Hacker News: muspimerol

New comment by muspimerol in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

muspimerol — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:34:56 +0000

The point is that we will still need senior level employees, but the way fresh grads get to that level is generally through entry level positions, experience and mentorship. I don't think we can expect the university system to start pumping out senior level graduates.

New comment by muspimerol in "Springs and bounces in native CSS"

muspimerol — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:25:18 +0000

Good thing that's exactly what the article suggests!

New comment by muspimerol in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

muspimerol — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:32:24 +0000

This happens regardless of which framework is used or even if no framework is used. Plenty of web developers do not understand how the browser or JS work at a deep level.

New comment by muspimerol in "Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file"

muspimerol — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 10:46:40 +0000

How does versioning work? After you fork an HTML app, is there a way to update it and get newer features without manual intervention?

I'm thinking about the Kanban board example I saw in the demo video. It looks like column re-ordering wasn't supported yet. What if I fork the app, put time into creating my Kanban, then I want to update to a new version that supports column re-ordering?

New comment by muspimerol in "6 weeks of Claude Code"

muspimerol — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 18:48:05 +0000

> a mishmash of vibe coded stuff you don’t understand.

No, there is a difference between "I wrote this code" and "I understand this code". You don't need to write all the code in a project to understand it. Otherwise writing software in a team would not be a viable undertaking.

New comment by muspimerol in "Show HN: templUI – The UI Kit for templ (CLI-based, like shadcn/UI)"

muspimerol — Fri, 30 May 2025 09:10:42 +0000

Why do you say "JSX"? JSX is an HTML templating language for JavaScript. templ looks like an HTML templating language for Go. Every popular web backend language has an HTML templating language... so that it can produce HTML - is it really that surprising?

New comment by muspimerol in "Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button"

muspimerol — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:33:04 +0000

Here's the react-table example app with 112,500 records, just like your example. I am not really seeing much of a performance difference (and this is in dev mode - it would be faster if built for production):

https://n9vr4n-5173.csb.app/

New comment by muspimerol in "Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button"

muspimerol — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:21:49 +0000

This comparison is disingenuous and off-putting. When I read "a React button" I assume you are talking about `

New comment by muspimerol in "Writing a tiny undo/redo stack in JavaScript"

muspimerol — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:01:35 +0000

But logging in and posting don't seem like "undoable" actions to me. That would be similar to undoing a save or undoing a login to Adobe CC in Photoshop. Things definitely get trickier with network requests, but that can be solved with something like CRDT.

New comment by muspimerol in "Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by"

muspimerol — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 09:51:24 +0000

> Does the fact that WFH is not a thing mean that in the real world, for most people, coming to the office IS actually more efficient?

I don't think the labor market is efficient to such a degree that we can draw this conclusion. Lots of startups are doing this, but it takes time, capital and luck to achieve the success of the big corporate competitors, which have a huge amount of middle management who hate WFH.

New comment by muspimerol in "Physical Intelligence's first generalist policy AI can finally do your laundry"

muspimerol — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 09:32:02 +0000

Huh? The average working week in the EU is 37.5 hours a week, or 7.5 hours a day: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/d...

Breakfast and lunch are not paid breaks in any EU country as far as I know.

New comment by muspimerol in "What 10k Hours of Coding Taught Me: Don't Ship Fast"

muspimerol — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 11:53:53 +0000

Fair point, but I have seen a lot of shitty software developed with this mantra. Usually because the "iterate" part is forgotten in favor of the next "rapid" development. I agree that the quickest way to learn whether your solution is valid is to ship & experiment. But once you know the solution (which is sometimes not even that complicated) then you should really take the time to produce a solid piece of software before moving on.

But I agree, my original comment is probably a little too critical. There are valid times to rapidly iterate and ship. When it turns into the _only_ way you ship software, I think it becomes a problem.

New comment by muspimerol in "What 10k Hours of Coding Taught Me: Don't Ship Fast"

muspimerol — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 19:53:23 +0000

It's important to note that this is only really relevant advice for a specific type of startup that is still trying to rapidly iterate to find product market fit.

Personally I find it incredibly annoying to work on and with with products that were developed like this. There are so many half baked features that technically "work" but are slow, buggy or difficult to integrate with.

New comment by muspimerol in "Koheesio: Nike's Python-based framework to build advanced data-pipelines"

muspimerol — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:22:00 +0000

I don't. Regardless who posted it, discussion and constructive criticism is warranted in the comments.

New comment by muspimerol in "Koheesio: Nike's Python-based framework to build advanced data-pipelines"

muspimerol — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 07:12:03 +0000

I think this is a fair criticism. You chose to share this on hackernews, which invites feedback (including constructive criticism). I don't see the problem ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Do you expect people to only voice praise for open source projects?

New comment by muspimerol in "Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow""

muspimerol — Fri, 17 May 2024 07:34:42 +0000

Do you think this "MetaWindow" is much more attractive? Here's a similar looking transparent sound barrier in a new building area that is already starting to be covered in graffiti: https://youtu.be/e7-Fd1HOw_g?si=OTNn_NyV_W7iJStz&t=265

At least some light will still get through in the gaps between graffiti, but I don't think they will end up looking much different than non-transparent barriers.

New comment by muspimerol in "EU countries already hitting some of their sustainable energy targets for 2030"

muspimerol — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:47:04 +0000

I’d argue that the rich nations have an obligation to find a way to structure a less carbon intensive economy. The global south can benefit from the R&D that the west does. It’s not a forgone conclusion that the only way to grow is by burning fossil fuels, but the global south will certainly go that way if there is no known alternative.

New comment by muspimerol in "In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way"

muspimerol — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:33:27 +0000

Sure, all mega cities have even larger metro areas. I'm not pretending Chicago doesn't have a huge metro area. But my point stands: the European route has much higher catchment than your proposed USA route, even if you include metro areas. Population density is not the only argument, although I think it's pretty clear why the US and EU are not comparable: https://luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#4/38.51/-51.06 Most of the US looks more like Spain and less like Central Europe.

There needs to be local public transportation infrastructure. This is where the US should be focusing efforts, no long-distance high-speed trains. It works in Europe because there are huge catchment areas (see population density) that funnel riders to regional hubs that are then connected with high speed trains. I don't think the first step to making rail work in the US is connecting metropolises with high-speed trains. Until there's a better local public transportation story, it's expensive and impractical once you arrive at your destination.

New comment by muspimerol in "In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way"

muspimerol — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:24:48 +0000

Oh if we're talking about metro area population, then the EU route is also significantly higher (for example, Paris goes from 2 million to 13 million). I was just looking at city limits in both cases.

Honestly I agree with your sentiment. We should connect all these urban areas with passenger rail. But I don't think that this is the first step. Most American cities have atrocious public transit, which needs to be fixed first. No one will take a train from Chicago to Minneapolis if they just have to rent a car once they get there anyway. It would be a shame to invest billions in connecting cities with high speed rail, only to have low ridership because it still doesn't compete with flying/driving.

New comment by muspimerol in "In Europe, trains are full, and more are on the way"

muspimerol — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 21:07:37 +0000

I don't know why we're still stuck on the Berlin <-> Madrid topic, but I'll bite :-)

I added up the population of all those cities: 6.13 million. The population of Berlin and Madrid alone is 6.86 million, and our theoretical journey would take us through several cities of 1m+ along the way: Cologne, Brussels, Paris... The dense parts of Europe have 500k+ cities basically overlapping.

As someone who grew up in the Midwest, I would absolutely love this theoretical train, but I'm not surprised it doesn't exist (yet)!