Hacker News: jfvinueza

New comment by jfvinueza in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

jfvinueza — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 08:03:07 +0000

having it include the word App is genius

New comment by jfvinueza in "Music for Programming"

jfvinueza — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:20:57 +0000

Radio Paradise has a fantastic high-rhythm, excepcionally-curated, sophisticated yet not too extravagant jazz channel called Beyond https://radioparadise.com/listen/channels/beyond

It is pretty much ideal for, as Larry Wall once said, letting music "wash over you" while coding https://youtu.be/SKqBmAHwSkg?si=_vHvP8Ij9lacwhFk

New comment by jfvinueza in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

jfvinueza — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:31:47 +0000

Same experience. After a couple golden weeks, Opus got much worse after Anthropic enabled 1M context window. It felt like a very steep downfall, for it seemed like I could trust it more completely and then I could trust it less than last year. Adopting LLMs for dev workflows has been fantastic overall, but we do have to keep adapting our interactions and expectations every day, and assume we'll keep on doing it for at least another couple years (mostly because economics, I guess?)

New comment by jfvinueza in "Facebook is cooked"

jfvinueza — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 04:54:48 +0000

Why do we put up with this. It's not onlyfans: it's facebook.com. For an user to register and then by default receive this content it's treacherous and inmoral.

New comment by jfvinueza in "The Myth of the ThinkPad"

jfvinueza — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:06:49 +0000

Typing this on a X1 gen 6 on my home; paid $230 for it a couple months ago. My impression is that it's a modern, perfectly adequate notebook, if a bit unexciting. But maybe that's because I'm an spoiled child, because I haven't thought for _one second_ how is it that they've made a multicore processor, several gigabytes of random access memory, a fairly decent well-lit keyboard and such a nice matte screen fit into this light, rather elegant device. I mean, for a laptop. I understand Lenovo, those greedy bastards, are the ones who assembled it in interest of achieving their own quarter projections, but now that I think of it, I'm sure there _several_ soulless corporations involved on it running the way it does! Intel is inside, that's for certain, but just ponder about the conditions, and for what financial purpose was tht wireless chip manufactured? What about that screen, huh! How was the lithium in the battery mined? Where? By whom? They weren't doing it _for me_, that I can acknowledge, and yet here I am. Typing on it. Hot garbage. Actually kind of liking it? Is it because I feel more at home here, in Void Linux, than on the Mac OS, even if it's so absolutely unnatural for mammal to "feel" such things in regard to, uh, process supervision and package management? Look, I'm not going to go full-on zen and start rambling about "you" being no more than a mundane abstract construct, but insofar as we agree on our individuation I can very much assure you that this Thinkpad, right now, exists for my benefit, and even though I have set boundaries on myself on developing a sentimental relationship with it (which kinda happened with an X220, I was younger then), even though its assamblage has required thousands years of avarice, violence and rapaciousness (as well of bits of love and care, for how they were all these person fed?) as an end product, for two hundred bucks, it is pretty fucking miraculous, and I myself am especially grateful for all those saccharine videos narrow-mindedly expressing their praises for it.

New comment by jfvinueza in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

jfvinueza — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:33:11 +0000

https://toronja.co

New comment by jfvinueza in "8-bit Boléro"

jfvinueza — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:35:29 +0000

so good

New comment by jfvinueza in "Why effort scales superlinearly with the perceived quality of creative work"

jfvinueza — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 04:01:27 +0000

maybe if you had put up more effort polishing it it wouldn't have hit the front page :)

New comment by jfvinueza in "Notes on switching to Helix from Vim"

jfvinueza — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:56:43 +0000

I've been using Helix daily for about three years, and it has crashed about five times. It is very, very rare for it to SEGFAULT.

New comment by jfvinueza in "Framework Laptop 16"

jfvinueza — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:33:06 +0000

the HHKB studio has a trackpoint as well

New comment by jfvinueza in "It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA"

jfvinueza — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:11:51 +0000

The thing about SPAs is that computation can be done in the customer's machine. That usually makes it worse for everyone, both devs and users (although sometimes it doesn't). I personally believe that we can create better experiences routing more pages with more imagination, but at times this industry is quite vocal on what "user expectations" are.

New comment by jfvinueza in "Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004"

jfvinueza — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:55:16 +0000

Great article, great website, well done. Don't remember the last time I looked at that PowerBook G4. It is indeed _gorgeous_.

New comment by jfvinueza in "Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?"

jfvinueza — Sat, 10 May 2025 03:40:01 +0000

registered in 2007

my favorite place in the internet

New comment by jfvinueza in "Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court"

jfvinueza — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 04:49:47 +0000

What has actually changed in the last 13 years regarding Whatsapp? Video. And I believe that's the reason why anyone hasn't actually challenged them regarding messaging: you can build a similar application with similar features with a rather small group of people (not saying it's easy, but it's feasible). But handling those pentabytes of bandwith shared every day? Actually _promoting_ the use of DIY video as the preferred communication media? That's something you can't do as an small shop. And that's, I think, why you cannot compete. I decided to quit Whatsapp, which in Latinamerica is quite an outrageous move: that application is the communication channel for EVERYTHING: all families, all schools, all neighborhoods. I did it because I think Meta's main metric is actually hostile to their users: they want as much of your time as they can get from you, and they'll use are sorts of psychological weaponry to keep you inside. They were actually vocal about it in the past. There's zero reason to trust them. But why is it that no one has come up with a true alternative (although props to Signal)? Well, there's the network effect, for sure. They also employ very good engineers. But I believe the true reason is scale: it didn't use to be that way, but infrastructure costs are now inmense.

New comment by jfvinueza in "Z-Library Helps Students to Overcome Academic Poverty, Study Finds"

jfvinueza — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 02:23:05 +0000

If you don't have a laptop, the place you live in / study at probably doesn't have a good public library.

New comment by jfvinueza in "Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks"

jfvinueza — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:16:49 +0000

The article mentions how deeply compressed the files we played were back then, but I'm pretty sure nowadays it's even worse.

New comment by jfvinueza in "All possible plots by major authors (2020)"

jfvinueza — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 21:31:19 +0000

Funny, thanks. This is another very fun one in the same spirit:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/what-your-favorite-sad-d...

New comment by jfvinueza in "Ask HN: Do AI-generated images ruin technical posts for anyone else?"

jfvinueza — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 18:29:35 +0000

soullessness

that's ai generated content main trait

New comment by jfvinueza in "Zed on Linux Is Here"

jfvinueza — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:59:27 +0000

so you feel offended by this

New comment by jfvinueza in "Small claims court became Meta's customer service hotline"

jfvinueza — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 23:34:15 +0000

tools to be entertained lol