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New comment by herval in "Did they ghost you?"

herval — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:54:00 +0000

I interviewed at Linkedin in 2020 or so - interview went great, team fit was great, all the interviews were great, the recruiter told me he was going to prepare an offer... then I never heard from them again.

4 years later, a recruiter messaged me saying that they found my name as a potential candidate and knew that I declined the offer, back in 2020, so they wanted to know if I wanted to re-interview. I told the recruiter I never rejected anything. She looked into it and apparently it was your exact same situation: recruiter left that day, a bunch of candidates got marked as "declined" shortly after.

New comment by herval in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

herval — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:12:21 +0000

You’re doing native apps wrong if they’re 300mb. And also no web app in 2026 is just 50kb!

New comment by herval in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

herval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:12:36 +0000

I know, I agree both have their uses :-) I was just jesting about the kind of extreme OP went for.

New comment by herval in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

herval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:35:42 +0000

webapps are inefficient, clunky, slow substitutes to actual native apps. I think decades of marketing and billions spent by Google trying to convince people that webapps are better is what makes many tech people think they are. Literally.

People "want" webapps to be what users "wanted" bc it pays their salary...

New comment by herval in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

herval — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:43:39 +0000

Any promising techniques so far? I’m working on a rather large monorepo and very few people on the team are managing to keep up with it. Looking for ideas to improve comprehension.

New comment by herval in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

herval — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:27:29 +0000

PSC happened...

New comment by herval in "Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing"

herval — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 17:05:33 +0000

having heard the arguments made by some VP + C-levels throughout the Tokenmaxxing Tulip Mania, I think the interpretation that those mandates were made intentionally for "forcing employees to start leveraging AI in meaningful ways" is too charitable.

Most companies focused entirely on doing "what everyone else is doing" at best or "to see if Programmer Joe can be as productive as the entire team so we can fire the rest".

And many indeed fired employees in droves because they were "underperforming in token spend".

New comment by herval in "Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites"

herval — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:53:42 +0000

Yea I think this was somewhat true back in 2001. With bots composing half the traffic of the internet, governments controlling massive social botnets and the polarization of politics everywhere, the internet became a full scale spam/hate fest

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