Hacker News: tommica

New comment by tommica in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

tommica — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:46:20 +0000

Neat, thanks for sharing! Seems very convenient!

New comment by tommica in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

tommica — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0000

I'd guess Deno failed because of the original decision of not supporting node_modules, instead went with a different way of handling dependencies. Else the native typescript support would most likely had pushed them to bigger success past nodejs.

Though nodejs was even then quite solid in it's position, so maybe it would not have made a difference.

New comment by tommica in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

tommica — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:27:05 +0000

Can you tell how you configured the tool to accomplish this? It sounds very convenient!

Does it mean that the VPS has to be in-between all the traffic, or do we punch holes through the NAT for direct connections?

New comment by tommica in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

tommica — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:23:36 +0000

One mistake with your google account and poof, everything is gone.

Granted, an average person most likely will never mess up, but in google-land the surface area where to make that mistake is quite large.

New comment by tommica in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

tommica — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 05:16:43 +0000

Is that the prompt you would use, or is there more to it?

New comment by tommica in "VMPal – Virtual Machines for Apple Silicon and AI Agents"

tommica — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:17:43 +0000

A very sleek product presentation, those guys really know their mac environments.

Funnily I get reminded of Vagrant. Maybe that technology is a solution to the sandboxing issue, because running a lightweight sandbox with an OS that has a GUI this time seems to be important.

New comment by tommica in "Shaders, WebGPU Components for React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, JavaScript and Framer"

tommica — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 07:14:18 +0000

20 years ago front-end devs really took that "front-end is not real programming" statement personally...

All of this could have been avoided had we just gotten a "good job" and a pat on the back when we showed our jquery scripts!

Jokes aside, looks impressive!

New comment by tommica in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

tommica — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:34:00 +0000

And the fact that you put in a disk and got to play, instead of waiting for an update the next 2 hours.

New comment by tommica in "Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language"

tommica — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:12:27 +0000

Spot on! People do really enjoy NOT having to change. We can come up with many excuses why we do not have to do anything different. I'm finding multiple rrasons why I should stick to laravel.

Could be said that it was the path of least resistance, but the funny thing is that most of that resistance is you just being in your own way.

New comment by tommica in "Commit description as a thinking tool"

tommica — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:38:57 +0000

Interesting, thanks for sharing. Need to try it out!

New comment by tommica in "Pi 1.0"

tommica — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:46:13 +0000

One of the best parts about pi is the fact that it runs as a single agent. From what I've seen, multi-agent setups, like cursor and codex have not caused anything else than extra token usage, without any worthy benefit, at least when coding.

Pi without extensions, with a decent model that allows thinking to be disabled works really well, and is faster than multiple subagents.

New comment by tommica in "How Singapore's government-run dating service works"

tommica — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:57:42 +0000

A very interesting solution to the problem. Surely this data will not be repurposed, right?

But if it helps likeminded people to find each other, then it absolutely has some value.

New comment by tommica in "Commit description as a thinking tool"

tommica — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:22:03 +0000

Got an example of what you mean?

New comment by tommica in "Commit description as a thinking tool"

tommica — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:21:13 +0000

On hindsight that should be obvious! Pre-write your commit message, because of course you know what you are going to work on!

New comment by tommica in "Dots: Always-on agents"

tommica — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 05:04:45 +0000

Youre probably not the target audience, but at the same time, who exactly is?

New comment by tommica in "US Forces Exit Iraq"

tommica — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:10 +0000

Why would you put your military assets in the middle of your civilian population?

Although the loss of that school is quite saddening :/ poor girls

New comment by tommica in "Nokia Design Archive (2025)"

tommica — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:02:14 +0000

Looks amazing! And absolutely reminded of this scene from Silicon Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFsRif1wVGs

New comment by tommica in "Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production"

tommica — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:28:54 +0000

High-schools probably also spend about 52 mins explaining integrals...

New comment by tommica in "Acer CEO says memory makers are hyping 2030 shortage fears to protect margins"

tommica — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:19:08 +0000

What are the chances of the price going down in the first place? The companies can keep the prices artificially high, and they do not need to collude to keep their prices inflated forever.

New comment by tommica in "George Lucas Returns to Earth, Bearing Gifts"

tommica — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:15:43 +0000

I loved Phantom Menace as a kid - watched it like 3 times in the movies, had a bootlegged VHS that I watched multiple times too.

And after some deep-dive videos I learned that I've missed so much in those prequels. So for lore-heads and theorists there is a lot to chew on.

They are enjoyable movies for everyone!