Hacker News: chris_pie

New comment by chris_pie in "Wrapping my head around AI wrappers"

chris_pie — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:24:26 +0000

The potential customer rarely cares whether a service provider is running their business well. What matters is the product's value added and risks added, as compared to just using the underlying tech directly.

New comment by chris_pie in "Google Antigravity"

chris_pie — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:59:53 +0000

That's a big name for a slop fork. So many possibilities (with LLMs and without) but Google just can't bring themselves to do anything creative, let alone transformative.

New comment by chris_pie in "Open-source Zig book"

chris_pie — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 23:34:53 +0000

note that the front page also says: "61 chapters • Project-based • Zero AI"

New comment by chris_pie in "Open-source Zig book"

chris_pie — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:26:30 +0000

I don't think so, I think it's just a pompous style of writing.

New comment by chris_pie in "Pipelining in psql (PostgreSQL 18)"

chris_pie — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 12:19:15 +0000

I wish the author explained the difference between pipelines and multi-statement queries

New comment by chris_pie in "EU age verification app not planning desktop support"

chris_pie — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 21:00:50 +0000

You're right, for example age is useful when picking targets for scams. It would also be great for groomers.

New comment by chris_pie in "Boring is good"

chris_pie — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:47:41 +0000

Hot take in regards to the good old statement taken literally: the boring<->exciting dimension is irrelevant in terms of something being good or bad.

Yes I know, stable things are stable

New comment by chris_pie in "Vibe coding has turned senior devs into 'AI babysitters'"

chris_pie — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:55:45 +0000

The meaning has changed very quickly for some reason, but I think the original meaning was that you evaluate the result in a superficial manner by checking if the program seems to work fine. So "vibe" here is as opposed to any methodical or formal approach. No code review etc.

New comment by chris_pie in "C# Language Design Meeting for June 30th, 2025"

chris_pie — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:15:17 +0000

The second one seems very similar to the "using static" feature, but less verbose.

New comment by chris_pie in "Browser extension (Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Edge) to redirect URLs based on regex"

chris_pie — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 14:53:45 +0000

For this specific case there's a "Nitter Redirect" extension

New comment by chris_pie in "Understanding How Violet Light Can Stop Myopia Progression"

chris_pie — Wed, 21 May 2025 22:13:29 +0000

Hasn't the blue light affecting circadian rhythms been debunked at this point?

New comment by chris_pie in "“ZLinq”, a Zero-Allocation LINQ Library for .NET"

chris_pie — Wed, 21 May 2025 08:43:36 +0000

To your point, ValueTask is less safe than Task. For example, it's important not to await it more than once.

New comment by chris_pie in "Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM"

chris_pie — Sat, 17 May 2025 23:15:45 +0000

I can't find the actual decision, but there was some discussion here: https://github.com/WebAssembly/gc/issues/77 Microsoft later in 2023 said that that discussion "is the current state we are in. We will keep eye on wasm GC in the future."

edit: found a more concrete statement https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/94420

New comment by chris_pie in "Binary Formats Are Better Than JSON in Browsers"

chris_pie — Sat, 17 May 2025 20:07:10 +0000

Here's a benchmark of int keys in .NET https://github.com/MessagePack-CSharp/MessagePack-CSharp#des...

New comment by chris_pie in "Popcorn: Run Elixir in WASM"

chris_pie — Sat, 17 May 2025 19:53:13 +0000

.NET doesn't use WasmGC because Microsoft found it too different from how .NET's GC works. Which is quite unfortunate

New comment by chris_pie in "Android and Wear OS are getting a redesign"

chris_pie — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:55:04 +0000

I've been using Pixel 8 for nearly a year now and I agree that it's surprisingly buggy. Also, the chip is excessively power-hungry, especially for the performance it offers. In addition: the modem is bad and very power-hungry as well. And the cherry on top for me was the subpar fingerprint scanner. Can't recommend.

New comment by chris_pie in "Pope Leo XIV says advancement of AI played a factor in his papal name selection"

chris_pie — Sun, 11 May 2025 20:30:43 +0000

Best he could do was DEUS I

New comment by chris_pie in "Show HN: Hyper – Standards-first React alternative"

chris_pie — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:21:02 +0000

attribute names depend on the implementation, Solid uses JSX and `class`

New comment by chris_pie in "Show HN: Hyper – Standards-first React alternative"

chris_pie — Sat, 10 May 2025 23:19:34 +0000

what's funny is that there are 2 libraries called hyperscript

New comment by chris_pie in "WebGL Water (2010)"

chris_pie — Sat, 10 May 2025 22:19:56 +0000

Some features of Kiwi were merged to Edge, which means it now supports extensions (any extension if using developer options in Canary)