Hacker News: davmar

New comment by davmar in "GPT-5.5"

davmar — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:00:07 +0000

i wonder if this is how engineers felt when the first electronic calculators came out and engineers stopped doing math by hand.

did we feel uneasy that a new generation of builders didn't have to solve equations by hand because a calculator could do them?

i'm not sure it's the same analogy but in some ways it holds.

New comment by davmar in "So where are all the AI apps?"

davmar — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:14:03 +0000

succinct and accurate.

New comment by davmar in "Estrogen: A Trip Report"

davmar — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:45:58 +0000

don't forget that socialization plays a role. boys are guided to certain activities in their youth, girls to others.

New comment by davmar in "Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim"

davmar — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:39:03 +0000

>I love (Neo)Vim. Like I wrote earlier, it's been my primary editor for the past 15 years. What I don't love is all the configuration that goes into it before I can use it to start writing code.

this resonates with me. i've spent so much time configuring neovim in the terminal (kitty) and i've never had everything work 100% of the time. simple things just like seeing an entire typescript error are challenging to get working. those errors just continue on one line outside of the screen.

with LLM's the tradeoff tipped in the favor of cursor with the neovim extension.

> 2. It just works

so i switched to cursor last week from neovim in the terminal and this is how i feel. but, i'm not going to invest more time to check out Zed now that i just got cursor set up the way i like it.

but it's great to see all the progress in IDE's lately.

New comment by davmar in "Show HN: LLMpeg"

davmar — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 22:15:36 +0000

i think this type of interaction is the future in lots of areas. i can imagine we replace API's completely with a single endpoint where you hit it up with a description of what you want back. like, hit up 'news.ycombinator.com/api' with "give me all the highest rated submissions over the past week about LLMs". a server side LLM translates that to SQL, executes the query, returns the results.

this approach is broadly applicable to lots of domains just like FFMpeg. very very cool to see things moving in this direction.

New comment by davmar in "New Architecture is here"

davmar — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:13:31 +0000

how long ago was the last time you checked?

expo has solved the native dependencies issue, and it's a fantastic way to build an app.

this is one of the few hills i'm willing to die on. expo is great for the RN community.

also you can download my RN expo app here: www.shopcats.app.

New comment by davmar in "Details on Xiaomi EV"

davmar — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 19:26:39 +0000

Volvo EX30 is looking interesting https://www.volvocars.com/us/cars/ex30-electric/

New comment by davmar in "Microsoft open-sources ThreadX"

davmar — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:23:13 +0000

"Every once in a while, a new open source initiative comes along which is truly an industry changing event" - the article

"Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything" - steve jobs announcing the iPhone in 2007

New comment by davmar in "A look into the finances of SpaceX"

davmar — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 22:34:03 +0000

evidence: amazon.com

New comment by davmar in "Apple Car: Bad Idea After All"

davmar — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 22:20:02 +0000

brought peace?

New comment by davmar in "Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects"

davmar — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 01:54:35 +0000

dude, you're right, my mistake. i was thinking of how i travel through those places.

New comment by davmar in "Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects"

davmar — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 15:15:15 +0000

> The top 10 countries ... were Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Laos, Brazil, Argentina, Kuwait, Thailand, Indonesia and Portugal...

in many of those countries people drink bottled or purified (not surface) water.

New comment by davmar in "Solar Car Will Soon Hit Production"

davmar — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 02:18:33 +0000

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/e65d6b2e-4f27-43dc-b4b7-be43655...

Show HN: ShopCats – Meet cats living in public places around the world

davmar — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 18:34:14 +0000

Article URL: https://shopcats.app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32099816

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by davmar in "Sri Lanka is having a textbook currency crisis, triggered by policy mistakes"

davmar — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 01:30:33 +0000

Here's a Sri Lankan giving an in-depth analysis about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpZ5oiUGqW4. I like this guy, think he's got good opinions.

New comment by davmar in "Show HN: Copy React code from any site"

davmar — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 01:06:47 +0000

I don't disagree - write your own components in most cases.

Your original comment stated, as fact, "you'll get yourself or your employer sued, and/or your work pulled off the internet against your will."

You're right that suits do happen, and while there is a grain of truth in what you said, stating it the way you did is just too bold in my opinion. I highly doubt the individual developer would be sued. How would a company seeking damages know who made the git commit so they could target the developer?

The clarification in your reply about copying being willful, profitable and profit-damaging is where things start to make sense. And if you had said something along the lines of that, I wouldn't have replied and would have found myself in agreement.

New comment by davmar in "Show HN: Copy React code from any site"

davmar — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 20:42:00 +0000

Two absurd claims: 1. Getting sued 2. Getting your work pulled off the internet

You say that you or your employer would be sued if you did this. Going through a legal battle over some copied HTML, CSS & JavaScript is expensive, distracting and time consuming. You'd first get a cease and desist letter. Who has the time or energy to sue over this?

Getting your work pulled off the internet against your will. How would that happen? Have you heard of the pirate bay? There's no off-switch because you used someones react component.

You might not like this tool or feel it facilitates behavior you consider unethical, and I get that, but these claims you made are absurd.

New comment by davmar in "TensorFlow Lite for Commodore 64"

davmar — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 02:43:16 +0000

neato. what kind of chip you got in there, a dorito?

New comment by davmar in "I’ve spent my Easter break customizing Neovim"

davmar — Mon, 09 May 2022 01:22:41 +0000

oh this looks like what i need. thanks!

New comment by davmar in "I’ve spent my Easter break customizing Neovim"

davmar — Sat, 07 May 2022 01:29:47 +0000

i use neovim too and i prefer it over VSCode. the only major drawback is debugging and multi-file find/replace, so i do occasionally reach for VSCode.

as the author mentioned, LunarVim is a great project worth checking out. i'm using it now and recommend it.