Hacker News: lunarboy

New comment by lunarboy in "A History of IDEs at Google"

lunarboy — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:44:04 +0000

iOS apps at google are developed via ciderv that had a connection to your local mac, and it's amazing. All code editing is "online" and builds are cached, but simulator runs on your local machine. I'm convinced the apple dev env at google is like 100x better than apple's

New comment by lunarboy in "A History of IDEs at Google"

lunarboy — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:37:52 +0000

I feel like core dev team learned a lot about actually enabling a web based ide for line 100k engineers across the globe for a gazillion line mono repo. ciderv is really just a skin for the amazing infra. Which is also why I think there was less resistance to the change

New comment by lunarboy in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

lunarboy — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:59:26 +0000

I can't switch jobs rn, but this is absolutely fascinating

New comment by lunarboy in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

lunarboy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:08:53 +0000

FaceID, AirPods, Apple Silicon, Vision Pro (though it was flop was a good try). Overall, I would actually place Tim above Steve in terms of business, although maybe not from a Human Computer Interaction design novelty perspective

New comment by lunarboy in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

lunarboy — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:03:27 +0000

oh the horror stories I've heard from friends at Apple. Don't think I've heard anyone who writes tests at Apple

New comment by lunarboy in "Claude Design"

lunarboy — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:48:39 +0000

I still fondly remember playing cyberpunk 2077 on release date with no download time. What the future could have been . Probably would have become economically infeasible regardless with GPU prices due to AI though

New comment by lunarboy in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

lunarboy — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:09:58 +0000

ok this one got me LOL

New comment by lunarboy in "Show HN: Han – A Korean programming language written in Rust"

lunarboy — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:29:50 +0000

It's fascinating and lucky how well Korean fits into a keyboard designed for English. Japanese and Chinese are notoriously inefficient to type.

New comment by lunarboy in "Claude Code Remote Control"

lunarboy — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:40:01 +0000

It types code, wallah!

New comment by lunarboy in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

lunarboy — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:13:15 +0000

It's so weird. I actually prefer the web version for generic questions like "how would I do X in git" or something, and it'll answer it well. Gemini CLI will immediately try to run git log on the entire graph, grep every single file in the repo, like just answer the question. I actually put in gemini.md to just answer first without running other commands unless explicitly requested and it's been a lot better

New comment by lunarboy in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

lunarboy — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:18:12 +0000

But the thing is your local gov & economic policies (tax codes, bonds, projects, trade) matter to your actual daily life and retirement far more than left v right. They just play that game to keep you enraged and baited. And people do actually care about gas, groceries, and inflation; they just don't vote in their own objective interest

New comment by lunarboy in "LLMs could be, but shouldn't be compilers"

lunarboy — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 15:12:19 +0000

Are LLMs not already compilers? They translate human natural language to code pretty well now. But yeah, they probably don't fit the bill of English based code to machine code

New comment by lunarboy in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

lunarboy — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:18:23 +0000

Agreed on both of these. Proton search is so dogshit.

Re: the custom domain catch all reply, this is a bit annoying but there js a workaround. I made a SendGrid account which allows me like 100 sends per month, and I can reply in Thunderbird via SendGrid as any email account. Annoying to boot up Thunderbird, and I haven't found a way to do this on my iPhone, but I don't need ti reply from a throwaway frequently so it's sufficient for now.

New comment by lunarboy in "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"

lunarboy — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:37:01 +0000

That's probably where things are headed and there are already products trying this (even photoshop already). Just like how code gen AI tools don't replace the entire file on every prompt iteration.

New comment by lunarboy in "A definition of AGI"

lunarboy — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:25:39 +0000

Yup, I feel like the biggest limitation with current AI is that they don't have desire (nor actual agency to act upon it). They don't have to worry about hunger, death, feelings, and so they don't really have desires to further explore space, or make life more efficient because they're on limited time like humans. Their improvement isn't coming inside out like humans, it's just external driven (someone pressing a training epoch). This is why I don't think LLMs will reach AGI, if AGI somehow ties back to "human-ness." And maybe that's a good thing for Skynet reasons, but anyways

New comment by lunarboy in "The React Foundation"

lunarboy — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:12:21 +0000

I come from mobile, and was surprised how nice svelte is. Felt so much more familiar patterns than react

New comment by lunarboy in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

lunarboy — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:46:47 +0000

Open radar is a just a landfill. Nothing ever gets picked up for fixing

New comment by lunarboy in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

lunarboy — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:01:46 +0000

I know this is only a single data point, but I recently took one in Hollywood. Uber Lyft quoted $33 and Waymo was $20

New comment by lunarboy in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

lunarboy — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:59:52 +0000

Do they need a "map" of a parking tower though, just like how humans don't exactly need Google Maps inside of one? I feel like this is something self driving + vision (exit signs and arrows) can handle

New comment by lunarboy in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

lunarboy — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:57:39 +0000

I don't touch JFK with 10mi pole. I've always found EWR to be much more consistent and easier to get to