Hacker News: samoit

New comment by samoit in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

samoit — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:45:48 +0000

I agree 100% with Codeberg.

New comment by samoit in "Ape Coding [fiction]"

samoit — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:53:26 +0000

I always thought that ape coding is what we call vibe-coding nowadays. Maybe the write of the article (maybe an ai generated blog?) misunderstood the terms.

New comment by samoit in "GNU Texmacs"

samoit — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:55:42 +0000

I prefer the lyx editor.

New comment by samoit in "Ask HN: Go or Rust for back end applications?"

samoit — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 08:55:31 +0000

I will use Elixir for the backend. It is a pleasure to develop with it and with an impressive performance and resilience.

New comment by samoit in "The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi"

samoit — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:31:21 +0000

You need to buy the zigbee adapter. With matter you can use just regular wifi cards

New comment by samoit in "The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi"

samoit — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:29:22 +0000

So you need to buy and adapter. With Matter you don't, you can use your regular wifi cards. No new "adapter" needed.

New comment by samoit in "The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi"

samoit — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:28:44 +0000

So you need to buy and adapter. With Matter you don't, you can use your regular wifi cards. No new "adapter" needed.

New comment by samoit in "The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi"

samoit — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 10:44:24 +0000

It is supposedly an open source standard that do not requires internet connection to work, and can use regular wifi (2,4ghz) networks as a means to connect devices so you do not need to buy a hub for them. You can create your own hub with a mini pc for instance with a regular wifi card. No need for specific hardware

New comment by samoit in "The Connectivity Standards Alliance Announces Zigbee 4.0 and Suzi"

samoit — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 07:26:12 +0000

I hope Matter becomes the "the facto" standard... now we have several more "standars"

New comment by samoit in "Ask HN: New YouTube player not working in Firefox"

samoit — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:53:34 +0000

I also have problems with Firefox. I guess it is something Google related...

New comment by samoit in "DuckDuckGo Donates $25,000 to The Perl and Raku Foundation v2025"

samoit — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:41:33 +0000

I think that "hate" comes from the "write once" language fact. Perl is quite cryptic to read... even if it is your own script. That's why raku appeared

New comment by samoit in "Show HN: Devbox – Containers for better dev environments"

samoit — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 09:04:28 +0000

There is also Devpod with a nice UI.

https://devpod.sh/

New comment by samoit in "JetBrains working on higher-abstraction programming language"

samoit — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:18:55 +0000

Maybe SmallTalk?

New comment by samoit in "Windows 11 Insider Preview Build"

samoit — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:46:25 +0000

To me these movements always remind me of "free testing". If they want testers, pay for them.

New comment by samoit in "Ask HN: Is AI replacing any software jobs?"

samoit — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:33:21 +0000

My personal case: (I am a software engineer)

I basically stopped using "stack overflow" web to help me find code issues. Now I just ask the model. It's usually faster and much more concise. Also many of my google search has been discontinued and just use a model to ask what I want. The only problem is about being updated. Models have a set of trained data so new content is not there. So for very recent or new things old "googling" still there...

New comment by samoit in "Coding Newbie"

samoit — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:58:46 +0000

with regard to languages:

-To learn try something easy and well structured as Pascal or Ada. Those languages will teach you organization and well structure code. C family of languages are extremely loose and vague, avoid them if possible.

-After learning the basics go for python if you like data science or machine learning.

-Go for javascript if you plan to do frontend with react or just web development.

-Go for rust/ada for system programming.

-kotlin or dart/flutter for android. Swift for Apple systems.

-C# or lua for game programming.

New comment by samoit in "Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system"

samoit — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 07:17:32 +0000

I think you do have GPU acceleration in the Dom0 but I do not remember if you can use/install programs on it, it was the "coordinator" dom.

New comment by samoit in "Her Treatment Was Helping. That's Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage"

samoit — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:53:20 +0000

¡Correct!. I would not be able to explain it better.

New comment by samoit in "Her Treatment Was Helping. That's Why Insurance Cut Off Her Coverage"

samoit — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 21:17:32 +0000

Europe here. It is sad to see the results of the EEUU healthcare system. I still do not get why people do not vote for a more rationale and public service. I guess the EEUU media have brainwashed their people into thinking that a private health system is better. People do not see the problem until it affects them ... until it is too late...

New comment by samoit in "Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS"

samoit — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 13:15:11 +0000

Its about your choice, not google's. Do not use google crap if possible