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New comment by pcmaffey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)"

pcmaffey — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:24:44 +0000

Higharc | REMOTE | Full-time | https://higharc.com

Thousands of homes have been built with Higharc since 2022. We’re changing the way homebuilders design, sell, estimate, and build, resulting in better, more affordable homes.

I’m starting a new Labs team to expand our platform and explore new markets in residential construction. I’m especially looking for a rare, entrepreneurial product engineer:

* Staff Software Engineer, Labs - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/higharc/c620be3c-6529-4776-9f02-da1...

We’re also hiring across all teams, from fullstack generalists to ML engineers, keenly interested in folks looking for deep, technical challenges:

* Director of Engineering, Studio - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/higharc/469e843e-58c4-4e07-91be-d9a...

* Senior Software Engineer, Geometric Modeling/CAD - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/higharc/d5fbcbf0-0b50-4561-87e6-71c...

* More roles here https://www.higharc.com/company/careers

This is an exceptional opportunity to work on something with real-world impact, with a team of talented & passionate folks across a wide range of domains. We are ~200 people across the world (mostly US) and growing quickly. We were recently named to Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2026.

Thanks to everyone who previously reached out and/or applied (all 1300+ of you)

New comment by pcmaffey in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

pcmaffey — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:57:20 +0000

Funny, I just today merged our migration from Next (with turbopack, page router, ~200 pages) to Vite + Tanstack Router. Builds went from 2.5m to 25s.

But even bigger was the improvement to dev mode compile times. With Vite it’s near instant. With Next running our e2e tests in development was utter pain.

So happy to leave next & vercel behind.

New comment by pcmaffey in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026)"

pcmaffey — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:28:29 +0000

Higharc | REMOTE | Full-time | https://higharc.com

Thousands of homes have been built with Higharc since 2022. We’re changing the way homebuilders design, sell, estimate, and build, resulting in better, more affordable homes.

I’m starting a new Labs team focused on rapid experimentation, to expand our platform and explore new markets in residential construction. I’m looking for a few rare, entrepreneurial founding members:

* Staff Software Engineer - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/higharc/c620be3c-6529-4776-9f02-da1...

* Senior AI Engineer - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/higharc/4cedbfac-f0ad-42c0-abed-3f1...

* Senior Design Systems Engineer - https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/higharc/26f3d61d-5027-44c8-bd17-b3b...

This is an exceptional opportunity to work on something with real-world impact, with a team of talented & passionate folks across a wide range of domains. We are ~200 people across the world (mostly US) and growing quickly. You can reach out to me with questions at "moc.crahgih@yeffamretep".split('').reverse().join('')

We are also hiring across all teams (creative tooling, ML, computational geometry, integrations, etc.): https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/higharc

New comment by pcmaffey in "Gemini 3 Deep Think drew me a good SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"

pcmaffey — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:00:54 +0000

Now animate it with SMIL

New comment by pcmaffey in "Resurrecting Crimsonland – Decompiling and preserving a cult 2003 classic game"

pcmaffey — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:34:53 +0000

Bravo, that’s a seriously impressive undertaking, and a great demonstration of the augmentation potential in agentic coding. There’s so much focus on replacing entry-level work it gets missed what these power tools can do in the hands of people who know what they’re doing.

New comment by pcmaffey in "Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings"

pcmaffey — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:51:49 +0000

A filter for how it looks in 3+ years too would be nice.

AInxiety

pcmaffey — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:19:49 +0000

Article URL: https://pcmaffey.com/ainxiety-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46719559

Points: 1

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New comment by pcmaffey in "Canada Announces Divorce from America"

pcmaffey — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:11:49 +0000

Everywhere has its south.

AInxiety

pcmaffey — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:22:09 +0000

Article URL: https://pcmaffey.com/ainxiety-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686746

Points: 2

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New comment by pcmaffey in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

pcmaffey — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:16:15 +0000

https://pcmaffey.com

I write to “poison” AI with my ideas. Mostly about software development. And being human in a computer world. I'm a Staff Engineer... I make games on the side.

New comment by pcmaffey in "Mozilla's open source AI strategy"

pcmaffey — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:16:53 +0000

It’s an interesting choice to frame this initiative around “open AI”. That’s quite a battle to pick right out of the gate.

New comment by pcmaffey in "Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming"

pcmaffey — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 05:02:24 +0000

Thanks, it’s a few years old. Rereading it now it’s kind of incoherent. But of primary importance now I think is the idea of making software (and systems) resilient, self healing. Traditional concepts of agile are mostly paved over with modern constructs and self-serving processes. I think AI will be an earthquake for many companies.

New comment by pcmaffey in "Project ideas to appreciate the art of programming"

pcmaffey — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 02:10:59 +0000

I’m legit curious what you think about (Origins of Agile in Japanese Stone Masonry) [https://pcmaffey.com/origins-of-agile/]

New comment by pcmaffey in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

pcmaffey — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 03:44:29 +0000

Stories don’t exist on paper or even on screen. They exist in the space in between words in your mind.

Next.js Sucks; or Why I Wrote My Own SSG

pcmaffey — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:58:31 +0000

Article URL: https://pcmaffey.com/custom-ssg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46355163

Points: 2

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Next.js Sucks; or Why I Wrote My Own SSG

pcmaffey — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:45:24 +0000

Article URL: https://pcmaffey.com/custom-ssg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46274445

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by pcmaffey in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

pcmaffey — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:30:52 +0000

From my post:

> Staring at the errors in my CLI, I realized I did not want to use another framework. It's why I had already discarded the idea of switching to Astro. Twiddling around someone else's abstractions and incentives, frustrations fitting together the final 20% of a project... I've been down that road too many times before. It's never fun. The tradeoffs _you don't know you're making_ are the biggest risk.

New comment by pcmaffey in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

pcmaffey — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:10:27 +0000

A side project for my side project: I built my own static site generator with React islands architecture and MDX support, using Bun. (Build your site from .mdx files, output only html+css, progressively hydrate the client with React only as needed).

I wrote about it here: https://pcmaffey.com/custom-ssg/

Forkable template: https://github.com/pcmaffey/bun-ssg

New comment by pcmaffey in "Mathematicians discover prime number pattern in fractal chaos"

pcmaffey — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:40:55 +0000

Try base 6.

New comment by pcmaffey in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

pcmaffey — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:23:03 +0000

Hey, I appreciate your writing and the logical development from A to B to RSC. I just don’t think that 95% of react applications care about this use case, or want to introduce the complexity necessary to support it. But history will tell, I could certainly be wrong.

As for the origin story, didn’t Next run an experimental release of RSC way before it was GA in react 19? I don’t want to take anything away from your contributions to it, and if you can tell me that react 19 was not at all shaped by Vercel I’ll accept that. But it goes against the general perception that RSC is heavily supported by Vercel, to feed into their hosting business.