Hacker News: jdmoreira

New comment by jdmoreira in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

jdmoreira — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:35:16 +0000

Humm... better than Opus 4.6 or 5.4?

What are you using for the frontend? React component libraries?

New comment by jdmoreira in "I Hate Tailwind and Love Bootstrap"

jdmoreira — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:38:18 +0000

Just use DaisyUI

New comment by jdmoreira in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

jdmoreira — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:45:55 +0000

are you seriously comparing AI to tulips? I don't even know what to say. Even if you are very bearish about the technology certainly you can't be this detached from base reality. Yet here we are

New comment by jdmoreira in "Does Where You're Born Matter More Than How Hard You Work?"

jdmoreira — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:56:28 +0000

Talent is evenly distributed, opportunity is not

New comment by jdmoreira in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

jdmoreira — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:14:35 +0000

As a senior engineer if your value add was "accumulated expert knowledge". Then yes, you are in a bad place.

If instead it was building and delivering products / business value. Good judgement, coordination and communication skills, intuition, etc… then you are now way way more leveraged than you ever were and it has never been greater.

New comment by jdmoreira in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

jdmoreira — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:48:15 +0000

Not sure I understand your point. Under WebAuthn / FIDO2 you can't impersonate a RP

Could you explain better?

New comment by jdmoreira in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

jdmoreira — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:32:28 +0000

can be solved with a hybrid model that degrades when the central service is down. No?

New comment by jdmoreira in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

jdmoreira — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:31:50 +0000

Sure... but it should degrade to work when the central services are down.

You should still be able to authenticate with each individual service when the centralised service is down.

There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to login to your bank under these circumstances.

New comment by jdmoreira in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

jdmoreira — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:24:25 +0000

These things should be offline / resilient first right?

Smartcards / YubiKeys.

Never understood the logic for these to be centralised / online.

New comment by jdmoreira in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

jdmoreira — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:52:32 +0000

If you can see the messages unfortunately thats a deal breaker for me. If its encrypted end-to-end than I’m in.

New comment by jdmoreira in "The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning (2023)"

jdmoreira — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:01:40 +0000

This was just standard procedure at university in 2002. Nothing special. It was me and 200 more people. Pretty sure all the exercises were lifted or inspired by The Little Schemer even thought it took me years to learn about that book.

New comment by jdmoreira in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

jdmoreira — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:57:12 +0000

Just price in the externalities and it probably solves itself

New comment by jdmoreira in "The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning (2023)"

jdmoreira — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:17:05 +0000

I mostly learned with pen and paper and tracing in my mind. We were 18 though

New comment by jdmoreira in "The Little Learner: A Straight Line to Deep Learning (2023)"

jdmoreira — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:15:57 +0000

N=1, but I learned scheme first. It was great and I'm doing fine. First scheme then C. Back-to-back.

New comment by jdmoreira in "Ask HN: Junior getting lost"

jdmoreira — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:44:16 +0000

Almost certainly these people know way way more than you and a lot of knowledge is tacit knowledge and cant be explained easily.

Also don't trust anything from college that are not hard provable facts. Just don’t. Trying to learn "best practices" in college is total BS.

For example, I was already quite experienced when I worked with a specific really good older engineer. I knew he was very good but I thought he was wrong about some things and I was right. We had some debates. I kept thinking about those things for years. Now I know he was right about all those things. Yeah, he was right about everything I remember disagreeing with at the time. Took me years to figure it out.

So here is an advice to my younger self: Shut up and put in the thousands and thousands of hours first.

New comment by jdmoreira in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"

jdmoreira — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:22:59 +0000

Because the world has already been built for the "human" interface

New comment by jdmoreira in "Why I don't have fun with Claude Code"

jdmoreira — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:21:06 +0000

It was never really about typing the code for me, or solving trivial tasks in isolation.

It was always about building the right abstractions, great api surfaces, growing codebases without having them collapse under their own weight, etc.

I still get to do that everyday with claude code and arguably faster. I just have to be on top of it at all times. So I've kept having fun!

What I don't understand is the people that stopped reading and iterating on the code. That's just insanity to me!

New comment by jdmoreira in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

jdmoreira — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:28:08 +0000

If you are an LP a their fund this is what you would expect. Hate the player not the game.

New comment by jdmoreira in "Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK"

jdmoreira — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:55:15 +0000

This is exactly it

New comment by jdmoreira in "Iran report says 16,500 dead in 'genocide under digital darkness'"

jdmoreira — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:38:09 +0000

Maybe the U.S. Second Amendment isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

People should have the ability to resist or overthrow a tyrannical government.

This is what happens when the population has no guns.