Hacker News: ergocoder

New comment by ergocoder in "Shopify moves back to Native from React Native"

ergocoder — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:32:15 +0000

A companies with thousands of engineers should simply go native.

Write once, deploy everywhere like React Native mainly benefits small teams and startups who are okay with building 90/10 solutions.

At the shopify's scale, they would want to go advance for every corner of the apps and use cases, and only native allows that.

New comment by ergocoder in "Fastpotify"

ergocoder — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:06:06 +0000

I've stopped using Spotify for 2 years now.

What I've realized is that Spotify is great for discovering new songs. But I'm a grown up and listen to the same hundreds of songs every day anyway. No need to keep paying the taxes.

New comment by ergocoder in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

ergocoder — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:26:16 +0000

> they definitely will be solved by removing the cameras

We'll see.

New comment by ergocoder in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

ergocoder — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 04:30:42 +0000

These are public areas. It's not spying.

Almost every house in my neighborhood has 1-2 cameras pointing around their houses. When there's an issue, my neighbors share the footages with the group, and that's so useful. And I live in a very very democrat state/city.

Also, we should definitely address the privacy and access control issue with Flock. Removing the cameras isn't the right solution.

New comment by ergocoder in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

ergocoder — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:16:21 +0000

The kind where the author hates the omarchy creator, so every issue is a world-ending issue.

New comment by ergocoder in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

ergocoder — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:10:57 +0000

Because many people agree with having cameras to help reduce/monitor crimes.

From their views, the right isn't trampled. It's a win

New comment by ergocoder in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

ergocoder — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:00:32 +0000

A Cursor CEO's tweet.

New comment by ergocoder in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

ergocoder — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 03:33:49 +0000

Cursor founder just tweeted that he was sad to see this ban and that OpenAI model represented around 5% of total usage.

Burn.

New comment by ergocoder in "OpenAI's Head of Data Centers Has Left the Company"

ergocoder — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 03:30:47 +0000

What a failure. Only be able to afford a giant painting. A truly successful person should've been able to afford a football-stadium-sized painting.

New comment by ergocoder in "OpenAI's Head of Data Centers Has Left the Company"

ergocoder — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:31:51 +0000

That's true. By any standard, Facebook is very much a failure.

New comment by ergocoder in "OpenAI's Head of Data Centers Has Left the Company"

ergocoder — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:39:38 +0000

OpenAI-Anthropic is similar to Twitter-Facebook.

Twitter was full of dramas at the exec and founder level, and that impacted their execution.

Facebook had strong leadership, was very focused, and executed well.

New comment by ergocoder in "US debt tops $40T as Treasury doubles bond buybacks to calm markets"

ergocoder — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 01:44:31 +0000

I am sure my country's economy sucks.

But then nobody really screams apocalypse. But, in US, people are so alarmed about US' economy collapsing.

New comment by ergocoder in "US debt tops $40T as Treasury doubles bond buybacks to calm markets"

ergocoder — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:03:02 +0000

Can somebody explain what this means exactly?

Why do they need to pay it back? If they pay it back, then what will happen?

I'm from a developing country. My country is objectively much worse than US in every aspect. My country doesn't export anything significant. There's no innovation. insane level of corruption. Yet we don't have this issue. Nobody screams that the country will collapse.

Is this kind of doomsday thinking an American-only culture?

New comment by ergocoder in "Apple proposes to take a 15% cut of purchases made outside the App Store"

ergocoder — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:10:02 +0000

Actually, increasing the fees will lead to more expensive in-game products. Higher price = higher barrier will reduce the number of players.

Therefore, this is opposite of praying on the kids.

New comment by ergocoder in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

ergocoder — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:59:37 +0000

Your story is an extremely typical one. It's even worse at older tech companies like Google, Oracle, Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM.

Yet these companies are doing well by any standard. Sure, IBM is bad but it's still a $100B company.

Who is even doing useful projects at these companies? Every story I've heard is everyone is doing useless projects for promotions.

Maybe I just don't know how large companies work.

New comment by ergocoder in "Apple is getting this wrong"

ergocoder — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:50:20 +0000

"Wang" can be one of the 2 popular different last names in China and Taiwan.

New comment by ergocoder in "Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal"

ergocoder — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:59:10 +0000

The difference is an aggressively growing and profitable business vs. stagnant-at-best-degrowth-at-worst business.

New comment by ergocoder in "Bending Spoons makes first post-IPO acquisition with $1.3B Airtable deal"

ergocoder — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:57:44 +0000

> We should send them to Iran to negotiate the peace deal.

I laughed so hard. But I mean seriously...

New comment by ergocoder in "Dario worried people were joining Anthropic for the money, not the mission"

ergocoder — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:27:35 +0000

Anyone who joins Anthropic at the 800 valuation is probably less about money.

If it is about money, they would try to buy low, not buy high like this.

New comment by ergocoder in "AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying"

ergocoder — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:06:42 +0000

That's like 1 principle engineer. That's it.