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Rethinking Modularity in Ruby Applications

ciconia — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 09:23:24 +0000

Article URL: https://noteflakes.com/articles/2026-06-18-syntropy-modules

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48596586

Points: 2

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New comment by ciconia in "Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund"

ciconia — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:27:26 +0000

I got news for you: that private money - a big chunk of it comes from public funds.

New comment by ciconia in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

ciconia — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:18:33 +0000

The experts on what? Zionist lobbying?

New comment by ciconia in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

ciconia — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:21:55 +0000

Reactionary politics, greed, stupidity. Pick any three.

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

ciconia — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:15:11 +0000

I've been slowly transitioning from using an ORM to just plain SQL. It's so much simpler. Less magic, more explicitness, and more control. Also, much better performance. I think the thing is to construct your model around the different queries you need to perform. In many cases, especially a CRUD-type situation, you'll end up with 10-20 different SQL queries, and that's it.

New comment by ciconia in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

ciconia — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:47:48 +0000

> make developers 2x, 5x, 10x as productive on stuff that matters

What does this even mean? Is this about speed of development? Is this about headcount? LoC? How are coding agents contributing to productivity in places like GitHub, Shopify or Meta? I mean companies that already have an established product. I really wanna understand this because I'm not seeing that GitHub's product suddenly became so much better than it was 2 years ago, so where's all that productivity going?

New comment by ciconia in "Where does next-token prediction leave us?"

ciconia — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:56:08 +0000

> society is just going to stay stable and they're going to be safe?

I think this ties in with the rise of racism over the last two decades. Historically, antisemitism has been instrumentalized by the elites in order to deflect animosity from the lower classes: "look, it's not us that are robbing you blind, it's the Jews!"

I see the same thing happening today in the Western world. The elites are squeezing more and more of our countries' wealth, turning governments them into hollow sources of rent, while at the same time backing corrupt politicians who tell us our misery is all because of (illegal) immigrants.

> the people that are cheering for it need to really consider what they're cheering for.

Indeed. To me if there's one reason to oppose the use of AI technology, it is political. Sadly, the SWE class (if it can be called that), being better off than the majority of humans on earth, seems to care very little for class issues and inequality in general, maybe out of self-interest. But as you said, the machine will be coming for them too, it's just a question of when, not if.

Why and How to Run Local Models in Zed

ciconia — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:24:05 +0000

Article URL: https://zed.dev/blog/local-ai-in-zed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275337

Points: 3

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New comment by ciconia in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

ciconia — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:08:57 +0000

To me the blocker with using coding agents is having to rely on a paid external service. Are there any local models that are good enough to be used for coding?

New comment by ciconia in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

ciconia — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:02:19 +0000

I think it is hard for citizens to understand how precarious it feels to be an immigrant in the present political climate in the US and Europe. I'm a permanent resident in France, I'm white, I have a EU passport, I have a job, I'm OK. But, my naturalization request has already been denied twice, because I couldn't provide some arbitrary document the government demands, and they keep changing the rules, just for the fun of it or so it seems, it's quite insulting.

I really feel for immigrants that are less fortunate than me. we all just want to have dignity, find a job (anyway the low-paying jobs are done by immigrants) and provide for our kids. What's wrong with that? How is this taking advantage of our host country?

Frankly, the present discourse around African/Arab immigration seems to me to resemble a lot the kind of rhetoric around the millions of Jewish Russian immigrants who fled pogroms to Poland and western Europe a 120 years ago. I find the similarities quite striking. The blatant racism, the conspiracy theories, the fascist propaganda, all in order to whitewash (pun intended) a corrupt regime of thieves and sycophants. Absolutely disgusting!

New comment by ciconia in "Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby"

ciconia — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:26:59 +0000

I'm recently seeing more and more Ruby projects that are at least partly vibe-coded, and I'm kind of torn. On the one hand I appreciate that this allows people to create stuff that they maybe wouldn't have the time to do otherwise. On the other, the code itself makes it harder for people to contribute, especially those, like me, who don't use coding agents.

A random example:

https://github.com/amatsuda/rubish/blob/master/lib/rubish/pa...

Where are the interface boundaries? Why are there methods that are 200 lines long? This is not a dis at the author, and it's not really about "code quality" per se, whatever that means. It's just that if someone would like to study the code and be able to improve it or add features, how would one go about it? Does this mean you have to use a coding agent in order to contribute? I felt the same about the recent Ruby compiler from matz [1]. The code looks impenetrable. What does this bode for the future of OSS?

[1] https://github.com/matz/spinel

New comment by ciconia in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

ciconia — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:58:52 +0000

> Is this what the pinnacle of human is? Lazy and greedy?

Apparently yes.

New comment by ciconia in "Declining America"

ciconia — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:21:00 +0000

I think the title is appropriate and is probably meant as a double entendre. The US does seem to be declining in many ways. Personally, visiting the US under the present government just feels too risky, they seem really hostile to foreigners.