Hacker News: tarcon

New comment by tarcon in "Instant 1.0, a backend for AI-coded apps"

tarcon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:46:43 +0000

Do we really have no way to build this in a single programming language and base database?

IndexDB, Postgres, Javascript, Typescript, Clojure. Not bad, but not much more attractive than the usual technology zoo any startup seems to end up with.

New comment by tarcon in ""Collaboration" Is Bullshit"

tarcon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:58:20 +0000

Collaboration has structure. The structure is the result of "the activity to create and maintain a shared understanding of a problem in order to solve it" - which is a definition of collaboration. I don't think collaboration requires a hierarchy more than it requires a tool for groupwork.

New comment by tarcon in "Apple: Enough Is Enough"

tarcon — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:20:06 +0000

They also support a large number of previous OS. If you hard reset your 2013 Mac, it'll download OSX Mountain Lion.

New comment by tarcon in "My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs"

tarcon — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:56:24 +0000

"Programmers are the ultimate detail managers. All the tiny little details that nobody else wants to deal with wind up in our laps." - Robert C. Martin

Let's see if AI makes PMs care for details.

New comment by tarcon in "Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use"

tarcon — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 19:32:50 +0000

How does it compare to https://github.com/penpot/penpot?

New comment by tarcon in "Prism"

tarcon — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:10:28 +0000

This is a actual prompt in the video: "What are the papers in the literature that are most relevant to this draft and that I should consider citing?"

They probably wanted: "... that I should read?" So that this is at least marketed to be more than a fake-paper generation tool.

New comment by tarcon in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

tarcon — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:58:41 +0000

My mistake, seems like I was refering to the Siri voice, which seems to be the default. It sounds good. It is selectable and to my surprise - even configurable in speed, pitch and volume - in the OS Accessibility settings -> System Voice -> Click on the (i) symbol. (macOS Tahoe)

New comment by tarcon in "Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice"

tarcon — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:37:29 +0000

macOS already has some great intrinsic TTS capability as the OS seems to include a naturally sounding voice. I recently built a similar tool to just run the "say" command as a background process. Had to wrap it in a Deno server. It works, but with Tahoe it's difficult to consistently configure using that one natural voice, and not the subpar voices downloadable in the settings. The good voice seems to be hidden somehow.

New comment by tarcon in "Strange.website"

tarcon — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 08:42:31 +0000

The 5000 loc index.html doesn't look too bad content wise, but I question if it's helpful to humans in its shape. I guess a proper project structure is just a prompt away though.

New comment by tarcon in "Collaboration sucks"

tarcon — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:38:37 +0000

Collaboration is when all want to get to the same place and take unplanned turns to drive while the others are sleeping and a hitchhiker you picked up on the ride drives you over the finishing line.

And it's beautiful when that happens.

New comment by tarcon in "Collaboration sucks"

tarcon — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 08:23:13 +0000

Collaboration is the activity of a group of people to create and maintain a shared understanding of a problem in order to solve it.

The author addresses issues that I would not relate to the concept of collaboration as a specific type of groupwork.

New comment by tarcon in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

tarcon — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:39:41 +0000

Boston Dynamics posted a youtube video on gripper (hand) design yesterday. They argue for two fingers and a thumb. I don't believe this product.

New comment by tarcon in "DeepMind releases Lyria 2 music generation model"

tarcon — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 10:57:13 +0000

The first step towards this is a UN resolution.

New comment by tarcon in "Don't Be Afraid of Types"

tarcon — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:47:37 +0000

It's more cognitive load to write a validation for every parameter because you can't rely on your fellow dev knowing it's not good to pass a string where you want a boolean.

New comment by tarcon in "Don't Be Afraid of Types"

tarcon — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:41:48 +0000

Humans reason with objects much better because that's how the real business world works.

New comment by tarcon in "The Wrong way to do Agile (Atlassian 2013)"

tarcon — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:44:41 +0000

Have you recently missed the implementation of the hover state hidden in the four levels of AI-generated UI specification noise?

I did and remembered the almost forgotten teachings of Chet Rong. Even though the videos have shaped engineering culture early on in my career, Atlassian does not seem to be proud of them any longer.

Can we still laugh about it?

The Wrong way to do Agile (Atlassian 2013)

tarcon — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 16:44:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaD4FvsFdarQytrGAmCo2qW_rAWcfBKeV

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42378514

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by tarcon in "Star Citizen crowdfunding passes $750M"

tarcon — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 07:47:27 +0000

Youtube has a video of a frustrated Chris Roberts struggling to play from 8 years ago, which basically shows the same game we have today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWq8ynUq7wM

New comment by tarcon in "Founder Mode"

tarcon — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 14:58:40 +0000

I think the emergent order we see in society and how we could use it to effectively organize our work exists in the background thoughts of Brian Robertsons Holacracy. He mentions it in his introductory talk at TEDx.

New comment by tarcon in "Jimmy Carter UFO Incident"

tarcon — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 14:52:27 +0000

Because he provided no evidence, merely hearsay.