Hacker News: norman784

New comment by norman784 in "Friendship ended with Deno, now Node is my best friend"

norman784 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 07:02:51 +0000

The only reason to choose Node is because it's boring, is a long lived project and I think it will outlive Bun and Deno.

New comment by norman784 in "SvelteKit 3"

norman784 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:22:16 +0000

With Vue, you require each library you use to be Vue specific, Nuxt UI, Vuetify, etc, while Svelte works seamlessly with vanilla JS libraries, also Svelte feels more like vanilla HTML/CSS/JS with some sparkles over it.

New comment by norman784 in "SvelteKit 3"

norman784 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:19:28 +0000

Other advantages of Svelte over React/Vue is that it does not require a Svelte specific library or wrapper, you can use vanilla JS libraries and it works seamlessly. I consider that as plus, you can old good old Chart.js, Ag-grid, etc without any wrapper, I tried some libraries with React/Vue that had wrappers for multiple frameworks, and most of them were painful, because each framework/library has their way to do things that collides with them, while Svelte is basically vanilla web tech with some sparkles over it.

New comment by norman784 in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

norman784 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:18:20 +0000

Yeah, but it confuses me, I read left to right, so if they put GPT-6 and $0.20 first, I would assume that's the new pricing, they should make it clear, not confusing.

New comment by norman784 in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

norman784 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:16:34 +0000

Yeah, how they put, is confusing to me, they should have put that table instead of what they have right now in the article.

New comment by norman784 in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

norman784 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:01:43 +0000

Is GPT-6 50% cheaper?

> GPT‑6 Luna vs. GPT‑5.6 Luna | $0.20 → $0.10 | $1.20 → $0.50 | 50% cheaper

I can read it as follows (below), meaning that GPT-5.6 is 50% cheaper.

- GPT-6 = $0.20

- GPT-5.6 = $0.10

New comment by norman784 in "Flet 1.0 – Build cross-platform apps in Python"

norman784 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:38:02 +0000

I would think about if it was at least Go or Rust, but yet another interpreted language built on top of other abstractions? No thanks, I had my fair share of Xamarin, React Native, Electron, Tauri and TBH building native is the best (more work, sure, but at least when you have bugs or issues, it's easier to find solutions), with abstractions you need to deal with bugs on each layer.

Also in the era of AI, sharing native code is easier than ever, just compile down to WASM for the web and for the other binary.

New comment by norman784 in "iPhone Duo"

norman784 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:55:46 +0000

And different price tag

New comment by norman784 in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"

norman784 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:27:02 +0000

Not only Lisp, but Javascript and Ruby (AKA dynamic languages) devs also rely heavily in REPLs, for me at least the reason is that you don't know what value a variable holts, so you need to inspect them somehow, with typed languages you have less reasons to reach such tool.

New comment by norman784 in "Pnpm 12.0"

norman784 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:53:56 +0000

I got to the conclusion that boring is good enough, for me NPM is the best tool, is not that fast, but the installation speed is not that bad, considering how many times I need to run from scratch, the difference does not matter, it is stable and it's the default Node package manager, so I don't need to bother to install in CI any other tool, etc. My experience for long living projects is to stick with the defaults, because in a few years third party tools will change, it happen to my team with Yarn classic, now that we are with vanilla Node and NPM no worries, same with 3rd party dependencies, just use as less as possible.

New comment by norman784 in "Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

norman784 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:35:18 +0000

Interesting, thanks for sharing.

New comment by norman784 in "New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra"

norman784 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:15:22 +0000

So weird, launching M6 so silently.

New comment by norman784 in "Rewriting in Rust"

norman784 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:22:42 +0000

Wasn’t their newer text editor/IDE written in Rust? I forgot how it was called and also didn’t followed up with their development.

New comment by norman784 in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

norman784 — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:06:17 +0000

In 2018 when Windows and macOS used 2GB just after boot, I tried Arch Linux and with a neat window manager (dwm) a clean boot was using just 300MB, that means our OS is wasting just too much RAM for nothing. This year with Fedora Atomic 44 + Niri is using 800MB, so I can give a second life to my old device from 2013.

New comment by norman784 in "Zed DeltaDB"

norman784 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:59:41 +0000

Did you check if the resources were consumed by the LSP or Zed? Also there was a Zed fork without the AI stuff, not sure if is a hard fork or not and if is still maintained (IIRC wasnt hosted on Github)

New comment by norman784 in "You don't need React: creating a minimal UI library in Vanilla JavaScript"

norman784 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:23:38 +0000

For me, what the browser needs it's a good DX to build components, I kind of like Svelte and Vue in that regard, where your CSS, HTML and JS lives all together.

Writing a CSS file with the time will start growing and at some point will be very hard to know what to keep and what to delete, I think this is the reason why tailwind became popular, because it keep only the used rules, now the downside is that now your html elements has ton of classes.

New comment by norman784 in "Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals"

norman784 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:59:51 +0000

The issue with Rust proc macros is that they are impure, so even with incremental compilation, you need to expand them every time.

New comment by norman784 in "Zig's Incremental Compilation Internals"

norman784 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:54:08 +0000

Not OP, but AFAIK one big issue with FIL-C it does the checks at runtime, adding overhead, don't quote me on this, but IIRC is around 20% slower.

New comment by norman784 in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

norman784 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:18:53 +0000

AFAIK the high end chips are made in Taiwan, that's not the same. Also there was an export control, so ASML couldn't sell the latest equipment to China.

New comment by norman784 in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

norman784 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:10:20 +0000

How important is stable ABI for projects like Bun? I think it only matters if you are building a shared library.