Hacker News: rho4

New comment by rho4 in "Most arguments are about ego, not ideas"

rho4 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:25:27 +0000

> I'm not sure people are reading comment chains deeply enough to be swayed by two strangers arguing online

HN comments sway me more than any other source nowadays. Reading comments not directed at myself probably makes it easier because my ego does not feel attacked.

New comment by rho4 in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

rho4 — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:20:36 +0000

I really liked the specific actionable steps in the TLDR.

New comment by rho4 in "Reverse Engineering SimTower"

rho4 — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:17:54 +0000

You can only serve the 3 closest levels to a lobby with stairs or escalators.

New comment by rho4 in "Composition shouldn't be this hard"

rho4 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:15:27 +0000

I guess I wanted to say that no tool/technology can prevent people from creating chaos (or make up for bad/non-existant processes). People need to do that. Of course, systematic people use tools as well. But you can't expect to buy or mandate a tool/technology and expect your system to then automatically have these qualities.

New comment by rho4 in "Composition shouldn't be this hard"

rho4 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:11:30 +0000

Not sure if tools and technologies can solve accidental complexity.

In my opinion, a system that has been stable for years isn't 'mature' in a good sense. An exceptional system is one that can still change after many years in production.

I believe this is almost impossible to achieve for enterprise software, because nobody has incentive to make the (huge) investment into longterm maintainability and changeability.

For me, consistent systematic naming and prefixes/suffixes to make names unique are a hint that a person is thinking about this or has experience with maintaining old systems. This has a huge effect on how well you can search, analyze, find usages, understand, replace, change.

New comment by rho4 in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

rho4 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:01:55 +0000

A few of my favorites:

- "Not-Boxes": Negatively formulated text (disable... / don't...)

- "Button-Checkboxes": Checkboxes with verbs that trigger actions

- "Radio-Checkboxes": Radios that are actually checkboxes (not mutually exclusive)

- "Toggle-Checkboxes": Checkboxes that are actually toggle buttons and can't decided wheter the text should show the current state or the state that will happen when you click.

New comment by rho4 in "Monosketch"

rho4 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:38:46 +0000

Same for me. Add a 'paste text to clipboard'-button top center.

New comment by rho4 in "Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)"

rho4 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:13:19 +0000

I meant it more as feedback, to be aware that some people might have this reaction. I do believe it is sincere in the beginning.

New comment by rho4 in "Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)"

rho4 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:49:27 +0000

I developed an aversion to "with love"-marketing. I've seen too many products come full circle from idealistic "ad-free-forever" "will-never-sell-your-data" "open-source-forever" "customer-first" student-times to selling out everything.

New comment by rho4 in "What happened to WebAssembly"

rho4 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:51:49 +0000

The author makes beautiful concise statements that make me feel like he has a deep, big-picture kind of understanding of computing.

I think this person would be very satisfying to work with, because decisions would be based on a discussion of tradeoffs, and an awareness of similar technologies and approaches throughout computing history.

New comment by rho4 in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

rho4 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:40:19 +0000

Ouch, so painful to read.

New comment by rho4 in "Java Decompiler"

rho4 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 15:03:45 +0000

Or when you're too lazy to hunt down the sources, both for internal and external dependencies. Just Ctrl+click the method and have a quick look at the decompiled implementation, usually good enough.

New comment by rho4 in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

rho4 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:38:20 +0000

And then there is the moderate position: Don't be the person refusing the use a calculator / PC / mobile phone / AI. Regularly give the new tool a chance and check if improvements are useful for specific tasks. And carry on with your life.

New comment by rho4 in "What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription"

rho4 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 08:52:28 +0000

I like the AI-disclaimer :). This might become a thing for blog and news articles: (c) all words written by on without AI. And then there will be a robots.txt directive that allows collection of this self-declared human material for AI training. And a google search option: "ai:no" :)

Why does AI not know my name?

rho4 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 23:24:27 +0000

Is anyone else frustrated by their phone‘s autocomplete not suggesting their name?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45841783

Points: 1

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New comment by rho4 in "The trust collapse: Infinite AI content is awful"

rho4 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 15:02:12 +0000

Well said. Sad how that reflex starts kicking in for HN comments as well (ps I'm not getting any signals from your comment).

New comment by rho4 in "Developers are choosing older AI models"

rho4 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:35:57 +0000

Yes, I feel the same recently with Google results. But I think I would still like to see the immediate 10 results, along with a big button "Try harder - not feeling very lucky".

New comment by rho4 in "Developers are choosing older AI models"

rho4 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 10:16:37 +0000

I understand your point, but I still prefer instantaneous responses.

Only when the immediate answers become completely useless will I want to look into slower alternatives.

But first "show me what you've got so far", and let me decide whether it's good enough or not.

New comment by rho4 in "Developers are choosing older AI models"

rho4 — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 09:40:30 +0000

This. Speed determines whether I (like to) use a piece of software.

Imagine waiting for a minute until Google spits out the first 10 results.

My prediction: All AI models of the future will give an immediate result, with more and more innovation in mechanisms and UX to drill down further on request.

Edit: After reading my reply I realize that this is also true for interactions with other people. I like interacting with people who give me a 1 sentence response to my question, and only start elaborating and going on tangents and down rabbit holes upon request.

Market data provider polygon.io rebrands to massive.com

rho4 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 06:14:40 +0000

Article URL: https://massive.com/blog/polygon-is-now-massive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45768916

Points: 1

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