<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jilles</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jilles</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:23:03 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jilles" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Do your own writing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author articulates perfectly what I think too. I’d recommend for everyone to read Writing to Learn by William Zinsser. It’s an incredible book showing that you can learn anything by writing about it.<p>With an LLM doing all the writing for you, you learn close to nothing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:33:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579983</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579983</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47579983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Protobuffers Are Wrong (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The best way to get your point across is by starting with ad-hominem attacks to assert your superior intelligence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:58:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45140034</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45140034</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45140034</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I fed the same prompt to Deepseek:<p>By 2025, the integration of AI has become so seamless that its practically invisible, operating as the central nervous system for everything from urban infrastructure to personalized healthcare. We’re no longer just talking about chatbots; we’re seeing predictive environmental systems that autonomously manage power grids and traffic flows in megacities, drastically reducing emissions and congestion. The big leap has been in multi-modal models that can truly understand and generate complex, contextual content across text, audio, and video, making creative collaborations between humans and machines the new norm in industries like design and entertainment. Its a shift from tools to partners.<p>On the business side, the adoption of small-scale, hyper-efficient AI running locally on devices has exploded, adressing major early concerns about data privacy and cloud dependency. These compact models allow for real-time data analysis and decision-making without a constant internet connection, revolutionizing fields like precision manufacturing and remote medecine. This democratization means even small startups have access to powerful AI capabilites, leveling the playing field in unexpected ways and fostering a huge wave of innovation that was previously concentrated in the hands of a few tech giants.<p>It did a pretty good job with its (should be it's), adressing (should be addressing), medecine (medicine) and capabilites (should be capabilities)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:35:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45109385</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45109385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45109385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "You don't want to hire "the best engineers""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is really well written. Great read.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:38:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104521</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104521</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45104521</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Bear is now source-available"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I didn’t know this was a Django application. Love that. Totally understand the author’s point of view, too.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 15:04:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093231</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093231</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45093231</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "A blog does not need “analytics”"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I enjoy looking at my blogs analytics. It does make my day better knowing that people find my writing useful and read my posts. Do I need it? Probably not. But I don’t “need” a blog either. I just like it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:35:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074567</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074567</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45074567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "That boolean should probably be something else"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>* led status: on, off, non-responsive
* button status: idle, pressing, pressed<p>I'm with you by the way, but you can often think of a way to use enums instead (not saying you should).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:25:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45052560</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45052560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45052560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It very much is a brainer</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:30:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919237</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44919237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "The Effect of Noise on Sleep"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There might be some other factors in that situation that prevent one from having a restful night.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:10:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397391</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Gemini CLI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone else think it's interesting all these CLIs are written in TypeScript? I'd expect Google to use Go.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:16:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378977</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44378977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Writing documentation for AI: best practices"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's similar for writing code. Suddenly people are articulating their problems to the LLM and breaking it down in smaller sub-problems to solve....</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 18:09:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44312049</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44312049</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44312049</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Snorting the AGI with Claude Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does this compare with Apples or Orange?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 00:32:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44294626</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44294626</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44294626</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "OpenAI: Scaling PostgreSQL to the Next Level"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been using the Django ORM for years and it feels like an amazing piece of software.<p>But recently I started using sqlc. Which turns my queries into Go (simplification). I think this is actually the sweet spot between ORM and rawdogging SQL.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 14:40:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073335</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44073335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Zod 4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I see a repository with many files "updated 4 years ago" I'm usually inclined to think it's abandoned.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 15:52:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031122</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031122</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44031122</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Greek Woman Divorces Husband After ChatGPT 'Predicted' He Would Cheat on Her"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not sure if this is a controversial opinion but if the wife decides to divorce the husband based on what ChatGPT says, perhaps the husband is better off.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 18:34:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873271</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43873271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "The best programmers I know"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Most projects should follow diataxis and we’d be in a lot less pain</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2025 22:39:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638790</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638790</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638790</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Show HN: JavaScript PubSub in 163 Bytes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bingo! Having tons of `CustomEvents` with arbitrary handlers gets unwieldy. One way we "solved" this is by only allowing custom events in a `events.ts` file and document them pretty extensively.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:45:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548180</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43548180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>PortfolioSlice. It’s a website where you can share your investment portfolio and its asset allocations. Then other people can just follow that with an easy to use cash divider.<p><a href="https://portfolioslice.com/" rel="nofollow">https://portfolioslice.com/</a><p>It currently just has my portfolio that I use (Innovation and Global Growth) and some other generated ones. I wanted to try out SvelteKit and Svelte to replace my Google Sheet into something cooler. Not sure if I want to monetize this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2025 21:24:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527801</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "The Frontend Treadmill"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been doing React for about 10 years. Just started playing with Svelte 5 a few days ago.<p>It's so simple to work with. Built a simple stock allocation app and what surprised me most was the bundle size... 9kb (gzip). That's better than any other framework I am aware of. That's even smaller than htmx which is somewhat "anti-js"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:14:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427664</link><dc:creator>jilles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427664</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427664</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jilles in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you have to explain why something is not ambiguous it is by definition ambiguous.</p>
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