Hacker News: d0m

New comment by d0m in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

d0m — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:48:10 +0000

I wonder which country will be the first to be run entirely by AI instead of corrupt politicians

New comment by d0m in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

d0m — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:02:57 +0000

Apple/Google could easily make web apps native if they wanted

New comment by d0m in "I got tired of hearing that YC fired Sam, so here's what actually happened"

d0m — Thu, 30 May 2024 23:37:30 +0000

No, the distinction is that he had the option to remain at YC if he chose to. He could have simply turned down the offer from OpenAI. It's similar to receiving a job offer from another company... you’re not being dismissed from your current job. You get to decide whether you want to stay or move on.

New comment by d0m in "Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?"

d0m — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 14:28:49 +0000

I was thinking about this just the other day. If infinity isn't actually a thing in our universe, then maybe we're taking some risks by using math with all these infinite limits and integers. Maybe if we look at theorems without using infinity, we'd stumble upon new or different equations.

New comment by d0m in "Rules for developers to design beautiful UIs without a designer"

d0m — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 19:42:34 +0000

Hands down the best book I've read to level up my UI game. Highly recommended to developers who want to get better at UI design with no bullshit and a lot of practical examples.

New comment by d0m in "Show HN: Alpaca.cpp – Run an Instruction-Tuned Chat-Style LLM on a MacBook"

d0m — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 19:15:32 +0000

Run the Alpaca chat and ask it :)

New comment by d0m in "Ask HN: Has anyone started over outside of tech?"

d0m — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 15:21:37 +0000

Personally, I used to be very passionate about coding. but over time I've realized that I'm more excited about products/design and working with great people. I know that going into management is often frowned upon among engineers, but I personally love it because I can continue to work on products without constantly banging my head about compiler errors or annoying bugs. Basically, what I'm trying to say is that it's possible to be passionate about building products without having to sit and code all day.

New comment by d0m in "The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning"

d0m — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 01:29:17 +0000

Very cool! I have such fond memories of The Little Schemer

New comment by d0m in "Cal.com: Open Scheduling Infrastructure"

d0m — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:04:35 +0000

That landing page is really amazing

New comment by d0m in "Show HN: Turning books into chatbots with GPT-3"

d0m — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 21:03:00 +0000

I love this. How does it work copyright-wise?

New comment by d0m in "Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math?"

d0m — Thu, 19 Jan 2023 20:31:04 +0000

Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum --> Great book to learn about quantum mechanics and as a side effect math

New comment by d0m in "Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion"

d0m — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 14:48:42 +0000

Not that I care, but you could even copy the current twitter usernames to your new twitter, alongside all their public tweets and followers. So, when switching, a user wouldn't even need to add back their data or find back their previous followers.

New comment by d0m in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

d0m — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 18:05:49 +0000

Working on an offline/real-time library for agnostic backends. (Most libraries force you to go with a specific vendor like firebase/aws) or use a completely different backend/db (like couchdb/pouchdb).

New comment by d0m in "Interview with Paul Graham"

d0m — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 23:51:02 +0000

Personally I really enjoy his writings on all kinds of subjects (coding, political, parenthood, startups, etc.) He's the main reason I did a startup and joined YC. I'm still a bit sad I didn't get to talk to him while I was at YC.

New comment by d0m in "D3 6.0"

d0m — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 00:30:44 +0000

What's the best resource(s) to learn D3 for an experienced dev? I find most books/tutorials to be overly verbose.

New comment by d0m in "Why we decided against GraphQL for local state management"

d0m — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 02:21:36 +0000

I don't particularly like Apollo, but the reasoning is that if you fetch data with Apollo on the client-side, then that data is already available in their cache. If you were to use Redux, you'd have to copy that same data in your store.. so might as well use their cache instead. However, this is only for fetched data, not all client-side state management.

Personally, I don't like the "write client-side resolvers mimicking the server resolvers" approach. I'd much rather have a database that is synched with the server and listens for new changes. Once you have your "offline-synched-db", you get offline, optimistic-UI & real-time for free.

New comment by d0m in "Why we decided against GraphQL for local state management"

d0m — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 02:08:47 +0000

TL&DR: devs already knew redux so went with redux

New comment by d0m in "Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic attempts to bypass fees"

d0m — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 19:55:24 +0000

For some market it is. Our users were 80%+ on ios

New comment by d0m in "Microsoft Fast Design"

d0m — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 16:19:44 +0000

There are many design issues with their website which IMHO don't provide great confidence in using their components

New comment by d0m in "Ask HN: How can I “work-out” critical thinking skills as I age?"

d0m — Sun, 02 Aug 2020 14:10:01 +0000

Yeah.. Ideally you can find a job that plays to your strength. If you don't like and aren't good with this type of work, it's probably a sign that you should focus on something you find easy and like. It's easy to be good when you really enjoy something