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s4i··on Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
This, and the keep/undo flow, forking agent sessions (including renaming them)... The UX could be better at places but the core features of what Cursor has (for someone who came from VS Code) is an unbeatable mix. Really would like to find something else.

I did try Kiro which seems to have the same philosophy but it's just not there. Most of the features I like in Cursor are missing.

Some other commenters mentioned that VS Code + Copilot would be better these days. Dunno.

s4i··on P99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240M domain names
It’s usually good to wait for user to do KeyUp before treating the string as final. A fellow commenter explained some of the reasons: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49505993
s4i··on Choosing an AI model: one prompt, 11 models, different results
In my opinion, this kind of a benchmark doesn't tell much about the models' capabilities on normal software development tasks. It's fun to look at the differences in the output of course, but how often would anyone prompt with very brief instructions, without even hinting the model about caring about any of the details in the outcome nor the implementation?

When there are implicit boundaries, negotiable tradeoffs, taste, whatever, in the mix, then the differences in the model capabilities become way more interesting.

s4i··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
Isn’t that a huge simplification? Of course the way you phrase the prompt can carry semantic meaning, maybe subtly, but still. And sometimes that matters a little and sometimes a lot. I’ve stopped numerous agent sessions over the last few weeks to reword my initial prompt to get the agent off an unintended track.
s4i··on Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript
This. I gather interesting posts this way in my browser tabs in the phone and everytime I finish reading something I click "Back" and there's usually a discussion there, unless I opened the link originally from somewhere else than HN.
s4i··on Most arguments are about ego, not ideas
> Help people when they explicitly ask for help. When someone asks, the cause and effect reverse. You’re no longer imposing your judgment on someone who never wanted it.

Maybe this is why pull request reviews can become contentious. The reviewer thinks the author is open for feedback while in fact it’s just the widely accepted practice and team/company enfored that you are supposed to give feedback.

s4i··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
I don’t understand this take. In my company a lot of the Claude Coders seem to be very uninterested or unaware of the code they are producing, while I in Cursor usually click ”Keep”/”Undo” on specific code blocks (with little edits) or sometimes the whole file at once if it’s a low risk part of the codebase. I fail to see how this workflow produces inferior code vs shooting in the blind and maybe skimming a huge diff in one go.
s4i··on RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
This validates my prediction that GenAI will be the Comic Sans of the late 2020s.
s4i··on RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon
I've found most hackathons not personally fulfilling because you can only get small stuff done and finalize maybe a happy path or two, accompanied by some rushed slides, before you run out of time. The AI really changes this and you can actually deeply exhaust an idea.
s4i··on Code review should be fast – Linear
Changelog entry: https://linear.app/changelog/2026-05-27-linear-diffs
s4i··on Artemis II Photo Timeline
Just spotted this from Hank's channel [1] on YouTube. I love that I can look at all the crew photos while also knowing where in the flight path these were taken, this is great!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyZE9VWJjDA

s4i··on ChatGPT Images 2.0
Isn’t that also a valuable life lesson that some topics/resources are scarce and at some point you need to do something else?
s4i··on Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth
I personally prefer to view it in the same orientation the photographer saw it in their viewfinder. Makes me feel more like I’m inside the vessle looking at the planet.
s4i··on uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts
I personally solved this need with a simple bookmarklet: https://samulisuomi.github.io/youtube-unshortify-bookmarklet...
s4i··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Path back to what? Time before the US started bullying its allies and destroying Nato? This seems all self-inflicted.
s4i··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
You do realize Denmark/Greenland is (well, at least used to be before this circus act) your ally?
s4i··on Cloudflare acquires Astro
You could and yet nobody did.

You need to give credit to a project like Astro that takes a pattern, popularizes it and makes it straightforward to adopt via a framework.

s4i··on Cloudflare acquires Astro
Vite + React is the go-to recipe.
s4i··on AI startup Cursor raises $2.3B funding round at $29.3B valuation
I'd bet it can be quite a sticky product, if you moved to it from VS Code and don't want to switch around all the time – especially if the enterprise license been approved in your company ().
s4i··on Replacement.ai
The fact that people don’t realize this is satire is the most scariest part.
s4i··on TODOs aren't for doing
Aren’t all code comments for noting something?
s4i··on XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
Maybe it’s just the way the author writes?
s4i··on Mbake – A Makefile formatter and linter, that only took 50 years
Does this support inline ignoring specific rules with some syntax? Couldn’t find this from the README. Would be good to have as an escape hatch.
s4i··on You wouldn't steal a font
We don’t know what the ads (meaning, the videos) used. We only know what was on their website.
s4i··on Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
The mandatory link about Dokploy’s unclear/questionable license: https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/discussions/3
s4i··on Sparks – A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code
There is a gif?
s4i··on Mistral OCR
I wonder how good it would be to convert sheet music to MusicXML. All the current tools more or less suck with this task, or maybe I’m just ignorant and don’t know what lego bricks to put together.
s4i··on Why Ruby on Rails still matters
Can you link said post?
s4i··on Google Pixel 4a's old firmware is gone, trapping users on buggy battery update
I was a Nexus/Pixel user for 10+ years. Majority of the phones I owned during that time had some quirks or issues. The worst examples were Nexus 5X and Pixel 5 – both just suddenly froze one day, shut down, and never turned back on again. After that Pixel 5 surprise I grudgingly switched to iPhone 12 mini.

I still think Google’s Android UI is the best one out there for me, and I despise a lot in the iPhone UX (such as the keyboard) but I just need a phone that works and I can get repaired or replaced easily if I need to. At least in Finland, Google’s customer service has been abysmal over the years.

s4i··on I've acquired a new superpower
Almost certainly a lot of the people saying they are ”crossing” their eyes are actually ”uncrossing” their eyes; focusing the eyes straighter than what would normally happen on the surface where the image is laid out.

This is also how the legendary ”Magic Eye” books were supposed to be viewed. Not by crossing the eyes.

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