Hacker News: nsonha

New comment by nsonha in "A Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting"

nsonha — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 01:00:36 +0000

I instantly lose respect to any man that "drove crowded roads like a maniac, and got bored and slowed down on open ones. He wrecked a car roughly every year"

New comment by nsonha in "JetBrains Thinkrail"

nsonha — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:49:17 +0000

sorry just double checked what I said, it wasn't true, no such announcement. I misremembered

New comment by nsonha in "JetBrains Thinkrail"

nsonha — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:46:59 +0000

I think they said they will discontinue Air, it currently supports codex and claude as harness as opposed to pi, and own UI lib (this one seems web/electron based), shame.

New comment by nsonha in "A farewell to Arc browser"

nsonha — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:01:10 +0000

> vertical tabs, that's it

split panels, profile switcher, tab groups...

The 90% remaining are UI gimmicks that are irrelevant anyway (mods, custom cursor, free canvas?). Even when Arc was still alive they're useless which is why the browser died (it sucked at doing things that matter). Zen just picked up this lack of focus and make it worse with the solo maintainer situation.

New comment by nsonha in "A farewell to Arc browser"

nsonha — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:21:33 +0000

> first

Firefox has those features now, that's all that matters. Not sure I wanna trust a solo dev on my daily browser, however competent they are.

New comment by nsonha in "Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash"

nsonha — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:57:37 +0000

I've never been a host but I can't see why this would be a problem that AirBnB should make a call on. I've travelled to places where they have different social norms and visitors should adapt to local culture.

New comment by nsonha in "Nexus-CLI – Pure Go Bridge to DeepSeek R1/V3 with Claude Code and Ollama Support"

nsonha — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:50:03 +0000

How is this on the front page? Stealing from the Chinese is good?

New comment by nsonha in "The Dock on Mac, from OS 10 to macOS 27"

nsonha — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:30:21 +0000

Most useless UI element

New comment by nsonha in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

nsonha — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:48:27 +0000

isn't that what arm trade has always been since the beginning of history?

what's the name of that country who's really good at this stuff? I can't remember

New comment by nsonha in "Gemini 4 Argon"

nsonha — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:09:32 +0000

This is not about vision or anything like that it's about thinking like actual engineers and understand that what accidentally IS will always be inferior to what is designated to (can) be. TUIs will always be a hack and good by accident.

New comment by nsonha in "MonoCode: GUI for Coding Agents"

nsonha — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:12:43 +0000

What's the logic behind not showing people the thing they are offered to download? And when you "peek" it, the thing seems... pretty standard stuff

New comment by nsonha in "Gemini 4 Argon"

nsonha — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:57:19 +0000

GUI is not just your "overlapping windows" straw man, it's interactivity, plus graphical display. Yes via a taxonomy hack TUI is not GUI and there are technical hacks that bring graphics to TUIs these days, but the point remains that we need complex (but not overlapping windows, sure!) interactivity and rich display capability.

That is what we need, and if you're making the argument that a terminal shell is the best place to provide them then I don't know what to say.

New comment by nsonha in "Gemini 4 Argon"

nsonha — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 10:23:04 +0000

You're a software engineer living in a middle of an AI revolution and you confuse what IS with what CAN BE? GUI can be good people just didn't do them because it took time and the foundation was shit (for the options that didn't take time). That all changes now when a new class of software can be generated with AI. Unfortunately the people generating software and their users still base the decision on what IS (with highly technical reasoning such as "infinitely better"). People literally have the power to define what IS these days. I've only recently switched from claude and codex cli to their respective apps and those apps while not the best gui apps, already infinitely better than tui. The tui is actually hurting my main usage of them which is controlling agent programmatically. The only really point I'd give for TUI is compatibility. Running coding agent directly on android/ios is nice sometimes.

New comment by nsonha in "Sonnet 5.5"

nsonha — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:45:02 +0000

I don't do this at my day job (coworkers would be pretty mad). This is for software ideas that come up weekly that I need to execute to at least MVP before I ever need branching/merging

Not complex at all, only one extra session other than the ones doing work and it's on a dumb model and can be thrown away & restarted because it only dispatches work, not doing anything.

I do everything in there, collecting requirements, kick off research, branching, merging, not one other agent on top. I considered making that orchestration command llm-powered but it's not justified at my current use.

It's not more expensive, in fact I could have just chugged along with the slow and manual session by session work but I have a claude subscription and another GLM one (the most low cost basic tier, not even much), that just sit there collecting dust if I don't put them to use in a more efficient way.

And doing session by session would face your problem when context switching too much become unscalable.

New comment by nsonha in "The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire"

nsonha — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:29:29 +0000

Self censorship is the term I believe. As an Asian I definitely do have this part of my brain that tells me to handle everything in a pragmatic, locally optimal way, even when it's unjust.

New comment by nsonha in "Sonnet 5.5"

nsonha — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:00:03 +0000

I created an orchestration skill for myself (using herdr but any persistent mechanism works). So I then only interact with a front session and it will triage and dispatch each request to the relevant spaces (each of them can have multiple worktrees of the same project), summarize movements and pending decisions for me all at once. I do not directly interact with a multiplexer or any dashboard.

New comment by nsonha in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 Series"

nsonha — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:28:18 +0000

6 years since M series and arm PC still hasn't picked up

New comment by nsonha in "Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented"

nsonha — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:49:47 +0000

The difference is similar to that of people with insane net worth to normal people. You have lots of leverage to do globally impactful things (positive or otherwise). You're there by lining up a long series of met conditions, not by virtues only.

New comment by nsonha in "Minimal Phone 2"

nsonha — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:57:27 +0000

Can I have the "minimal phone" that is a powerful ai assisted productive computing device. Minimal in UI only and not literally an useless machine?

New comment by nsonha in "The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire"

nsonha — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:38:13 +0000

Public security cameras are not widely deployed, like, at all. However the police state in Vietnam (the current president came from the same position Putin held before presidency) has adopt this amusing practice of showing up & demanding security footage from private houses' cameras facing the street (which, turns out to cover much more than surveillance cams could ever).

More insane is them also passing a law that forbid usages of the same footages for citizen journalism purposes. This came out after someone posted a footage from their home cam recording that controversial accident when a congressman hit and kill a high-schooler unprosecuted. You can look it up.