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theflyinghorse

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theflyinghorse··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
Is it possible that individuals or groups use outsourcing as a way to funnel money into their private interests? IMO we're looking at good old corruption.
theflyinghorse··on Effect 4.0
It's like Scala and Spring Boot had a baby and the baby was in typescript. Super solid project great engineers.
theflyinghorse··on SvelteKit 3
I don't think LLMs are much better at react. I've migrated two apps from next to sveltekit and it was a breeze using codex.
theflyinghorse··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
Finally got to Dostoevsky's Brother Karamazov. This will take a while.
theflyinghorse··on Tank Body Problem
This is actually a lot of fun.
theflyinghorse··on I Put Nam A2-Lite Inside an iRig HD X
Oh excellent! Once I get a bit of time I will try hooking NAM A2-l to a controller and then putting THAT inside of one of my old drive pedals for style.
theflyinghorse··on Tesla killing Solar Roof is leaving installers with six-figure losses
It’s the whole business for the installers. You get margin where you can, and that for them is in the marketing and selling and installing and supporting for the customers.
theflyinghorse··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
I love the line that Chin wants to influence Canada on the same day as US puts demands for having controls over Canadian trade deals.
theflyinghorse··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
LLMs are an automated Indian dev-shop. That’s all. The code is poorly thought out, poorly implemented and doesn’t take performance into account. But the code works and you got it for cheap. That’s my mental model and I’m happy with it
theflyinghorse··on Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?
The big ones for me are the actor processes sending each other messages, distributed processes where you can connect several nodes to each other very seamlessly and the processes within them communicate seemlessly! I’m not looking to rebuild OTP, I’m simply exploring ideas I couldn’t before
theflyinghorse··on Ask HN: How much software do you build for yourself these days?
I built a screen recorder for myself with LLMs. A calorie tracker. Now building this everything-webframework in Odin that's inspired heavily by BEAM's ideas (its a creative process for me, I don't have an end goal in mind)
theflyinghorse··on Amazon without the knockoffs
Reminds me - I was working for a Canadian network equipment manufacturer and at one point a client in Asia was trying to get support for a bunch of units of uor hardware (modems). Long story short, turns out they bought knock offs that didn't even bother changing casing leaving contact info on modems for our company.
theflyinghorse··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
They are making more money than ever before. Maybe Meta leadership doesn’t really care about having a coherent strategy at this point. They can afford to flail around to see if something sticks. Reminds me of Rich kids who have ability to travel the world and find themselves before settling into a career
theflyinghorse··on Ask HN: How do you handle QA at a startup with no QA team? Genuinely curious
You'd be surprised. Every software application has bugs. If customers are willing to give you money despite bugs that's a very string signal in favour of your product.
theflyinghorse··on Amazon seller reveals glimpse of shadow bribery market
That's a problem for you — the customer - not for Jeff, the VP.
theflyinghorse··on Ask HN: What do you predict the world will look like in 5-10 years?
In the West, decline of living standards and continued decay of institutions. Probably very few organizations actually benefit from LLMs, mostly bankers.

Elsewhere? who knows

theflyinghorse··on Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight
It probably has to do with what technology people are used to. There has been a couple of generations of web developers who have only known javascript and its ecosystem for building webapps, and so anything other than pure javascript solution looks foreign.
theflyinghorse··on Claude Fable 5
I've seen enough degradation of the models I pay for from Anthropic to not bite. Fable will work fine for the first couple of weeks and then start degrading like previous models did.
theflyinghorse··on India's surprise baby bust
Top 1% are too divorced from the real world to have ever seen a cog.
theflyinghorse··on Does anybody like React?
Currently rewriting nextjs app into sveltekit. It’s going surprisingly smoothly. Don’t know about svelte vs react yet BUT sveltekit is far more straightforward than nextjs has far better DX and is somehow faster
theflyinghorse··on Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)
I don't understand why cloudflare is loved by tech people. They ARE breaking the web.
theflyinghorse··on Magnifica Humanitas
Why should you posses a homestead? What value do you produce that droid can't that would make you deserving of anything at all? Why should corporations that design, manufacture and program the droid not own the land instead?

We need to very rapidly decouple human worth from the economic lens otherwise the economic argument is against humans.

theflyinghorse··on No More JetBrains Products for Me
For whatever reason zed takes forever to paste on my m1max MBP. Im talking at least 1.5s for a paste a few characters from clipboard or to duplicate a line.
theflyinghorse··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
I am afraid to give agents ability to touch git at all and people out there let it know things about their infrastructure. 100% fault on the operator for trusting agents, for not engineering a strong enough guard rails such as “don’t let it near any infrastructure”.
theflyinghorse··on Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different
HA! I Love it! It's a been a while since I felt this sort of joy exploring a new way to navigate
theflyinghorse··on Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase
It will take some time for Quarkus to become a significant enough presence in the market share. In my experience, for the majority of Java shops Spring Boot does just fine because it worked before and it will probably work in the future.
theflyinghorse··on Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase
This is still relatively tame! I've seen stuff where there are layers of annotations some of which will spawn docker containers effectively bringing docker compose into java application as part of the set up. Some containers would need to come up, do a quick file change, then die and the the rest of configuration proceeded (this was for an automated test tool). Entirely stupid, could have been written with just couple classes of Java and a docker compose. But it is a culture. It is a culture that I think ultimately will destroy Java.
theflyinghorse··on Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase
You have worked at some outstanding java shops then! In my experience the article is precisely representative of Java culture even today
theflyinghorse··on Show HN: QuickBEAM – run JavaScript as supervised Erlang/OTP processes
This is very interest to me because we have accumulated a few node packages containing logic that services simply import. So in theory I could now use those node packages in elixir?
theflyinghorse··on UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s
UK absolutely needs to be thought of in the same way we think about Russia or Belorussia, or China.
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