Hacker News: mikercampbell

New comment by mikercampbell in "GPT-5.5"

mikercampbell — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:18:18 +0000

Manufactured Scarcity is the new post-scarcity

New comment by mikercampbell in "Allegations of insider trading over prediction-market bets tied to Iran conflict"

mikercampbell — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:53:07 +0000

I know it’s cliche, but I hate this timeline.

For a good while there, the headlines went from “oniony” to “sim-city news headline flavor text” to “I can’t believe I share a finite existence with the people being discussed”

New comment by mikercampbell in "A selfie with Netanyahu turns into an employee and customer exodus"

mikercampbell — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 02:10:39 +0000

> A few days ago, the CEO of Vercel—an AI coding startup that, as of Tuesday, raised a $300 million Series F at a $9 billion—posted a selfie with Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu. Vercel is a product for AI developers that companies like Meta are investing heavily in in order to develop their AI faster than competitors.

As an aside, when was Vercel ever an AI company? I’ve been (past tense, but I left a bit ago) a customer for years and it was a “hosting service with convenient feature bundling”.

Labeling everyone an AI company is watering down so much detail and nuance to put it lightly.

New comment by mikercampbell in "Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras"

mikercampbell — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 02:48:13 +0000

We’re going to get a news article of aome cop is going to be scanning for his ex-girlfriend, I guarantee it

New comment by mikercampbell in "Manifest: A 1-file micro-back end"

mikercampbell — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 01:18:13 +0000

Something that follows this pattern of a single file backend is PocketBase. I’ve used it on personal projects and, while not being 1.0 yet, it’s growing quickly

New comment by mikercampbell in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

mikercampbell — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:25:41 +0000

Why elm over LiveView?

I know “why” elm, I liked everything I saw about it, but how do you combine the two, if you do?

New comment by mikercampbell in "Even Microsoft Notepad is getting AI text editing now"

mikercampbell — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:41:00 +0000

I’ve loved/hated it taking over IDEs. The refactor lightbulb icon popover slowly losing features to “fix with copilot” has been draining

New comment by mikercampbell in "QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image"

mikercampbell — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:38:14 +0000

I mean, I figured it out from HN but still.

New comment by mikercampbell in "QNX is now free for anything non-commercial, plus there's an RPi image"

mikercampbell — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:37:04 +0000

With all due respect, I’ve never spent so long clicking through a website trying to figure out what it actually was.

What is QNX haha

New comment by mikercampbell in "Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board"

mikercampbell — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:24:26 +0000

My HSA emailed me and said “woopsies, we leaked all your data”.

And…? You’re going to try and give me credit monitoring when I literally have 2 overlapping credit monitoring offers from the other companies that leaked my data?

New comment by mikercampbell in "Show HN: Yet Another Habit Tracker"

mikercampbell — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 03:38:29 +0000

This looks super clean!! I’m bookmarking it to check out!!

New comment by mikercampbell in "Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia"

mikercampbell — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 00:51:40 +0000

I had my hopes up, but there is the kicker

New comment by mikercampbell in "Viagra improves brain blood flow and could help to prevent dementia"

mikercampbell — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 00:50:44 +0000

I vaguely recall an anecdote about athletes using it for performance improvement, and getting a slightly different stat buff

New comment by mikercampbell in "Spacetop – Meet the AR Laptop for Work"

mikercampbell — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 01:44:14 +0000

It looks like the glasses are actually manufactured by someone else, a company called XReal? I’m not sure if they’re related, but it looks like they’re not trying to invent two things at a time. Well, maybe the OS and the Laptop count

New comment by mikercampbell in "Why is no Laravel/Rails in JavaScript? Will there be one?"

mikercampbell — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 06:15:08 +0000

I am so sad that Blitz.js kind of… well, I’m not sure what it did, but it didn’t Ruby/Rails.

And my IDE had a reeeeally hard time keeping up because of its size. All the defaults were “sensible” as advertised, but the codebase was massive when I hopped off. Maybe it’s improved? This is my sign to check back in.

New comment by mikercampbell in "Show HN: Kubernates in Node.js"

mikercampbell — Mon, 06 May 2024 17:22:24 +0000

Not to be audacious, but I’m working on a post and will HN Show it, soon.

It’s called “lattice”, and it’s a software architecture with similar intentions as Kubernetes, but a vanilla approach that leans into existing frameworks instead of inventing things from scratch

New comment by mikercampbell in "Simulating Jupiter"

mikercampbell — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:18:36 +0000

I can almost feel the drops in my hair. But for real this is so cool

New comment by mikercampbell in "Suicide is on the rise for young Americans, with no clear answers"

mikercampbell — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 13:25:42 +0000

A lot of historians are drawing parallels between recent events and the events leading up to WW1. I’m not an expert, but it isn’t absurd to say that it could happen.

New comment by mikercampbell in "Private company landing on the moon today"

mikercampbell — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 15:08:32 +0000

I’m just glad it’s not something “too on the nose” comedically, like for Coca-Cola or something that makes me think of Wall-E. At least it’s a hiking/adventurey brand and not KFC.

New comment by mikercampbell in "Bevy 0.13: ECS-driven game engine built in Rust"

mikercampbell — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:04:24 +0000

Oh, I my case, I was actually creating a “headless” game, where my graphics were just in HTML and CSS because I’m more artistically enabled to make things using those instead of OpenGL!

And because I’m weird!