Hacker News: hifix

New comment by hifix in "Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash"

hifix — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:04:47 +0000

> The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me.

It's not that people are unimpressed with AI - they're just tired of constantly being bombarded with it, and it sneaking its way into where it's not wanted. "Generate any image you want!" "Analyse this thing with AI!" gets pretty tiring.

If I want AI I'll actively seek it out and use it - otherwise, jog on.

New comment by hifix in "Fauna Service Winding Down"

hifix — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:49:31 +0000

I would imagine it's the usual SaaS marketing embellishment, e.g. one Google employee used the software on a trial at some point === "Trusted by Google"

New comment by hifix in "I spent a year building an Android course for the elderly"

hifix — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:19:36 +0000

Great work! Like a lot of millenials, I'm on call for any issues my parents have with their Android devices but I imagine there are a lot of elderly people out there without that support.

New comment by hifix in "Army Testing Robot Dogs Armed with AI-Enabled Rifles in Middle East"

hifix — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 01:33:25 +0000

Seems like it was always heading this way, I don't think anyone really bought that the common use case for these style of quadruped robots would be walking around doing "safety inspections" in a warehouse.

New comment by hifix in "Japan gives $2.4B in incentives to Toyota and more for EV battery making"

hifix — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 08:42:36 +0000

I definitely agree on your last point, big fan of a lot of the recent designs that have come out of Korea. A sort of boxy, cyberpunk look in models like the Hyundai Grandeur and IONIQ 5 - and the Hyundai N Vision 74 concept looks amazing.

New comment by hifix in "Keeping Figma Fast: perf-testing the WASM editor"

hifix — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 20:44:01 +0000

I use it daily on Windows and I have to say it seems pretty fast. Never noticed any lagging or unnecessary animations.

New comment by hifix in "Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the 's and 's"

hifix — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 21:00:59 +0000

Fair point, and we do generate PDFs elsewhere for similar reports but the general feedback from users is that they want to have the data available directly in the email.

New comment by hifix in "Why does email development have to suck? – Explaining all the 's and 's"

hifix — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 08:39:08 +0000

It's HN, so I'm not surprised by the old "just send text" argument that always gets wheeled out when this topic come up, but for those not in a terminal all day there are valid reasons to format HTML emails (that don't include marketing).

We send out HTML emails and reports to our users that make use of progress bars, lists, photos, colours etc and they love them. They can get quick full updates on their business without having to leave their mailbox. Pretty hard to do that in plain text.

New comment by hifix in "The Silent End of Adobe XD"

hifix — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 10:04:22 +0000

Can't say it's a huge surprise. I used it daily for years and even prior to the Figma acquisition, the features being released in new versions seemed odd (voice prototyping?) and the pace of release was slow while Figma steamed ahead.

There were numerous quirks on Windows that you just had to live with (alt-tabbing between apps when the keyboard stopped working every 10 minutes was a highlight). Changed to Figma for UI and haven't looked back. Thanks to those engineers who did work on it and gave us a non-Mac alternative to Sketch - I still miss the Repeat Grid feature.

New comment by hifix in "Ask HN: Does your company have a engineering blog? Any tips for starting one?"

hifix — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:56:40 +0000

I personally enjoy any sort of interactivity in tech articles. Things like sliders, inputs and buttons are great at keeping attention and can help make the subject easier to understand or illustrate things that can't easily be described in text.

Some examples:

https://liveblocks.io/blog/how-to-animate-multiplayer-cursor...

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/interactive-guide-to-flexbox

https://ciechanow.ski/bicycle/

Although it's all very content dependent of course - FE development tends to lend itself a bit better to this sort of format.

New comment by hifix in "Windows 98 icons are great (2015)"

hifix — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 21:16:28 +0000

There's a lot of rose-tinted glasses in this thread and this is coming from someone who grew up using computers with these sorts of icons and designs. I appreciate the aesthetic, but I still think that many of them are too difficult to distinguish on their own, regardless of whether they're in full-colour skeuomorphic or a flat line icon. As another commenter pointed out, a lot of them are just variations of a computer / folder / paper with other icons stacked on them in different ways or sizes.

In any case, you would want a supporting label to really convey the meaning.

While I love to see these sorts of icons in personal sites and projects, the reality is that if I presented icons like these to a client for a SaaS app in 2023, I'd be sent back to the drawing board. No serious business wants their UI to look like it just stepped out of the 90's.

New comment by hifix in "Building a fullstack app with Flask and Htmx"

hifix — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 02:32:41 +0000

As a complete beginner to the Rails world (but not web dev in general), the official Getting Started guide at https://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html was a short and sweet way for me to get an introduction to how it works.

After that I went through a number of Chris Oliver's GoRails tutorials (https://gorails.com) which I found really helpful too.

New comment by hifix in "Ask HN: How do you stay physically active?"

hifix — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 04:06:30 +0000

Football (soccer), both indoor and outdoor - and mountain biking. I've worked remotely for several years now and it definitely helps to be able to get out of the office and talk to other people, especially those not in the web / tech fields. Not just for mental health but for making new friends too.

I realise team sports aren't for everyone but they can be great motivators especially when the weather isn't great or you aren't in the mood, and you always end up feeling better for it at the end. I find it's easier to slack off when you're the only one accountable.