Hacker News: emehex

New comment by emehex in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

emehex — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:00:41 +0000

I'm working a new Fantasy Football league/format that is category-based (like hockey/baseball) in an attempt to make games more "watchable". The problem with traditional Fantasy Football, is that half of the game (defence) is ignored, while not very economically-valuable positions, like RB and TE, are elevated far past their real world relevance. This new system is my attempt at fixing both problems!

New comment by emehex in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

emehex — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:22:26 +0000

I've noticed that developers who started with UIKit really have a hard time working with SwiftUI. I think this is because it's not just new syntax, it's an entirely different way to think: state is the source of truth, views are ephemeral, and you describe UI instead of managing it.

New comment by emehex in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

emehex — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:11:47 +0000

Agreed. SwiftData is terrible for anything more than like 2 "Models". I have a bunch of apps written with SwiftData and a bunch more with GRDB... I hate touching the SwiftData ones.

New comment by emehex in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

emehex — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:05:55 +0000

> real, production-grade UI framework

What does this even mean? There are hundreds of thousands of apps in the App Store that are 100% SwiftUI. They are real. And they are very much "production grade".

The only people still complaining about SwiftUI 7 years later are the UIKit holdouts that never took the time to properly learn how to use it.

New comment by emehex in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

emehex — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:12:42 +0000

A daily meditation "instrument". I'm a big fan of Waking Up but I've kinda outgrown the catalogue. I know what to do now. I just need a timer and a couple of prompts...

New comment by emehex in "GPT-5.6"

emehex — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:10:17 +0000

gpt-5.6-sol x XHIGH is my favourite

New comment by emehex in "Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts"

emehex — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:32:53 +0000

"Coding is largely solved"

New comment by emehex in "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"

emehex — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:48:41 +0000

Claude Code and/or Codex from Ghostty/Terminal. You don't need to complicate it.

New comment by emehex in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

emehex — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:04:33 +0000

I'm not sure what this has to do with my comment? D1 is pretty much sufficient on it's own...

New comment by emehex in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

emehex — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:01:57 +0000

I think you'd be surprised to learn how many real production apps are actually running on top of SQLite (by way of Cloudflare D1).

New comment by emehex in "Ferrari Luce"

emehex — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:29:19 +0000

This is like the anti-Cybertruck. But in a funny horseshoe kinda way the exact same as the Cybertruck?

New comment by emehex in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

emehex — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:28:42 +0000

I still do this for my dog every year on his birthday. Funny that the Pet Store survived the Internet while the Toy Store did not...

New comment by emehex in "Who will buy your services if you fire us all?"

emehex — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:21:25 +0000

I don't understand UBI.

Let's say a burger costs $10. Then UBI is implemented. But not just like $1K/month UBI... $1M/year UBI... for everyone! There's no way that the burger is still $10 now. Right?

Won't the economy just soak up all the extra UBI money? So a burger will cost $1000 in world where everyone gets $1M/year? And like $20 when everyone gets $1K/month? Isn't it all just a wash?

New comment by emehex in "Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go"

emehex — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:16:26 +0000

Looks a lot like Swift! Awesome!

New comment by emehex in "Local LLM App by Ente"

emehex — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:48:24 +0000

There are literally 1000s of these types of apps. Why is this on the Front Page?

New comment by emehex in "Kagi Small Web"

emehex — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:00:51 +0000

StumbleUpon?

New comment by emehex in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

emehex — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:00:04 +0000

Can anyone get LinkedIn>English working? Nothing I've found and pasted in has seemed to work... just spits back out the original

New comment by emehex in "Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics"

emehex — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:23:31 +0000

For those unaware, Claude Code comes with a built in /insights command...

New comment by emehex in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

emehex — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:21:05 +0000

Favourite books of the year:

"When the Moon Hits Your Eye" - John Scalzi

"Making History" - K.J. Parker

"Let Dogs be Dogs" - Monks of New Skete

"The First Gentleman" - Bill Clinton (it's actually fun!)

"The Thinking Machine" - Stephen Witt

New comment by emehex in "Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo"

emehex — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:48:02 +0000

I thought Volvo was publicly traded. Had to look it up.

Volvo Group - sells trucks - publicly traded - Swedish

Volvo Cars - sells cars - not publicly traded - 100% owned by Geely (Chinese)

Volvo Cars ≠ Volvo Group