Hacker News: joduplessis

New comment by joduplessis in "Midjourney Medical"

joduplessis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:57:55 +0000

This looks remarkably dystopian.

New comment by joduplessis in "UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts"

joduplessis — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:38:37 +0000

It is, of course, wild that people are saying "just use a VPN"... in the context of the UK.

New comment by joduplessis in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

joduplessis — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:29:08 +0000

I really wish seemingly intelligent people would stop using the abstraction analogy (like the article does). The key word is: determinism. Every level of abstraction (inc. power tools, C, etc.) added a deterministic layer you can rely on to more effectively do whatever it is that you're doing - same result, every time. LLM's use natural language to describe programming and the result is varied at the very best (hence agents, so we can brute force the result instead). I think the real moat is becoming the person who can actually still program.

New comment by joduplessis in "The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ"

joduplessis — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:18:10 +0000

Spotify DJ is terrible - just like their Apple TV app (which is perpetually buggy). However, their radio mix feature is so good that it's become the #1 reason I can't switch.

New comment by joduplessis in "Thinking hard burns almost no calories but destroys your next workout"

joduplessis — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:40:23 +0000

Quadruple espresso + some good deathcore solves this pretty nicely for me.

New comment by joduplessis in "Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use"

joduplessis — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:02:25 +0000

A Figma competitor is a really good thing - many people are waiting to jump ship for a decent competitor. However, for the sake of longevity & lawsuits, maybe tweak the UI a little bit. Just to make it not look exactly like Figma. Well done though!

New comment by joduplessis in "Wilson Lin on FastRender: a browser built by parallel agents"

joduplessis — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:57:52 +0000

I wonder if we're heading to a situation where agent written code will function as something distinct, like bytecode.

New comment by joduplessis in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

joduplessis — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 08:53:52 +0000

Yup. Unfortunately common I think - not just with UI components. Occam's razor is sometimes only for others.

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

joduplessis — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:54:22 +0000

"I'm in the Empire Business"

New comment by joduplessis in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

joduplessis — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:24:02 +0000

I wish Europe would just push back. More than what they are currently. There is so much potential there, but somehow the EU all look at the US as some form of idealogical father figure. Excuse the hyperbolic-talk.

New comment by joduplessis in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

joduplessis — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 05:38:51 +0000

Recently I've put Claude/others to use in some agentic workflows with easy menial/repetitive tasks. I just don't understand how people are using these agents in production. The automation is absolutely great, but it requires an insane amount of hand-holding and cleanup.

New comment by joduplessis in "Indifference is a power (2015)"

joduplessis — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:21:06 +0000

I think a lot of modern day stoicism is stoicism-without-hardship. And I think hardship is necessary for stoicism - otherwise all you have is determined detachment, which is something else entirely.

New comment by joduplessis in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

joduplessis — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:06:20 +0000

Really like the forthrightness.

New comment by joduplessis in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

joduplessis — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:16:44 +0000

I'm commenting on the article, and the first point in the article doesn't sound like search or infra. Maybe read that before assuming things. And why would it be "logically flawed"?

New comment by joduplessis in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

joduplessis — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:50:53 +0000

oh shit. actually, yea

New comment by joduplessis in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

joduplessis — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:45:35 +0000

Privacy, as well as overall product experience. Btw, I didn't just mention Fastmail.

New comment by joduplessis in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

joduplessis — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:42:38 +0000

> are quickly catching up.

If you were Yahoo a few years before Google it would sound the same.

New comment by joduplessis in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

joduplessis — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 18:40:15 +0000

> 1. The best engineers are obsessed with solving user problems.

Complete bullshit. Sorry, but the reason why people use Google is because of the ecosystem + value proposition. Google Drive & Calendar are some of the most outdated pieces of SaaS software that only gets used because of the greater ecosystem they live in - and price. They (along with the other Google products) are also some of the poorest designed user interfaces online. Let's cut the crap for once here. If I were Google I would be worried because companies like Fastmail, Notion & Proton are quickly catching up.

New comment by joduplessis in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

joduplessis — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:36:22 +0000

> put in my two weeks yesterday and honestly, I hope they sue me.

I smell some bullshit.

New comment by joduplessis in "Show HN: I remade my website in the Sith Lord Theme and I hope it's fun"

joduplessis — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:43:59 +0000

Lol, amazing! Love the voice.