Hacker News: nate8bit

New comment by nate8bit in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

nate8bit — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:15:15 +0000

Brave.

New comment by nate8bit in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

nate8bit — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:50:36 +0000

The biggest problem we face in the west is thinking our institutions are somehow different. Be critical of the product all you want, but don't pretend the exact same thing isn't happening here.

New comment by nate8bit in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

nate8bit — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:20:06 +0000

The tooling has become so good though - the eco-system around the LLM. The models have become really good, yes - but it's definitely slowed in my opinion. The tooling is what really has become great - "harness" is probably the best word. When folk like Elon/Schmidt/Theil/etc. talk about singularities and industrial revolutions - it sounds extremely out of touch - or actually protective of the massive capex they've potentially sunk.

EDIT: Schmidt's booed commencement speech was probably one of the most out-of-touch speeches (outside of a tech interview) I've heard.

New comment by nate8bit in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"

nate8bit — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:10:00 +0000

The entire problem with "AI" is that it's easy to do without. The AI companies know it, the users know it - even the most pro AI agent manager knows it. Thought experiment: remove AI from the world right now, all of it - what do you have? Business as usual. This article doesn't do enough to underscore that - dreaded be the day I need to get an actual engineer to review a PR, right?

New comment by nate8bit in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

nate8bit — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:09:37 +0000

Why is this phrased so antagonistically? For clicks? This is like saying the US is winning the cloud race - it's not a race. The author is completely missing the forest from the trees - this benefits everybody. LLM's aren't going to wake up and be sentient - the race to real AGI is where is has been 10 years ago.

New comment by nate8bit in "Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains"

nate8bit — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:35:30 +0000

It's pretty interesting because if you look at the net value over the last 2 to 3 years, you'd expect to see a flurry of high value/high complexity/high velocity software being delivered. But we haven't. We've seen outages almost normalized now and the only new thing being built are more AI integrations - and I have to ask: for whom? To me, there's a pretty big gap between the delivery and claim of AI, and the question is - do you stay an IC or do you become an agent manager (in which case you will lose your technical edge for sure).

New comment by nate8bit in "GitHub is sinking"

nate8bit — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:18:58 +0000

I would not be surprised if AI commits are the culprit. There is no way any service would cope with a constant stream of unfettered commits by sleepless always-on agents. Ironically, this same strategy seems to be what GH/MS (and other big companies) are evangelizing - and therefore dying by their own hand (in a way).

New comment by nate8bit in "Talking to strangers at the gym"

nate8bit — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:47:21 +0000

I think picking up people at the bar is easier than making friends at the gym - what you want is to join a crossfit gym, or something that has a stronger community culture to it. Not the gym.

New comment by nate8bit in "Nuclear receptor 4A1 linked to health effects of coffee: study"

nate8bit — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:20:05 +0000

I love coffee, so this is a nice read. Couple years ago I switched to french press, fresh beans (grind on demand) & no milk or sugar - okay, a dash of full cream milk sometimes. Has to be strong - you can't drink weak coffee like that!

New comment by nate8bit in "Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize"

nate8bit — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:49:02 +0000

We initially looked into using shadcn/radix - but it's quite bloated. Maybe even warranted with all the a11y accommodations - even the official W3C ARIA examples are not straightforward (most of the time).

New comment by nate8bit in "Shadcn/UI: A set of beautifully designed components that you can customize"

nate8bit — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:45:57 +0000

Yea, was wondering this too.

New comment by nate8bit in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"

nate8bit — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:24:19 +0000

> Apple hardware isn't exceptional, it's maybe slightly above average

Is this a serious statement? If Apple's hardware is maybe slightly above average - what's above it? It's an easy company to hate on - but you don't have any other platform integrated as well as Apple's right now IMO. Unless you maybe count Huawei.

Edit: I think I may be referring more to the holistic picture. But still curious what hardware you think is better.

New comment by nate8bit in "If Apple makes an iPad Neo, it's all over"

nate8bit — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:09:37 +0000

For all of the Apple hate recently (with glass + MacOS bugs) - it's still great to be able to invest in high quality hardware. I made the switch to Mac, oh about 12 yrs ago, and sometimes forget how spoilt we are with really tight hardware + software integration.

New comment by nate8bit in "Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision"

nate8bit — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:59:05 +0000

Yea, it's a very odd way of referring to people you work with.

New comment by nate8bit in "Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision"

nate8bit — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:13:17 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by nate8bit in "Adding a team was the wrong strategic decision"

nate8bit — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:56:49 +0000

Am I missing something - what's with the "tribe" terminology?

New comment by nate8bit in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

nate8bit — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:01:54 +0000

Giving an agent this level of access to infra is doing a disservice to people who've trusted this guy with their business.

New comment by nate8bit in "[dead]"

nate8bit — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:06:34 +0000

Let it go. This is clearly a vibe-coded site, the fonts, layout, all look anthroposized. If Mythos was really so good, then they would not share it with anyone.

New comment by nate8bit in "Thoughts and feelings around Claude Design"

nate8bit — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:52:55 +0000

Some good points, but as a whole - I'm not sure if I agree. Sketch lost to Figma because of it's design tooling & multiplayer. Physical products still get designed before being constructed - I don't see that going away. If anything, I think Figma should stop trying to play both sides of the field and decide what it wants to be.

New comment by nate8bit in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"

nate8bit — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:18:29 +0000

Any recommendations on good open ones? What are you using primarily?