Hacker News: theflyinghorse

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

theflyinghorse — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:22:42 +0000

Is it possible that individuals or groups use outsourcing as a way to funnel money into their private interests? IMO we're looking at good old corruption.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Effect 4.0"

theflyinghorse — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:56:00 +0000

It's like Scala and Spring Boot had a baby and the baby was in typescript. Super solid project great engineers.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "SvelteKit 3"

theflyinghorse — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:52:11 +0000

I don't think LLMs are much better at react. I've migrated two apps from next to sveltekit and it was a breeze using codex.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

theflyinghorse — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:05:43 +0000

Finally got to Dostoevsky's Brother Karamazov. This will take a while.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Tank Body Problem"

theflyinghorse — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:04:48 +0000

This is actually a lot of fun.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "I Put Nam A2-Lite Inside an iRig HD X"

theflyinghorse — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:08:24 +0000

Oh excellent! Once I get a bit of time I will try hooking NAM A2-l to a controller and then putting THAT inside of one of my old drive pedals for style.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses"

theflyinghorse — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 20:05:04 +0000

It’s the whole business for the installers. You get margin where you can, and that for them is in the marketing and selling and installing and supporting for the customers.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

theflyinghorse — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:13:00 +0000

I love the line that Chin wants to influence Canada on the same day as US puts demands for having controls over Canadian trade deals.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

theflyinghorse — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:20:58 +0000

LLMs are an automated Indian dev-shop. That’s all. The code is poorly thought out, poorly implemented and doesn’t take performance into account. But the code works and you got it for cheap. That’s my mental model and I’m happy with it

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?"

theflyinghorse — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:31:55 +0000

The big ones for me are the actor processes sending each other messages, distributed processes where you can connect several nodes to each other very seamlessly and the processes within them communicate seemlessly! I’m not looking to rebuild OTP, I’m simply exploring ideas I couldn’t before

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?"

theflyinghorse — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:25:16 +0000

I built a screen recorder for myself with LLMs. A calorie tracker. Now building this everything-webframework in Odin that's inspired heavily by BEAM's ideas (its a creative process for me, I don't have an end goal in mind)

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

theflyinghorse — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:32:39 +0000

Reminds me - I was working for a Canadian network equipment manufacturer and at one point a client in Asia was trying to get support for a bunch of units of uor hardware (modems). Long story short, turns out they bought knock offs that didn't even bother changing casing leaving contact info on modems for our company.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

theflyinghorse — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:48:40 +0000

They are making more money than ever before. Maybe Meta leadership doesn’t really care about having a coherent strategy at this point. They can afford to flail around to see if something sticks. Reminds me of Rich kids who have ability to travel the world and find themselves before settling into a career

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious"

theflyinghorse — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:03:03 +0000

You'd be surprised. Every software application has bugs. If customers are willing to give you money despite bugs that's a very string signal in favour of your product.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Amazon seller reveals glimpse of shadow bribery market"

theflyinghorse — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:27:13 +0000

That's a problem for you — the customer - not for Jeff, the VP.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?"

theflyinghorse — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 18:10:47 +0000

In the West, decline of living standards and continued decay of institutions. Probably very few organizations actually benefit from LLMs, mostly bankers.

Elsewhere? who knows

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

theflyinghorse — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:46:28 +0000

It probably has to do with what technology people are used to. There has been a couple of generations of web developers who have only known javascript and its ecosystem for building webapps, and so anything other than pure javascript solution looks foreign.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Claude Fable 5"

theflyinghorse — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:29:44 +0000

I've seen enough degradation of the models I pay for from Anthropic to not bite. Fable will work fine for the first couple of weeks and then start degrading like previous models did.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "India's surprise baby bust"

theflyinghorse — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:25:28 +0000

Top 1% are too divorced from the real world to have ever seen a cog.

New comment by theflyinghorse in "Does anybody like React?"

theflyinghorse — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:54:31 +0000

Currently rewriting nextjs app into sveltekit. It’s going surprisingly smoothly. Don’t know about svelte vs react yet BUT sveltekit is far more straightforward than nextjs has far better DX and is somehow faster