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New comment by kristiandupont in "Process Explorer for macOS"

kristiandupont — Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:33:58 +0000

This feels like a decent place to plug one of my vibe-coded side projects Mac Monitor: https://kristiandupont.github.io/mac-monitor/

I made this mostly because I wanted something to signal to me that the CPU is running wild. With no fan, I often discover this a bit late, so I wanted just a very subtle indicator in the menu bar. I also added a UI in the browser which shows you some details, though nothing near the level of Process Explorer.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Ask HN: Do you still enjoy coding in C++?"

kristiandupont — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 18:27:05 +0000

When I switched from C++ to C# many years ago because of a job, I felt a real ick. Not just because of garbage collection, I remember feeling repulsed by the fact that every class had a "ToString()" method! Bjarne says that the common denominator of all classes is the empty set! But also, an English word, made from letters! Yuck! Everyone knows that you should only ever overload operators because special characters are so much purer!

My C# days are now long gone as well, and I guess when I switched to JS/TS, I was so deep in the filth that I had just surrendered. I will say though, that looking back, I do feel like I was in a bit of a cult. I appreciate abstractions being free or near-free, but it feels like the language sort of wants you to engage in bike shedding.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)"

kristiandupont — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 05:23:40 +0000

Neat!

Somewhat related, I built a browser-based version of my favourite deduction game: https://github.com/kristiandupont/sherlock

New comment by kristiandupont in "Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why"

kristiandupont — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 20:09:30 +0000

Do you have an employer?

New comment by kristiandupont in "AI is dramatically accelerating AI research"

kristiandupont — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 07:37:09 +0000

>I am talking about people starting new projects, which was the subject of this subthread.

The subthread was also about 80-100. This seems like a goal post move.

>The PostgreSQL article was specifically about how the LLMs were incapable of fixing bugs

We must have read different articles. This one does not say that, as best as I can tell: https://www.theregister.com/databases/2026/10/16/postgres-19...

New comment by kristiandupont in "Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen"

kristiandupont — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:02:38 +0000

I expected us to reach RSI when the programming skills went above humans, but this seems like it could get us there much faster

New comment by kristiandupont in "The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks"

kristiandupont — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 05:39:23 +0000

It's obviously a grey zone, but React is generally considered a library more than a framework, and it definitely seems to be among OP's vexations.

New comment by kristiandupont in "The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks"

kristiandupont — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:54:32 +0000

>The current common use case for these frameworks is that most developers cannot write original software

It most certainly is not.

New comment by kristiandupont in "The AI cost of JavaScript frameworks"

kristiandupont — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 18:50:50 +0000

>there’s no need for SPA

Many people phrase it like this, insisting that server-rendered HTML is simpler. To me, SPA's are the simpler approach. They remind me more of the .EXE's I used to ship.

AI, Quiz Me!

kristiandupont — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:05:09 +0000

Article URL: https://thoughts.kristiandupont.com/p/ai-quiz-me

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50198959

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kristiandupont in "Next.js 16.4"

kristiandupont — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:11:58 +0000

Completely agree. I've had to work with NextJS the past three places I've been and I hate it. I get that there are certain use cases where you want SSR, I guess like an e-commerce site where everything is dynamic but the user isn't logged in and you want SEO. But for a regular SPA, running Vite with a simple router (I like https://kyeotic.github.io/raviger/) is orders of magnitude simpler to work with.

New comment by kristiandupont in "To grieve, or not to grieve?"

kristiandupont — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:24:25 +0000

>that also conveniently answers why AI won’t (can’t) end humanity

I don't see how that follows from a lack of will in AI.

New comment by kristiandupont in "US interest rates raised for first time in three years"

kristiandupont — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 18:59:19 +0000

I think GP wasn't pointing out your "s" but rather your "d" at the beginning. At least, I also assumed that you meant "reindustrialise" rather than "deindustrialise".

New comment by kristiandupont in "Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated"

kristiandupont — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 06:01:39 +0000

Why is that "the point"? You are the second person in this thread to insist on owning it.

I get why it's problematic, obviously, but if it produces statistically better results (which I have no idea of), I don't think it's right to just write it off because of this.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era"

kristiandupont — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:42:30 +0000

>When does it get too abstract?

When the abstraction detracts more value than it provides.

I think this is an interesting direction to explore. Plotly is fine. So is D3 and plenty of other solutions, but neither represent the ultimate pinnacle of charting.

New comment by kristiandupont in "Scriptc by Vercel: TypeScript-to-Native compiler, no JavaScript engine in binary"

kristiandupont — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:56:53 +0000

Perhaps the newer features of React are but thankfully those bits can be completely ignored.

New comment by kristiandupont in "What happens when the information runs out"

kristiandupont — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:00:41 +0000

>I went back and explicitly told ChatGPT not to resolve details that didn’t exist in the file.

I don't know what the author thinks this could have meant, other than "give me the original". Making up details is what he is asking it to do.

True, you can't see the eyebrows in the original, but you also can't see (IMO) an absence of eyebrows and since far more people have eyebrows than not, I would be extremely surprised if it had come up with a version without them.

Claude was safest – and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days

kristiandupont — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:01:56 +0000

Article URL: https://kottke.org/26/07/0049364-researchers-let-ai-models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010863

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by kristiandupont in "Qwen 3.8"

kristiandupont — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:43:29 +0000

This thread goes into further detail: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8146/are-u-s-co...

New comment by kristiandupont in "Transcribe.cpp"

kristiandupont — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 19:35:41 +0000

Oh certainly, I was asking what the benefit would be to the opposite!