Hacker News: rhlsthrm

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Show HN: Jacquard, a programming language for AI-written, human-reviewed code"

rhlsthrm — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:33:27 +0000

Why do you think LLMs write prompts for LLMs badly? I use LLMs to write and refine prompts all the time. The prompts seem to come out very good. What are you basing this on?

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Claude Code Routines"

rhlsthrm — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:36:37 +0000

It's crazy because when Sonnet came out it was heralded as the best thing since sliced bread, and now people are literally saying it's "useless". I wonder if this is our collective expectations increasing or the models are getting worse.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge"

rhlsthrm — Wed, 19 May 2021 03:22:29 +0000

The early adopters will be the ones who reap the rewards.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge"

rhlsthrm — Wed, 19 May 2021 03:21:41 +0000

Aave, Compound are both not Ponzi schemes and allow you to lock things like USDC and ETH (also not Ponzi schemes) for others to borrow, and earn interest. It's automated lending, I don't understand how people are not excited about this.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Ethereum 2.0 launches"

rhlsthrm — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 08:17:41 +0000

> Very rarely has any cryptographic algorithm been broken, but often one of the other links in the trust chain has broken.

The whole point of Ethereum is to reduce/eliminate those links in the trust chain.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Philosophers on GPT-3"

rhlsthrm — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 09:20:39 +0000

How'd you get access to the API? When I tried it said it's full!

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Building a Developer Cult"

rhlsthrm — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 10:39:23 +0000

Cryptocurrency gets a bad rap here (most of it rightfully so), but one thing is for sure, once you use it you realize how broken digital payment infrastructure is. With crypto, I can trivially send any amount of money very cheaply across any sort of borders. Also, accepting crypto as a merchant is extremely easy even to roll your own custom solution.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Systems Design for Advanced Beginners"

rhlsthrm — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 07:28:22 +0000

Just recently started messing with AWS Amplify. It's crazy how easy it makes basically all this stuff. It really makes it simple to be a solo founder and manage every piece of the stack.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Moving from TypeScript to Rust / WebAssembly"

rhlsthrm — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:44:29 +0000

Interesting, one of the big reasons I want to learn Rust is to "future proof" myself once JS loses its monopoly on the web. Maybe Kotlin will be a better one than Rust?

New comment by rhlsthrm in "How to write PureScript react components to replace JavaScript"

rhlsthrm — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 10:45:25 +0000

Can you explain more about writing JS in an FP style? I'd love to start to incorporate more FP in my JS but I don't really know how to start doing that. I've looked at fp-ts but it seems like that would require a full rewrite. Any tips for how to basically start from 0 and start to implement FP into an existing JS/TS codebase?

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Ask HN: How to develop a growth mindset?"

rhlsthrm — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 13:19:21 +0000

Yeah that's mind blowing to me. Lots of people think these ultra successful people are just immensely talented but overlook the insane amount of work they put in. My new theory for success is around obsession. If you find something that you can be completely and utterly obsessed with, that's how you can ultimately cultivate enough skill at it to be successful.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot"

rhlsthrm — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 15:15:26 +0000

It seems like WebAssembly will allow high level languages to get close to the "browser metal", so I think we will see declarative frameworks that are closer to the metal compared to React. I'm wondering if Rust is the best language to learn to get a headstart on that.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Teach Yourself Computer Science"

rhlsthrm — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 11:59:38 +0000

Rust also seems like a great choice because of its close ties with WebAssembly. Web developers who learn it should have an advantage as the tooling starts to get better around WASM.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Billionaire, Board Game God and Tech's Hidden Disruptor (2019)"

rhlsthrm — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 15:22:05 +0000

Can you give an example of how you can apply software system design principles to boardgame design? Genuinely curious.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Ask HN: What’s a big trend we should all be following?"

rhlsthrm — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 12:11:29 +0000

What kind of things are people using them for? It seems like most of the low-code stuff I see is more low-code tools and examples of things that can be done with low-code. Are there examples of things that are really novel with low code?

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Mozilla VPN"

rhlsthrm — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:50:11 +0000

Totally agree. I feel like I trust Safari in terms of privacy as well, and it works so well in the walled garden of iOS/macos. I really hope they get it up to date with the latest web standards, it's a joy to use otherwise.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "The Next Step for Generics"

rhlsthrm — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 10:55:18 +0000

This is cool to hear. I've been interested in Haskell/OCaml to learn functional programming. Rust has other cool applications like WebAssembly too. I think I'll start learning it after I learn Clojure (trying to get into functional stuff first with Lisp).

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Show HN: Kumologica – Low-Code Integration Toolkit for Serverless Compute"

rhlsthrm — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 10:43:04 +0000

I think of it as "zero ops" API endpoints. I have some serverless functions deployed on Vercel. I wrote some Typescript code, pushed it to a file in a directory called api/. Now every time I call my function endpoint, the function runs and returns my result. I don't have to provision anything or set up any ops. The serverless part takes care of spinning up whatever compute it needs, runs my code fully statelessly, and returns my result. I don't have to touch or think about scaling anything. I'm a developer who wants to spend time on features and code, and remove myself from the dev ops as much as possible. That's why I love serverless and use it whenever I can.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "No Code"

rhlsthrm — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 12:25:05 +0000

This makes me feel like there's a good niche for "developer-friendly no-code". I'm a developer and I don't like no-code solutions for all the things you mention. These current tools try to abstract a lot but it ends up becoming severely limited and hard to debug/extend. They might be okay for things like internal business tools, which is what most of them seem to be targeting. On the other hand, I've been playing with Hasura recently. As a full-stack developer, it's amazing. It gets rid of tons of boilerplate for back end dev, and I can focus on building features rather than CRUD plumbing. It's easily extensible using serverless functions. It feels like it's helpful to me more than trying to replace what I do.

New comment by rhlsthrm in "Play Counter-Strike 1.6 in your browser"

rhlsthrm — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 14:39:13 +0000

I guess I haven't done too much outside of web to know much else :). However I have done some iOS stuff and the tools are okay but much less open source, documentation, etc.