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New comment by noveltyaccount in "Nvidia is proposing a beast of a CPU system for Windows PCs"

noveltyaccount — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:17:55 +0000

> “Our goal is to deliver unmetered intelligence to every home and every desk with Windows,” said Satya Nadella, chairman and CEO of Microsoft. “RTX Spark marks a real breakthrough towards that vision.”

I expect computers with this chip will be about $4000. If Microsoft can deliver on local AI models that can orchestrate Windows and have solid real world intelligence, that will be an inexpensive business purchase compared to pay as you go tokens. I'm excited to see how this plays out.

New comment by noveltyaccount in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

noveltyaccount — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:23:21 +0000

Same. I wish there was a good story for .NET UI on desktop, mobile, and web. I find Maui Blazor Hybrid to be pretty close. The desktop and mobile variants compile to a webview bound to native code (no WASM, no JS), and the Web variant compiled to WASM. Much leaner than Electron. Pretty clunky though last time I tried though that was three years ago.

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

noveltyaccount — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:34:03 +0000

Right now the demand for the code I produce is me :) Ideas I've always wanted to pursue but never had the time. Now I have the time.

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

noveltyaccount — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:23:47 +0000

I'm someone with 20 years in software and the last 10 in management. I have good instincts, good design pattern knowledge, and understand system design well. But my actual coding skills are rusty, I can do it but it takes a lot of time to RTFM because specific libraries and syntax aren't on the top of my mind.

With AI I can build. I'm having so much fun turning ideas into code. I can do a week's worth of work before lunch. I can ask AI to add comments so detailed that my code becomes a refresher tutorial.

It's so exciting to be able to bring my ideas to life, make use of my experience, and not be hobbled by my somewhat atrophied hands-on coding skills. I for one welcome this revolution.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

noveltyaccount — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:46:21 +0000

This prompt defines the translation as a file for file, line for line port. Seems like historical knowledge will be fine.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Men who stare at walls"

noveltyaccount — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:59:10 +0000

I go for walks or runs--without headphones. If I listen to music or a podcast, my mind doesn't wander. I need that quiet for processing.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Show HN: Honker – Postgres NOTIFY/LISTEN Semantics for SQLite"

noveltyaccount — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:55:52 +0000

This is really interesting. I'm building something on Postgresql with LISTEN/NOTIFY and Postgraphile. I'd love to (in theory) be able to have a swappable backend and not be so tightly coupled to the database server.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Do you even need a database?"

noveltyaccount — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:02:39 +0000

As soon as you need to do a JOIN, you're either rewriting a database or replatforming on Sqlite.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

noveltyaccount — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:51:59 +0000

Yes, and they have features like default soft delete with hard delete after x days that makes it a very compelling backup choice (guard against malware and mistakes). I'm a satisfied customer.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

noveltyaccount — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:20:04 +0000

I started a project on Expo recently and my god, a thousand dependencies later, it was running.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Postgraphile v5 Released"

noveltyaccount — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:52:21 +0000

I'm using it on a project now and have been very impressed. It really lives up to its goal of getting out of the way and automating the tedium. I think about my Postgresql schema, row level security, and let the magic give me a GQL API with websockets too.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

noveltyaccount — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:13:44 +0000

That would be very cool, get an upgraded model every couple of months. Maybe PCIe form factor.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

noveltyaccount — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:31:00 +0000

> separate models for /plan and /build

I had not considered that, seems like a great solution for local models that may be more resource-constrained.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Qwen3-Coder-Next"

noveltyaccount — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:29:04 +0000

I think I like coding models that know a lot about the world. They can disambiguate my requirements and build better products.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options"

noveltyaccount — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 04:36:05 +0000

Samsung had a hidden hospitality menu, or hotel mode, search for how to access it for your model. You can have it go right to an input on power on.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme"

noveltyaccount — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:38:39 +0000

I'm so glad that there's room for this kind of investigative journalism in this day and age. Kudos!

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Patterns.dev"

noveltyaccount — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 06:01:28 +0000

In my senior year of college two decades ago, I needed one or two credit hours to finish up, and I signed up for a once per week software patents (as in, intellectual property, I thought) course. It turned out to be a patterns course taught by none other than Ralph Johnson and the text was his famous Gang of Four Design Patterns book. Happy accident, it turned out to be among the most professionally useful courses I ever took.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Johnson_(computer_scient...

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

noveltyaccount — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:00:27 +0000

I'm with you, a little pogo-pin connector with all the charging circuitry in the external dongle would add, I don't know, ten dollars to the BOM. Very cool product but I won't buy a gadget I know I'd dispose in two years.

New comment by noveltyaccount in "Copenhagenize Index 2025: The Global Ranking of Bicycle-Friendly Cities"

noveltyaccount — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:15:24 +0000

In Copenhagen, the vast majority of people park their bikes on the street using only a cafe lock (frame mounted, immobilizes the rear wheel). The bikes are generally nothing special, old rusty junkers, with one or three gears. E-bikes flatten terrain but also you need an indoor place to store it and they become a magnet for theft. A cheap bike you can ride to the Metro and leave in the elements is versatile in a way e-bikes are not. (I say all this as a massive e-bike fan living in a very hilly US city who recently visited Copenhagen and adored its bike culture.)

New comment by noveltyaccount in "The Secret Superfood of Thanksgiving"

noveltyaccount — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:41:35 +0000

Author explains some anti patterns with too much fat, so I'd guess baked or boiled with a dallop of butter or oil and little salt is a good approach.