HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

Secretmapper

298 karma · joined November 8, 2015

arianv.com
submissionscomments
Secretmapper··on Blue Prince is a roguelike puzzle masterpiece
I think the option would be great regardless. What you say is true - pen and paper is more expressive than digital notes, but digital notes is better than nothing.

I played Obra Dinn without pen and paper and I was fine.

There was a game called The Roottrees are dead which is based on Obra dinn with a built in journal system and it is really useful.

Secretmapper··on In React {Transitions} = F(state)
I think everything you said is 100% true. But the latter half is also true - React has (for better or worse) always been a view 'library' and has very little opinion on syncing network state/api requests.

Unfortunately, many people use inappropriate levels of abstraction (useEffect and/or redux) and it becomes an architectural problem.

Secretmapper··on Show HN: I'm a teacher and built an AI presentation tool
There was a paper recently that tackled this:

https://tiger-ai-lab.github.io/TheoremExplainAgent/

Secretmapper··on The Frontend Treadmill
`pnpm` was released back in 2016. It's 9 years old at this point.

I think part of the problem is this thinking that

- you must change things all the time (yarn is still good why switch?)

- the things you change to are somehow really new (pnpm is 9 years old)

Secretmapper··on Fans are better than tech at organizing information online (2019)
There's actually something interesting here in my opinion, which is that LLMs do not necessarily need to hinder standardization.

For example, we have standardized schooling/exams, because that's the proven scalable way we can have for children - essentially a factory spitting out different grade levels/seniority.

But LLMs can break this standardization by being able to tailor student needs in a scalable manner.

However this takes a huge amount of action, and that's going to be the pain point in the near future as we humans tend towards the easy/greedy paths.

Cultural richness - LLMs are also very bad in this regard due to the bias towards majority viewpoints. This reminds me of a recent HN thread [0] discussing how AI is hindering the adoption of new technologies. In some ways, this happens because AI tends to favor mainstream perspectives, making it biased against "new" or "fringe" viewpoints.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43047792

Secretmapper··on Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII
I'll take a look. This is the first time I heard of OW and I'm a pretty big Civ fan so thanks for the recommendation!
Secretmapper··on Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII
> I've been playing a game called Old World, which is basically Civ with decent UI and AI. The UI is intuitive and uses a nested tooltip system similar to Crusader Kings 3. The AI is pretty decent at war, it will flank you, use its strengths against your weaknesses, and will retreat to heal units that you don't finish off instead of fighting unwinnable battles.

Civ also does everything you mentioned - ie their units will flank and retreat. Is the AI markedly better than Civ?

Secretmapper··on What's in a ring buffer? And using them in Rust
In my work, we had to use a ring buffer to play audio data (we decode audio data to raw WAV and use a ring buffer for playback).

Interestingly, while the core part of the audio process is in rust (through WASM), the ring buffer itself is written in JS land (shared array buffer so that the audio context can read from it).

Secretmapper··on Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme
I thought it would be a hotlinkable image that updates.
Secretmapper··on AI is stifling new tech adoption?
> Awww, no more new JavaScript frameworks and waiting only for established technologies to cut through the noise. I don't see that as a bad thing. Technologies need to mature, and maintaining API backward compatibility is another advantage.

I think this kind of discussion is immature and downplays the point of the article.

A good example of this that I just encountered: Rust. Just asked Claude/ChatGPT for rust stuff recently, and it still gives a lot old/depreciated methods for a lot of things. This has been the case for Godot 3 vs 4 as well.

Secretmapper··on Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement
Not needing to disable SIP is a big one.
Secretmapper··on Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
My nieces and nephews had some school announcements _only_ disseminated on facebook. I had to call the school to change their process, and even then it took a while for them to adapt.

You are severely downplaying the network effect.

Secretmapper··on Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech
This thread honestly reminds me of that skit(?) or scene from a movie(?) where a news anchor chastised a climate scientist, because the scientist 'wore clothes that were mass produced in a factory that contributes to climate change'.

I thought that scene was satire, but from this conversation thread, apparently not.

'If they were so passionate about climate change they would wear second hand clothes'

Proceeds to still see how donated clothes are still a problem because of how they're processed - so see, you are still evil and hypocritical!

Secretmapper··on JavaScript Temporal is coming
Javascript, for the longest time, was a _slow_ moving target - web browsers themselves had cross browser issues where API X might work on browser A but not on browser B.

There were so many bigger issues like that I think that made this not a high priority in the grand scheme of things.

I think a good example of this is jQuery - while jQuery is a good tool, a huge part of its usage was the quirks between browsers. Selectors and the class of problems jQuery solved had more immediate impact to web applications, so fixing and taking from it became a more immediate concern.

