Hacker News: ubercore

New comment by ubercore in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

ubercore — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:00:12 +0000

This doesn't answer your question, but Aerospace (tiling WM) has been good for me to not use spaces. I don't mind spaces in theory, but the slow animation, for whatever reason, just really irks me.

New comment by ubercore in "Async Python Is Secretly Deterministic"

ubercore — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:04:06 +0000

That's a bit what it felt like when I was learning Rust async.

I get it, but "ecosystems" of async runtimes have a pretty big cost.

New comment by ubercore in "Maxell MXCP-P100 – wireless cassette player"

ubercore — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:32:42 +0000

It's a shame MiniDisc wasn't more popular.

New comment by ubercore in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"

ubercore — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:42:38 +0000

I went 386 DX 33 to a Pentium 75, which wasn't a wild amount of time. I'd argue that's way bigger than when I got an SSD (but I agree SSD was a huge improvement).

New comment by ubercore in "You Just Need Postgres"

ubercore — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 11:13:04 +0000

This is the best response to the article, IMO. We've kept our tech stack down, and lean heavily on postgres in a lot of cases. But having Redis able to handle scale independently of postgres has been a life saver, and saved us a lot of money vs what kind of postgres instance we'd need to match what it's doing.

Small scale, small app, You Just Need Postgres is on point. Funneling all of your scaling issues into Postgres, which isn't always the easiest to scale horizontally, can start to be a problem.

New comment by ubercore in "Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications"

ubercore — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:55:00 +0000

And they have very low drug mortality rates. Opiates are prescribed _way_ less than in the US. This really feels like a strawman comparison.

New comment by ubercore in "Fentanyl makeover: Core structural redesign could lead to safer pain medications"

ubercore — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:37:40 +0000

> I see Europe eventually coming to this same conclusion when enough damage has been done.

I'm curious about this sentence -- to what are you referring, and where specifically in Europe?

New comment by ubercore in "Attyx – tiny and fast GPU-accelerated terminal emulator written in Zig"

ubercore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:17:20 +0000

Nobody is writing a "project structure" section by hand, and listing out the directory structure with _every file_.

New comment by ubercore in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

ubercore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:37:49 +0000

Go ahead!

New comment by ubercore in "Claude Code Remote Control"

ubercore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:19:53 +0000

I agree in your basic framing but not your conclusion. Met plenty of do-ers before thinkers that are self-aware enough to also maintain software longterm.

New comment by ubercore in "Vinext – The Next.js API surface, reimplemented on Vite"

ubercore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:02:44 +0000

Is the Next.js API surface worth reimplementing?

New comment by ubercore in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

ubercore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:01:29 +0000

It _can_ produce slop if people stop thinking. I've also seen it do just fine, when people know when, where and how to use it. That's the part that frightens me, not the code it makes itself.

New comment by ubercore in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

ubercore — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:02:16 +0000

It's not a point and click code machine, but it's laughably wrong to say they just churn out laughably wrong code.

New comment by ubercore in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

ubercore — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:30:08 +0000

Stopped using autopilot because of the phantom braking.

It's also recently gotten much worse at lane departure sensing, often confused by snow or slightly faded road markers. Not pleasant to have the alarms go off while calmly and safely driving.

New comment by ubercore in "Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics"

ubercore — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:28:38 +0000

My Tesla can't even tell if it should turn the wipers on consistently or correctly. Let alone drive in the rain.

New comment by ubercore in "The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)"

ubercore — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:45:21 +0000

Do we know that it needs 10 chips to run the model? Or are the servers for the API and chatbot just specced with 10 boards to distribute user load?

New comment by ubercore in "Infrastructure decisions I endorse or regret after 4 years at a startup (2024)"

ubercore — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:49:01 +0000

Been incredibly happy with the speed, featureset, and pace of new (good) features in Linear. Our team has adopted it quite happily and it gets a ton of good use. Can fully recommend.

New comment by ubercore in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

ubercore — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:56:49 +0000

Apologize for the low effort comment, but your description of Gemini kind of reminds me of my impression of Google's approach to products too. There's often brilliance there, confounded by sometimes muddled approaches.

What's Conway's Law for LLM models going to be called?

New comment by ubercore in "Defer available in gcc and clang"

ubercore — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 08:24:07 +0000

Modern Python is great :shrug:

New comment by ubercore in "State of Show HN: 2025"

ubercore — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:49:00 +0000

I can't even tell any more if you posted this to lampoon the explosion of LLM slop, or this is real LLM slop.