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New comment by jnpnj in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

jnpnj — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:09:55 +0000

This kinda puts it in words, most of us naturally expected 2025- LLMs to be able to generate OSS / demo / high craft code. Not messy commercial one.

New comment by jnpnj in "The cult of vibe coding is insane"

jnpnj — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:06:40 +0000

long ago, wordpress plugins were often a proper mess

New comment by jnpnj in "The 1987 game “The Last Ninja” was 40 kilobytes"

jnpnj — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:48:44 +0000

Long ago working for a retail store chain, I made some excel DSL to encode business rules to update inventory spreadsheets. While coding I realized that their excel template had a bunch of cells with whitespace in them on row 100000. This forced excel to store the sparse matrix for 0:100000 region, adding 100s of Kb for no reason. Multiplied by 1000s of these files over their internal network. Out of curiosity I added empty cell cleaning in my DSL and I think I managed to fit the entire company excel file set on a small sd card (circa 2010).

New comment by jnpnj in "Sheets: Terminal based spreadsheet tool"

jnpnj — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:18:20 +0000

pretty cool, most of the time I don't want to spin emacs org-table nor google sheets for a quick table

New comment by jnpnj in "Sheets Spreadsheets in Your Terminal"

jnpnj — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:17:23 +0000

there are some videos about quattro in those days and i was sincerely surprised how featured and advanced it was

the ratio of space / cpu / capabilities (beside the network part) is something that reaches deep in my brain

New comment by jnpnj in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

jnpnj — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:15:29 +0000

Made me look for the first pictures of earth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_images_of_Ea...

- first video listed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1946-11-21_White_Sands_NM...

quite amazing

New comment by jnpnj in "Working on Products People Hate"

jnpnj — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:27:46 +0000

thanks a lot for the story. I used to spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to create work groups that didn't force people into hiding their true needs, pride, creativity and efforts... but I really didn't have a minute left to pursue that goal. I know that some groups have healthier culture where people can live and work in a happy mental place .. but it seems they are a rare kind of exception.

New comment by jnpnj in "Working on Products People Hate"

jnpnj — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:44:51 +0000

Along our career we often make compromises. I don't on something hostile to users but I surely stopped having pride on my work, partly to keep collecting a paycheck. Management, team dynamics.. are all influencing the path your product will take. Politics, economics are all factors in this too, few years ago people could jump ship easily, now a lot less so.

I'm coping through HN Hiring threads to find additional gigs that align with the need to contribute for others with less constraints.

New comment by jnpnj in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

jnpnj — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:26:23 +0000

    Location: Paris, FR
    Remote: full remote
    Willing to relocate: no
    Technologies: Python, Typescript, Lisps, React, Django, FastAPI, Postgresql, Gitlab/ci, Docker
    Résumé/CV: https://registry.jsonresume.org/jnpn?theme=elegant (github https://github.com/jnpn)
    Email: johan.ponin.pro@gmail.com
    Schedule: Part-time (10/20h per week)

Senior Fullstack Developer | 12+ Years | Seeking Long-Term Collaboration as Freelance

Currently employed but looking to build relationships with teams that value craftsmanship and velocity. I'm offering competitive rates ($70-90/hr) prioritizing team culture and interesting problems over maximizing income.

What I bring:

- 12+ years shipping production code

- Dev tooling expertise (recently: custom Babel AST analyzers for faster debugging)

- Proactive problem-solver who likes to improve processes

Ideal projects:

- Teams with strong engineering culture who build ambitious things cleanly and fast

- Greenfield development or systematic refactoring

- Bonus: Highly formal/industrial model-driven environments and FP/Logic Programming environments (Clojure, Haskell, Prolog)

New comment by jnpnj in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

jnpnj — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:58:40 +0000

I remember steve yegge complaining about using brain and computing so sell clicks. I wonder how many people would do the same as Sid these days.

New comment by jnpnj in "John Bradley, author of xv, has died"

jnpnj — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:30:50 +0000

it's available on arch aur too, a quick build away and ready to serve

New comment by jnpnj in "John Bradley, author of xv, has passed away"

jnpnj — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:15:36 +0000

Reminds me of the 90s cgi scene, softimage, lightwave3d

New comment by jnpnj in "John Bradley, author of xv, has died"

jnpnj — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:59:31 +0000

saw a screenshot as I was reading this article, made me eager to try it, and it's indeed simple, slick and featured... elegant look and feel for a different age.

New comment by jnpnj in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

jnpnj — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:28:43 +0000

In a democracy, corruption is seen as the moral exception (if not impossibility), when it happens it's a bigger wound than in autocracy where the baseline is lower.

. GotHub All the Things

jnpnj — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:50:43 +0000

Article URL: https://x61.sh/log/2026/03/14032026191148-gothub.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47391746

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by jnpnj in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

jnpnj — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 09:26:34 +0000

Anybody using cursor or antigravity ?

I tried them a bit and often they can infer immense amount of ideas from the immediate source context and suggest paragraph patches semantically close to what I had in mind from just one word.

Saying this as a vi/emacs user who liked to automate via macros, snippets, dynamic overlay inserts and what not.. I still enjoy being sharp on a keyboard and navigating source / branches swiftly but LLM can match and go beyond it seems. (not promoting them, feel free to stay in good old vi command sequences if that's fun for you)

New comment by jnpnj in "Dijkstra's Crisis: The End of Algol and Beginning of Software Engineering (2010) [pdf]"

jnpnj — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:18:20 +0000

> and some of them were actually better in ALGOL 68 than in later languages

not too far from what Tony Hoare said about ALGOL 60 ;)

New comment by jnpnj in "Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English"

jnpnj — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 18:19:56 +0000

Maybe we're entering the non-deterministic applications too. No more mechanical predictable thing.. more like 90% regular and then weird.

Slightly sarcastic but not sure this couldn't become a thing.

New comment by jnpnj in "Rethinking Syntax: Binding by Adjacency"

jnpnj — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:07:14 +0000

Sorry for this sounds absurd, but with diffusion language models, who generate text non-linearly (from the few that I get, they relate terms without a simpler order), I wonder if new syntactic ideas will come up.

New comment by jnpnj in "The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code"

jnpnj — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:35:12 +0000

A blend of nextstep and macos classic somehow.