Hacker News: jpace121

New comment by jpace121 in "Deno Desktop"

jpace121 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:11:26 +0000

> Why would I use Tauri now?

You’re “backend” isn’t JavaScript.

Ask HN: Side Projects with Meaning

jpace121 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:38:45 +0000

Hi!

I like programming for fun, but most of my projects don’t do anything useful for anyone or make the world a better place even in a small amount.

It would be cool if something I did fit fun did, though. If I could look at something and feel like I helped someone in some way.

The problem is I’m currently not really sure what a project like that would look like…

Dk you have a project like that or have any ideas?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364011

Points: 1

# Comments: 5

New comment by jpace121 in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

jpace121 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 00:57:25 +0000

How late do you think Apple can come to that party and still wind up winning in the end?

Having piles of money when everyone else is lighting it on fire and a brand that would require quite the mistake to ruin gives you a long runway.

Is anyone really profiting from AI yet? I know Google basically saved their search monopoly but any one else?

New comment by jpace121 in "Anduril and Palantir battlefield communication system has flaws, Army memo says"

jpace121 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:32:15 +0000

I would be very surprised if it was publicly available.

New comment by jpace121 in "The obstacles to scaling up humanoids"

jpace121 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:35:34 +0000

Is the demand there at the price point and reliability levels that are currently possible?

New comment by jpace121 in "School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study"

jpace121 — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:51:07 +0000

That’s a very uncharitable interpretation of what they wrote, and goes outside of how what they wrote is supposed to be interpreted.

The researchers are not claiming that cognitive ability changes would definitely take longer than 21 days to appear, they’re suggesting that that is the next thing to test.

New comment by jpace121 in "Show HN: Container Desktop – Podman Desktop Companion"

jpace121 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:13:41 +0000

I would also encourage people to look at Podman desktop which has pretty good support from Red Hat.

https://podman-desktop.io/

New comment by jpace121 in "Getting into robotics as a software engineer"

jpace121 — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:44:55 +0000

Computer vision based SLAM definitely has use cases and you can definitely make money applying it at the right companies to the right set of problems. Building a whole career around a single technique, any technique, probably is probably not gonna work. You need to be broader than that.

New comment by jpace121 in "Where Is OpenCV 5?"

jpace121 — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 12:36:54 +0000

I’ve worked on plenty of problems where all you need is to find what pixels are a specific color. While I’m sure a NN could be setup for that, why make things harder than they have to be?

New comment by jpace121 in ".NET 8's Best Blazor is not Blazor as we know it"

jpace121 — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 13:22:03 +0000

I’ve found C# pleasant to write in, and I get a bad feeling every time I deal with npm. On the other hand the library support for React is just so much better so I put up with it.

EDIT: I’m not a web dev, the web is just the most consistent UI platform for supporting mobile and some desktop we have now so that definitely influences my opinion.

New comment by jpace121 in "Subdomain.center – discover all subdomains for a domain"

jpace121 — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 13:00:03 +0000

I looked before I started using Let’s Encrypt for some internal stuff and there really isn’t a way to use name constraints in a practical way with modern web browsers at this point. If you’re not using a browser, things get a lot easier, but for browsers you sort of got to suck up that you can’t really avoid the “big” internet.

New comment by jpace121 in "Why did Google Brain exist?"

jpace121 — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 23:21:44 +0000

I don’t think it’s really the opposite opinion.

To pick on the game of Go as an example, the insight from the Bitter Lesson is the best method to use for Go is probably going to be the most broad method that abuses the magic of brute force the most, compared to a method that really encodes the best existing strategies of Go.

I think what OP is referring to and what I’ve observed is that in some fields you have to have a certain amount of expertise to just understand the rules of the game, and there are a lot of applications where someone approaching a problem with the goal of applying ML can’t quite get over the hump of understanding all the rules.

New comment by jpace121 in "Inkscape is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration"

jpace121 — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 11:22:28 +0000

The examples all look reasonably modern, to the extent that you could use good C++11 without fighting the library.

New comment by jpace121 in "How big should a programming language be?"

jpace121 — Sat, 25 Mar 2023 17:57:57 +0000

You could get a C++ job. One of the issues with C++ is most people using it for anything useful only need to know some particular subset, only actually know that subset, and then get bit when the subset they know changes.

New comment by jpace121 in "Gitea 1.19"

jpace121 — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 17:17:35 +0000

Forgejo currently is only applying branding changes and currently plans on being a soft fork. I think it’s existence is a good thing for the ecosystem (if Gitea the Company did something wonky, there will be an organized group already doing releases ready to go), but I’m not sure there is a huge benefit in running it, at this juncture.

New comment by jpace121 in "“If you use React, you should be using a React framework.”"

jpace121 — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:33:39 +0000

Are there frameworks people recommend that don’t require JavaScript on the backend?

New comment by jpace121 in "Zoom app dock: Congratulations, your app has apps in it now"

jpace121 — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:42:09 +0000

“ Wow is the web a weird application delivery mechanism where people are writing applications and then essentially compiling them down to binaries using WebAssembly, but weirdly shoehorning it into a hypertext framework”

I thought this was an interesting quote from the article that relates back to something I’ve been thinking about as I’ve started to look at writing apps that run any where and realized that forces you into writing a web app, but web apps kind of suck because at the end of the day you’re really writing a website not an app…

I wonder if you could at this point reinvent the browser so it was specialized for web apps not sites, and what that would even look like.

New comment by jpace121 in "Can Lego City Powered Up trains be automated?"

jpace121 — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 17:18:41 +0000

I was not planning on buying a train set but now I may be… This looks way too fun.

New comment by jpace121 in "The Rune Programming Language"

jpace121 — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 14:21:21 +0000

This. Google’s policy is kind of dumb (I write a lot of stuff for fun that no one wants the ownership of… The primary value is I learned something that I can use later on something important),but pretty much any experimental thing some one at Google works on will wind up there even on their free time.

New comment by jpace121 in "Podman Release v4.3.0"

jpace121 — Thu, 27 Oct 2022 03:24:51 +0000

Podman implemented Dockers REST API as part of either the Podman 3 or 4 release (whichever one is in Debian stable), and I’ve been able to use docker-compose with it since then.

Podman has fairly good support for k8s deployment configurations, which I’ve used as well, if you’re a k8s shop, but I understand there are a lot of places that have standardized on compose for development.