Hacker News: morbicer

New comment by morbicer in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

morbicer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:10:23 +0000

If we are pulling quotes out of a hat, why not some OG one?

“He who oppresses the poor taunts and insults his Maker, But he who is kind and merciful and gracious to the needy honors Him.” Proverbs 14:31

New comment by morbicer in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

morbicer — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:36:13 +0000

If you have some sort of compliance requirements, you need to update because of the onslaught of CVE vulnerabilities in the older versions. They are mostly bogus like "regexp DOS" but you have to satisfy the process and update anyway.

New comment by morbicer in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"

morbicer — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:52:33 +0000

The fonts, the cards, the copy are all hallmarks of Claude Code.

While the aesthetic doesn't spark joy for me, the overall execution is great, the presentation flow and interactive boxes are very nice.

New comment by morbicer in "Ask HN: Best stack for building a tiny game with an 11-year-old?"

morbicer — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:06:41 +0000

Little.js

Small yet covering all basic needs including sound, performant, great examples that you can use as starters (breakout, platformer, puzzle)

https://github.com/KilledByAPixel/LittleJS

New comment by morbicer in "The Ingredients of a Productive Monorepo"

morbicer — Wed, 28 May 2025 12:32:34 +0000

Codeowners file + required review from the owner team solves like 90% of those worries

New comment by morbicer in "The Truth about Atlantis (2019)"

morbicer — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:38:21 +0000

Beware, the linked Creative Society is a front for AllatRa sect, very dangerous Russian backed disinformation group that's infiltrating Central Europe.

It goes so far that district attorney from Slovakia, who is a member of the sect is going after Czech journalists who uncover them.

They have tool to generate videos on any esoteric/conspiracy topic with AI assistance.

Sadly I can't link much English sources.

- https://vsquare.org/disinformation-whitewashing-russia-allat...

- https://allatra.tv/en

- https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-61166339

- https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/AllatRa

New comment by morbicer in "How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise"

morbicer — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:30:05 +0000

Monero was the only coin that made sense to me back in the 2017 crypto craze. A real anonymous and government free currency. To this day I am salty that Bitcoin won, such a shitty coin, now firmly embraced by governments, full of regulation. Slow, high fees, not really accepted by merchants. Just a "gold" made out of thin air.

New comment by morbicer in "Solarpunk"

morbicer — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 07:16:52 +0000

I get what you mean in general, but toothpaste isn't a great example as it's not a necessity. My wife goes without it for years and has no cavity or gum issues.

- https://advanceddentalartsnyc.com/is-toothpaste-necessary/

- https://www.huffmansmilesdental.com/is-it-okay-to-brush-your...

New comment by morbicer in "There's Math.random(), and then there's Math.random() (2015)"

morbicer — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 11:13:12 +0000

Probably because they might be forced to sell it? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp81ppr3l9go.amp

New comment by morbicer in "Tailwind CSS v4.0"

morbicer — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 07:51:44 +0000

There's a bunch of things you can't do with style attributes, just to pick a few:

- Pseudo-classes (e.g., :hover, :focus)

- Pseudo-elements (e.g., ::before, ::after)

- Media queries

- Keyframes and animations

And the DX in a larger project isn't great either.

On the other hand, this upcoming standard is a great addition for collocating styles https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@scope

New comment by morbicer in "Modern JavaScript for Django Developers"

morbicer — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:16:47 +0000

I can't, our app is enterprise SaaS built as SPA. Nextjs is imho garbage. The only reason I can imagine it is so popular is that average React devs are indeed very bad with code organization. If I needed server rendering I would go with Astro + interactive islands.

New comment by morbicer in "Modern JavaScript for Django developers"

morbicer — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:59:20 +0000

Those are just shitty codebases. I maintain a React app that's over 10 years old, almost milion lines of code and we have zero components with 20 props, no issues with performance or whatnot.

I am an oponent of over-abstraction but components are very light abstraction and provide just sensible encapsulation and reusability.

New comment by morbicer in "Modern JavaScript for Django developers"

morbicer — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:50:01 +0000

The job market for php devs is also weird. Very few talented people. Because php jobs on average pay the worst, people who are motivated and smart often learn another language and abandon php. There are some very practical oriented and clever people willing to do php but you have to look very hard.

New comment by morbicer in "Modern JavaScript for Django Developers"

morbicer — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 17:41:18 +0000

I don't understand the second sentence. As someone developing web apps for over 20 years, components ARE the better code organization.

New comment by morbicer in "Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)"

morbicer — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:13:09 +0000

No idea how it's relevant. For example in USA, I bet the overwhelming majority of homeless are citizens born in USA, not immigrants.

In my central European country with high ethnic homogenity the unhoused are also stemming from majority population. There is a Roma minority who are often struggling with poverty but are rarely unhoused.

New comment by morbicer in "30% Drop In o1-Preview Accuracy When Putnam Problems Are Slightly Variated"

morbicer — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 16:07:39 +0000

Not an LLM but models could get pretty good at weather

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1107892/google-d...

New comment by morbicer in "AI Is the Black Mirror"

morbicer — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 17:44:13 +0000

Put humans in a room in isolation and they get dumber. What makes our intelligence soar is the interaction with the outside world, with novel challenges.

As we stare in the smartphones we get dumber than when we roamed the world with eyes opened.

New comment by morbicer in "Satellite powered estimation of global solar potential"

morbicer — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 19:19:01 +0000

Does DSM stand for Digital Surface Model?

Thos exact abbreviation is so overloaded that it doesn't hurt to list the words once.

New comment by morbicer in "Scanners Beware: Welcome to the network from hell"

morbicer — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 07:37:42 +0000

I am curious how would this technique fare against masscan [1] that scans in a massively parallel fashion. I think it would either crash it or it could cost you a lot. It's a nice dream of "owning" the attackers but it doesn't have a real security value.

[1] https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan

New comment by morbicer in "Astro 5.0 Is Here"

morbicer — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 18:42:12 +0000

Astro is great. Love to see an update that simplifies rather than complicates (looking at you Next and co.)

Nice starter themes, nothing to learn really. I opened it up and had migrated a friend's website in three hours. Pairs greatly with Cloudflare.