comment by breadwinner in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

breadwinner — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 18:49:19 +0000

They should not have revealed these details... now criminals know how to avoid the same fate.

New comment by breadwinner in "US moves to cancel one of the largest solar farms"

breadwinner — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:27:45 +0000

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has bragged he had Jared Kushner "in his pocket." Oil-producing middle-eastern countries, having made significant contributions to Trump family's wealth, have enormous influence over him. If you were the ruler of an oil-producing country and have enormous influence over Trump, what would you have him do for your country?

If it was me, this is what I would have him do: Pull out of the Paris climate accord, cancel renewable energy projects, cancel EV tax credits. Trump has done all that.

In fact Trump went a step further:

Trump is using tariffs to pressure other countries to relax their pledges to fight climate change and instead burn more oil, gas and coal. See: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/climate/trump-internation...

New comment by breadwinner in "Indiana city doesn't have to pay innocent mom $16,000 after police wrecked home"

breadwinner — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:43:49 +0000

They should have tried the negligence angle. Why did the police make this mistake? Somebody didn't do their job correctly. The city is responsible for that.

New comment by breadwinner in "Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified"

breadwinner — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:31:19 +0000

Robotics has catapulted Beijing into a dominant position in many industries, especially ones involving renewable energy. Meanwhile in the US we are shutting down renewable energy projects (presumably to please middle-east benefactors), and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick wants to bring jobs to the US that involve putting screws into phones.

Western executives who visit China are coming back terrified

breadwinner — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 23:26:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/why-western-executives-visit-china-coming-back-terrified/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45563018

Points: 40

# Comments: 18