Hacker News: jwlake

New comment by jwlake in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

jwlake — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:33:00 +0000

A badly made native app is worse than a well built react-native app. There are plenty of anti-patterns that will ruin your native app.

In stories like this its much more likely that they just got sick of refactoring a big ugly code base so got buy in to throw it all away and starting over and the justification is native. Wait like 5 years and there will be a new react-native corss platform app because the native apps have too much cruft. Assuming we still have human in the loop then.

New comment by jwlake in "Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services"

jwlake — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:28:23 +0000

No one ever audits them.

New comment by jwlake in "Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services"

jwlake — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:27:26 +0000

One could argue that by making benefits hard to access, you under-provision and over-reward. This makes fraud more lucrative getting you into a viscous cycle. Normal people less likely to use benefits and dedicated fraudsters more likely.

New comment by jwlake in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

jwlake — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:56:55 +0000

Unzoned means industrial. A slaughterhouse is MUCH worse than living next to a data center. If you want it zoned residential only do that.

New comment by jwlake in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

jwlake — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:47:44 +0000

Has no one heard of the concept of industrial zoning? When you live next to an industrial zone you get all the consequences. I love how literally all these projects are on shuttered sites of various plants that were presumably louder and more polluting than these new data centers.

New comment by jwlake in "macOS Container Machines"

jwlake — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:56:00 +0000

haven't we had hypervisor.framework for like years now?

New comment by jwlake in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

jwlake — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:23:01 +0000

Its also a teaching machine. There are several classes I had in college I would have killed for ChatGPT to cut through the terrible instruction.

New comment by jwlake in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

jwlake — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:23:44 +0000

I would love a RTX Spark Shield. ;p

New comment by jwlake in "A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft"

jwlake — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:06:19 +0000

It was more fun when people implemented gates. :)

New comment by jwlake in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

jwlake — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:05:21 +0000

2008 was literally people getting mortgages on unrealized gains, and then getting more loans. Even if the market wouldn't support the sale, they borrow against it and then get another load and causing an asset bubble. Its not ancient history.

New comment by jwlake in "A Wayland Compositor in Minecraft"

jwlake — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:25:33 +0000

If its not written with blocks its not real.

New comment by jwlake in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

jwlake — Fri, 22 May 2026 22:20:40 +0000

The point is you should realize your gains before you reinvest the money. Circular borrowing causes asset bubbles. You could collateralize against OTHER assets, but unrealized gains you should be paying taxes on if you are borrowing against them. It's really just closing a loophole. If the loophole is BIG enough, the you could lower the rate for everyone!

New comment by jwlake in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"

jwlake — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:20:24 +0000

Loans against unrealized gains should just be taxed directly as income. Not indirectly creating more loopholes. Same way stock buybacks should be taxed at the same rate as short term capital gains.

New comment by jwlake in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

jwlake — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:08:21 +0000

my m1 max macbook pro 14 has small little divots out of the edge on the right side (not on the left) presuambly because of where my wrist sits when using the track pad. It would be nice it there was some radius on it to not cause that.

New comment by jwlake in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

jwlake — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:06:51 +0000

Whats it look like closed?

New comment by jwlake in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"

jwlake — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:59:37 +0000

ifixit sells just the keyboards, why doesn't that work?

https://www.ifixit.com/products/macbook-pro-14-a2442-a2779-a...

New comment by jwlake in "Swift 6.3"

jwlake — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:29:28 +0000

did they ever add #define? bridging constants from the build system to swift with static NSString * const kConstValue = @XSTR(CONST_VALUE); is soooo annoying.

New comment by jwlake in "Swift 6.3"

jwlake — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:25:30 +0000

nodejs itself doesn't have very many breakages; i have plenty of code that is unchanged from 0.12 to 24. npm is a whole other kettle of fish but I don't think you can blame the core project for the sins of everyone that publishes to the package manager. Python2 -> Python3 on the other hand had a lot of breakage in "standard" code.

New comment by jwlake in "Qite.js – Frontend framework for people who hate React and love HTML"

jwlake — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:05:10 +0000

The "isPresent()" in the example gives me alot of ick. It's confusing why thats not actual javascript.

New comment by jwlake in "Apple Business"

jwlake — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:11:28 +0000

I would expect Apple to actually simplify the problem and not overreach and just do activation / provisioning / deactivation / lock and none of the other stuff MDMs try to do that introduces the complexity.