Hacker News: jcmontx

New comment by jcmontx in "Choose Boring Technology (2015)"

jcmontx — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:43:03 +0000

Excellent post. Now, somewhat outdated, and in other ways, more relevant than ever. To whom it may concern: if you need a database, always choose postgresql.

New comment by jcmontx in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

jcmontx — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:00:15 +0000

China is poking the bubble and it might aswell pop it

New comment by jcmontx in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

jcmontx — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:31:09 +0000

they are just js scripts and a manifest for permissions. it's like game-mod scripting but for the web. ask any llm and they'll guide you through

New comment by jcmontx in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

jcmontx — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 16:22:10 +0000

Something the author doesn't mention as a pro for the web is my favorite type of tech: browser extensions. I love web because I can basically customize pretty much everything to my needs.

I have published a few of them in the last few years, and I have tens of them which I haven't published. I use them for tons of different things:

* allowing only text tweets on X

* blocking photos and videos on all Meta products

* blocking explicit content

* customizing exchange rates for online shopping (Argentine peso, you wouldn't get it™)

* having reddit hot as default for the home and subreddits (they been pushing the "best" for a couple years and it's actually trash)

browser extensions have allowed me to regain some of my cognitive sovereignty while being a heavy internet user.

List of Domesticated Animals

jcmontx — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:01:57 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_domesticated_animals

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48738445

Points: 3

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New comment by jcmontx in "Midjourney Medical"

jcmontx — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:20:27 +0000

Let's say you do a diagnostic based on the results of this machine. Later, patient suits and you have to answer for your diagnostic. If the only evidence for your diagnostic is coming from a non-FDA approved machine, you're liable.

New comment by jcmontx in "Ferrari Luce"

jcmontx — Tue, 26 May 2026 00:22:19 +0000

Enzo is rolling on his grave

New comment by jcmontx in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

jcmontx — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:30:54 +0000

FDI is a legit way of increasing an economy's size and health. The fact that Poland created a safe country for foreign investments is great merit.

New comment by jcmontx in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

jcmontx — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:10:01 +0000

x86 is dead to me

New comment by jcmontx in "Am I German or Autistic?"

jcmontx — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:36:05 +0000

64% autistic 31% German

disappointed

New comment by jcmontx in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

jcmontx — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:29:37 +0000

How scary was the test flight? where did you land?

New comment by jcmontx in "Union types in C# 15"

jcmontx — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:39:54 +0000

So they finally took all of the cool features from F#. What's missing? The pipe operator for railway oriented programming?

New comment by jcmontx in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

jcmontx — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:45:19 +0000

Never heard of this game. Is it similar to Warcraft III?

New comment by jcmontx in "Personal Encyclopedias"

jcmontx — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:45:49 +0000

Big shout out to the Mormons, whom have been digitalizing ancient birth certificates all around the world. We got a lot of data from them!

New comment by jcmontx in "Personal Encyclopedias"

jcmontx — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:14:13 +0000

Main family tree from Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In the times of the Virreinato del Río de la Plata.

New comment by jcmontx in "Personal Encyclopedias"

jcmontx — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:48:32 +0000

Extremely cool. I'm into genealogy and can trace my family 10 generations back (250 years) to their arrival to Argentina. Documentation is lost or lacking once you reach Europe, other branches of the family with more recent arrivals to the country are very hard to trace. In part due to mismatching surnames and in part due to the wars.

We have started asking old family members to send us whatsapp audios with tales and things they remember from long-passed away family members; and what was life like in the 1930-40-50s. I want to start organizing all the info and data we have, my father has built a couple family trees, but this wiki format is indeed very promising. I'll keep an eye on this and see if we can use it.

New comment by jcmontx in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

jcmontx — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:19:53 +0000

let's say they hike up the price: as long as the performance increase surpasses a dev salary for less of the cost, it's still worth it.

Do you prefer paying 2 devs 100k a year? or 1 dev + 20-30k in tokens?

New comment by jcmontx in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

jcmontx — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:36:00 +0000

My experience with this library has been underwhelming sadly. I have a better experience going raw with any cli agent

New comment by jcmontx in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

jcmontx — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 10:57:02 +0000

It's really interesting how delusional people here can get when their livelihood depends on it. It's a game changer guys. I've been working professionally for 12 years. Big companies, small companies, freelance, startup CTO nowadays. It's multiplier. It gives me superpowers. If you don't feel the superpowers, you're either missing out or in denial. Embrace agentic coding.

New comment by jcmontx in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

jcmontx — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:51:25 +0000

You guys are definitely missing out. I have the perfect army of mid-level engineers. Using codex lately, my own CPU and ram are the ones holding me back from spinning more and more agents