Hacker News: hsavit1

New comment by hsavit1 in "Replacement.ai"

hsavit1 — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 14:54:15 +0000

I feel like technology should exist to enhance the human experience, not eliminate the human experience?

New comment by hsavit1 in "Chatterbox TTS"

hsavit1 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 02:11:18 +0000

another TTS that is only supporting English. This really irritates me

New comment by hsavit1 in "How to Inspect React Server Component Activity with Next.js and OpenTelemetry"

hsavit1 — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 13:55:39 +0000

vite exists? what are you even talking about

New comment by hsavit1 in "Five years of React Native at Shopify"

hsavit1 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:23:21 +0000

this is an unserious reply. and if you are serious then you're likely not a frontend developer. often you want to test if a certain kind of hack fix works. your mind becomes glued to thinking about "does that fix it?" - hence why it's not easy to branch into a new line of thought then just come back to the change you pushed minutes ago. You're pretty much suggesting that the developer context changes into another thing for anywhere between 1 and 4 minutes and then context switches back to see if the build worked. The task that you'd be context switching into for 1-4 minutes will be interrupted by another thing and you'll likely make no progress doing it

New comment by hsavit1 in "Five years of React Native at Shopify"

hsavit1 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:14:06 +0000

So many of you are yapping about how the performance is not good enough. Yet none of you are talking about how Shopify literally could not develop their mobile app without it. The 3 minutes to compile the app just to do a trivial change makes it near impossible for devs to be productive. Hot reloading is what got me hooked to react native, I literally cannot allow for my brain to rot waiting for minutes waiting for Xcode to compile for a simple border radius change.

New comment by hsavit1 in "‘TikTok refugees’ flock to China's RedNote "

hsavit1 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:59:28 +0000

exactly. this whole RedNote development frames the problem of United States social media data harvesting and surveillance. We've been institutionalized to believe that the Chinese are the most propagandized and censored people on the planet, meanwhile American "free speech" social media platforms regularly de-platform and de-monetized accounts regularly.

New comment by hsavit1 in "Three-quarters of the land is drying out, 'redefining life on Earth'"

hsavit1 — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 17:50:24 +0000

your indifference to potential civilizational collapse is representative of the mass amnesia on this issue

New comment by hsavit1 in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

hsavit1 — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 04:34:42 +0000

It’s very difficult to not get caught in a total over militarized surveillance state. He is not stupid

New comment by hsavit1 in "Distributed Erlang"

hsavit1 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 15:50:06 +0000

yeah, isolated + distributed processes is THE THING about Erlang, OTP

New comment by hsavit1 in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2024 awarded to Nihon Hidankyo"

hsavit1 — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:52:46 +0000

yeah the peace prize has completely lost any credibility that it may have had.

New comment by hsavit1 in "Bun v1.1.22"

hsavit1 — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 02:46:12 +0000

when will bun officially catch up to node?

New comment by hsavit1 in "Argentina's economy is growing beyond expectations"

hsavit1 — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 03:44:34 +0000

Yeah this piece is top tier delusional, I’m thinking it had to be written by someone with heavy crypto libertarian leanings. Argentina’s poverty rate is currently ~57%. See https://www.thedialogue.org/analysis/will-argentinas-poverty...

New comment by hsavit1 in "Apple Vision Pro U.S. Sales Are All but Dead, Market Analysts Say"

hsavit1 — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 19:41:48 +0000

no developer wants to waste their time developing apps for a product that nobody other than the .001% will ever use

New comment by hsavit1 in "How to think in writing"

hsavit1 — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 23:53:13 +0000

I love how Paul Ghram is quoted and not an actual writer. Why would I take writing advice from him and not from, say, James Joyce?

New comment by hsavit1 in "The joy of reading books you don't understand"

hsavit1 — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 22:30:26 +0000

kant's critique of pure reason

New comment by hsavit1 in "A dev's thoughts on developer productivity (2022)"

hsavit1 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 23:11:45 +0000

yep, companies thrive when they can steal as much surplus labor value as possible. you don't have to give them anything more that what you agreed to give them

New comment by hsavit1 in "Fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50k years"

hsavit1 — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:03:23 +0000

You don’t understand the enormous immediate risk of climate change if you think that AGI is a comparable risk. Climate change is now and is killing people every day

New comment by hsavit1 in "GPT-4o"

hsavit1 — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:52:36 +0000

yea, we don't want or need this kind of "magic" - because it's hardly magic to begin with, and it's more socially and environmentally destructive than anything else.

New comment by hsavit1 in "Doomscroller.xyz"

hsavit1 — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 17:43:05 +0000

have you raised any capital for this project? i think a lot of incubators could be interested in helping you enshittify this idea.

New comment by hsavit1 in "I asked ChatGPT to summarize 14501 books in 5 bullet points. Here's the result"

hsavit1 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 18:43:22 +0000

I see that the first book reviewed is "Rich dad poor dad" by Robert Kiyosaki. He's a known grifter that has been wrong on nearly everything over the last 15 years. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38877126