Hacker News: smnplk

New comment by smnplk in "Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free"

smnplk — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:56:15 +0000

Just don't upload to Google. Their maps navigation is terrible anyway. Fuck them. But do continue to provide your valuable data to alt maps.

New comment by smnplk in "Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?"

smnplk — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:12:03 +0000

yea, apparently you dont need to know Rust

New comment by smnplk in "What even is an OS now?"

smnplk — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:29:41 +0000

he did mention slop

New comment by smnplk in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

smnplk — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:37:06 +0000

Classic DHH.Allways talks about what is good for his situation, not what is good for the community in general. I can understand his excitement of slashing his server and labor expenses. He will be richer and have more time, less people will work for him and wow, rails came a long way, didn't it ? The world is your oyster now! Oh and btw, we are changing the name of the conference, it's called Rust conf now.

New comment by smnplk in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

smnplk — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:33:10 +0000

I often need to prepare to speak my mind

New comment by smnplk in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

smnplk — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:50:19 +0000

I that case so is Clojure.

New comment by smnplk in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

smnplk — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 01:01:02 +0000

can confirm, looks like crap is not on a list

New comment by smnplk in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

smnplk — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:07:55 +0000

Needs to also have an alarm clock waking you with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4J1zyrW_VQ&list=RD-4J1zyrW_... :)

New comment by smnplk in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

smnplk — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:51:21 +0000

They should get sued into oblivion.

New comment by smnplk in "Cherenkov Radiation - traveling faster than light"

smnplk — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:16:40 +0000

I dont think there can be intuition for this. How can one even imagine an electron "flying" through space, there is no measurable thing that travels, we can only see the disturbance of the surrounding space caused by it. But what is the it, does it maybe live in other dimension not accessible to us, or is there no it at all ? I gave up as a layman trying to understand any of this. Sure, there is math and you can somehow make some mental models involving 3d graphics and all, but that is not actually what is going on down there.

New comment by smnplk in "Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil"

smnplk — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 23:04:16 +0000

One would think that ze germans would be among the first to be conquering space with all that german engineering.

New comment by smnplk in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

smnplk — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:38:52 +0000

The other day i was trying to learn why there is no internal structure to electrons and other quarks, but it failed. I still dont know.

New comment by smnplk in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

smnplk — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:22:20 +0000

Have you tried using the caveman skill ? :D Might be worth a try if you dont like long prose https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

New comment by smnplk in "Devtools must be open source"

smnplk — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:31:22 +0000

That goes against "business model" of AI companies

New comment by smnplk in "LLMs reward expertise"

smnplk — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:56:30 +0000

This sounds like coding manually would take less time.

New comment by smnplk in "Show HN: CheapFoodMap – A map of good meals under $10"

smnplk — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:10:49 +0000

This sucks for Europe. Cant add shit. I guess this is only for muricanos.

New comment by smnplk in "Show HN: I made some transistor animations"

smnplk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:10:26 +0000

You can google for "From nand to tetris" or get the book Digital Design and Computer Architecture by Harris to get the idea of how these machines work.

New comment by smnplk in "Qwen 3.8"

smnplk — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 11:44:12 +0000

Do this giant open-weight models have less active params and could be run on consumer hardware or no ?

New comment by smnplk in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

smnplk — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:48:38 +0000

looks great, i just don't know how to actually hook the fish

New comment by smnplk in "How to earn a billion dollars"

smnplk — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:33:47 +0000

I think that avocado farms in Earth orbit have the avogadrillionare potential. Musk is on it. :P