Hacker News: herval

New comment by herval in "A 10 year old Xeon is all you need"

herval — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:16:37 +0000

this is sorta like saying that being able to run your blog on your laptop will completely implode the cloud business

New comment by herval in "Human brains are misaligned, hallucinative, stochastic parrots"

herval — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:12:41 +0000

Viruses are nature’s GPUs

New comment by herval in "Human brains are misaligned, hallucinative, stochastic parrots"

herval — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:12:14 +0000

Every time a big paradigm shift happens in technology, people try to find equivalences between brain/consciousness/humanness and the latest tech they can comprehend. We are “just” magic clay golems, mechanical contraptions not unlike a complex clock, convoluted electrical devices, inefficient analog computers, now just a form of “messy LLM” or “a stochastic parrot”

New comment by herval in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

herval — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:35:42 +0000

Same for the Vision Pro. Locking down a $3k media consumption device to a single user is such a greedy move, it's unbelieavable

New comment by herval in "We Will Not Be Divided"

herval — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:05:17 +0000

this entire administration has been a constant stream of "important turning point for the US" moments

New comment by herval in "I’m joining OpenAI"

herval — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:51:07 +0000

I think this ship has sailed pretty hard, by now. Pretty much any app you can possibly use, from iTerm to Slack, is sending data to third-party LLMs (sometimes explicitly, most times as small features here and there)

New comment by herval in "The Codex App"

herval — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 06:44:16 +0000

Vscode’s performance is pretty bad. It’s “tolerable” just like any electron app.

New comment by herval in "The Codex App"

herval — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:03:08 +0000

It’s just irrelevant for most users. These companies are getting more adoption than they can handle, no matter how clunky their desktop apps are. They’re optimizing for experimentation. Not performance.

New comment by herval in "The recurring dream of replacing developers"

herval — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:13:28 +0000

80% of the world population back then is less than 50% of the current number of people working in farming, so the assertion isn’t wrong, even if fewer people are working on farming proportionally (as it should be, as more complex, desirable and higher paid options exist)

New comment by herval in "MCP is a fad"

herval — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:02:02 +0000

> If you have not learned CS, how do you expect to separate the LLM wheat from the chaff?

I didn't mention anything about learning CS. You can be a great engineer without having A* memorized line by line, no?

New comment by herval in "MCP is a fad"

herval — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:53:29 +0000

We're at a point in the LLM curve where there's two huge, polarized groups of developers:

- the ones who don't see any value on AI for coding and dismiss it as a fad at every change they get

- the ones who are in love with the new tools and adopting as many as they can on their workflows

I know the arguments of the second bunch well. But very curious about what the "AI is a fad" bunch thinks will happen. Are we going to suddenly realize all these productivity gains people are claiming are all lies and go back to coding by typing characters on emacs and memorizing CS books? Will StackOverflow suddenly return as the most popular source of copy-paste code slop?

New comment by herval in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

herval — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:25:22 +0000

It doesnt really introduce anything that makes Vision Pro in any way better, though

New comment by herval in "Prompting People"

herval — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 02:39:33 +0000

The medium shapes the message. People who use Twitter a lot tend to write in tweet form.

I just hope I don't start calling people dumb when they don't get what I'm trying to tell them do with a single prompt/request, like I do with Claude

New comment by herval in "You Need to Ditch VS Code"

herval — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 10:26:30 +0000

in an age where junior engineers are no longer _reading code_ due to LLMs, VSCode isn't exactly the worst offender

New comment by herval in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

herval — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:01:13 +0000

did someone already tell Opus that Rob Pike hates it?

New comment by herval in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

herval — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:58:51 +0000

confusing any law with "moral principles" is a pretty naive view of the world.

Many countries base some of their laws on well accepted moral rules to make it easier to apply them (it's easier to enforce something the majority of the people want enforced), but the vast majority of the laws were always made (and maintained) to benefit the ruling class

New comment by herval in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

herval — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:45:05 +0000

I don’t know any other smart rings that do what this one does. So not sure what you mean by “less features”

New comment by herval in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

herval — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:58:59 +0000

Battery decision asid, I love this dude's obsession with making unique hardware

New comment by herval in "Transparent leadership beats servant leadership"

herval — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:31:26 +0000

> Servant leadership seems to me a lot like curling parenting: the leader/parent anticipate problems and sweep the way for their direct reports/children.

That's not what "Servant leadership" is. It's about _letting the team lead_ - and they can come to you if they need help - instead of _pushing the team_. So in practice it's the opposite of anticipating problems. If something, servant leadership gets a bad rep for being used as an excuse to let people fall on the sword, instead of protecting them

The rest of the post is just describing the role of "Management".

New comment by herval in "Nano Banana Pro"

herval — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:04:50 +0000

Google APIs in general are hilariously hard to adopt. With any other service on the planet, you go to a platform page, grab an api key and you’re good to go.

Want to use Google’s gmail, maps, calendar or gemini api? Create a cloud account, create an app, enable the gmail service, create an oauth app, download a json file. Cmon now…