Hacker News: joshmarinacci

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Quake – 30th Anniversary Update"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:39:59 +0000

Is this an update for the original quake or do you need one of the newer ones?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

joshmarinacci — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:32:59 +0000

If you were to count the margin of everything it would be 100%. At the end of the day everything is either a resource harvested from the earth or human labor.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Kraid is a now a real compiler"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:40:27 +0000

What devices are likely to benefit from Kraid? Are Arm Mali GPUs mostly in Android phones?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "We Need a National Ballroom"

joshmarinacci — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:10:19 +0000

Nicely done.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Em dashes are amazing"

joshmarinacci — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:58:52 +0000

I am overjoyed with how many commenters we have here who enjoy talking about typography.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

joshmarinacci — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:13:47 +0000

The alternative is what the last five American presidents have done: containment. There's a reason Biden, Obama, Bush, Clinton and Bush didn't start the war that Trump did. This is why.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "What happened to TheNumbers.com"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:06:21 +0000

A change in quantity can become a change in quality.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Codex Micro"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:59:25 +0000

This is just a Macropad, right? All of the smarts are on the PC side. So why is it so expensive?

Why the Metaverse Failed

joshmarinacci — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:27:46 +0000

Article URL: https://josh.earth/posts/metaverse-failed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48711282

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by joshmarinacci in "I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:57:35 +0000

I love that it doesn't feel like every other vibe coded VC backed startup.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Our Achilles Heel"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:26:29 +0000

What was this article about? It described a thing and then gave some examples. No advice. No call to action. Just some rambling. A better question is why is this post on the front page!

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Stdx, Rust's extended standard library"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:02:16 +0000

I like the idea of an extended standard lib for Rust, but coding was never the hard part. The hard part is getting everyone to agree what should be in it. If you can get everyone to agree to an api then the rest can easily be filled in (with or without vibe coding).

New comment by joshmarinacci in "The Field Guide to CSS Grid Lanes"

joshmarinacci — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:05:59 +0000

I love Apple’s efforts to implement web standards and document them well, but I really don’t understand the use for grid lanes. Is there anything I can use it for besides Pinterest clones?

New comment by joshmarinacci in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

joshmarinacci — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:44:32 +0000

That is an incredibly annoying grunge font. And what is the point of the hidden image in the background that reveals under your mouse cursor.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:54:19 +0000

Wow. Maxime’s site is gorgeous.

Thank you

Ask HN: Favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?

joshmarinacci — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:35:00 +0000

After ten years I’m working on a redesign of my personal tech blog. I want to look at some other blogs with good modern design. Of course searching for ‘well designed blogs’ or ‘webdesign 2026’ brings up endless marketing listicles. Even after wading through the crap, the advice is focused on advertising and product centric sites, not prose heavy sites with good typography.

So my question to you is: What are some of your favorite text heavy blogs that are a joy to read?

I don’t mean the content (though that helps too), but rather sites where the actual experience of reading is pleasant. Think: good fonts, sticky headers (or not), well formatted code snippets, and responsive images. Slide in navbars vs inline table of contents.

Thanks, - j

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48466488

Points: 122

# Comments: 31

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Mini Micro Fantasy Computer"

joshmarinacci — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:39:02 +0000

True , but if it had a real ISA underneath then we could write custom emulators for them.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "We let AIs run radio stations"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:54:42 +0000

Didn't this already happen in the late 1990s when the telecom act de-regulated radio ownership?

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

New comment by joshmarinacci in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

joshmarinacci — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:50:29 +0000

I’ve been vibe coding a Figma like clone and it’s fun but slow going. Creating real Photoshop clones is still a ton of work with no monetary payoff.

New comment by joshmarinacci in "A Preview of the Future"

joshmarinacci — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:09:35 +0000

Realtime interaction is magic.