Hacker News: rthrfrd

New comment by rthrfrd in "I turned Markdown into a protocol for generative UI"

rthrfrd — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:56:20 +0000

That’s what I’m building, along with the invisible unified data model underneath, that is needed to tie everything together. Always glad for feedback, reach out in my profile if it sounds interesting!

New comment by rthrfrd in "Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue"

rthrfrd — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:28:58 +0000

Thanks! WebCC looks interesting. I like the attempt to be lean, but in the context of running an entire browser, my personal choice would be for a little runtime overhead vs a new language and toolset.

All the best with it!

P.S. It would also be interesting to see how far it's possible to go with constexpr etc.

New comment by rthrfrd in "Show HN: Coi – A language that compiles to WASM, beats React/Vue"

rthrfrd — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 11:20:08 +0000

Sounds interesting!

But do you think it would be possible to achieve similar results without a new language, but with a declarative API in one of your existing languages (say, C++) instead?

If possible, that would remove a big adoption barrier, and avoid inevitably reinventing many language features.

New comment by rthrfrd in "You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving"

rthrfrd — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:20:06 +0000

That’s because you’ve become so accustomed to politics as tribalism and sports-like entertainment that you’ve completely forgotten why we even started the political systems we have today in the first place. Divestment of power, not accumulation. Serving others, not ourselves. You can still embody those things. But it’s better to admit to ourselves that we aren’t selfless enough to do that, than hide behind a learned helplessness.

New comment by rthrfrd in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

rthrfrd — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 08:55:06 +0000

All unregulated free market arguments rely on low/no barriers to entry. There are very few markets where this is true in reality.

New comment by rthrfrd in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

rthrfrd — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:50:17 +0000

Does it? I think it detaches them from _some_ of the consequences of devaluing their reputation or accountability, which is not quite the same thing.

New comment by rthrfrd in "The "confident idiot" problem: Why AI needs hard rules, not vibe checks"

rthrfrd — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:23:00 +0000

But we also have a stake in our society, in the form of a reputation or accountability, that greatly influences our behaviour. So comparing us to an LLM has always been meaningless anyway.

New comment by rthrfrd in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

rthrfrd — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:09:00 +0000

Oh I completely agree.

New comment by rthrfrd in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

rthrfrd — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:03:53 +0000

Startup = disruption = threat to existing control.

If you love control and have control, why would you want to create fertile ground for startups?

(This was meant as devil's advocate, not my personal point of view).

New comment by rthrfrd in "Blender 4.5 LTS"

rthrfrd — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:48:30 +0000

As someone who was in the same boat for a long time, I only clicked with Blender once I had a real need for it: In my case, creating an ad-style video for a product I’d created in Fusion.

I’m not sure there is any point trying to do what you can in parametric software in Blender. Despite both being capable of a range of 3D tasks, they have remarkably little in common.

New comment by rthrfrd in "GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search"

rthrfrd — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 08:07:39 +0000

> I think one of my personal core values is that curiosity should never be left unsatiated if ant all possible!

I don't disagree: I just posited that there are other ways to satisfy it, and that there is an opportunity cost to the path you've chosen to satisfy it that you don't seem very aware of, because your curiosity and desire to be correct are tightly coupled - but that doesn't actually have to be the case. It has its pros and cons.

Now I'm more of an "it's the journey not the destination" guy, so accelerating the journey doesn't appeal to me as much as it used to, because for me its where I get the most value. That change in my perspective is what motivated me to comment.

But anyway, you clearly enjoy it and do great work, so all the best with it!

New comment by rthrfrd in "GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search"

rthrfrd — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:10:36 +0000

I think what's interesting/telling is you view (3) as less desirable.

Alternatively, you could have spent that half hour on the train exercising your own creativity to try and satisfy your curiosity. Whether you're right or wrong doesn't really matter, because as you acknowledge it's not really important enough to you to matter. Picking (2) eliminates all the possible avenues that might have lead you down.

I'm not saying one is better than the other, just that you're approaching the criticism on the basis of axioms that represent a narrow viewpoint: That of someone who has to be "right" about the things they are curious about, no matter how trivial.

New comment by rthrfrd in "Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS"

rthrfrd — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:08:11 +0000

Weirdly I’ve been building something along those lines for the last year. Not SQLite backed, but fully local and native (and also does non-local integrations, which you can also script yourself). Should be ready in a month or so if you’re interested!

New comment by rthrfrd in "Running C++ on Cloudflare WASM"

rthrfrd — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 15:11:41 +0000

Interesting thanks, I wasn't aware of container2wasm. I do wonder what the output sizes are. They don't mention compatibility with CF's runtime, it is more restrictive than any of the ones they do!

New comment by rthrfrd in "Running C++ on Cloudflare WASM"

rthrfrd — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 09:43:24 +0000

I wrote up my experience trying to do this in case it helps anyone else! There's a boilerplate repo at: https://github.com/saus-app/wasm-cf-boilerplate

Running C++ on Cloudflare WASM

rthrfrd — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 09:43:24 +0000

Article URL: https://saus.app/blag/cpp-on-cloudflare-wasm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44775368

Points: 5

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New comment by rthrfrd in "Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping"

rthrfrd — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:29:10 +0000

Yes, like everything: Nylon might be my favourite example of us never being able to use innovation in moderation.

New comment by rthrfrd in "I watched Gemini CLI hallucinate and delete my files"

rthrfrd — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 07:04:44 +0000

We do, you might find legal sentencing guidelines to be informative, they’ve already been dealing with this for a very long time. (E.g. It’s why a first offence and repeat offence are never considered in the same light.)

New comment by rthrfrd in "Let me pay for Firefox"

rthrfrd — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:25:12 +0000

The problem is that a lot of the most influential FOSS only exists because of VC capital (or other dysfunctional markets), either because they sponsor projects directly, or they pay the salaries of the people who happen to do it themselves. FOSS has become a form of economic dumping that could be causing more harm than good. If Google couldn’t “dump” Chrome for free, or Facebook couldn’t “dump” React for free, maybe browsers or front-end frameworks would be regular, functional, competitive markets. Making it “FOSS” is just an inoculation against what would otherwise be considered an anti-competitive practice.

New comment by rthrfrd in "AI is turning Apple into a "loser""

rthrfrd — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 10:17:54 +0000

Well if you want to continue the analogy, I could say: Apple at least invested in a SoC architecture years ago has already put it in a different league as far as AI capabilities go.

So to say they haven't done "the same kind of homework yet" seems quite presumptive. Only Google has done anything remotely similar with TPUs and certainly not on the deployment scale that Apple has done.

FWIW I don't care either way, I don't get emotionally attached to corporations, I just think the entire framing of the original post is very reactionary and naive, and I continue to think that the comparison with Toyota is an apt way to illustrate that.