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New comment by christophilus in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

christophilus — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:29:49 +0000

Dunno. It’s really good with Preact + Tailwind. And I have to say that I think most problems can be solved this way and don’t require a special one-of-a-kind UI. In fact, the fewer special UIs I see, the better. I prefer standardized patterns unless they truly don’t fit a domain.

New comment by christophilus in "20 years on AWS and never not my job"

christophilus — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:58:45 +0000

$120/hr gets you a very good developer in the US, too. Just not in the Bay Area or Seattle.

New comment by christophilus in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

christophilus — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:04:20 +0000

Announcer just said “we just reenacted” the last Apollo mission. So, yep. That’ll be used as proof-text that this was all staged.

New comment by christophilus in "Artemis II: Live Earth reentry and splashdown after moon flyby [video]"

christophilus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:59:31 +0000

I missed why there’s a blackout period?

New comment by christophilus in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

christophilus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:02:12 +0000

Jony Ive here. I’ll come back and help make your new keyboard perfectly flat and seamless- touchpad based, and we’ll remove all ports. Bluetooth devices only.

New comment by christophilus in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

christophilus — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 17:08:26 +0000

No, I think that’s wrong. They aren’t supposed to be put behind a service, but they can certainly be used to write professional products/ products for the enterprise.

New comment by christophilus in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

christophilus — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:34:04 +0000

This is where the Codex and Claude Code Pro/Max plans are excellent. I rarely run into the limits of Codex. If I do, I wait and come back and have it resume once the window has expired.

New comment by christophilus in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

christophilus — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:29:47 +0000

Same. Codex and Claude Code on the latest models are really good at finding bugs, and really good at fixing them in my experience. Much better than 50% in the latter case and much faster than I am.

New comment by christophilus in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

christophilus — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:23:58 +0000

A lot of discoveries are like that. In fact, simplicity is often the hallmark of correctness, and complexity is often a sign that our understanding is incomplete and we’re still stumbling towards the right model. Not always, but often. It’s been a good rule of thumb in my programming career.

New comment by christophilus in "Iran strikes leave Amazon availability zones "hard down" in Bahrain and Dubai"

christophilus — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:02:55 +0000

History suggests we’ll have wars periodically, probably for as long as humans exist.

New comment by christophilus in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

christophilus — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:43:20 +0000

My guess is the answer is: We didn’t really launch Artemis. This is all CG.

New comment by christophilus in "Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM"

christophilus — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:15:10 +0000

Makes the divide between the developed and developing world very clear.

Edit: can’t be right. I think this is a dataset problem. China and Brazil should have more dots.

New comment by christophilus in "Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life"

christophilus — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:24:41 +0000

Yeah. I'd invert his assumption. Any reading of history shows a lot of introspection. Read the writings of everyday soldiers in the Civil War. Read any writings from any of the Catholic thinkers of the last 2000 years. Read the Greeks and Romans. Marcus Aurelius was exceptional in his quality, but not in his direction. There are so many such examples throughout history that I think it would be much harder to examples of the lack of introspection.

If anything, I think the lack of introspection is a mostly modern phenomenon.

New comment by christophilus in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

christophilus — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:43:54 +0000

> Google, Facebook, Apple clearly care deeply about the quality of their code

Not the impression I get these days.

New comment by christophilus in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"

christophilus — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:23:30 +0000

I think it’ll be on that same YouTube channel.

New comment by christophilus in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

christophilus — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:46:23 +0000

It’s not just NPM, though. Every Rails project and every Rust project I’ve seen ended up with massive numbers of dependencies vs what an equivalent project in Go or C# would have needed.

New comment by christophilus in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

christophilus — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:43:50 +0000

Honestly, you can get pretty far with just Bun and a very small number of dependencies. It’s what I love most about Bun. But, I do agree with you generally. .NET is about as good as I’ve ever seen for being batteries included. I just hate the enterprisey culture that always seems to pervade .NET shops.

New comment by christophilus in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

christophilus — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:33:48 +0000

I have 2-3 old touchscreen laptops lying around. The touchscreen is useless to me. Worse than useless. If I ever use it, it’s accidentally, and I end up annoyed.

New comment by christophilus in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

christophilus — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:58:28 +0000

I was researching laptops at BestBuy and every page took ages to load, was choppy when scrolling, caused my iPhone 13 mini to get uncomfortably hot in my hand and drained my battery fast. It wouldn’t be noticeably different if they were crypto-mining on my iPhone as I browsed their inventory.

It’s astonishing how bad the experience was.

New comment by christophilus in "I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]"

christophilus — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:02:39 +0000

I think he meant: “How people at the time would have reacted.”