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New comment by kristiandupont in "Turning music into a chore is how I became a musician (2022)"

kristiandupont — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:43:48 +0000

I've heard this sentiment repeated and I believe it, but at least the purpose of my own blog is to communicate insights I've had. I almost make a point out of not blogging unless I feel that I have something truly interesting to share. It seems that flipping that around would come at a price.

Come think it, I feel that I have on the other side of this many times: I read a post or watch a video that opens up something in my brain and I get a sort of crush on the author. I read everything they write or watch all their videos. For some authors, I retain interest. But for others, where it seems like they produce regularly in order to maintain the frequency, I lose interest.

New comment by kristiandupont in "The brain was not designed for this much bad news"

kristiandupont — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:01:26 +0000

The US suffers from Duverger's Law which means that any vote for anything other than one of the two big parties is wasted. In my country, we currently have 17 different parties, each with different variations of policies. Some are outliers, but many of them have or have had power to some degree over the years. Your cable-tv problem still exists, but to a much smaller extent.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Developers don't understand CORS (2019)"

kristiandupont — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:49:00 +0000

What do you mean? It's a way to mitigate a certain attack vector and as far as I can tell, it works as intended given the circumstances it was designed under.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

kristiandupont — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:08:35 +0000

I don't know whether the author has the competence to theorize about these things or not. What I do know is that understanding the intricacies of how LLM's work does not mean that you are likely to understand or foresee societal implications better than anyone else.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

kristiandupont — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:34:04 +0000

>Making systems fully deterministic ignores the entire purpose of having agents involved.

That sounds backwards to me. I hope that most places don't see "having agents involved" as the ultimate purpose, but will use agents where it makes sense, i.e. when deterministic systems fall short.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

kristiandupont — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:54:42 +0000

>no, at no point would airplanes have been falling out of the sky

The assertion may have been unfounded, but I think it's just as unreasonable to assert the opposite. Bugs have cascading effects and in a sufficiently complex piece of software they can create chaos with unpredictable outcomes.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

kristiandupont — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:45:10 +0000

I am reminded of this course in university where there was a written assignment with a minimum page count. Even at that time, I remember thinking: "If I am able to express everything necessary in just one page, that should give me the absolute top grade!".

New comment by kristiandupont in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

kristiandupont — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:04:51 +0000

The backend for a game is not just an .exe file. It can be a mess of a system that relies on all kinds of services that need maintenance and that one dev who knows how to reset the cache.

I agree that it's shitty that buyers can lose access to a game they bought, but I really struggle to see how this could function practically.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Does anybody like React?"

kristiandupont — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:16:22 +0000

I feel similarly. I really liked React when it came out because compared to the alternatives at the time, it just felt perfect.

I still prefer it over almost everything, including Svelte, Vue and Solid. But I have started using Crank (https://crank.js.org/) which seems a step closer to where I want to end up. However, I have so far only used it for toy projects so I can't speak to how well it will scale, both in terms of performance and DX.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Does anybody like React?"

kristiandupont — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:45:01 +0000

What people mean is obviously that you use JS primitives for looping, branching, conditionals, etc. over some DSL. Everybody knows that the tags are added syntax, there is no conspiracy here.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

kristiandupont — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:28:15 +0000

It reminds me about this video where John Cleese talks about creativity. One of his points is that his work was better than some of his more talented peers simply because he set aside more time to let ideas mature:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

John Cleese on Creativity in Management [video]

kristiandupont — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:27:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb5oIIPO62g

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275360

Points: 17

# Comments: 0

New comment by kristiandupont in "SpaceX S-1"

kristiandupont — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:29:32 +0000

For one thing, just about every airline in the world is a potential customer.

New comment by kristiandupont in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

kristiandupont — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:23:12 +0000

That seems like a very, very long-winded way of accusing them of "embrace, extend, extinguish"? Which is obviously not falsifiable, but just feels a bit trite at this point, IMO.

New comment by kristiandupont in "I am worried about Bun"

kristiandupont — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:32:15 +0000

I personally switched back to vscode as I started using Claude and Opencode more for the AI flow, and I didn't see much added value any longer. Also, I was incredibly frustrated that they decided to hide the close button and finally, there were weird issues with editor groups spawning at unwanted times. They might be able to fix it, but I felt that they were starting to reach the limits of what you can do with a "live fork".

Txtfold – summarize large files for LLMs

kristiandupont — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:08:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kristiandupont/txtfold

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47917887

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by kristiandupont in "App Store sees 84% surge in new apps as AI coding tools take off"

kristiandupont — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:50:41 +0000

..assuming that those roles will be performed by humans, that is.

New comment by kristiandupont in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

kristiandupont — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:49:42 +0000

SQLite is a rock solid piece of software that offers a great value prop: in-process database. For locally running apps (desktop or mobile), this makes perfect sense.

However, I genuinely don't see the appeal when you are in a client/server environment. Spinning up Postgres via a container is a one-liner and equally simple for tests (via testcontainers or pglite). The "simple" type system of SQLite feels like nothing but a limitation to me.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

kristiandupont — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:59:23 +0000

I agree that this isn't a very interesting example, but your statement is: "just asking the model to do a simple transform". If you assert that it understand when you ask it things like that, how could anything it produces not fall under the "already in the model" umbrella?

New comment by kristiandupont in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

kristiandupont — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:00:46 +0000

They may not be, but even so they might find themselves in a prisoner's dilemma. I wouldn't rely in this logic for peace of mind.