Hacker News: dysoco

New comment by dysoco in "What About Rails?"

dysoco — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:22:52 +0000

But they fill different niches, there's no way I'm going to choose Rust+Axum as much as I love Rust for an ecommerce/CRUD vs something as batteries-included and expressive like Rails or Django.

New comment by dysoco in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

dysoco — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:33:08 +0000

Can someone explain to me what is the difference between whatever they added new and creating several PRs and "stacking" them by pointing one branch to another via the Github UI? I've always done that. Is it just a nice UI on top of that?

Sure merging with one single button is nice but I rarely do that, if I'm stacking PRs it's because I probably want to merge gradually.

New comment by dysoco in "98.css"

dysoco — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:07:42 +0000

Most people crave change and novelty and flat design provided just that. I'm now anti-flat design but I remember vividly thinking Windows Vista looked awesome and then some years after that thinking Windows 8 was pretty cool.

Now I long for skeuomorphism, but if that becomes the norm for 10 years... after that who knows?

New comment by dysoco in "Writing by hand is good for your brain"

dysoco — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:04:16 +0000

I've no idea on the state of research about this topic but I've always wondered if this really has to do with the locomotion side of it or if it's more about the fact that writing by hand takes a bit more effort and time.

For example, for taking math notes it's easier for me to write by hand rather than take notes in my laptop (because writing LaTeX takes time). If I spend more time on my notes in my laptop, would that improve retention?

New comment by dysoco in "Ask HN: How do you manage too many open tabs?"

dysoco — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:04:54 +0000

I don't. Never understood how people need more than 10. Usually you have a few websites always open like gmail etc. and whatever stack of 1-6 tabs for whatever you're doing or researching right now.

If you're holding tabs more than a few hours those should be bookmarks (I don't use those either, I just send myself links via Telegram or keep in notes app).

New comment by dysoco in "Ask HN: What is the one YouTube channel you recommend I subscribe to?"

dysoco — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:21:08 +0000

If I had to choose one I guess off the top of my head BobbyBroccoli makes the best documentaries in Youtube right now imho.

New comment by dysoco in "Exapunks (2018)"

dysoco — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:28:15 +0000

I have a strong feeling that with the advent of AI these kind of games are going to come back in style. Many programmers myself included aren't doing that much "coding" in the workplace anymore.

New comment by dysoco in "Ask HN: Do you have an unusual income source"

dysoco — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:26:21 +0000

Well AI certainly can't do THAT

New comment by dysoco in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

dysoco — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:43:14 +0000

Usually you get both kind of assignments, short exercises in paper without any help whatsoever and more open, larger take-home assignments where you can usually use external help.

New comment by dysoco in "C++: The Documentary"

dysoco — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:19:39 +0000

I very much prefer to work in Rust but it does force you to design things in an counter-intuitive way in certain situations (linked lists for the canonical example). Specially for lower level software I find C or C++ to allow for much more flexibility and thus the most straightforward design possible.

New comment by dysoco in "Show HN: TV Explorer. Adding advanced UI to free online TV"

dysoco — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:50:29 +0000

Hey this is pretty cool, I think probably the best iteration of these I´ve seen so far.

I´m surprised to see so many regional channels in my country I´d never guess existed.

I think a nice addition would be a filter to easily see the most relevant/national channels of a country, so I don't have to scroll through many regional ones.

New comment by dysoco in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

dysoco — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:28:33 +0000

I assume it must be much easier to modify the market to make a stock price go down (e.g. hack the CEO account to say something silly/dangerous) vs trying to make the stock price go up.

New comment by dysoco in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

dysoco — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 21:43:07 +0000

Yeah barely anything except living in a walkable city and walking every day. Possibly it would be ideal to go to the gym around 7pm or so after work and get some energy there, I'd probably need to try it but I feel too tired and lazy after work heh.

New comment by dysoco in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

dysoco — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:55:28 +0000

I've never had sleep issues but lately I've been in a bit of a rut. I've always maintained a sleep schedule of going to bed around 00/01hs (not that uncommon in my country) and waking up around 8/9am. However lately I've been arriving VERY tired from work around 19hs.

It's very easy to fall asleep right after work and some days I go to sleep for a few hours but then I wake up super late for dinner around 10/11pm and completely screw my schedule, last night I couldn't sleep until 4am or so.

Most days I don't sleep and power through since I need to buy groceries, cook, do other stuff around the house etc. but even so after dinner around 9/10pm or so I become very active, I don't get sleepy and I can't easily sleep until 2/3am. I've tried with a bit of melatonin, magnesium, etc.

Moreover I've bought an apple watch and discovered I have quite some interruptions during the night, so I'm sleeping around 5-6 hours if I don't sleep at a crazy time, a bit less than what I expected.

Any suggestions? I don't know if taking that nap when I come back from work is helpful or not, usually I don't but I do feel quite tired during that time so I wonder if it's the natural stuff to do to try and go to sleep.

New comment by dysoco in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

dysoco — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:56:38 +0000

Wait until you see real usage. Benchmark numbers do not necessarily translate to real world performance (at least not by the same amount).

New comment by dysoco in "Caveman: Why use many token when few token do trick"

dysoco — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:57:24 +0000

I know at least of a major LATAM company which has dashboards to see AI usage per employee and they will call your attention if you don't use it enough.

New comment by dysoco in "Ask HN: Where are all the disruptive software that AI promised?"

dysoco — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:29:27 +0000

For me another Notion or Jira is not "disruptive software" I would expect disruptive software to be so... well, disruptive, as to fit a completely new niche or be so overwhelmingly better than their competitors that it doesn't even need good marketing.

New comment by dysoco in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

dysoco — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:14:06 +0000

> AI as it is being developed is likely to centralize it

Depends on how you see it.

I know many people building oss, local alternatives to enterprise software for specific industries that cost thousands of dollars all thanks to AI.

If everyone can produce software now and at a much complex and bigger scale, it's much easier to create decentralized and free alternatives to long-standing closed projects.

New comment by dysoco in "Ask HN: Is AI the final nail in the coffin for solo developers?"

dysoco — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:27:15 +0000

Yes but even then, it required people assigned to the project, middle management and time.

Now one could even envision a near future where they have agents running 24/7 automatically scanning for new SaaS projects and cloning them, and just throwing slop into the market to see if it sticks.

New comment by dysoco in "Ask HN: Is AI the final nail in the coffin for solo developers?"

dysoco — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:05:06 +0000

On one hand yes, but also a big company can now potentially copy your project for pennies and have far bigger outreach and marketing so they eat your market.