Hacker News: incrudible

New comment by incrudible in "Your codebase doesn't care how it got written"

incrudible — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:09:54 +0000

I detest the way ChatGPT writes. You can tell immediately when someone had a rough draft or just an idea thrown into the ChatGPT filter. At least tell it to cut to these chase next time, nobody has time for fluff in this attention economy.

New comment by incrudible in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

incrudible — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:53:06 +0000

Games do not sync data, they literally say what should be drawn on the screen, from scratch, 60+ times per second. They are in control of the entire process. They do not need to deal with DOM manipulation overhead because there is no DOM.

New comment by incrudible in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

incrudible — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:46:34 +0000

If the html+css+js trifecta was any good for creating UI beyond simple forms, we would not have witnessed the cambrian explosion of ways to do it differently. Reactivity itself was an answer to the pain of using MVC and similar approaches in older GUI toolkits not made for the web. The pain did not stop entirely, of course, because GUI is a complicated and ill defined problem - but I don’t look back fondly to programming without it.

New comment by incrudible in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

incrudible — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:51:24 +0000

You can’t effectively dismiss a critique of something missing from the core protocol by declaring it to not be its concern.

New comment by incrudible in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

incrudible — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:56:43 +0000

No such right exists, except in moral terms, but if you are going to invoke morals, the Iranian regime does not hold up well. So no, they do not.

Perhaps you will argue that the US or Israel or Pakistan or North Korea have conducted themselves in a way where they do not have that moral right either, but that is a different debate, and either way it is moot because they do have them.

New comment by incrudible in "Farewell, Rust for web"

incrudible — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:41:43 +0000

The cost of "perfecting" an idea here is ruining the broader ecosystem. It is much much better for an API to be kinda crappy (but stable) for historical reasons than dealing with the constant churn and fragmentation caused by, for example, the fifth revision of that URL routing library that everyone uses because everyone uses it. It only gets worse by the orthogonal but comorbid attitude of radically minimizing the scope of dependencies.

New comment by incrudible in "Dario Amodei – "We are near the end of the exponential" [video]"

incrudible — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:08:16 +0000

Why should it be obvious that this is not what he means? I struggle to think how he could mean anything else.

New comment by incrudible in "Director Gore Verbinski: Unreal Engine is the greatest slip backwards for movie"

incrudible — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:34:03 +0000

VFX is just too damn expensive. It will get much worse with AI tools taking hold. Once these are 80% there but 10x cheaper, they will be (over)used everywhere, despite delivering clearly inferior results.

New comment by incrudible in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

incrudible — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:50:10 +0000

I don't know where you got this narrative from, but it doesn't align with historical accounts at all.

New comment by incrudible in "Replit founder Amjad Masad isn’t afraid of Silicon Valley"

incrudible — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:47:25 +0000

Remember when Germany lost the second world war, lost a third of its territory, had millions ethnically cleansed from said territory and then proceeded to not maintain a goal to wipe Poland off the map (again)?

New comment by incrudible in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

incrudible — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:25:06 +0000

If they had removed Maduro because he's an illegitmate autocrat funneling drugs into the US, I'd be deeply confused, considering he's on their side.

New comment by incrudible in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

incrudible — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:13:06 +0000

Done what, exactly? Abduct Maduro?

New comment by incrudible in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

incrudible — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:11:54 +0000

> Then, he suspended the next election and no more elections have been celebrated ever since.

Yes, but that may have something to do with the fact that his country was invaded and he has been at war ever since. Suspending elections for that reason is legitimate by "our" standards.

New comment by incrudible in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

incrudible — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:04:26 +0000

...except there already is a refugee crisis caused be the regime that is supposed to be toppled, 20% of Venezuelans have left the country.

New comment by incrudible in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

incrudible — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:02:06 +0000

You have to do a lot of mental gymnastics to contend that Zelensky is not the democratically legitimated head of state of Ukraine. For Maduro, it's much simpler: He lost the election, yet he remained in power.

New comment by incrudible in "The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue"

incrudible — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:38:16 +0000

The task is not so monumental that it could not be provided at a reasonable price or financed through advertising, but as long as major players are willing to operate at a loss, you face little choice but to operate at a loss yourself.

New comment by incrudible in "The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue"

incrudible — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:27:30 +0000

It is not a road, it is a runway.

New comment by incrudible in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

incrudible — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:24:28 +0000

…except they are a rather small hardware startup, there is a dozen other rather small hardware startups they did not buy, and there will be more such startups funded just on the news that NVIDIA bought one at a big premium.

New comment by incrudible in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

incrudible — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:15:47 +0000

> Well, that's definitely on you. Arch do warn people to actually read the changelogs if you're going to update/upgrade everything.

"There’s no point in acting surprised about it. All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local planning department in Alpha Centauri for 50 of your Earth years, so you’ve had plenty of time to lodge any formal complaint and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now."

New comment by incrudible in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

incrudible — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:44:28 +0000

> "Arguably much better support"

If you come at it like a sinner asking for penance, the englightened may come to guide, but that's not what I'm talking about. If you to rage, these same people will become inquistors. Rage isn't all about solving a problem, it's about catharsis. It's not so much about technical support, it's about emotional support. A bad design decision (like the GNOME desktop redesign) is not a technical problem. It's not a bug, it's a feature.