Hacker News: igl

New comment by igl in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

igl — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 06:59:48 +0000

I used to be a hardcore Cursor user until I spent more time with the alternatives and cursor has gotten rough on my machine lately: spins up the MBP fans in minutes and drains the battery in an hour or two on the go. The harness is great, but eventually someone will build something equally good that is not vibe coded to death.

New comment by igl in "Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral"

igl — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:46:39 +0000

I think the fact that a guns primary function is harm and murder and AI is a word prediction engine makes a huge difference.

New comment by igl in "Thank HN: You helped save 33k lives"

igl — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:30:32 +0000

First time seeing this. Really moving story.

I just set up a monthly donation and had one thought: the way to donate monthly feels a bit too hidden right now (did a ctrl+f search to find the footer link).

Much love to all of you!

New comment by igl in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

igl — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:34:20 +0000

Founders can choose how to get paid, so this mostly feels like optics and support for YCs stablecoin bets. Most startups will just need to dump this into a bank to pay salaries and vendors.

New comment by igl in "Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB"

igl — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:28:46 +0000

The willingness to keep backing his companies, despite his political trajectory, is honestly hard to understand.

New comment by igl in "Give Me Back My Monolith"

igl — Wed, 13 Mar 2019 22:27:23 +0000

People create their opinion from what they read in blog posts like this rather than their own experience. Take the right tool for the job - over.

New comment by igl in "A Front End Does Not Have to Be Rich"

igl — Mon, 11 Mar 2019 20:10:52 +0000

Going back to the early 2000s with freemarker/twig/mustache is what he means I guess? Nextjs and Gatsby are what they are for very good reasons and backend apis can be written in whatever you please these days... Why would you consider using those dinosaurs again? When that is all you and your team is comfortable with?

New comment by igl in "How NoSQL forced the evolution of a scalable relational database"

igl — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 07:55:38 +0000

This is a very blunt statement and overvalues hstore. Keys AND values in hstore are and can only be text strings.

New comment by igl in "Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js"

igl — Sat, 23 Sep 2017 19:18:45 +0000

My beef with software patents is bigger than my dislike of the Facebook institution. I think something like a weak patent clause would be nice for FOSS projects but it's not explored by many so far.

Interestingly more people seem blatently annoyed that their employer forbids them to use e.g. React and not about what the license actually means.

New comment by igl in "Announcing CoffeeScript 2"

igl — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:07:55 +0000

Everything is an expression. Including if statements. There is no need of such syntax abominations.

New comment by igl in "German Unemployment Declines as Economy Poised for More Growth"

igl — Wed, 31 May 2017 16:18:39 +0000

Lies. Merkels government just changed how the number is calculated. They created programs for unemployed (1 euro jobber, "Aufstocker") and removed them from the statistic.

They still receive social support but are not "fully unemployed"

http://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/arbeitslose-statistik-100.htm... (german)

The growing income inequality tells the real story.

New comment by igl in "Apollo Client 1.0: A flexible, community-focused JavaScript GraphQL client"

igl — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 22:24:18 +0000

My favorites are the collection of functions offered by the graphql-tools package. Like composing your schema from strings instead of the verbose JSON definition. The mocking is also neat.

Apollo is really just a tool-box of a lot neat little things that you can put together or omit. Check out their other packages beside apollo-client.

New comment by igl in "JSON Web Tokens should be avoided"

igl — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:45:04 +0000

Oh man.

Proponents say critics dont offer alternatives at the same time they always literally 'reverse' engineered sessions if you dig deep enough.

I give up. JWT is just a hip thing to do right now. :(

New comment by igl in "JSON Web Tokens should be avoided"

igl — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 20:25:05 +0000

So there is a db roundtrip involved? Like a inverted session. Whats the point of using jwt then?

New comment by igl in "Ask HN: Will front end development ever move away from JavaScript?"

igl — Sun, 12 Mar 2017 20:28:10 +0000

Do you think java is elegant or do you think ocaml is elegant?

Google built Dart once as a alternative and it did not make it into the Browser.

Are JS frameworks not simple? I really want to know how you feel about Spring or Magento.

New comment by igl in "15 years trying to make everyone separate HTML, JavaScript, CSS – and then"

igl — Tue, 20 Dec 2016 09:08:12 +0000

() = empty arguments. you can only omit the braces when you have 1 argument. 0 and 2+ require the braces. #tc39

the colon refers to flow and typescripts type annotation "colon something". none-objects are lowercased

New comment by igl in "Interview with the author of React-like Inferno about JavaScript optimisations"

igl — Mon, 12 Dec 2016 22:40:12 +0000

React's event system is one of its strong points. Like with many alternatives, I stopped looking into them when i read "no event system" in the README. Perf is not the single most high priority in a framework.

New comment by igl in "Vitamin pills don't work and may be bad for you"

igl — Sat, 10 Dec 2016 23:56:33 +0000

Hard to believe. We have fortified foods and it should be rather hard to catch a nutrition deficiency, even if your diet solely consists of cheeseburgers (This probably differs from country to country).

Vitamin D can be found in Fish, Egg and it's even added to Milk.

New comment by igl in "Comparing Haskell and Node concurrency performance"

igl — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 12:20:06 +0000

Downvoted ofc. To be more elaborate: Node never claimed to do multithreading or being good at parallel processing. The shocking discovery of this article is:

1) The Author knows little about JS.

2) Picking on a scripting language which has 2 weeks + 2 years of development vs a 25 year old monster that is the playground of the brightest minds in CS, is easy.

Unfortunately the article did also not go into details of how the event loop works or shows how you can break out of the single thread with the tools that ARE available to you. I guess the idea was to write a hype article for Haskell. Here are some more ideas for the author:

Comparing Haskell and C++ type systems.

Comparing Haskell and Clojure functional purity and lazy evaluation.

Comparing Haskell and Java deterministic parallelism.

New comment by igl in "Comparing Haskell and Node concurrency performance"

igl — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 16:35:34 +0000

Comparing apples to oranges