Hacker News: lofties

New comment by lofties in "Can we have the day off?"

lofties — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:16:22 +0000

Right, so if it's happening already, nothing is going to change. Four days a week it is!

New comment by lofties in "Can we have the day off?"

lofties — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:15:37 +0000

You're right. We need to bring back protracted violent strikes by unions and socialists!

New comment by lofties in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

lofties — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:27:20 +0000

Reading the code? Who has the time.

Aah, I am sure the chickens of vibe coded origin, will never come to roost.

Show HN: Draw a Picture for My Cat

lofties — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:52:24 +0000

Article URL: https://brian.jp/blog/do-cats-dream-of-led-arrays-36/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600173

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by lofties in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

lofties — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:42:39 +0000

You could make this same post and replace any component with Wayland. At the end of the day the Linux community will continuously set the Linux Desktop back by N years. The most obvious case of this is Linus Tech Tips trying Linux to replace Windows for gaming, getting lost in what distro to pick, and then being flamed online for choosing the "wrong" distro. It's impossible for anyone without the time and curiosity to choose a Linux distro, and then to stick with it. My only "hope" for the year of The Linux Desktop is SteamOS, since that will have a commercial force driving adoption and removing the need for consumers to make a choice entirely.

New comment by lofties in "Making Chocolates: Lessons Learned"

lofties — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:12:49 +0000

I made some chocolates for my wife, it was a pretty fun project overall and a lot easier (if messier) than I thought it would be. Can highly recommend if you ever want to make an original present!

Making Chocolates: Lessons Learned

lofties — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:12:49 +0000

Article URL: https://brian.jp/blog/making-chocolates-lessons-learned-35/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394377

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by lofties in "Claude Code Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Agent"

lofties — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:39:50 +0000

I've been struggling quite a bit the past year or two, coming to terms with a new reality that vibe coding is here to stay. After some introspection, I feel like the problem is tied to losing my identity more than anything else, and that it doesn't have to be that way. Anyway, I wrote about it here. I hope someone who struggles with the same issue finds this helpful.

Claude Code Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Agent

lofties — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:39:50 +0000

Article URL: https://brian.jp/blog/claude-code-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-agent-34/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243962

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by lofties in "Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately "simple" web app"

lofties — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:30:55 +0000

Even if I would've bought Nvidia, Bitcoin, or whatever stock... who is to say I would've had the balls to hold it all the way to whatever they're at today. I probably would've ended up like the guy who spent 10,000 bitcoin on a pizza.

New comment by lofties in "AWS Adds support for nested virtualization"

lofties — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 11:43:49 +0000

Yo dawg, I heard you like virtualisation so we put virtual servers inside of your virtual servers.

New comment by lofties in "Outsourcing thinking"

lofties — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:52:10 +0000

It sounds like that relationship was not supposed to be salvaged to begin with. ChatGPT perhaps prolonged your friend's suffering, who ended up moving on in the end. Perhaps unnecessarily delayed.

New comment by lofties in "U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded"

lofties — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 10:54:31 +0000

What does it matter? Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Edit: cursory search shows a flat/falling trend.[0]

[0]https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-ha...

New comment by lofties in "You can make up HTML tags"

lofties — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 04:36:56 +0000

I used custom elements extensively in 2014 when support was not as widespread. I think it's a beautiful, elegant solution and I'm still a little bit bitter that React became as big as it was. Now everything "has" to be a SPA because developers want to use React, whereas most users would actually be better served with good 'ol HTML with some custom elements where needed.

New comment by lofties in "Jakarta is now the biggest city in the world"

lofties — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:46:13 +0000

I traveled often between Jakarta and Japan in 2018, 2019 and 2020. The real breath of fresh air for me was literally the fresh air back in Japan. After running around for a week through Jakarta, I would inevitably develop a deep cough and a clogged nose. That said, the people, the food, and as someone else pointed out the nightlife is amazing.

New comment by lofties in "Marble: A Multimodal World Model"

lofties — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:59:52 +0000

An established founder makes claims X is the new frontier. X receives hundreds of millions in funding. Other less established founders claim they are working on X too. VCs suffering from terminal FOMO pump billions more into X. X becomes the next frontier. The previous frontiers are promptly forgotten about.

New comment by lofties in "LLM policy?"

lofties — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 03:40:55 +0000

Sidenote, but I love that in a GitHub issue discussing banning the use of LLMs, the GitHub interface asks if there's anything I'd like to fix with CoPilot.

New comment by lofties in "The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS"

lofties — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:32:22 +0000

It's all cURL.

New comment by lofties in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

lofties — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:40:57 +0000

I love the argument that Managed DBs cost a lot, but they're supposedly safer. Meanwhile people can't figure out the IAM permission models so they give the entire world access with root:root.

New comment by lofties in "What is “good taste” in software engineering?"

lofties — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:14:57 +0000

Good taste, is what I like and advocate for. Bad taste, is the opposite.