Hacker News: rixed

New comment by rixed in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

rixed — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:07:13 +0000

The use case they have in mind may be screenshots triggered by another app, not by the user.

New comment by rixed in "A shell exclamation mark is not for yelling. Be lazy"

rixed — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:43:05 +0000

If you find this interesting, don't wait for a random blogpost to appear by chance on HN, go read some manage today!

New comment by rixed in "Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor"

rixed — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 05:20:24 +0000

Something I've read on HN once, and that nailed it for me: in the middle of the Pacific you are further away from any possible rescue than if you were on the ISS.

New comment by rixed in "Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)"

rixed — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:46:44 +0000

  > culturally, you might be almost embarrassed to offer your seat

Haha exactly, but what's worse: the old person might think "damn! Another kid who believe I'm too old to stand up. Let's pretend I'm thankful to not embarrass him " :)

New comment by rixed in "How LLMs accelerated Cloudy development? not by typing code for me"

rixed — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:49:15 +0000

An observation from my own workflow: the gain from doing what I know how to do already is nothing compared to the gain from redefining what a modern app has to be.

How LLMs accelerated Cloudy development? not by typing code for me

rixed — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:49:15 +0000

Article URL: https://cloudywithachanceoflatency.net/blog_02-how-llm-accelerated-cloudy-dev.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229929

Points: 2

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New comment by rixed in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

rixed — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 05:24:14 +0000

You don't measure tooling quality with devs' enjoyment, though, but with what the tools make possible.

Technical merit is not correlated to popularity, after all.

New comment by rixed in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"

rixed — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 06:52:13 +0000

why is MCP a pain in Macos?

New comment by rixed in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

rixed — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:22:45 +0000

Did you maybe confuse bonsai with a CSS library? How to build web UI != How to style HTML. Bonsai solves a different problem.

New comment by rixed in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

rixed — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:19:00 +0000

What do you mean? What's the connection with the product teams? Why would product teams care what low level web framework is used?

New comment by rixed in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

rixed — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 22:12:31 +0000

The docs directory happen to be missing, therefore the links to the quick guide and to "thinking in bonsai" pages from the readme are broken.

Also, I'm wondering how does bonsai-web update the DOM, is it via direct modification of the changed elements, or via some DOM differ? I'd say from direct update from a quick look at the source, but I'm unsure.

New comment by rixed in "Why Book Corners won't sync contributions back to OpenStreetMap"

rixed — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:23:59 +0000

I wouldn't use gmap as a benchmark for up to date POIs, at least in some European countries. And I'm not talking about inaccurate opening times; but about places that closed during Covid but are still on the map.

New comment by rixed in "F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language"

rixed — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:26:42 +0000

What do you mean "express calling"? You mean calling the former C versions of the functions not yet ported, while asserting their behavior?

New comment by rixed in "F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language"

rixed — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 16:23:34 +0000

No indeed I'm not a fan. I find it brittle and arbitrary for data values especially; that also makes automatic code generation and edition harder, for no good reason. But that's not an important consideration either way.

New comment by rixed in "F*: A general-purpose proof-oriented programming language"

rixed — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 15:10:00 +0000

I'm the opposite: when landing in a programming language site I want to know the user case the authors had in mind, the memory model, the type system, the compilation targets, the data layout, the control structures, and only at the end just check that the syntax is not indentation based.

New comment by rixed in "Wikimedia Foundation refuses union recognition, hires union-busting law firm"

rixed — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:17:57 +0000

"Bureaucracy" has been an entire field of study for more than a century at that point. But WMF is not bureaucracy any more than the FIFA is bureaucracy. It is curruption; That of the stated ideals of the origin: non profit, decentralisation and democracy.

New comment by rixed in "Elena, a library for building Progressive Web Components"

rixed — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 09:47:26 +0000

Step back, and think about the fact that in 2026, the most regarded news site in tech is featuring a tool to build the simplest of UI elements.

New comment by rixed in "Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment"

rixed — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 06:32:33 +0000

I don't see AI deployed much outside of text production (which includes code). I believe AI could, as of yesterday, already replace or supplement most of decision taking all across the org chart, but that's not what I'm seeing. It is less surprising if you consider the economy as a social game of work appropriation rather than a process to make production more efficient, though.

New comment by rixed in "China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines"

rixed — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:18:10 +0000

Also: "Oh my god some economic development!?! We need urgently to think of a way to hamper it!"

New comment by rixed in "Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)"

rixed — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 04:48:27 +0000

True! But it is also true that you learn better by doing yourself. The knowledge acquired by chatting endlessly is vast but shallow, that acquired by researching yourself and practicing is deep but narrow. We should be equally afraid of both.