Hacker News: vmsp

New comment by vmsp in "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era"

vmsp — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:53:21 +0000

Is anyone actually using agent swarms for anything real?

New comment by vmsp in "Deno 2.8"

vmsp — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:02:56 +0000

That wasn't a value judgment on the acquisition. I was just pointing out that it made the project more sustainable.

New comment by vmsp in "Deno 2.8"

vmsp — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:56:33 +0000

I wonder how Deno's faring.

Node's the stable solution and will be with us forever. You can now use TypeScript with it and, soon enough, you'll be able to build your app to a single executable -- including native deps.

Bun's chaotic but, nonetheless, it's _fast_ and it's taking an interesting approach by including everything in the stdlib. Plus, bought by Anthropic.

Deno had an awesome story with the sandbox and ease of import for third-party dependencies. Sandboxes feel pretty commoditized now and I'm not sure the import mechanism ended up being that much nicer than a `npm add`.

New comment by vmsp in "The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests"

vmsp — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:57 +0000

Everyone prefers real problems. It's something you already know how to do instead of something you explicitly have to train for.

It doesn't change the fact that the real work could be an hour's exercise or longer remunerated work. This isn't an either/or scenario like you put it. Plus, for a fact, companies will happily have you doing both the leetcode and the take-home test.

New comment by vmsp in "The Interview That Ships to Production: replacing whiteboards with pull requests"

vmsp — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:12:05 +0000

Some companies do this and pay the candidate for their time, regardless of outcome. I don't think there's much to comment there. Some don't pay the candidate. In that case, it's just a predatory practice to take advantage of the tough job market.

New comment by vmsp in "Nim-Presto – REST API Framework for Nim Language (2024)"

vmsp — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:56:05 +0000

It's cool to see Nim in the wild, you don't hear about it often

Show HN: Hashful storage. Store your whole file in the URL hash

vmsp — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:04:08 +0000

Article URL: https://0x1.pt/dl

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48020779

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: How to Sell as a Software Engineer?

vmsp — Sun, 03 May 2026 11:40:25 +0000

I've reached the conclusion that software quality and even price matters much less than distribution, especially now.

So, how do I get the software I sell into my customer's hands?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47995953

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by vmsp in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

vmsp — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:43:29 +0000

  Location: Portugal
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Rails, Django, Postgres, React, Node, Next.js, Go, Postgres, Redis, KDB+
  Résumé/CV: https://0x1.pt/Vitor_Sousa_Pereira_CV.pdf
  Email: vmsousapereira@gmail.com

I was founding and lead engineer at a London-based startup that was sold back in December. Since then, I've been enjoying a career break and also working on projects of mine. Latest of which is https://hanlec.com and now an options backtesting platform that I'm still working on.

New comment by vmsp in "Durable queues, streams, pub/sub, and a cron scheduler – inside your SQLite file"

vmsp — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:23:53 +0000

Reminds me of Litestack for Rails. Eventually, it was abandoned because Rails itself started going all out on SQLite.

https://github.com/oldmoe/litestack

New comment by vmsp in "Nanopass Framework: Clean Compiler Creation Language"

vmsp — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:42:53 +0000

Wouldn't this kind of architecture yield a slower compiler, regardless of output quality? Conceptually, trying to implement the least-amount of passes with each doing as much work as possible would make more sense to me.

New comment by vmsp in "Building a framework-agnostic Ruby gem (and making sure it doesn't break)"

vmsp — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:41:07 +0000

Interesting lib. Sort of like Hotwire Native

https://native.hotwired.dev/

New comment by vmsp in "Switzerland hosts 'CERN of semiconductor research'"

vmsp — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:43:01 +0000

How does one learn about designing chips, ISAs and the manufacturing process? I feel like it’s hard info to got or, at least, to know how to get started.

Terrific initiative, either way. Open-source chips must be the way.

New comment by vmsp in "Swift 6.3"

vmsp — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:29:00 +0000

True. Google was even thinking of switching TensorFlow from Python to Swift.

https://github.com/tensorflow/swift

New comment by vmsp in "Iran war energy crisis is a renewable energy wake-up call"

vmsp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:19:11 +0000

As a Portuguese I have a more nuanced view of these type of takes.

We invested _heavily_ and prematurely in renewable energies -- see my comment from a couple of years ago [0]. Since then, our energy prices were high for a while and now they're not much lower than the EU's average because all that investment needs to be amortized [1]. Two years ago, we ran a whole month on renewables [2]. Despite this, our increase in energy prices since the Iran war started has been dramatic and the price of everything has been going up significantly. I can't help but think about the ROI on all those renewables if they can't help make our lives easier at a time like this. I'd much rather we go nuclear.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37719568

[1]: https://eco.sapo.pt/2026/03/11/precos-da-eletricidade-e-gas-...

[2]: https://www.portugalglobal.pt/en/news/2024/april/renewable-e...

New comment by vmsp in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

vmsp — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:45:29 +0000

Not directly related to the post but what does OpenUI do? I'm finding it interesting but hard to understand. Is it an intermediate layer that makes LLMs generate better UI?

New comment by vmsp in "Show HN: Elysia JIT "Compiler", why it's one of the fastest JavaScript framework"

vmsp — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:36:48 +0000

Is doing stuff like constant folding pre-execution really worth it? I mean, won't the engine itself (V8, JSC, MozJS) be doing it anyway? I know that Google's Closure Compiler — probably still the most advanced JS optimized — also does it but I can't help but think it's probably pointless.

New comment by vmsp in "CG/SQL – SQL dialect compiler to C for sqlite3 mimicking stored procedures"

vmsp — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 16:23:28 +0000

I'm guessing this is a fork of Facebook's abandoned library? https://github.com/facebookincubator/CG-SQL

New comment by vmsp in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

vmsp — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:36:28 +0000

https://0x1.pt/

I like to keep it simple.

New comment by vmsp in "Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance"

vmsp — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:54:42 +0000

Snapchat also maintains Djinni, used to generate type-safe bindings for C++ code. With Valdi, it seems like they chose to go another route.

https://github.com/Snapchat/djinni