<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ctvo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ctvo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:03:14 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ctvo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Carrion Comfort is still one of the most creepy horror books I've ever read and is seldom mentioned when we talk about Dan Simmons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:27:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184496</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You listed common items you think may be counterfeits, and all your effort in checking, but fail to mention av single time you _actually_ ran into a counterfeit. I'm sure if it occurred you'd happily mention it since it would do wonders in reinforcing the paranoia.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:33:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682716</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682716</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Please just try HTMX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. Why the hell would I use Angular 1.x style directives in 2026? For the simple contact form and todo apps, why would I even use client side scripting? Go away.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:21:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315676</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315676</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46315676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Bullying Is Not Innovation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You've been spamming this in a few threads.<p>A private business can 100% refuse service to you. Examples with regards to "delegation":<p>- If you come in using a form of non-cash payment that doesn't belong to you.<p>- If you're purchasing a car, and are filling out paperwork under someone else's name. FYI, you can buy cars on Amazon.com.<p>- If you attempt to pick-up a pre-order or an item earmarked for someone else.<p>...<p>Of course some businesses are more or less restrictive base on fraud chance, yada yada, but you get the idea. You're not being oppressed. Go shop elsewhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:15:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816473</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816473</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816473</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Code Mode: the better way to use MCP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> top of a regular API<p>What is the regular API? How do you express all the integrations needed in this API? Who provides the integrations? Answering these questions lead you back to something like an MCP, which is an API contract that can be as generic or as specific as needed. Wasting context window to understand and re-implement each integration is why MCPs exist.<p>All the security issues are orthogonal, and occur regardless if invoking this API occurs via code or natural language.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 17:40:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45406258</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45406258</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45406258</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "WASM 3.0 Completed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>... maybe you don't get it?<p>_Telling the browser how you want the DOM manipulated_ isn't the expensive part. You can do this just fine with Javascript. The browser _actually redrawing after applying the DOM changes_ is the expensive part and won't be any cheaper if the signal originated from WASM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:31:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281635</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281635</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45281635</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's winning by default because _there is nothing materially better_. React was _materially_ better than Ember, Angular, plain JQuery, etc. at the time.<p>Front-end engineers have no issues adopting new frameworks. See the common complaints about the speed front-end stacks change vs. say Spring MVC or Rails.<p>A more interesting examination is what is the impact of agentic AI tools being able to write better, more idiomatic code in React vs. Svelte because there's more of it. The human side is less of a barrier here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:07:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262468</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262468</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45262468</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "iPhone Air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And this is good or matters to customers because?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:35:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45188552</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45188552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45188552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Serverless Horrors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I took a workshop class and was told to setup a track saw. The course didn't bother explaining how to utilize it properly or protect yourself. I ended up losing a finger. I truly hate Stanley Tools with a passion and if I ever need to use another track saw, I'll use someone else.</p>
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<p>> You're getting a billion applicants because people are desperate and there are tons of CS grads, not because you're the greatest company on earth<p>How does this change the point? They would still like the best candidate out of that pool, not any warm body, since they have limited positions.<p>What is your approach to hiring and evaluating talent knowing the large number of applicants and how easy it is to _talk about software development_ vs. _actually developing software_, and how expensive and difficult it is to deal with a bad hire, even in America.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 13:46:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490338</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Gamers Nexus to open an investigation into Nvidia's shady business tactics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The same reason I’d be uninterested in reading that the Daily Mail wants to investigate something but interested if NYT wanted to.<p>Has Gamer Nexus produced shoddy work in the past? The comparison feels lazy.<p>I’m more than happy to read a short sellers investigative piece, for example. You don’t need to be journalists to produce good work backed by facts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 01:48:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44047578</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44047578</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44047578</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "US vs. Google amicus curiae brief of Y Combinator in support of plaintiffs [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The biggest funders of basic research are those with the most resources. This is your insight? I don't think anyone disagrees. Then you conflate correlation with causation and move it to _monopolies_ fund basic research. Bravo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 15:53:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946630</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946630</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43946630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Try Switching to Kagi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a long time Kagi user, the thing I miss the most is Google Maps integration for search results. It's nice to search for a restaurant or an address, see results for it, and with one click open up Google Maps to see how to get there and nearby attractions. Google Maps is such a large moat for Google, especially in locations that Apple Maps (the only real alternative) has poor coverage.<p>Outside of that use case, I enjoy using Kagi and recommend it to most people.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:07:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43834530</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43834530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43834530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast expands to hundreds of homes (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a great marketing strategy. People without broadband access will truly feel it when they visit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 11:56:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715489</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715489</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43715489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "The good times in tech are over"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Consider what companies are launching these days and the talent they need to do it. It's AI companies, it's hardware, it's hard science. It's fewer Uber for pet grooming. There's less appetite for investing in the latter companies and  _normal_ software developers are less useful for the former. Yes, ZIRP has contributed, but there are wider economic and social issues that are above my pay grade at play.<p>The safest space continues to be distributed systems and systems programming in general IMO. You'll still find work at hyperscalers. You'll still find work in the new spaces. Until AI can operate these systems, there'll be a spot for us bit janitors for a little while longer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:24:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379294</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379294</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43379294</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Seize or terminate their patents and copyrights. Issue arrest warrants for criminal evasion. Compulsory licensing of x86 to a European design firm immunized by EU law.<p>My eyes rolled so far back I hurt myself.<p>Please provide some examples of where the EU has been able to do a fraction of what you listed to large, US based firms in the past.<p>Looking at the future, if you want a trade war and an excuse for the new US administration to completely neglect NATO obligations this is a great start.</p>
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<p>> Because the harsh truth is that none of those things are actually big issues that would justify learning slightly different syntax.<p>That's partially the cost, but the other cost is building this into existing tool chains and deployment mechanisms. Getting buyin from teams, ensuring _everyone_ learns the syntax.<p>And the unstated fear: The code it generates, is it actually good? Am I going to have silly issues down the road that are hard to debug and require diving into generated code to see some concurrency issue?</p>
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<p>Your replies here have been less than useless. I clicked on your profile and saw you were "founder and CEO" of some company.<p>I guarantee you I won't be using your product. Just something to consider.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 23:05:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42251109</link><dc:creator>ctvo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42251109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42251109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ctvo in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It’s insane the excuses being made here for Netflix’s apparently unique circumstances.<p>They failed. Full stop. There is no valid technical reason they couldn’t have had a smooth experience. There are numerous people with experience building these systems they could have hired and listened to. It isn’t a novel problem.<p>Here are the other companies that are peers that livestream just fine, ignoring traditional broadcasters:<p>- Google (YouTube live), millions of concurrent viewers<p>- Amazon (Thursday Night Football, Twitch), millions of concurrent viewers<p>- Apple (MLS)<p>NBC live streamed the Olympics in the US for tens of millions.</p>
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<p>Or, hear me out here, it's a wild concept, just work.<p>You know, like every other broadcaster, streaming platform, and company that does live content has been able to do.<p>Acting like this is a novel, hard problem that needs to be solved and we need to "upsell" it in tiers because Netflix is incompetent and live broadcasting hasn't been around for 80+ years is so fucking stupid.</p>
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