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New comment by hardwaregeek in "Most people prefer traditional architecture"

hardwaregeek — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:11:06 +0000

Perhaps there’s a difference between what people prefer looking at and what’s actually nicer to inhabit? Architecture is optimizing for people inhabiting the building, not just staring at it in a photograph. It’s like if you asked someone to judge a phone based on a photo. Yes there’s some aesthetic judgement but it matters more if the phone is usable.

I know that personally I find New York’s prewar buildings more beautiful than your average soulless luxury tower. But I enjoyed living in a soulless luxury tower because it had good lighting, not terrible elevators and decent fixtures.

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Fastpotify"

hardwaregeek — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:48:40 +0000

It’s a music player that regularly cannot play music. I don’t understand how you get that wrong for so long.

New comment by hardwaregeek in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

hardwaregeek — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:36:14 +0000

That seems like a perfectly good use of time for a kid in the 70’s! You’d learn a lot of engineering skills and demonstrate a tenaciousness that most people don’t have. I don’t think the goal is to predict what will be the important technology in 10 years. The goal is to challenge oneself with hard tasks and learn interesting stuff. A lot of the “AI” people today were compilers people yesterday

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

hardwaregeek — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:52:44 +0000

I feel like people aren’t updating to the possibility that a significant portion of software development could be under the purview of SpaceX. Whether it’s developer Twitter, Cursor’s planned GitHub competitor, or Cursor/Grok, that’s a lot of the developer mindshare. Granted, there’s a lot of competition in all of these spaces except for maybe Twitter, so it might not happen. But there’s a chance! And that possibility is fairly concerning.

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Claude Fable 5"

hardwaregeek — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:23:39 +0000

Ok but isn’t that true of all software development? It’s not like anybody’s done a rigorous test of writing their entire codebase in Python vs Java. It’s all vibes based there. People create post-hoc justifications for why they use certain technologies but the reality is a lot more vibes than anything else.

Strace-UI, Bonsai_term, and the TUI Renaissance

hardwaregeek — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:19:50 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.janestreet.com/strace-ui-bonsai-term-and-the-tui-renaissance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48325304

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Zig → Rust porting guide"

hardwaregeek — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:41:18 +0000

When you start getting hate, you’ve made it. Up until then you’re a hypothetical that people like. Maybe they’ve built a side project with you or read the docs. You only get hate when people have used your tool and butted up against limitations. We saw this with Deno too where they went from beloved potential savior to realistic, limited tool. Hate is good. It means people rely on you

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results"

hardwaregeek — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:32:05 +0000

Both can be true? You can be doing really well and still have long term risk. Dethroning incumbents takes longer than people think and it’s possible that search growth goes 20%, 10%, -10%, -50%

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

hardwaregeek — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:28:40 +0000

A fun counter factual: try “proving” that famous scientists are their collaborators based on this methodology. Obviously Hardy and Littlewood are the same person. They’re both British mathematicians who use analysis and number theory and have similar sensibilities in politics and math.

New comment by hardwaregeek in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

hardwaregeek — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:34:38 +0000

I’ve proposed that someone open a restaurant of invasive species. You could make some decent dishes with lionfish, blackberries, golden oyster mushrooms, venison, etc

New comment by hardwaregeek in "404 Deno CEO not found"

hardwaregeek — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:23:01 +0000

Agreed. I was skeptical of Deno and I think their package management story was a mistake. But the people were still trying to make JavaScript better and doing so out of genuine love for the language. I especially feel for the employees who put in several years of their life, with the resulting opportunity cost.

New comment by hardwaregeek in "404 Deno CEO not found"

hardwaregeek — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:20:15 +0000

I'm not fully convinced that there's a tenable model for open source devtool companies. Usually there's some handwavy plan to do hosting or code quality that never comes to fruition. Hosting is a hard business and the 800 pound gorilla in the room of AWS is even harder to surmount. Otherwise, I'm not sure what business model you can look towards. Support maybe?

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

hardwaregeek — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:50:44 +0000

I wonder if it's almost like a new version of management consulting. You hire/invest in a bunch of smart 20-somethings who seem generally intelligent with the idea that they'll "disrupt" an industry with their from-first principles approach. Do the 23 year old McKinsey consultants particularly care about their work? No, but the McKinsey name is a fast way to gain clout and access to executives. Ditto the YC name

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

hardwaregeek — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:44:10 +0000

For what it’s worth Ruby’s JIT took several different implementations, definitely struggled with Rails compatibility and literally used some people’s PhD research. It wasn’t a trivial affair

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns"

hardwaregeek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 22:27:56 +0000

That’d also be an interesting data point! What’s the upper limits of vibe coding? Can you vibe code rust? What about an entire programming language toolchain? How about an ecosystem? Can you make a parallel npm?

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Welcome to the Wasteland: A Thousand Gas Towns"

hardwaregeek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:04:17 +0000

I really want to host a vibe coding competition and see what can actually be made with these systems. Like if we’re doing insane token spends, it better be in service of creating amazing stuff. Can we make an entirely new programming language? Can we make an OS?

Nothing's Happening

hardwaregeek — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:32:07 +0000

Article URL: https://uptointerpretation.com/posts/nothings-happening/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47137628

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Pipelined Relational Query Language, Pronounced "Prequel""

hardwaregeek — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:02:17 +0000

There’s probably a good reason why not, but I’d love a query language with sum types. They just feel like a natural way to model a lot of data

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Rethinking High-School Science Fairs"

hardwaregeek — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:22:06 +0000

The fundamental issue is that all of education and childhood accomplishments have become cynical, overly competitive games. Science fairs are now attempts for a child to piggyback off of a lab’s existing work and claim they discovered it. Sports are a vehicle to college admissions. Disability claims become another way to gain an academic advantage. It’s no surprise that the 30 under 30 are filled with scammers and criminals. It’s what we’re teaching students who want to get ahead.

New comment by hardwaregeek in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

hardwaregeek — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:16:14 +0000

I don’t think these are mutually exclusive takes. Bun is essentially taking Node and giving it a standard library and standard tooling. But you can still use regular node packages if you want. Whereas Deno def leaned into the clean break for a while