Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — emehex

emehex

HN member
Joined
Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 10:18 PM UTC
HN karma
477
Public activity
182 items

About emehex

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #49233768

    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 Fo…

  2. comment
    Comment #49147939

    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 t…

  3. comment
    Comment #49147846

    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…

  4. comment
    Comment #49147799

    > 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 muc…

  5. comment
    Comment #48887035

    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...

  6. comment
    Comment #48850951

    gpt-5.6-sol x XHIGH is my favourite

  7. comment
    Comment #48785710

    "Coding is largely solved"

  8. comment
    Comment #48415119

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

  9. comment
    Comment #48335715

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

  10. comment
    Comment #48329888

    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).

  11. comment
    Comment #48277256

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

  12. comment
    Comment #48237243

    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...

  13. comment
    Comment #48187235

    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 st…

  14. comment
    Comment #47648241

    Looks a lot like Swift! Awesome!

  15. comment
    Comment #47518058

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

  16. comment
    Comment #47410593

    StumbleUpon?

  17. comment
    Comment #47410587

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

  18. comment
    Comment #47350947

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

  19. comment
    Comment #46397856

    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…

  20. comment
    Comment #46369299

    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 (…

  21. comment
    Comment #45196313

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

  22. comment
    Comment #45119928

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

  23. comment
    Comment #44801015

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

  24. comment
    Comment #44787471

    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 skepti…

  25. comment
    Comment #44740377

    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. …