Hacker News: therockhead

New comment by therockhead in "Qwen3.5 Fine-Tuning Guide"

therockhead — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:43:47 +0000

The two day old account is an obvious hint but I got to be honest, the content didn't look suspicious on first read. I know you touched on it above, but what do you think triggered your AI generated thought ?

New comment by therockhead in "GPT-5"

therockhead — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 20:30:49 +0000

Who’s left to buy the stuff they make if no one has a job ?

New comment by therockhead in "LLMs get lost in multi-turn conversation"

therockhead — Thu, 15 May 2025 09:20:15 +0000

I need to think about this a bit more, but I think I would love a thread feature in ChatGPT, so that it has the context up to the point of creation but doesn’t affect the main conversation. It would help in two ways, it keeps the main topic from getting poisoned , and allow me to minimise text clutter when i go off on tangents during the conversation.

New comment by therockhead in "Moving away from US cloud services"

therockhead — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:14:32 +0000

> becoming more popular as propaganda by certain European politics and ideologists kicks in.

So nothing to do with the new administration—interesting take?

New comment by therockhead in "Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino"

therockhead — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 10:06:01 +0000

> People call Gruber an Apple apologist, but he's really not

Agree and but it took me a while to realize this. He definitely gives them the benefit of the doubt, and but I think that's okay.

New comment by therockhead in "Hyperspace"

therockhead — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:56:39 +0000

I wonder why they haven't tried to back port SwiftUI improvements/versions to the older OSs. Seems like this should have been possible.

New comment by therockhead in "Hyperspace"

therockhead — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:44:11 +0000

It's been a while since I last looked at SwiftUI on mac, Is it really still that bad ?

New comment by therockhead in "Hyperspace"

therockhead — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:22:33 +0000

I assume it’s because it’s from John Siracusa, a long-time Mac enthusiast, blogger, and podcaster. If you listen to him on ATP, it’s hard not to like him, and anything he does is bound to get more than the usual upvotes on HN.

New comment by therockhead in "Firing programmers for AI will destroy everything"

therockhead — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:45:39 +0000

> Do banks employ fewer people? Is it a smaller industry? No. Banks grew steadily over these decades.

Profits may have grown but In Ireland at least, the number of branches have declined drastically.

New comment by therockhead in "Smartphone sales down 22 percent in Q2, the worst performance in a decade"

therockhead — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 21:14:42 +0000

My two adolescent children each own second-hand iPhones, which they rely on daily as their most priced possessions. It's intriguing to note their complete disinterest in newer models or upgrades. They regard their iPhones in a manner akin to my perspective on a dishwasher: indispensable, yet no desire for a change as long as they serve their purpose.

New comment by therockhead in "I love building a startup in Rust but wouldn't pick it again"

therockhead — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 05:33:49 +0000

> It’s not that useful for phone apps.

If you’re building a large complex app that needs to be shared across multiple platforms, C++ is a common choice. Not talking about games here, think Office, Facebook, Zoom, WebEx etc. It easy to see Rust replacing C++ in that stack.

But as Rust is so much nicer that C++, I could see it becoming popular for smaller projects that want to share common logic, with a native UI on top.

New comment by therockhead in "Ask HN: Why on Earth does Europe have 3 month notice periods to switch jobs?"

therockhead — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 14:54:22 +0000

Typically one month in Ireland.

New comment by therockhead in "Automerge 2.0"

therockhead — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 08:55:38 +0000

Is advised to use CRDTs for an offline app that syncs to a central server, such as a todo app like Apple's Reminders or Todoist? Can simpler methods suffice ?

New comment by therockhead in "Cisco Got Attacked by Yanluowang Ransomware Gang"

therockhead — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 18:23:54 +0000

Beaglesecurity article just seems like a copy of Cisco original report. Any idea why they would post this ?

New comment by therockhead in "Show HN: I made a local transcription app for your Mac"

therockhead — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:15:41 +0000

The twitter account is private/protected, so can't read the announcement. What's the name of the app?

New comment by therockhead in "Tauri 1.0: Multi-Platform App Toolkit"

therockhead — Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:49:00 +0000

Any ETA on mobile ?

New comment by therockhead in "Async Rust doesn't have to be hard"

therockhead — Sat, 04 Jun 2022 06:14:02 +0000

Are you confident it’s the wrong tool though? Curious have you tried web apps with framework such as Actix ?

New comment by therockhead in "Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming"

therockhead — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 19:33:12 +0000

I disagree. If you want common code between all platforms (iOS/Android/Windows/macOS) your choices are pretty limited. Right now I work on a large codebase where C++ is used to solve the code sharing issue, but would much prefer it to be Rust.

New comment by therockhead in "Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming"

therockhead — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 09:47:55 +0000

> If you default to Arc everywhere, aren’t you essentially just implementing a slow GC?

Like I posted earlier, you don't do this everywhere, just some sporadic use where it makes life a lot easier. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.

New comment by therockhead in "Rust Is Hard, Or: The Misery of Mainstream Programming"

therockhead — Fri, 03 Jun 2022 09:43:34 +0000

> In async web frameworks you very rarely need explicit lifetimes, because the workload is mostly isolated - a handler gets an input from the request

Was going to post the same comment. Most of my hobbyist Rust programming has been via the Actix Webframework and I only run into the most trivial of borrow checker issues. I guess my projects are not complex or interesting enough :).