Hacker News: nektro

New comment by nektro in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

nektro — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:12:39 +0000

> is not, has never been, and never will be a "goal" of any government on this planet.

this is not a productive outlook to have

New comment by nektro in "If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?"

nektro — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:58:08 +0000

no, all three of those softwares should be exceptional and help me do exactly what i'm trying to do with no distractions or bugs

New comment by nektro in "If You Build It, They Will Come"

nektro — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:33:33 +0000

> Why weren't the young a kind of apprentices to the old?

this question could explain almost everything about american life right now

New comment by nektro in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

nektro — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:06:34 +0000

updating apps is optional is my point

New comment by nektro in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

nektro — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:06:13 +0000

the benefit of apps is they don't break. websites update out from under you and the web expects browsers to always be evergreen

New comment by nektro in "SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth"

nektro — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:11:37 +0000

we let companies in space way too soon. only NASA should have satellites in the US

New comment by nektro in "Why write code in 2026"

nektro — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 20:10:20 +0000

that you don't see this as inevitable worries me dearly

New comment by nektro in "An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation"

nektro — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:54:10 +0000

i wonder if residential ISPs can play a bigger role here

New comment by nektro in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

nektro — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 23:29:07 +0000

100%

New comment by nektro in "Prefer strict tables in SQLite"

nektro — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:37:05 +0000

thanks! i have seen the sqlite quirks page before but just added this to my queries thanks to you

New comment by nektro in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

nektro — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:24:31 +0000

url should be https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changelog/2026-07-base-ui-default

New comment by nektro in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

nektro — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:05:23 +0000

saw this title on the front page and thought it meant the element, not a company

New comment by nektro in "Nano Banana 2 Lite"

nektro — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:31:26 +0000

one of the most ethically barren products to come out of this era

New comment by nektro in "I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code"

nektro — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:55:52 +0000

thank you!

New comment by nektro in "Open source AI must win"

nektro — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:05:55 +0000

the public only wins once we shut it down globally through treaties like other tech that's too dangerous for anyone to have

New comment by nektro in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

nektro — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:58:17 +0000

haven't written up a show hn post yet but i launched this weekend a server app for git i built all in Zig[1]

[1]: https://astheno.software/shale/

demo site https://git.mirrors.nektro.net/

New comment by nektro in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

nektro — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:33:30 +0000

> but do people realize that code is just a means to an end?

yes and an end has to be worth the means. people disagree about whether it is worth it. some people see a benefit using LLMs and agents to such a degree they're willing to look past the noise and water and air pollution produced by the unprecedented data center buildout that we've seen over the past few years, or the unprecedented increase in things like spam and deepfakes, or the way that it is decimating the job market + funnel, or the way that it reinforces existing antisocial incentives in society. some don't/aren't.

New comment by nektro in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

nektro — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:29:34 +0000

sota models cannot remotely fit in 128gb

New comment by nektro in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

nektro — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:10:56 +0000

anthropic rumored to be having a profitable quarter is a ruse to ready them up for IPO or otherwise. they could've had a profitable quarter at any point in their history but they only do so if they stop making models; this has been established. they make a model, they sell inference and make a ton of money, they train the next model at 10x the cost, they sell inference and make a ton of money, they train the next model at 10x the cost, repeat

New comment by nektro in "About LLMs at Zig Days"

nektro — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:06:49 +0000

> I would still recommend not putting all your eggs in one basket just yet because [..] there will still be some value in knowing how systems work, both to differentiate yourself from other developers career-wise, and as part of effective LLM steering.

the thesis is that investing in your skills outside of LLMs pays dividends whether you decide to apply those skills to LLMs or not, plus spending time bonding with your fellow engineers is good for you too. so I'm sure Zig will be doing great in a few years