Hacker News: desireco42

New comment by desireco42 in "Who is cleaning up all the garbage LLMs generate?"

desireco42 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:24:31 +0000

Legitimate question. In my projects, where I do have a ton of files, but kind of suspect not nearly as you have, I do occasionally instruct agent to review old files and decisions and archive them or delete.

Sometimes it is useful to know how we came about some decision or feature, but in general you often don't need them and they would contain prose that would confuse agent. So you remove it.

I don't use Claude Code mostly because it always loved to generate reports and there is no way I will read it's lengthy reports. I try to have documents I can actually read if I want to.

Hope this helps, but some lifecycle of your documents and requirements is useful to have.

New comment by desireco42 in "Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore"

desireco42 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:21:51 +0000

I will just say, as of recently, especially thanks to AI, I've been doing projects in Gleam, I am on third Gleam project and it has been very pleasant experience. It takes longer to write but it is much shorter, easier to follow and much more easier to update and change.

New comment by desireco42 in "A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting"

desireco42 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 01:57:27 +0000

So all we have to do is send telescope right up and let it record...

New comment by desireco42 in "A 12-year sequence of telescope images of a star and four planets orbiting"

desireco42 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 22:21:05 +0000

I will just say that this short movie is something most beautiful I've seen in last several years. To be able to see this, for real, not as a side-effect to the star is absolutely mind blowing.

New comment by desireco42 in "Jeff – Jev-compatible 0.8B decision models, trained at home, ~30 ms"

desireco42 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:49:44 +0000

I think Jev is still the king and while I really appreciate this and other similar projects, Jev gives assurance and value that is hard to beat. Well.. this works locally which is always best, even if slower.

New comment by desireco42 in "Ember-1"

desireco42 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 22:51:33 +0000

I am confused over this... I get efficiency but price seems too high to me. I didn't try the model, so it migth be beyond fast or some other quality that is not obvious.

Anyone knows more or used this model?

New comment by desireco42 in "Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers"

desireco42 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:36:27 +0000

AI will do all our work now, but man at least I lived and wrote Pascal growing up.

New comment by desireco42 in "Meta VR Glasses"

desireco42 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:07:47 +0000

Now when I saw their video... ufff, not for me.

New comment by desireco42 in "Meta VR Glasses"

desireco42 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:03:23 +0000

Spring 2027 is eternity in the future from today. I love the concept they advertise but by then, there will be so many amazing products and releases.

If they could give me this today and worked somewhat like they promise, even though for $500 or so I can get glasses that do what I need them to do today, for more fidelity I would gladly pay 1k+ they are asking.

I am not sure what will happen till Spring or Summer next year.

New comment by desireco42 in "Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative"

desireco42 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:18:41 +0000

I don't need this but this looks very cool. I love neon colors and everything.

Some of these we, dynamic programming is something we didn't do at university and few years ago I did a course to learn it. It is good to know, wish we dealt with more of such intellectual problems at work, but as we all know this is not the case.

Anyhow, really cool.

New comment by desireco42 in "Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript"

desireco42 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 14:18:25 +0000

I tried it on small project. A lot of promising ideas. I don't even care it is so new.

What didn't work for me is the build step. In a bigger project it should be normal to have this but I really love to interactively build and having to restart and rebuild after each change is issue for me.

New comment by desireco42 in "Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript"

desireco42 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:25:52 +0000

I was about the ask a question but you just answered how it is built. I guess I will try it out, it sounds really good.

I love your approach, fake testemonials and all.

New comment by desireco42 in "Tether: iMessage, SMS, etc. on Linux"

desireco42 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:21:12 +0000

I have Google Fi, we always had messages.google.com to even get calls, which I never did. Convenient especially because I write longer messages.

Never felt superiour over others for it.

New comment by desireco42 in "EYG: A Programming Language for Humans"

desireco42 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:13:02 +0000

I think you created a potential platform for experiments with different language syntax ideas. It is rarely that people want to change how integers are represented and such, mostly it is syntax. So this lets me and others try things out.

New comment by desireco42 in "EYG: A Programming Language for Humans"

desireco42 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:40:25 +0000

So I poked around... this is really interesting. So you take language in text and make IR, but also could be made IR directly. That is very interesting.

Potentially I could make a version without curly braces or some weird syntax and it could be compiled in IR and still be same language :).

Kind of like MS and VB and C# haha.

I like what you did so far, I will keep an eye, maybe help if I can.

New comment by desireco42 in "EYG: A Programming Language for Humans"

desireco42 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:23:34 +0000

Ha, very interesting. I just started using Gleam last week or so... I knew about it and loved Elm back in the day.

Anyhow, will enjoy discovering EYG as well.

New comment by desireco42 in "Road to Elm 1.0"

desireco42 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:13:19 +0000

Never heard of it and I am glad you mentioned it, thanks. Already homepage and examples look familiar and welcoming.

New comment by desireco42 in "Road to Elm 1.0"

desireco42 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:11:09 +0000

I didn't downvote you, but what you have in mind? ROC maybe? I really have yet to experience joy as I did while writing Elm.

New comment by desireco42 in "Road to Elm 1.0"

desireco42 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:30:05 +0000

I hope to see progress in the future. I loved Elm and it made me a better programmer. Things changed a lot since then, but beauty of Elm is not matched by any language.

Also, if you ever had to refactor anything, there is no language in the world that makes it as easy to change things.

Hope to see more releases in the future.

New comment by desireco42 in "DiffusionGemma: 4x Faster Text Generation"

desireco42 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:29:39 +0000

Wow... I forgot about that. Mercury is brutal. I had him review lint errors and the speed is just insane