Hacker News: cpursley

New comment by cpursley in "Tesla Roadster"

cpursley — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:07:12 +0000

That is literally the point I'm making regarding political leaning. Gracias. Flying cars are cool, who cares about the politics. I want those space rocks and so do you.

New comment by cpursley in "Tesla Roadster"

cpursley — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:22:29 +0000

So reddit. Log out, come out of the hollar and talk to some real people. Normal people think the flying car is kick ass.

New comment by cpursley in "Tesla Roadster"

cpursley — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:17:37 +0000

> Not true. It's clearly a stunt. Not practical. Nobody wants this on our roads by our houses.

You people really don't get it, do it? It's not about the car being practical. Cleary this is not going to make it to the roads, but it will on a powered by Grok robotic space craft. Think potentially unlimited resources from asteroid mining. Get over your political leanings and these personalities involved and think bigger picture.

New comment by cpursley in "Tesla Roadster"

cpursley — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 12:36:49 +0000

Like I said, TDS. I didn't vote for Trump and think he's a bag of farts, Elon is well, Elon - but I think the self flying car is cool as is the rocket stuff from a pure engineering perspective. No need to project and lash out at everything. Sometimes a cool ass flying car is just a cool ass flying car. Btw, in the real world (not costal enclaves, not reddit) my opinion is the majority one. I hope you get the help you need.

New comment by cpursley in "Tesla Roadster"

cpursley — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:38:46 +0000

Not only is it reality, it's an epidemic as seen in the anti-Elon comments. People would love the flying car if Elon endorsed Kamala (and would have ignored his autistic on stage spasm). And if you are honest, you know I'm 100% correct here. People spend entirely too much time on Reddit and are projecting their political stance on anything Elon does. Grow up is what I am saying.

New comment by cpursley in "Tesla Roadster"

cpursley — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:11:04 +0000

Can I suggest a break from Reddit and touching some grass?

New comment by cpursley in "Tesla Roadster"

cpursley — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:07:34 +0000

You have TDS

New comment by cpursley in "Tesla Roadster"

cpursley — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 07:55:47 +0000

"Elon's fans" - you have TDS. You can think this is neat without being a fan of him or Trump (I'm certainly not). I can recognize the great engineering and cool things coming out of China without supporting their political system.

New comment by cpursley in "Tesla Roadster"

cpursley — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:53:40 +0000

We literally have flying AI cars now - they thing we all dreamed about and watched TV shows and movies about as kids - and people are all "it sucks!". It’s crazy how blinded people are by TDS (Elons support of him) that they are not able to see the forest through the trees. It’s not about flying cars, it’s a demonstration of engineering chops and the ability to control flight with extreme precision in real time. Those space rocks are not going to mine themselves.

New comment by cpursley in "Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary"

cpursley — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:17:09 +0000

Many nations are finally pushing back on Americanism and finding themselves again.

New comment by cpursley in "Where is all the new, good software?"

cpursley — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:05:17 +0000

lol go visit the 5 nearest local businesses near you and see what they use to run things.

New comment by cpursley in "The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27"

cpursley — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:25:13 +0000

Vast majority of computer users (including phones) don’t customize anything beyond the out of the box set up. In fact, I’d that’s even true for my sass customers, only particular percentage of them use any of the customizable settings. Which is why UX is so hard, we have to do our best to make sensible default choices. As technologists, it’s very easy to forget this while on the thick of it.

New comment by cpursley in "Next.js 16.4"

cpursley — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:30:33 +0000

Yeah, I’ve got a “mix quality” task that includes that one and the dup one and skill that points at it, keeps the codebase cleaner that I could manually even before llm era. I’ve thought about building something that can detect if helper functions in a module are generic enough to consider refactoring out to an app-wide helper module, that continues to be an annoyance.

New comment by cpursley in "Next.js 16.4"

cpursley — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:52:18 +0000

It’s a shame that the LLMs default to Next when vibe coding instead of something serious like Phoenix. Then again, maybe it’s a good thing - all of the sloppy copies of my saas are complete dumpster fires and only going to slow them down.

New comment by cpursley in "Zerobrew: A faster alternative to Homebrew"

cpursley — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:07:24 +0000

Wrong, apes use basic tools and never evolved past them. Which is my point.

New comment by cpursley in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

cpursley — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 18:11:14 +0000

The rust belt was not caused by call centers in Pakistan, that was the Petrodollar and China deals. But it would be great to have both back (call centers and manufacturing).

New comment by cpursley in "Zerobrew: A faster alternative to Homebrew"

cpursley — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:40:41 +0000

Yes, using tooling is literally what differentiates humans from the apes. Claude and the like are just the next evolution of tooling. BrewUI looks fine to me and I certainly prefer it (as it's native) over all the "hand-crafted" node/electron dumpster fires. If you want to continue to rub sticks together to make fire, nobody is stopping you (except perhaps the market).

New comment by cpursley in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"

cpursley — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:44:51 +0000

postgres is a sane choice, I can't type

New comment by cpursley in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"

cpursley — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:00:56 +0000

Oh man they all reach for the nextjs dumpster fire. Every single vibe coded app is that stack. At least many are backed with supabase (Postgres is a same choice).

New comment by cpursley in "Show HN: AI search for every photo and every frame of video on macOS"

cpursley — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:26:25 +0000

Fair enough, but seriously, my machine has taken a beating by all these JavaScript and electron thingies.