Hacker News: realprimoh

New comment by realprimoh in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

realprimoh — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:51:54 +0000

This being on the front page of hacker news is embarassing. Low substance post that is misleading if anything - I was hoping for a career reflection. Not a low-quality "pat on the back" post of no value

New comment by realprimoh in "Alternatives to Terragon Labs"

realprimoh — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:35:29 +0000

Why not use Claude Code Web or Codex on Web directly?

New comment by realprimoh in "Talent"

realprimoh — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:33:34 +0000

Why is that weird? The author is obviously impressed by writers, given they have an interesting in writing themselves, so it makes sense to use writers as an example.

And why is writing a less valuable profession than another job? Writing is also "doing a thing" - it just so happens to be a profession for some, a great one for those who are skilled and gifted at it.

New comment by realprimoh in "Your data model is your destiny"

realprimoh — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:55:08 +0000

This reminds me of "Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships. (https://read.engineerscodex.com/p/good-programmers-worry-abo...).

From Linus Torvalds:

"git actually has a simple design, with stable and reasonably well-documented data structures. In fact, I'm a huge proponent of designing your code around the data, rather than the other way around, and I think it's one of the reasons git has been fairly successful […] I will, in fact, claim that the difference between a bad programmer and a good one is whether he considers his code or his data structures more important.

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Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships."

New comment by realprimoh in "Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version"

realprimoh — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:16:07 +0000

Agree this is great from Larian. Though BG3 does run fine on Steam Deck as it is, especially for such a large game.

New comment by realprimoh in "Gemini CLI GitHub Actions"

realprimoh — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 16:37:29 +0000

People have been saying this for the last 10 years.

New comment by realprimoh in "Show HN: Heart Rate Zones Plus – The first iOS app I developed"

realprimoh — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 04:28:48 +0000

There are apps that do this. Check out Zolt or Gentler Streak.

New comment by realprimoh in "Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think"

realprimoh — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:04:06 +0000

The real problem with most "business co-founders" is that they are lazy and don't put in effort. Full-stop. I've seen this happen with enough of my peers that a "business co-founder" is never called a "business co-founder", but rather an operator or salesperson.

New comment by realprimoh in "How I blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare"

realprimoh — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 19:28:47 +0000

This is hilarious, and so true

New comment by realprimoh in "A man powers home for eight years using a thousand old laptop batteries"

realprimoh — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 20:31:00 +0000

this part: "key to making the system work effectively and sustainably".

New comment by realprimoh in "Launch HN: ASim (YC S21) – Mobile app that generates mobile apps"

realprimoh — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 16:30:17 +0000

Looks awesome! How do you plan to monetize down the road?

New comment by realprimoh in "Ask HN: Favorite Blog in 2024?"

realprimoh — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 01:31:29 +0000

Engineer's Codex is great: https://read.engineerscodex.com/

New comment by realprimoh in "Shipping Threads in 5 months"

realprimoh — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 04:35:28 +0000

This comment makes no sense. How has Threads failed? It's literally the #1 free app on the App Store right now and has been for a while.

New comment by realprimoh in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

realprimoh — Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:42:40 +0000

The fact that these are Roblox games are blowing my mind. Wow!

New comment by realprimoh in "Llama-3.1 supports tool calls via prompting"

realprimoh — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 01:20:24 +0000

So do most LLMs now days, no?

New comment by realprimoh in "How to think in writing"

realprimoh — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 23:56:27 +0000

How is Paul Graham not an actual writer? He has written some extremely influential essays that have reached outside of just Silicon Valley.

New comment by realprimoh in "Show HN: Lightweight, React IDE component which runs user written Python code"

realprimoh — Thu, 02 May 2024 05:07:38 +0000

This is EXTREMELY cool!! Thanks so much for making this, I'm definitely going to be using this. :D

New comment by realprimoh in "How to Use SQLite as a NoSQL Store"

realprimoh — Thu, 02 May 2024 04:08:47 +0000

At that point, why not just use a SQL database with a JSONB column and then add columns as you slowly finalize your schema? :)

New comment by realprimoh in "Software Design Principles I Learned the Hard Way"

realprimoh — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:29:04 +0000

Agree with not using mocks and following PRY especially. Oh man - it's so easy to want to make code so neat and clean with perfect reusable classes and tests, but honestly, its more effort than its worth in 99% of cases.

New comment by realprimoh in "CSS Bonfire"

realprimoh — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 18:14:55 +0000

Very cool. Is there a source for this?