Hacker News: hokumguru

New comment by hokumguru in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

hokumguru — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:54:32 +0000

Congrats and thank you. You helped build one of the best devex experiences I've ever had the pleasure of working with :)

New comment by hokumguru in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

hokumguru — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:55:07 +0000

Not even high-end nowadays, you really have to scrape the bottom of the barrel for something with a nonreplaceable cable. Even for iems.

New comment by hokumguru in "Layoffs at Block"

hokumguru — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:21:59 +0000

I'm still not sure I quite agree with this AI replacement premise.

Assuming the premise of profitability and a sound business then this sounds like a failure of product if anything. It just doesn't follow for me that when you see more productive teams the immediate answer is that you need less people. Especially for silicon valley types this seems antithetical to scaling.

Thinking of it in two ways

- Yes you could (in theory but I still argue not 100%) cut workforce and have a smaller # of people do the work that everyone else was doing

- You could keep your people, who are ostensibly more productive with AI, and get even more work done

Why would you ever choose the first?

New comment by hokumguru in "Swift is a more convenient Rust (2023)"

hokumguru — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:09:21 +0000

I mean, after some almost 40 years. If 40 years from now, hell, even 20, Apple abandoned the language I’m not sure I care about the risk.

And that’s not to say they don’t support objective-c still. It just hasn’t been actively developed with new features.

New comment by hokumguru in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

hokumguru — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:10:32 +0000

For what it’s worth I love mine. I have app pinning enabled in android so it’s completely locked to just my music app. Feels like a great compromise of customizability while also feeling like an all in one device

New comment by hokumguru in "The tech monoculture is finally breaking"

hokumguru — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:08:29 +0000

So install a dumbed down launcher and put it in kiosk mode? Thatll lock things down pretty heavily.

New comment by hokumguru in "Escaping the trap of US tech dependence"

hokumguru — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:39:01 +0000

Libre Office is literally free and has never competed for significant market share in 30 years.

It has to be better

New comment by hokumguru in "-tucky (2023)"

hokumguru — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:10:51 +0000

I live in Lincoln, so about 50 miles south of Omaha. I think a crucial point left out by the author here may be the massive (at least perceived) demographic disparities between Omaha and Council Bluffs.

Council Bluffs is a vastly less financially successful city than Omaha with far more visible opioid problems.

That is to say, as a local, I don’t know if I would associate the term as much with demeaning “hillbillies or hicks” but more for the socioeconomic and drug disparities between the two cities.

I don’t know if the drug disparity is so large between them, but it certainly feels more visible in Council Bluffs. Maybe why we don’t see the -tucky suffix used as much with other twin cities is that St Paul and Fort Worth are still quite successful metropolitan areas in their own right.

New comment by hokumguru in "Meta's new A.I. superstars are chafing against the rest of the company"

hokumguru — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:37:33 +0000

Founding a faang and growing it provides a very different set of life experiences than being a startup owner thrust into it.

New comment by hokumguru in "Patterns.dev"

hokumguru — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:10:04 +0000

Off the top of my head, rails (currentattributes), Laravel (facades) especially, and most iOS apps use singletons quite well. It’s all in moderation and depends highly on how it’s used, much like every other design pattern.

I think people just don’t like Singletons because they’ve been especially misused in the past but I guarantee the same argument stands for any other design pattern.

New comment by hokumguru in "Stackoverflow Outage"

hokumguru — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:48:53 +0000

Last I heard they self hosted. Far as I understand it’s incredibly cheap for them to host. Especially since they’ve been completely cannibalized.

New comment by hokumguru in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

hokumguru — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:19:29 +0000

While the video is long, the actual process of setting everything up only took me about 20 minutes. The template they offer is extremely convenient.

New comment by hokumguru in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

hokumguru — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:13:18 +0000

The reason I use Bazzite is very simple: I only use my desktop computer for gaming and when I turn it on, I want it to work immediately without issues.

With previous distros I always had issues configuring something or another with games/drivers. Bazzite has been the closest to Windows/console experience for me wrt Linux pc gaming.

If this is a generalist computer, then you are absolutely correct. This is not the distro for you. This is very specifically built for gaming.

New comment by hokumguru in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

hokumguru — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:58:58 +0000

I have this same issue for a while and it had to deal with secure boot. Was able to install a immutable fedora after disabling.

New comment by hokumguru in "Ask HN: How do you get over the fear of sharing code?"

hokumguru — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:40:35 +0000

I just got off of a few years at a FAANG and perhaps my greatest learning is that code is just table stakes. That is, it hardly matters and for a well functioning business it is best for it to be malleable and to not get too attached. It’s just code, the product is what actually matters.

Really just a long winded way of saying no one cares. Anybody who is looking at your portfolio is going to care more about what you built than how you built it. Anyone trying to rip you off it’s just hurting themselves more than anything

New comment by hokumguru in "The Swift SDK for Android"

hokumguru — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 02:55:14 +0000

It’s more complex now since they shipped the new renderer, but essentially serializes the react UI tree to JSON and passes it to native which parses and renders native components

New comment by hokumguru in "Hyperflask – Full stack Flask and Htmx framework"

hokumguru — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:01:46 +0000

https://nova.app/ still the best I've seen.

Lazy Fields for 30x speedup without Decorators or Transforms

hokumguru — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 02:02:31 +0000

Article URL: https://joist-orm.io/blog/lazy-fields/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45587277

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by hokumguru in "Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025"

hokumguru — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:27:17 +0000

https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-48000-computer-fraud

at least a misdemeanor. most of the time its prosecuted, a felony.

New comment by hokumguru in "Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025"

hokumguru — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:25:46 +0000

Even if Arko wasn't the unauthorized access, this absolutely tarnishes his reputation for the rest of his career, damning email notwithstanding.

Horrible time to own/run a consultancy. Can't imagine what his other customers are thinking right now.