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New comment by frozenlettuce in "Launch HN: Modelence (YC S25) – App Builder with TypeScript / MongoDB Framework"

frozenlettuce — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:22:06 +0000

If you take your idea and add some web ui to manage the creation of apps and connect the pieces, I believe that there's great potential!

A couple years back I had a similar idea, but with a postgres+deno, and using .md files as the spec that generated the code https://github.com/lfarroco/verbo-lang

I think that in the future we might have specialized agents that operate under a specific opinionated tech stack. Like having one that is specialized in creating cli apps, another one for react+django+whatever, etc.

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

frozenlettuce — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:18:59 +0000

I remember having this issue back in 2014... maybe the tech is not there yet.

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Maybe comments should explain 'what' (2017)"

frozenlettuce — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 17:49:27 +0000

If those demands made any sense they would be enforced by the languages themselves. It's mostly a way of claiming to be productive by renaming constants and moving code around.

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

frozenlettuce — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:15:38 +0000

Last month I worked on some new features (like unlocking units) and some fixes to my browser autobattler https://lfarroco.itch.io/mana-battle . I've been working on adding an async PVP mode to it (using Supabase db and edge functions), should be up in the next few weeks. Learned a lot about shipping Electron apps and using shaders with webgl, might write a blog post about it later

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

frozenlettuce — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:40:58 +0000

Location: Brazil

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Golang, Typescript, React, Python, FP

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11QB_Gr_UV3r8nHOb-wXUmamZ...

Email: leonardo.farroco@gmail.com

I work with American companies since 2019. I have experience with web applications e2e, from user interactions in the browser, down to endpoint processing and AWS provisioning. I'm also a hobbyist gamedev, but that was mostly a way of learning about running shaders in the browser (game name is Mana Battle, there's a free version on itch).

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

frozenlettuce — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:39:09 +0000

Creating an we autobattler game https://lfarroco.itch.io/mana-battle It is being a good experience to learn how to work with shaders, and how well Electron apps run

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Using secondary school maths to demystify AI"

frozenlettuce — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:05:53 +0000

There are some quantum effects in the brain (for some people, that's a possible source of consciousness). We can simulate quantum effects, but here comes the tricky part: even if our simulation matches the probability, say 70/30 of something happening, what guarantees that our simulation would take the same path as the object being simulated?

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Using secondary school maths to demystify AI"

frozenlettuce — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:01:46 +0000

Even worse, as we are part of the universe, we would need to simulate ourselves and the very simulation that we are creating. You would also need to replicate the simulation of the simulation, leading to an eternal loop that would demand infinite matter and time (and would still not be enough!). Probably, you can't simulate something while being part of it.

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Using secondary school maths to demystify AI"

frozenlettuce — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:55:43 +0000

The idea of my argument is that I notice that people project some "ethereal" properties over computations that happen in the... computer. Probably because electricity is involved, making things show up as "magic" from our point of view, making it easier to project consciousness or thinking onto the device. The cloud makes that even more abstract. But if you are aware that the transistors are just a medium that replicates what we already did for ages with knots, fingers, and paint, it gets easier to see them as plain objects. Even the resulting artifacts that the machine produces are only something meaningful from our point of view, because you need prior knowledge to read the output signals. So yeah, those devices end up being an extension of ourselves.

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Using secondary school maths to demystify AI"

frozenlettuce — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:00:34 +0000

You can replicate all calculations done by LLMs with pen and paper. It would take ages to calculate anything, but it's possible. I don't think that pen and paper will ever "think", regardless of how complex the calculations involved are.

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025)"

frozenlettuce — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:01:09 +0000

Location: Brazil Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Golang, Typescript, React, Python, FP languages Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/11QB_Gr_UV3r8nHOb-wXUmamZ... Email: leonardo.farroco at gmail.com

e2e web dev (frontend, backend, cloud, devops, you name it). I've been working on the PST timezone since 2019, so I'm used to that already : )

New comment by frozenlettuce in "How to stop functional programming (2016)"

frozenlettuce — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:25:00 +0000

well, promises' computations start as soon as they are created, so they are not composable. and there' no cancellation/resource control as well. so I guess that the criticism is valid

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me"

frozenlettuce — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:06:49 +0000

The model that google is using to handle requests in their search page is probably dumber than the other ones for cost savings. Not sure if this would be a smart move, as search with ads is their flagship product. It would be better having no ai in search at all.

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Making games in Go: 3 months without LLMs vs. 3 days with LLMs"

frozenlettuce — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 00:02:44 +0000

that might be possible by asking it to create an 3d model with animations (based on a template) and then capture the sprites. but then again, not sure if building it would be worthwhile because 1) openai might add that as a native product (like what happened with .ppt generation) or 2) the capability to do so might be 6 months away

New comment by frozenlettuce in "CSS Minecraft"

frozenlettuce — Tue, 27 May 2025 14:18:32 +0000

Best anti-firebase post I've ever seen

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days"

frozenlettuce — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:47:34 +0000

Bad idea, as some people use old Android phones as IOT devices

New comment by frozenlettuce in "When Oregon blew up a whale with 20 cases of dynamite (2024)"

frozenlettuce — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 13:50:19 +0000

The sentence "The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds" deserves to be engraved there

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design"

frozenlettuce — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:58:55 +0000

It's the kind of commit that you get from someone that wants to look productive but is just renaming variables in their IDE.

New comment by frozenlettuce in "Clean Code vs. A Philosophy Of Software Design"

frozenlettuce — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 01:25:06 +0000

I don't know why people take UB seriously. He never provided proof of any work experience - he claims to have worked for just a single company that... never shipped any code into production. Even his code examples on GitHub are just snippets, not even a to-do app (well, I think that his style of "just one thing per function" works as a self-fulfilling prophecy).

Maybe people like him are the reason why we have to do leet code tests (I don't believe he would be capable of solving even an easy problem).

New comment by frozenlettuce in "'Pokémon Go' Maker Nears $3.5B Deal to Sell Games Unit"

frozenlettuce — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:09:37 +0000

My headcanon is that Pokemon Go is a bad game on purpose. Intelligence agencies get the geolocation data (that has been proved already) and Nintendo gets the rights to publish regular games - this way they are not competing directly with the franchise owner.

- Niantic itself bragging about it https://nianticlabs.com/news/largegeospatialmodel?hl=en