Hacker News: cpursley

New comment by cpursley in "How to get better at guitar"

cpursley — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:56:52 +0000

Old Love is such a good song.

It’s in the way that you use it, boy don’t you know.

New comment by cpursley in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

cpursley — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:41:39 +0000

"We"

Very cool that you have a side hustle as a US fighter jet pilot!

New comment by cpursley in "What we learned building 100 API integrations with OpenCode"

cpursley — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:33:02 +0000

If you're using Elixir (or don't mind running a separate Elixir service), we've built what is effectively a clone of the oAuth part of Nango (formally Pizzly). Drop into any Elixir project and get full oAuth management out of the box, and it's compatible with all of the Nango provider strategies:

https://github.com/agoodway/tango

New comment by cpursley in "First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales"

cpursley — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:08:24 +0000

Not sure why you are getting downvoted. The scariest one is the fertilizer situation which means less productive harvests, which means hunger.

New comment by cpursley in "Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call"

cpursley — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:10:54 +0000

And how exactly do you think all of those agricultural products are produced? They require an insane amount of diesel fuel and nitrogen fertilizers…

New comment by cpursley in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

cpursley — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:00:48 +0000

As if those can’t be blown up with $300 FPVs or $10k Shahids…

New comment by cpursley in "$500 GPU outperforms Claude Sonnet on coding benchmarks"

cpursley — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:51:16 +0000

Are you kidding me? Even developer salaries in the Philippines can afford that or at least the plan below it. If I used the Anthropic API, my monthly spend would be $4k a month. The Claude Max plan is the best bargain around.

New comment by cpursley in "Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call"

cpursley — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:14:34 +0000

It’s not just about energy, but also industrial (think neon, helium) and agricultural inputs (nitrogen, urea). Even if energy was solved, there’s not really replacements for these. Well, regenerative agriculture but not sure that will feed as many people.

New comment by cpursley in "Node.js worker threads are problematic, but they work great for us"

cpursley — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:13:01 +0000

Or you could use Elixir with Postgrest and not have to bold on all this wonky 3rd paid tools for basic stuff like background jobs:

https://elixirisallyouneed.dev/tools?q=Pgflow

New comment by cpursley in "Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla"

cpursley — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:01:08 +0000

And Mexican labor at this point is cheaper than Chinese. Makes sense to me.

New comment by cpursley in "Xiaomi launches next-gen SU7 with 902 km range and Lidar, still undercuts Tesla"

cpursley — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:01 +0000

The only way to get American auto manufacturers to step up their game is completion. Worked when the Japanese cars came, American car quality improved dramatically in response because it had to.

New comment by cpursley in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

cpursley — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:38:07 +0000

There’s a number of videos of US and Israeli air defense quite literally failing at intercepts. You can see the entire trajectories and stuff. Some from US bases, other in Israel but they are trying to censor them.

New comment by cpursley in "No AI in Node.js Core"

cpursley — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:09:25 +0000

If they allow AI in Node it just might do a full rewrite into Rust, Go or Elixir ;)

New comment by cpursley in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

cpursley — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:14:52 +0000

The aging Patriot in particular was exposed in Ukraine. You can watch video after video of them failing even against older ballistics - they have basically no chance against hypersonic and other fast ballistics, especially ones with active measures (flares, maneuvering - there was a really wild one from a few weeks back). And there's a number out of this conflict as well. The are still great at shooting down jets, however. Top of class is actually S-4/500, this is basically acknowledged fact by even the Pentagon at this point. I think a lot of people are in denial about this due to a combo of Hollywood narrative and ideological reasons, but the Russians math very good - it's reality. But even so, those are not the right systems for fighting drone attacks - nobody really has it together with that. Both of these are solvable problems, it's just a lot of hard math + piles of money.

New comment by cpursley in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

cpursley — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:43:21 +0000

C-RAM radars - at least one US embassy was hit with an elcheapo drone as well, rendering it useless. Thats a legit problem and was only possible because they took out most of the important ballistics radars first.

New comment by cpursley in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

cpursley — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:12:27 +0000

Not against the fast ballistics.

New comment by cpursley in "Iran war energy shock sparks global push to reduce fossil fuel dependence"

cpursley — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:17:14 +0000

The big story I think is how handily they took out billions of dollars of US radars and that these air defense systems are not up to the task (we actually already knew this from Ukraine, but media worked overtime to ignore this fact). In a way, all this supposedly "superior" US and Israeli tech (at least on the defense side, offense is a different story) has been exposed. I do think focused engineering efforts could close this gap, that was needed already 4 years ago.

New comment by cpursley in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

cpursley — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:07:01 +0000

It’s not a disagreement, it’s science. You are conflating your views on animals rights with this ultra processed goop, which is a common logical fallacy. I respect and understand the animals rights perspective, but the fake meat is simply not healthy. Don’t believe me, just see what high level athletes eat and the diets of cultures who live long.

New comment by cpursley in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

cpursley — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:16:49 +0000

There’s so such thing as “plant meats”, and yes, animal meat is healthy when balanced with a good diet. What’s killing everyone is the white carbs and sugar, not the meats and fats. Anyone telling you otherwise is ideologically motivated vs science-based.

New comment by cpursley in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

cpursley — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:05:23 +0000

You’re getting downvoted but they do seem to have some of these issues, including the skinny fat problem. But their cuisine sure is tastier than the fake meat and other goop that is pushed, which is even worse for health.