Hacker News: rokob

New comment by rokob in "Claude Code to be removed from Anthropic's Pro plan?"

rokob — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:07:36 +0000

Wait what

New comment by rokob in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

rokob — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:23:08 +0000

It’s weird because I could see raising money on the premise that GitHub is garbage, not git. But then you can’t say I co-founded GitHub as your bona fides.

New comment by rokob in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

rokob — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:44:47 +0000

Are you saying Herman Miller chairs are uncomfortable?

New comment by rokob in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

rokob — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:05:26 +0000

> architecture is what happens when all those local pieces interact, and you can’t get good global behaviour by stitching together locally correct components

This is a great article. I’ve been trying to see how layered AI use can bridge this gap but the current models do seem to be lacking in the ambiguous design phase. They are amazing at the local execution phase.

Part of me thinks this is a reflection of software engineering as a whole. Most people are bad at design. Everyone usually gets better with repetition and experience. However, as there is never a right answer just a spectrum of tradeoffs, it seems difficult for the current models to replicate that part of the human process.

New comment by rokob in "Codegen is not productivity"

rokob — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:29:10 +0000

I’ve found them to be pretty good if you tell them to be more critical and to operate as a sophisticated rubber duck. They are actually pretty decent at asking questions that I can answer to help move things forwards. But yeah by default they really like to tell me I’m a fucking genius. Such insight. Wow.

New comment by rokob in "LLM=True"

rokob — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:38:10 +0000

I agree with you very much, if what you are building actually benefits from that much client side interactivity. I think the counterpoint is that most products could be server rendered html templates with a tiny amount of plain js rather than complex frontend applications.

New comment by rokob in "Design and Implementation of Sprites"

rokob — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:45:39 +0000

I’m so happy I kept reading these comments and came across this gem. Sprites are cool and all but a sandwich tournament is next level.

New comment by rokob in "Fossil versus Git"

rokob — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:46:55 +0000

Facebook moved to mercurial because of specific problems related to the size of their monorepo. Moreover the git maintainers were unwilling to work with Facebook to improve git to solve some of these problems. Mercurial was a better fit and was open to the help. But all that said if you don’t have a truly enormous monorepo like Facebook or Google then git is arguably the better tool given the network effects. I don’t think Facebook wanted to promote Mecurial as some vastly superior solution outside because for most people it isn’t.

New comment by rokob in "Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years"

rokob — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 02:52:30 +0000

This is not true. I’ve seen x-rays of a child’s mouth with clearly no adult teeth visible below the gums. Later I’ve seen X-rays of the same mouth with one or two adult teeth below the gums where baby teeth are about to fall out. The adult teeth are there underneath once the baby teeth fall out but they are not there “from the start”. That isn’t even to mention the size problem.

New comment by rokob in "Golfing Is Not Rowing"

rokob — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:34:56 +0000

I think with rowing in particular due to certain counter intuitive parts of the stroke you absolutely can get nothing out of years of self exploration.

New comment by rokob in "Golfing Is Not Rowing"

rokob — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 17:24:51 +0000

This guy golfs.

New comment by rokob in "Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years"

rokob — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 03:15:15 +0000

I’m new to the language and thought these would be the same. But I just listened to some words with the two and the おお definitely has like a bigger o sound. That’s quite subtle.

New comment by rokob in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

rokob — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 23:22:48 +0000

As a reviewer I at least skimmed the papers for every reference in every paper that I review. If it isn't useful to furthering the point of the paper then my feedback is to remove the reference. Adding a bunch of junk because it is broadly related in a giant background section is a waste of everyone's time and should be removed. Most of the time you are mostly aware of the papers being cited anyway because that is the whole point of reviewing in your area of expertise.

New comment by rokob in "The missing standard library for multithreading in JavaScript"

rokob — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 03:38:36 +0000

The implementation of the shared json buffer is nuts

New comment by rokob in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"

rokob — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:52:21 +0000

I think it is posted because of the update on Dec 2nd 2025 where Oracle responded with a request to dismiss.

Edit: I read that date shockingly wrong, their response was February of 2025 so this is pretty old.

New comment by rokob in "A series of vignettes from my childhood and early career"

rokob — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:12:27 +0000

There was definitely a widely held belief in the late 90s, early 00s that programming was commoditized to the point that it would be fully offshored to the lowest cost of labor. This happened in some areas and failed. It still happens now and then. But I remember hearing some of that based on OO and libraries making it so unskilled people could just put together legos.

New comment by rokob in "Friendly attributes pattern in Ruby"

rokob — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 00:14:49 +0000

The last one wins

New comment by rokob in "Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch"

rokob — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:15:10 +0000

I don’t know if they can pull it off but a lot of companies are built on strong enterprise sales being able to sell free stuff with a bow on it to someone who doesn’t know better or doesn’t care.

New comment by rokob in "Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch"

rokob — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 15:23:57 +0000

This whole series of work is quite cool. The use of `word-break: break-word;` makes this really hard to read though.

New comment by rokob in "Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript"

rokob — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:16:30 +0000

There is usually some variant of tee that lets you do that.