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New comment by jwxz in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

jwxz — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:49:58 +0000

In the video game Cyberpunk 2077, the "Net" is overrun by rouge AI and eventually humanity has to quarantine itself from them, ironically, using another AI.

I wonder if a similar fate awaits us?

New comment by jwxz in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

jwxz — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:03:29 +0000

That's true, but it's not quite the same thing. The single binary you're referring to is the interpreter and source code packaged together (at least for TS/JS).

If you install too many of these "single binaries" then at some point you would be better off just having a single interpreter and using npm/pip.

By contrast the Rust binary only contains the machine code for this program and can be directly executed.

New comment by jwxz in "Zerostack – A Unix-inspired coding agent written in pure Rust"

jwxz — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:48:52 +0000

I didn't see anyone mention this, but I think having a single binary is much nicer than having a JS (or Python) program sprawled all over your system.

New comment by jwxz in "Show HN: Find the best local LLM for your hardware, ranked by benchmarks"

jwxz — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:26:06 +0000

Hilariously the commit says "delete marketingmd ai slop".

New comment by jwxz in "Understanding the Go Compiler: The Linker"

jwxz — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:35:13 +0000

I found Opus 4.6 to be good at Zig.

I got it to write me an rsync like CLI for copying files to/from an Android device using MTP, all in a single ~45 min sitting. It works incredibly well. OpenMTP was the only other free option on macOS. After being frustrated by it, I decided to try out Opus 4.6 and was pleasantly surprised.

I later discovered that I could plug in a USB-C hard drive directly into the phone, but the program was nonetheless very useful.

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

jwxz — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:59:34 +0000

~$500 for hosting that site feels insane to me [0]. I feel like a single $10 VPS could handle that load.

[0] https://github.com/ethanniser/NextFaster?tab=readme-ov-file#...

New comment by jwxz in "Review of Mullvad VPN"

jwxz — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:07:28 +0000

Funnily I had the opposite issue. I quit Nord and somehow I was still connected to the VPN. Luckily I caught it before I opened up anything personal.

I occasionally run this just to make sure, especially when using an unfamiliar service:

  curl ipinfo.io

New comment by jwxz in "The Rules of Programming (2023)"

jwxz — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 18:45:40 +0000

> code the worst-possible solution

This is also a great way to stop procrastinating and start projects.

Relevant quote:

"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin!" - Horace

New comment by jwxz in "Does “building in public” work?"

jwxz — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:47:21 +0000

> In the most lucrative enterprise market, the "good enough" bar is even lower than in the much less lucrative consumer market because the people who will actually have to use your tech aren't the ones buying it.

This reminds me of the time Citi lost $900 million due to terrible software [0].

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-17/citi-c...

New comment by jwxz in "Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round"

jwxz — Tue, 09 Feb 2021 12:08:04 +0000

Exactly, and I quite like the ui of reddit's mobile website.

I've switched over to https://teddit.net both on desktop and mobile.

New comment by jwxz in "Show HN: Speedreader.xyz – train yourself to read faster"

jwxz — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:30:58 +0000

I built this to help me read faster. There are many similar websites but they require too much clicking. By contrast mine only requires you to paste the text.

I use this to read (mostly long form) articles that I sort of find interesting, but not interesting enough to invest time slowly reading it. I do not use it to read books.

I can currently read around 500 WPM using this, which is a huge improvement for me because I remember a time when 250 WPM was too fast for me.

For more information regarding speed reading please look here :

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2015/01/19/speed-reading-re...

Show HN: Speedreader.xyz – train yourself to read faster

jwxz — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 17:26:44 +0000

Article URL: https://speedreader.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25623197

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by jwxz in "Ask HN: Looking for a simple web hosting solution"

jwxz — Thu, 16 Apr 2020 18:58:41 +0000

> upload files; start server from bash

That's pretty much it. They give you a server you can do whatever you want with.

The 'droplets' are billed by the hour so you could try it for a few pennies. I don't think you even need to spend any of your own money. I've seen referrals that give you credit for signing up.

> Would you recommend them?

I would. The only thing you should watch out for is not going over your bandwidth limit, which only applies to outbound traffic.