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New comment by vmsp in "French lawmakers approved a tax of €0.055 for every gigabyte of internet traffic"

vmsp — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:20:40 +0000

Is this the 349th? [1] Probably not, they're likely over it already. I'm sure this one will really fix France and make things that much better.

[1] https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/05/30/france-germany-uk-number...

New comment by vmsp in "Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament"

vmsp — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:15:29 +0000

It's extraordinary they managed to form a list in 2025 and defeat the super corrupt, super established incumbent. A huge win for Serbia and democracies everywhere.

I'm a bit skeptic on all those professors and PhDs being a boon, though. In Portugal, we've been ruled by PhDs since 1926, if not before. Most ministers are professors, many of them independent. Results haven't been good. I hope Serbia proves us wrong.

New comment by vmsp in "Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust"

vmsp — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:47:08 +0000

This is the kind of thing I would have found amazing a year ago — maybe even less — but now I can't help but wonder "What for?"

A coding agent already knows how to generate whatever it needs on the backend plus the client-side pieces. What's the point in having a Rust subset that compiles down to JS when I can just not have it and the result be the same?

I feel like the question these days is to figure out the right level of abstraction and Topcoat might be too much.

PS: This isn't a jab at the library or its authors. It's just me trying to figure out what still matters in the age of LLMs.

New comment by vmsp in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

vmsp — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:05:06 +0000

Whatever answer you get, it's nothing more than an opinion. For now, anyway.

https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/

New comment by vmsp in "WalShadow: Sub-second Postgres replication to ClickHouse from physical WAL"

vmsp — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 21:14:32 +0000

They're not using `wal_level = logical`, which has been the "friendly" way of doing CDC on Postgres since ever, but are going straight to `wal_level = replica` which, afaik, has never really been used to build something atop of except Postgres' own replication.

This is very interesting. I'd never have guessed that it'd make such a difference. I also bet this is the sort of thing that would have never end up being implemented without access to coding agents. Having to figure out these protocol-level details is no longer the huge time sink it was

New comment by vmsp in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

vmsp — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 18:04:56 +0000

I've been building a framework for web, ios and android native development at https://github.com/vmsp/flypath.

It's based on the Server-Driven UI philosophy where the backend streams both code and UI into a frontend that just knows how to render what it's told. This is pretty cool because it makes it makes over-the-air updates possible.

It also follows the batteries-included philosophy of Rails. Has an ORM, background and cron jobs (all based on Postgres), Django-style migrations, JSX Emails and pretty great FFI that's built around a simple `"use native"` directive, in the React Server Component fashion).

New comment by vmsp in "Shopify moves back to Native from React Native"

vmsp — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:13:39 +0000

I came here to say this. I also prefer fully native apps but this is the elephant in the room. If most of your web code can be re-used on native, that's a ton of tokens you won't have to pay for.

New comment by vmsp in "Vidact – a compiler that turns React into direct DOM operations"

vmsp — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:35:46 +0000

I was about to comment this. The selling for svelte has always been that the compiler will output just the needed instructions for the expressed transformation. No virtual DOM.

From Jekyll to a POSIXish static site generator

vmsp — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:18:35 +0000

Article URL: https://0x1.pt/2026/09/06/from-jekyll-to-posix/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49585402

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by vmsp in "The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite"

vmsp — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:08:10 +0000

OXC Transformers are amazingly faster than Babel. I'm building a framework (https://github.com/vmsp/flypath) for web, iOS and Android native development that's fully backed by OXC and Vite. Instead of transforming styles using Babel like StyleX, I just use OXC. Instead of Metro (React Native's bundler), which also uses Babel, it's just Vite. It's still very early but it's plenty, plenty fast.

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

vmsp — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:53:54 +0000

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

I was previously founding and lead engineer at a London-based startup in talent-tech that got acquired last year. Then I tried to do my own thing (https://hanlec.com/) and failed at that. Now looking for my next role.

In my free time, I work on https://github.com/vmsp/flypath. A framework for web, android and iOS native apps using Server-Driven UI.

New comment by vmsp in "Show HN: Nub – A Bun-like all-in-one toolkit for Node.js"

vmsp — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:28:21 +0000

Hasn't Node been able to run TypeScript for a couple of versions? Why's the transpiler needed?

New comment by vmsp in "The new bibliomaniacs"

vmsp — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:37:07 +0000

I didn't know I was part of a trend, that's pretty cool. I've been buying originals related to the Portuguese Estado Novo and Carnation Revolution for some years. A ton of ad-hoc, clearly political, publishers spawned right after the revolution and I've been thinking of digitizing some of the stuff I have for historical purposes.

New comment by vmsp in "The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader"

vmsp — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:22:28 +0000

With the kind of press it’s getting, I bet this model will outsell all others made in the last 10y. I don’t remember the last time a Ferrari was on the news.

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