Hacker News: w0m

New comment by w0m in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

w0m — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:31:26 +0000

Huh. This surprises me. Digging, it seems it looks like it comes down to interpreted + dynamically typed vs compiled and statically typed.

TIL. If i were to start a truly vibe project; Go would have a significant leg up.

New comment by w0m in "Ti-84 Evo"

w0m — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:50:32 +0000

same. My first real exposure to coding was hacking Drug Wars on my brothers old ti-89 in math class.

New comment by w0m in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

w0m — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:29:47 +0000

didn't msft write an ~entire new file system specifically to scale git to the windows code base?

I have fuzzy memories on reading about it.

New comment by w0m in "GitHub's Historic Uptime"

w0m — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:24:26 +0000

i assume they simply fixed the status page in 2018.. lol.

New comment by w0m in "Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran"

w0m — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:40:15 +0000

Does October 7th count?

New comment by w0m in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

w0m — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:36:32 +0000

I bought my LR Model 3 in 2020 for ~42,000, ~15k cheaper than a v6 3 Series at the time. A v6 5 series is another significant jump up in price/market.

> Not sure which car you compare it to specifically from those manufacturers

My comparison at the time was a Honda Civic, BMW 3 Series, and that was kind of it.

I generally consider the Model 3 interior roughly middle between the Honda and the BMW, while having worlds better tech, twice the hp, and - Electric (when they were still rare).

There really was nothing like it at any price point at the time, and i still consider it a great car (though of course not perfect).

New comment by w0m in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

w0m — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:32:52 +0000

> Why did Tesla work initially?

Becaues they were ~first to market - and honestly, as a tesla driver for the last 6 years - It's the best car I ever owned (including Toyota, Mazda, and domestics).

6 years ago, for the effective price of a Honda Accord, I was able to get a car with excellent AWD for NorEast winters, perfect weight distribution (previously drove a Miata for comparison), could beat ~95% 'super cars' in a straight line, and it got 140MPG.

6 years ago. And I've had 0 maintenance outside of tire / air filter changes since. There was nothing anything remotely like it on the market, and it still holds up today. That's incredibly compelling.

Then PedoDiver, and it's been downhill from there... I'll likely get an R3X when it comes out.

New comment by w0m in "Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software"

w0m — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:22:45 +0000

humans are naturally slimy. Anything you touch for 8h/day will be slimy in turn. Some of us are slimier than others.

New comment by w0m in "Israel Strikes Oil Facilities in Iran"

w0m — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:37:10 +0000

> Would the world be safer (or more endangered) if Iran had a nuclear weapon

Is there any chance this invasion has ~anything to do with Iran having nuclear weapons?

New comment by w0m in "MacBook Neo"

w0m — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:24:25 +0000

> (ive got a thinpad and the platic build is just terrible. The screen bends when pulling it to open the laptop).

Which thinkpad? Typing on a loaded P16s currently; it's not metal like old MBP or even my travel surface pro, but it feels... fine.

New comment by w0m in "Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config"

w0m — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:16:11 +0000

yea... I would consider it a ux regression to do the OPs tweaks.

To each their own; glad it's an option :)

New comment by w0m in "Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings"

w0m — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:38:30 +0000

NeoVim w/ render-markdown.nvim

(not to poo on OP - I dig a clean TUI renderer, I have BAT installed for a reason)

New comment by w0m in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

w0m — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:52:29 +0000

I used opencode happily for a while before switching to copilot cli. Been a minute , but I don't detect a major quality difference since they added Plan mode. Seems pretty solid, and first party if that matters to your org.

New comment by w0m in "xAI joins SpaceX"

w0m — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:40:23 +0000

This just reads like Elon trying to leverage the AI bubble to prop up SpaceX stock to me.

New comment by w0m in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

w0m — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 01:12:31 +0000

I mean, Hallucinations are 95% better now than the first time I heard the term and experienced them in this context. To claim otherwise is simply shifting goalposts. No one is saying it's perfect or will be perfect, just that there has been steady progression and likely will continue to be for the foreseeable future.

New comment by w0m in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

w0m — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:02:33 +0000

I believe his argument is that now that you've defined the limitation, it's a ceiling that will likely be cracked in the relatively near future.

New comment by w0m in "Claude Cowork runs Linux VM via Apple virtualization framework"

w0m — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:23:12 +0000

I'd just do it over a Docker mount (or equivalent) to keep it a bit more lightweight. Can keep the LLM running local; and teach it how to test/debug via instruction files.

New comment by w0m in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

w0m — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 22:55:50 +0000

My wife and I work. We are blessed that we make enough that we buy ~anything reasonable we want, have 2 kids in private school, and max out our 401k/roths/backdoor every year.

What is the value in detailed tracking of personal finance? We audit ~every credit card bill when it comes in for oddities, but don't really pay attention where everything goes as long as more comes in than goes out.

New comment by w0m in "Cameras and Lenses (2020)"

w0m — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 19:12:10 +0000

TBF; the infamous MS report 'Working with AI: Measuring the Occupational Implications of Generative AI' had Teacher/Professor pretty high up there.

New comment by w0m in "AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D sells for more than 9800X3D, enthusiasts flock to AM4 DDR4"

w0m — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:16:38 +0000

> Normally an old, used CPU for a dead platform will go for a small fraction the MSRP.

True in general- used CPUs from discontinued platforms sell for a small fraction of the original MSRP.

Buuuut, the final flagship part on nearly every platform is an exception to this rule. They are generally sought after as the definitive 'End Game Upgrade' because they provide users with the simplest, most cost-effective performance boost—a single component swap—bypassing the need for a costly migration to a successor platform (which requires new RAM and a new motherboard).

It tends to happen every generation swap, 5800X3D is just the latest.