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emehexon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

I'm working a new Fantasy Football league/format that is category-based (like hockey/baseball) in an attempt to make games more "watchable". The problem with traditional Fantasy Football, is that half of the game (defence) is ignored, while not very economically-valuable positions, like RB and TE, are elevated far past their real world relevance. This new system is my attempt at fixing both problems!

emehexon SwiftUI After 7 Years

I've noticed that developers who started with UIKit really have a hard time working with SwiftUI. I think this is because it's not just new syntax, it's an entirely different way to think: state is the source of truth, views are ephemeral, and you describe UI instead of managing it.

emehexon SwiftUI After 7 Years

Agreed. SwiftData is terrible for anything more than like 2 "Models". I have a bunch of apps written with SwiftData and a bunch more with GRDB... I hate touching the SwiftData ones.

emehexon SwiftUI After 7 Years

> real, production-grade UI framework

What does this even mean? There are hundreds of thousands of apps in the App Store that are 100% SwiftUI. They are real. And they are very much "production grade".

The only people still complaining about SwiftUI 7 years later are the UIKit holdouts that never took the time to properly learn how to use it.

emehexon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)

A daily meditation "instrument". I'm a big fan of Waking Up but I've kinda outgrown the catalogue. I know what to do now. I just need a timer and a couple of prompts...

emehexon GPT-5.6

gpt-5.6-sol x XHIGH is my favourite

emehexon Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts

"Coding is largely solved"

emehexon Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)

Claude Code and/or Codex from Ghostty/Terminal. You don't need to complicate it.

emehexon SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

I'm not sure what this has to do with my comment? D1 is pretty much sufficient on it's own...

emehexon SQLite is all you need for durable workflows

I think you'd be surprised to learn how many real production apps are actually running on top of SQLite (by way of Cloudflare D1).

emehexon Ferrari Luce

This is like the anti-Cybertruck. But in a funny horseshoe kinda way the exact same as the Cybertruck?

emehexon The death of the brick and mortar toy store

I still do this for my dog every year on his birthday. Funny that the Pet Store survived the Internet while the Toy Store did not...

emehexon Who will buy your services if you fire us all?

I don't understand UBI.

Let's say a burger costs $10. Then UBI is implemented. But not just like $1K/month UBI... $1M/year UBI... for everyone! There's no way that the burger is still $10 now. Right?

Won't the economy just soak up all the extra UBI money? So a burger will cost $1000 in world where everyone gets $1M/year? And like $20 when everyone gets $1K/month? Isn't it all just a wash?

emehexon Lisette a little language inspired by Rust that compiles to Go

Looks a lot like Swift! Awesome!

emehexon Local LLM App by Ente

There are literally 1000s of these types of apps. Why is this on the Front Page?

emehexon Kagi Small Web

StumbleUpon?

emehexon Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language

Can anyone get LinkedIn>English working? Nothing I've found and pasted in has seemed to work... just spits back out the original

emehexon Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics

For those unaware, Claude Code comes with a built in /insights command...

emehexon Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?

Favourite books of the year:

"When the Moon Hits Your Eye" - John Scalzi

"Making History" - K.J. Parker

"Let Dogs be Dogs" - Monks of New Skete

"The First Gentleman" - Bill Clinton (it's actually fun!)

"The Thinking Machine" - Stephen Witt

emehexon Volvo Centum is Dalton Maag's new typeface for Volvo

I thought Volvo was publicly traded. Had to look it up.

Volvo Group - sells trucks - publicly traded - Swedish

Volvo Cars - sells cars - not publicly traded - 100% owned by Geely (Chinese)

Volvo Cars ≠ Volvo Group

emehexon My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?

My flow (with legacy software) is: manual strip > LLM > manual clean up > repeat

emehexon We're Joining OpenAI

If your iOS project has more than 700 files... you might be doing it wrong?

emehexon Open models by OpenAI

So 120B was Horizon Alpha and 20B was Horizon Beta?

emehexon Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives

Would highly recommend listening to the latest Hard Fork podcast with Matthew Prince (CEO, Cloudflare): https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/podcasts/hardfork-age-res...

I was skeptical about their gatekeeping efforts at first, but came away with a better appreciation for the problem and their first pass at a solution.

emehexon Vibe code is legacy code

I think the question to ask about your two scenarios: in which is it faster and cheaper to get from v1 to v2? From v2 to v3? I think, for right now, it's cheaper under scenario B. But in the future? Who knows!

emehexon Stop Building AI Tools Backwards

Counter-counter-point: handwriting > typing for remembering things (https://www.glamour.com/story/typing-memory)

emehexon Why Pandas feels clunky when coming from R (2024)

I haven't seriously used R in nearly a decade but I still miss (and think about) dpylr and the hadleyverse...

A few years ago I made a package called "redframes" that tried to "solve" all of my frustrations with pandas, make data wrangling feel more like R, while retaining all the best bits of Python...

Alas, it never really took off. For those curious: https://github.com/maxhumber/redframes