Hacker News: cmoski

New comment by cmoski in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

cmoski — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:07:14 +0000

Boggles the mind that people can't see this. You gotta keep the guardrails pretty tight to succeed with LLMs and code in my experience.

New comment by cmoski in "Elixir v1.20: Now a gradually typed language"

cmoski — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:49:21 +0000

People use it.

New comment by cmoski in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

cmoski — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:07:00 +0000

Google search feels so limited compared to Kagi. I discover so many more alternative resources when searching with Kagi.

New comment by cmoski in "I keep bouncing off the Scheme language"

cmoski — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:57:22 +0000

LFE: lisp flavoured Erlang?

https://lfe.io/

New comment by cmoski in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

cmoski — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:53:24 +0000

Not as good as heroin either.

New comment by cmoski in "Diatec, known for its mechanical keyboard brand FILCO, has ceased operations"

cmoski — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:44:01 +0000

nooooooooo!

New comment by cmoski in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

cmoski — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:21:49 +0000

I spent ~$400 on a Deuter baby/toddler backpack two years ago and it still works. Beautiful thing.

New comment by cmoski in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

cmoski — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:05:35 +0000

Really? I can touch type and there is no way I can keep up with how fast I can think. Physics seems against you on this one.

New comment by cmoski in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"

cmoski — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:03:55 +0000

Old school SCADA screens that I first saw had a similar green background.

New comment by cmoski in "Jury says Meta knowingly harmed children for profit, awarding landmark verdict"

cmoski — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:28:19 +0000

It's not just avoiding any responsibility?

New comment by cmoski in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

cmoski — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:46:51 +0000

There are options in Group Policy editor that you will want to disable.

New comment by cmoski in "I fixed Windows native development"

cmoski — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 04:24:25 +0000

Mine is 33mb. Could be smaller, but it does the trick.

New comment by cmoski in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

cmoski — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:13:59 +0000

Notifying you about messages you've already seen. You have to change chats and to back for it to dismiss it. Kills me.

Likes to open new windows if you click a notification.

It is slow.

The search is not good at showing multiple results from the one chat. Why does it search all the other chats anyway...

Switching accounts constantly is a pain in the arse - I unfortunately have to use four accounts and one sub-account (member of some other org's team or something).

New comment by cmoski in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

cmoski — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:10:44 +0000

> Tesla is developing Optimus with the aim of someday selling it as a bipedal, intelligent robot capable of everything from factory work to babysitting.

I did not look forward to the news articles about robots accidentally dropping or squashing babies.

New comment by cmoski in "The Gleam Programming Language"

cmoski — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:13:13 +0000

Surely the BEAM is one of the major selling points.

New comment by cmoski in "The Gleam Programming Language"

cmoski — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:05:02 +0000

Yeah, it's there out of the box but it's certainly not seamless. For an Elixir dev, it is more friction than you're used to. It is the cost of static types.

New comment by cmoski in "We rolled our own documentation site"

cmoski — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:26:05 +0000

All for the low, low price of $350 US per month!

New comment by cmoski in "Eat Real Food"

cmoski — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:24:19 +0000

Butter is king. It should be pictured with a crown, stars and glitter.

Surely whole milk is better than less-than-whole milk?

New comment by cmoski in "Where do the children play?"

cmoski — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 05:18:53 +0000

Travelling in Japan recently we came across a park where the kids could start fires to roast nuts; play with real hammers, nails and saws; dig holes with proper shovels; climb on all sorts of 'unsafe' structures. Certainly the first time my 2yo had used a hammer and a saw, though she uses secateurs at home and has had a [blunt] knife for quite a while. She loved it and wants to go back.

New comment by cmoski in "How I fell in love with Erlang"

cmoski — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 11:37:43 +0000

Solving problems I guess. Have you used painful languages before? Imagine doing that, then discovering one that wasn't getting in your way all the time. It's easier to do things that are difficult in other languages. You can do so much on the BEAM, and you don't have to waste your time with thread pools or other nonsense.