Hacker News: franciscop

New comment by franciscop in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

franciscop — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:45:27 +0000

It seems it was an experiment at that moment, and that it went well? I do hope they release it under 2.x though, cannot imagine how a 1M LoC can break in so many ways, especially if what xiphias says is true:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48132902

New comment by franciscop in "I’ve banned query strings"

franciscop — Sat, 09 May 2026 19:00:52 +0000

Thanks for removing the rest on that google link, the one I get after switching to "images" and back to "web" is this monstrosity:

https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&sca_esv=8061bd9cb1...

Edit: which luckily and sensibly Hacker News cuts short since it's 463 characters

New comment by franciscop in "CARA 2.0 – “I Built a Better Robot Dog”"

franciscop — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:51:30 +0000

Look at the original video/article, they used drone motors for the robot dog, by reusing the rotor/stator and rewinding the coils manually.

Qwen corrects code saying that Taiwan is a country

franciscop — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 23:28:37 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/2049555509624312217

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47956058

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by franciscop in "Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers"

franciscop — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:02:07 +0000

I was just reflecting on what I saw/thought! But sure, take it as a compliment, the website and branding are amazing, I'm (positively) jealous of how good they reflect on the product, congrats.

New comment by franciscop in "Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers"

franciscop — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:07:14 +0000

As I'm writing a small markdown renderer, I find it difficult to even find a name for it, let alone get people to use it once it's ready. So I guess the ol' Markdown is too standard for a "plain markdown" editor to stand out today. Only tools that are polished and dare-I-say full of features beyond normal markdown can stand out from normal Markdown editors to make it into the front page of HN. Sort of natural selection I guess.

New comment by franciscop in "Building a JavaScript runtime in one month"

franciscop — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:48:12 +0000

Not the blog article author, I just saw an interesting article and posted it here. But I can answer the first question, there's 3 major ways I can think of:

- Read the specification in-depth and understand it well.

- Just testing, if you know JavaScript you can test it in other runtimes, create tests around the methods and then you know how it works well. This is usually more for edge cases though, like what happens if you mutate the 3rd argument of Array.map?

- Look at other implementation's internals, as you said.

Building a JavaScript runtime in one month

franciscop — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:30:20 +0000

Article URL: https://themackabu.dev/blog/js-in-one-month

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697895

Points: 17

# Comments: 7

New comment by franciscop in "Protect your shed"

franciscop — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 07:16:53 +0000

When I push myself to do these things, it loses all meaning. I do fun programming because it's fun, when I tried pushing myself like this virtually always I ended up more tired (for a miryad of reasons). And if I need to push myself, I'd rather just learn more Japanese, or do some exercise, or something else. But when I have like 1-2 weeks holiday, I will for sure sneak a few full coding days in there, and that is liberating.

New comment by franciscop in "Protect your shed"

franciscop — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:26:37 +0000

I did this for ~10 years, and absolutely no regrets, it was a lot of fun and the side projects gave me energy.

Nowadays it's hard though, learning a new language, with a gf and a full-time demanding job, I don't have a lot of time to be tinkering. I do feel a bit sad about this but just assumed it's just life, and cannot imagine with kids how impossible this'd be.

I did look at doing some basic housekeeping with LLMs (updating deps, standardize testing across projects, etc) and realized I have literally 200+ side projects, most of them websites/JS libraries/React libraries. I was a bit baffled, of course 80% of it is trash, but I was kind of amazed at how many things I've actually done.

Show HN: Tiny Axios Alternative, Fch

franciscop — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:30:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47582773

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by franciscop in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

franciscop — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:44:53 +0000

Strongly agree! I was answering my parent comment that had a very negative view, it is indeed an amazing situation where' in!

New comment by franciscop in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

franciscop — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:59:35 +0000

Do you think e.g. the AI/LLM boom is all rent seeking? Do you think there's no positive value for the world on the recently announced e.g. MacBook Neo and that it's purely a monopolistic activity? Those are 2 clear recent examples of big players making massive benefits for the world, and I'm okay if they get X% of that value as company valuation.

New comment by franciscop in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

franciscop — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:09:00 +0000

This was one of the very few advantages of moving from Linux => MacOS, that at least most of the software was beautiful and consistent by default. I'm saddened to see that this is not true anymore. Been holding the Tahoe upgrade, and might just keep my macbook air m1 much longer than originally intended because of this.

New comment by franciscop in "Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art"

franciscop — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:03:16 +0000

The book can say anything it wants, whenever it's true and/or applicable in court later on is a very different matter. Spain's SGAE is a very powerful lobby but still needs to follow the law.

Edit: haven't followed the law in a while, but you could definitely copy, digitalize and scan documents for yourself and your friends (copia privada).

New comment by franciscop in "Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art"

franciscop — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:59:59 +0000

"If it took all the fossil fuel on Earth" What do you mean? To TRAIN an LLM model it takes roughly the same amount of energy as to raise a person, so it's not even really expensive in energy costs.

New comment by franciscop in "MacBook Neo"

franciscop — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:46:33 +0000

* Max storage is 512GB instead of 4TB.

I currently have 1TB and I'm pretty happy with it, but I've had 256GB and 512GB in the past and I was not happy with those. This might be the only reason I would not consider this laptop.

New comment by franciscop in "Moldova broke our data pipeline"

franciscop — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:05:43 +0000

This very clearly seems like a bug either in their DMS script, or in the DMS job that they don't directly control, since CSV clearly allows for escaping commas (by just quoting them). Would love to see a bug report being submitted upstream as well as part of the "fix".

New comment by franciscop in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

franciscop — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:42:36 +0000

The blog post was 404ing for me, it seems to be this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260211225255/https://crabby-ra...

New comment by franciscop in "How to make a living as an artist"

franciscop — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 11:29:29 +0000

I've seen too many times in real life people who do arts and want to try to sell it not understand that once you switch from a hobby to a business, you need to spend at least 50% of your time on the business/marketing/logistics/etc side of things, hence failing miserably. The best possible outcome that I've seen is that they miraculously hit a nerve on the first hit, become famous, and at some point realize they need to pay taxes and do so in a decent timeframe.

So I found this article great to explain those things, and also how it's not just "you", but it's "the part of you that people need to buy" to make it into an actual business the thing that it's important. I'll be sharing it a bunch, I'm so happy fnnch wrote this!