Hacker News: jcmontx

New comment by jcmontx in "Reforming English Spelling"

jcmontx — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:39:20 +0000

As a native Spanish speaker, I agree

New comment by jcmontx in "Reforming English Spelling"

jcmontx — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:30:59 +0000

Rough, tough, though. One single letter change each time and you get a completely different sound. It's atrocious.

New comment by jcmontx in "Local Wikipedia: Wikipedia, but only for things a half hour walk from you"

jcmontx — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:50:49 +0000

That's so cool, I've only got 3 articles nearby haha. I live in rural Argentina

New comment by jcmontx in "Crystal 1.22.0"

jcmontx — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:47:13 +0000

It's another tool in the belt. You don't have to be an AH about it

New comment by jcmontx in "Tsrs: A Port of TypeScript to Rust"

jcmontx — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:17:03 +0000

Wouldn't that eat the whole ram?

New comment by jcmontx in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

jcmontx — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:10:52 +0000

How much money did you spend in getting all of the hours + licenses?

New comment by jcmontx in "The Mathocalypse"

jcmontx — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 11:49:15 +0000

AI can not clean toilets. I guess that's what's left for humans!

New comment by jcmontx in "GPT‑6 and Intelligent UI for everyone"

jcmontx — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:32:03 +0000

sounds like JEV with extra steps

New comment by jcmontx in "JetBrains reports revenue growth, net financial loss for 2025"

jcmontx — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:35:31 +0000

IDEs are on a steep decline, so not so surprising. I've disabled most code extensions from vscode and find myself using multiple terminals and the built in git diff UI. I barely see the code _as a whole_, only care about the _code_ changes.

edit: added the extra words + I must mention I'm talking about legacy maintenance projects

New comment by jcmontx in "An algorithmic failure beneath the secret ballot"

jcmontx — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 11:42:31 +0000

For the counting process you have "auditors" from all the different parties. We have that system in Argentina and it works pretty well in terms of electoral transparency. People's choices are another thing.

New comment by jcmontx in "We ported the original Doom to SQL"

jcmontx — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:38:04 +0000

I hated debugging and fixing stored procedures for legacy 2000s apps in de 2010s. The SP code wasn't treated like regular code, it wasn't source controlled. Mostly bad memories from having business logic inside the DB instead of having it all inside the code.

New comment by jcmontx in "Holes (1996-2025)"

jcmontx — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:02:09 +0000

I could have gone my whole life without thinking this

New comment by jcmontx in "13 Months Sober (2025)"

jcmontx — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:20:10 +0000

The low alcohol beer might be a good middle-ground for me. Thank you for the recommendation.

Shane cracks me up every time lol

New comment by jcmontx in "13 Months Sober (2025)"

jcmontx — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:09:14 +0000

I wish I could stop drinking. I'm not a big drinker, but I will have 1-2 drinks two times a week. Maybe once every two months I meet with friends and have a proper binge-drinking. It's not so bad it's a problem, I'm not 20 anymore and I can see it affecting me long term.

I've tried stoping a few times. I managed up to 3 months. But social gatherings kill me, everything is better/funnier with a glass of wine.

I wish there was an alternative pill that made me feel the same way as two beers with no health impact.

New comment by jcmontx in "I Switched to Brave Browser"

jcmontx — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:24:23 +0000

I use Arc, I tried moving to Zen and to Safari, but I always end up coming back for the goddamn Google Meet PIP feature

New comment by jcmontx in "What About Rails?"

jcmontx — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:55:12 +0000

I really like Rails and I don't see the controversy in anything DHH said. The strongest points for Rails always were productivity, developer ergonomics and strong conventions. Two out of three are now neutral in the age of agentic coding.

Strong conventions are my selling point to still choose rails for green-field projects in 2026. But I'm talking about LoB or CRUD-heavy apps. I wouldn't have chosen rails for an SMTP server. The HEY architecture was based on the productivity/performance trade-off. That trade-off is no longer worth it, since productivity is through the roof, let's prioritize performance and first class UX (the one you can only achieve in native apps).

In his shoes, I would have made the same decisions before and now.

Regarding the future of Rails. I feel this applies to a lot of other frameworks. The idea of frameworks was always to give devs a set of tools to solve problems faster and better. Tools that resonate with you. That you can find "synergy" with. Now you're not writing any of the code; you're barely even looking at it. So, what's the point of frameworks then? I don't know. Popular ecosystems already have out of the box solutions for almost everything. Rails, Django, Laravel, .NET, JVM and many more are mature enough. You could turn them all to maintenance mode and everything would be just fine. What future lies ahead? No idea.

New comment by jcmontx in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

jcmontx — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:14:27 +0000

Well, an email server is next to the best use case for a low-level language. I'm still choosing Rails (or Laravel or Django) for CRUD apps any day of the week. Rails in particular is great because it's very conventional and AI writes it in an standardised way.

New comment by jcmontx in "Unreal Agent"

jcmontx — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:55:23 +0000

I didn't know, thank you!

New comment by jcmontx in "Unreal Agent"

jcmontx — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:55:33 +0000

Can I use it with my codex sub?

New comment by jcmontx in "The Economics of Open-Weight Inference"

jcmontx — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:00:42 +0000

The problem, IMO, with open-weight models is that you accustom to the capabilities of frontier models too quickly; and downgrading to an open-weight "frontier minus 2" or "frontier minus 3" model is often painful, since they feel way less useful than their newer closed-weights counterpart. To be honest, I don't know any companies using OW models at a large scale for their operations (agents or chat assistants).