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New comment by octernion in "Grok 4.5"

octernion — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:24:27 +0000

the author of the study? albert einstein.

(lmao if you are actually talking about that janky wash post "study")

New comment by octernion in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

octernion — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:36:21 +0000

that's not really the purpose of the library. think of it more like react.

New comment by octernion in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

octernion — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:36:04 +0000

hopefully can share some more about it one day!

New comment by octernion in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

octernion — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:35:45 +0000

no, it's not open source. beyond basic things like amending the styling primitives to be aligned with our aesthetic: - missing primitives (toasts/cards/stacks/inline editable fields/alerts/chips/inputs, etc) - domain heavy components (eg, autocomplete, charts, in our case FHIR renderers) - app systems (eg, i built an actioncable like system which has realtime support for dioxus)

New comment by octernion in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

octernion — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:26:23 +0000

... his whole point was that people don't want to live in cities, which is just factually incorrect. just baseless, pointless idiocy that is just par for the course on HN these days.

New comment by octernion in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

octernion — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:19:29 +0000

sometimes i just really enjoy comments that are just so amazingly breathtaking in their stupidity. it's such a treat.

New comment by octernion in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

octernion — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:38:42 +0000

i've recently built a very complex healthcare application in dioxus and it's been a tremendous joy to work with. right now it's web-only, but the app does run fine as a desktop app when we need it.

having SSR built in means that the UX is amazing - really complex pages load basically instantly, and it degrades just as easily for folks that haven't loaded the WASM. server functions were also fantastic to work with and easy to reason about. and, the hot reloading they built means that most UX changes are reloaded within a ~few seconds, meaning iterating is fast and (mostly) painless.

the native component library dioxus has (dioxus-primitives) is... sparse so i did have to build out a hundred or so basic components, but i've done that across various stacks 5-6 times now over my career so it's a fun little journey at this point. for the components they do provide, the quality bar is very good.

New comment by octernion in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

octernion — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:59:29 +0000

congrats, lev! brings back fond memories of database fires.

i'm sure you'll get 100x comments about "why not just have one fast SSD? it can do 2000 trillion writes/s"

New comment by octernion in "Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid"

octernion — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:33:00 +0000

ah yes the famine was because the people were lazy and did not want to farm. the history understander has logged on for everyone here!

New comment by octernion in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

octernion — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:57:35 +0000

having played that when it came out, my conclusion was that no, i will definitely be able to be on a beach; i am too meaty and fleshy to be good paperclip

New comment by octernion in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

octernion — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:42:19 +0000

do... do the "poison" people actually think that will make a difference? that's hilarious.

New comment by octernion in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

octernion — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:31:17 +0000

that was precisely my reaction as well. phew machines will deal with the timestamp issue and i can just sit on a beach while we singularityize or whatever.

New comment by octernion in "The rapid rise and slow decline of Sam Altman"

octernion — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 19:41:47 +0000

does he think truly think e.g. opus 4.5 is "plateaued"? i really can't even vaguely take him seriously if he actually thinks that. what a silly man.

New comment by octernion in "Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover"

octernion — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 18:25:46 +0000

you think we should platform racism?

New comment by octernion in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

octernion — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:20:13 +0000

thanks man i'm very happy with myself

New comment by octernion in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

octernion — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 19:11:27 +0000

hmm all of my assumptions have been wildly correct and you are just further confirming it. good stuff my dude. sorry you choose a place like that to live. sounds miserable.

i'll be sure to wave at the other drivers next time i'm in town in a zoox or waymo and then go back to doing literally anything else than driving.

New comment by octernion in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

octernion — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:13:31 +0000

oh the humanity, maybe on the order of a few minutes. that changes nothing. we should be inconveniencing human drivers more, if anything.

that you feel obligated to use words like "sophistry" tells me everything i need to know about you.

New comment by octernion in "Zoox robotaxi launches in Las Vegas"

octernion — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 17:44:14 +0000

heartless society is when someone has to wait at a red light for a few more seconds. and yes, enumerating a set of silly non-law "rules" you expect drivers on the road to follow is the definition of entitlement.

New comment by octernion in "A computer upgrade shut down BART"

octernion — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:36:22 +0000

your tax money broadly speaking doesn't go to BART; it's massively underfunded. not sure why they are the target of the snark.

New comment by octernion in "Bluesky now platform of choice for science community"

octernion — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:04:57 +0000

as a threads user since the beginning and a big fan of the platform, my answer is strongly "no."

which is my favorite reason to be there and i hope it doesn't change.

it's full of instagram and facebook users, which to use the common parlance, are all "normies." it's full of normal people have normal opinions in small spaces. there's very little viral posts or bits or memes that are carried outwards.

that being said dril started posting again there recently as have some other bigger ex weird twitter people so who knows.