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nektro··on If coding has been solved, why does software keep getting worse?
no, all three of those softwares should be exceptional and help me do exactly what i'm trying to do with no distractions or bugs
nektro··on If You Build It, They Will Come
> Why weren't the young a kind of apprentices to the old?

this question could explain almost everything about american life right now

nektro··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
updating apps is optional is my point
nektro··on Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)
the benefit of apps is they don't break. websites update out from under you and the web expects browsers to always be evergreen
nektro··on SpaceX wants to launch 100k more Starlink satellites for 100x the bandwidth
we let companies in space way too soon. only NASA should have satellites in the US
nektro··on Why write code in 2026
that you don't see this as inevitable worries me dearly
nektro··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
i wonder if residential ISPs can play a bigger role here
nektro··on Good Tools Are Invisible
100%
nektro··on Prefer strict tables in SQLite
thanks! i have seen the sqlite quirks page before but just added this to my queries thanks to you
nektro··on Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix
url should be https://ui.shadcn.com/docs/changelog/2026-07-base-ui-default
nektro··on Rocketlab acquires Iridium
saw this title on the front page and thought it meant the element, not a company
nektro··on Nano Banana 2 Lite
one of the most ethically barren products to come out of this era
nektro··on I rewrote PostHog's SQL parser, 70x faster, while barely looking at the code
thank you!
nektro··on Open source AI must win
the public only wins once we shut it down globally through treaties like other tech that's too dangerous for anyone to have
nektro··on Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
haven't written up a show hn post yet but i launched this weekend a server app for git i built all in Zig[1]

[1]: https://astheno.software/shale/

demo site https://git.mirrors.nektro.net/

nektro··on Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?
> but do people realize that code is just a means to an end?

yes and an end has to be worth the means. people disagree about whether it is worth it. some people see a benefit using LLMs and agents to such a degree they're willing to look past the noise and water and air pollution produced by the unprecedented data center buildout that we've seen over the past few years, or the unprecedented increase in things like spam and deepfakes, or the way that it is decimating the job market + funnel, or the way that it reinforces existing antisocial incentives in society. some don't/aren't.

nektro··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
sota models cannot remotely fit in 128gb
nektro··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
anthropic rumored to be having a profitable quarter is a ruse to ready them up for IPO or otherwise. they could've had a profitable quarter at any point in their history but they only do so if they stop making models; this has been established. they make a model, they sell inference and make a ton of money, they train the next model at 10x the cost, they sell inference and make a ton of money, they train the next model at 10x the cost, repeat
nektro··on About LLMs at Zig Days
> I would still recommend not putting all your eggs in one basket just yet because [..] there will still be some value in knowing how systems work, both to differentiate yourself from other developers career-wise, and as part of effective LLM steering.

the thesis is that investing in your skills outside of LLMs pays dividends whether you decide to apply those skills to LLMs or not, plus spending time bonding with your fellow engineers is good for you too. so I'm sure Zig will be doing great in a few years

nektro··on sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library
not one mention of Zig on the whole page?
nektro··on The last six months in LLMs in five minutes
Alphafold isn't generative and using this as a rebuttal to OP is bad faith
nektro··on Google Search as you know it is over
so disgusting
nektro··on 1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries
woah, the web map viewer even has parallax when zoomed in
nektro··on Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian
because open source is a means not an end. folks want good, fast software that respects them. open source isn't the only way there.
nektro··on Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format
easy, CTFs should ban it. then it'd be more like the chess community
nektro··on HTML Lists
TIL <menu>, I wonder why more frameworks don't make use of it.
nektro··on Production engineering when trading billions of dollars a day [video]
really enjoyed this talk. really interesting how the different constraints change how they think about their system
nektro··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
going after systems that affect students is beyond bad taste
nektro··on OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft Back Bill to Fund 'AI Literacy' in Schools
dystopian :( i hope schools put more pressure on keeping that off their devices. or switch to neos.
nektro··on GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay
when i saw this headline i expected it to be the other way around
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