JS API -> moment/date-fn/luxon -> Temporal has the same kind of trajectory. Not that those libraries will now be immediately 'bad' mind you - just that the base API is more sane.

Secretmapper··on Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?
That's pretty cool. I guess the tough part in Asia are the languages, so there's a language barrier between say Tokyo vs Malaysia vs Singapore.

I think the hardest part sometimes of my situation is not really having any seniors/mentor figures I can bounce ideas off. The safest bets from my peer groups all involved just moving to US/Canada which I'm not really particularly interested in.

Secretmapper··on Ask HN: Where to Work After 40?
That's interesting, are you based in Asia? I've found companies similar to what you're mentioning but they're all based in America while I wanna stay in Asia.
Secretmapper··on Have front end frameworks destroyed the web?
You're right, and the thing is React/FE Frameworks doesn't even repurpose the <link> tag. It doesn't replace or edit any native tags.

There are some _libraries_ that _create_ a <Link> tag, which is basically a 'wrapper' that adds its own set of logic, but it's a new tag.

Secretmapper··on Have front end frameworks destroyed the web?
> Have front end frameworks destroyed the web?

No.

> Basic proper usage of <h1>, <h2>, and <article> tags are nowhere to be found

If you think semantic HTML is somehow more common back in 'ye old days' when frontend frameworks didn't exist, I have a bridge to sell you.

> You have to teach React developers the difference between the <Link> and <a> tag, and how <a> doesn't swap nor replace your page content, it loads an entirely new page.

I suppose this is true, as poor engineers would not understand the difference in abstraction. Is it any different than someone accepting unescaped input in their SQL? Yes, the latter is a lot more destructive.

For such a scathing indictment (destroyed the web) I'd have expected there to be more meat on the article, but the two points above (and SEO/og tags) are the only thing it actually talks about.

It's a silly 'lets put down frontend development, because I want to sell you my WP agency services' post. Frontend is a clown-fiesta you could have at least actually gave it more of a put down, but the criticisms are so transparently thin its somehow less meaty than the site's nonexistent portfolio.

Secretmapper··on Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch
Keyboard Video and Mouse
Secretmapper··on Infinite Craft
There's some work on this on the web space - our company is doing something not too dissimilar using the still experimental API called WebCodecs.

And that pretty much says everything unfortunately - it's still an experimental API with limited availability.

You can do some parts of this using Canvas[0] but there's lots of caveats.

[0] https://github.com/bwasti/mebm/tree/main

Secretmapper··on Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron
I agree with this take. Most of the 'good' app listed (and also the ones I love) like Transmit, iTerm etc are mac _exclusive_. They only target Mac.

It doesn't make any sense to do that to Discord because it's cross platform by necessity and design.

Secretmapper··on Show HN: LearnLingo – Converse with an AI-powered language tutor
IIRC their demographics are heavily skewed towards younger people.

In US/Japan etc. the largest age-group of learners is 13-22

- Found the source: https://blog.duolingo.com/dear-duolingo-how-does-language-le...

Secretmapper··on How to start a React Project in 2023
I think you bring up a great point! But while true, nothing really prevents one from adding their own router that handles for them that's decoupled from Next.JS and it would largely function as a traditional SPA (in that the export/'SSG' only builds one page, a la a true SPA).

And that IMO is kind of where the problem is - what level of abstraction should be added? Lots of beginners had problems because they were bombarded with the many confusing things to install to make something, and more often than not routing was one of them. It's just that Next.JS' is opinionated, but I'd argue so is everything else.

Secretmapper··on Everything Is Anime
I agree with grandparent, as they mention it's hard to find 'new content'.

Unfortunately pretty much most of what you listed _are_ old.

Secretmapper··on Secure messengers in war time
No, the US is not particularly offensive. 'The Ukraine' specifically is offensive, because it is how Russia calls Ukraine, (kinda like implying it's The Ukraine of Russia)
Secretmapper··on Netflix's new player breaks the ability to modify the seeking of a playing video
To be fair, Facebook has very deep incentives to do this (ie. to prevent adblocking)

I'm not sure what such incentive is here for Netflix

Secretmapper··on Whatever Happened to UI Affordances?
Previous HN discussion on the topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27559832

That's true regarding 'residing' in home bases. I still remember how much personalities each different forums of specific interests have, but that's mostly filled by subreddits now.

Secretmapper··on Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering
I remember Flipboard using canvas to render their UI before using react, which has the same idea, you can look at the repo and their post about it:

https://github.com/Flipboard/react-canvas

Secretmapper··on Crazy New Ideas
What's mosh?

Edit: Managed to find the right string of words to google: mosh = Mobile Shell

Secretmapper··on On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
It's the label, as both of the labels sadly have very negative connotations now due to echo chambers.
Page 1 of 3Next →