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New comment by mprast in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

mprast — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:18:53 +0000

It's very interesting to me how many people presume that if you don't learn how to vibecode now you'll never ever be able to catch up. If the models are constantly getting better, won't these tools be easier to use a year from now? Will model improvements not obviate all the byzantine prompting strategies we have to use today?

Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API

mprast — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:07:41 +0000

Hi HN! Nerve is a solo project I've been working on for the last few years. It's a developer tool that stitches together data from multiple sources in real-time.

A lot of high-leverage projects (AI or otherwise) involve tying data together from multiple systems of record. This is easy enough when the data is simple and the sources are few, but if you have highly nested data and lots of sources (or you need things like federated pagination and filtering), you have to write a lot of gnarly boilerplate that's brittle and easy to get wrong.

One solution is to import all your data into a central warehouse and just pull it from there. This works, but 1) you need a warehouse, 2) you have an extra copy of the data that can get stale or inconsistent, 3) you need to write and manage pipelines/connectors (or outsource them to a vendor), and 4) you're adding an extra point of failure.

Nerve lets you write GraphQL-style queries that span multiple sources; then it goes out and pulls from whatever source APIs it needs to at query-time - all your source data stays where it is. Nerve has pre-built bindings to external SAAS services, and it's straightforward to hook it into your internal sources as well.

Nerve is made for individual developers or two-pizza teams who:

-Are building agents/internal tools

-Need to deal with messy data strewn across different systems

-Don't have a data team/warehouse at their disposal, (or do, but can't get a slice of their bandwidth)

-Want to get to production as quickly as possible

Everything you see in the demo is shipped and usable, but I'm adding a little polish before I officially launch. In the meantime, if you have a project you'd like to use Nerve on and you want to be a beta user, just drop me a line at mprast@get-nerve.com (it's free! I'll just pop in from time to time to ask you how it's going and what I can improve :) )

If you want to get an email when Nerve is ready from prime-time, you can sign up for the waitlist at get-nerve.com.

Thanks for reading!

(EDIT: Nerve is desktop only! I'll put up a gate on the site saying as much.)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47019329

Points: 16

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"Learning how to learn" via distance running

mprast — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:42:32 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/learning-from-running/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45931214

Points: 1

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New comment by mprast in "Why agents do not write most of our code – A reality check"

mprast — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 09:11:41 +0000

great stuff; I've had almost exactly the same experience. I think blow-by-blow writeups like this are a sorely needed antidote to the hype

What I learned about programming (and life) by running

mprast — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:26:43 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/learning-from-running/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920785

Points: 2

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What I learned about work and life from distance running

mprast — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 21:02:20 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/learning-from-running/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45906623

Points: 6

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New comment by mprast in "Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors"

mprast — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 00:58:31 +0000

I started having a much easier time with mathematics when I realized and got comfortable with this idea. In hindsight it should've been obvious to me as a programmer - when I'm building something, I don't ideate in terms of individual lines of code, after all

Ion: A data access layer for TypeScript

mprast — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:53:04 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/ion-graphql-on-the-backend-an/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45697888

Points: 2

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Ion: A TypeScript-native data access layer

mprast — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:23:15 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/ion-graphql-on-the-backend-an/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660422

Points: 14

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Ion: GraphQL on the backend (and everywhere else)

mprast — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:12:17 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/ion-graphql-on-the-backend-an/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45647923

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The decision to vibe code isn't reversible

mprast — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:12:42 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/the-hysteresis-of-vibe-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45391077

Points: 1

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The Hysteresis of Vibe Coding

mprast — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:22:57 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/the-hysteresis-of-vibe-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45376792

Points: 2

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The Hysteresis of Vibe Coding

mprast — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 18:08:25 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/the-hysteresis-of-vibe-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45363926

Points: 2

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New comment by mprast in "To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head"

mprast — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:23:20 +0000

yeah, this is what i was trying to get at with that notion of "proof-affinity"; imo a well-structured codebase is one in which you can easily prove stuff to yourself about code you didn't necessarily write

New comment by mprast in "To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head"

mprast — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:21:04 +0000

yes, what i had in mind were more proof sketches than proofs

New comment by mprast in "To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head"

mprast — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:19:27 +0000

I was thinking the same thing!

New comment by mprast in "To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head"

mprast — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:18:55 +0000

not launched yet! I will put up a post when it launches; coming in a few months!

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

mprast — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 17:05:39 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/to-be-a-better-programmer-write-little-proofs-in-your-head/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44573409

Points: 463

# Comments: 167

Baking the Y Combinator from scratch (again)

mprast — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 02:41:15 +0000

Article URL: https://the-nerve-blog.ghost.io/baking-the-y-combinator-from-scratch-part-2-recursion-and-its-consequences/

Hacker News: mprast

New comment by mprast in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

Show HN: Nerve: Stitches all your data sources into one mega-API

"Learning how to learn" via distance running

New comment by mprast in "Why agents do not write most of our code – A reality check"

What I learned about programming (and life) by running

What I learned about work and life from distance running

New comment by mprast in "Why formalize mathematics – more than catching errors"

Ion: A data access layer for TypeScript

Ion: A TypeScript-native data access layer

Ion: GraphQL on the backend (and everywhere else)

The decision to vibe code isn't reversible

The Hysteresis of Vibe Coding

The Hysteresis of Vibe Coding

New comment by mprast in "To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head"

New comment by mprast in "To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head"

New comment by mprast in "To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head"

New comment by mprast in "To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head"

To be a better programmer, write little proofs in your head

Baking the Y Combinator from scratch (again)

New comment by mprast in "Baking the Y Combinator from scratch, Part 2"