JeremyNT (u/JeremyNT)

JeremyNT commented on Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components react.dev/blog/2025/12/11... · Posted by u/sangeeth96

mubou2 · 2 days ago

It's funny (in a "wtf" sort of way) how in C# right now, the new hotness Microsoft is pushing is Blazor Server, which is basically old-school .aspx Web Forms but with websockets instead of full page reloads.

Every action, every button click, basically every input is sent to the server, and the changed dom is sent back to the client. And we're all just supposed to act like this isn't absolutely insane.

JeremyNT · 2 days ago

Well, maybe it isn't so insane?

Server side rendering has been with us since the beginning, and it still works great.

Client side page manipulation has its place in the world, but there's nothing wrong with the server sending page fragments, especially when you can work with a nice tech stack on the backend to generate it.

JeremyNT commented on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? · Posted by u/embedding-shape

hotsauceror · 5 days ago

I agree with this sentiment.

When I hear "ChatGPT says..." on some topic at work, I interpret that as "Let me google that for you, only I neither care nor respect you enough to bother confirming that that answer is correct."

JeremyNT · 5 days ago

In a work context, for me at least, this class of reply can actually be pretty useful. It indicates somebody already minimally investigated a thing and may have at least some information about it, but they're hedging on certainty by letting me know "the robots say."

It's a huge asterisk to avoid stating something as a fact, but indicates something that could/should be explored further.

(This would be nonsense if they sent me an email or wrote an issue up this way or something, but in an ad-hoc conversation it makes sense to me)

I think this is different than on HN or other message boards, it's not really used by people to hedge here, if they don't actually personally believe something to be the case (or have a question to ask) why are they posting anyway? No value there.

JeremyNT commented on Richard Stallman on ChatGPT stallman.org/chatgpt.html... · Posted by u/colesantiago

morgengold · 5 days ago

What's so difficult to understand about LLMs? The meaning of intelligence is irrelevant. I like to call LLMs Associators. No they don't think and they don't understand. But it turns out by finding patterns and associate them on the basis of symbolic language, there comes up some useful stuff in some areas.

JeremyNT · 5 days ago

I really like this framing.

A lot of people mysticise them or want to quibble about intelligence, and then we end up out in the "no true Scottsman" weeds.

We know what they are, how they work, what they generate. Let them be their own thing, do not anthropomorphize them.

The thing we don't understand so well is humans, really.

JeremyNT commented on Has the cost of building software dropped 90%? martinalderson.com/posts/... · Posted by u/martinald

r_lee · 5 days ago

These posts like the one OP made is why I'm losing my mind.

Like, is there truly an agentic way to go 10x or is there some catch? At this point while I'm not thrilled about the idea of just "vibe coding" all the time, I'm fine with facing reality.

But I keep having the same experience as you, or rather leaning more on that supercharged Google/SO replacement

or just a "can you quickly make this boring func here that does xyz" "also add this" or for bash scripts etc.

And that's only when I've done most of the plumbing myself.

JeremyNT · 5 days ago

> Like, is there truly an agentic way to go 10x or is there some catch? At this point while I'm not thrilled about the idea of just "vibe coding" all the time, I'm fine with facing reality.

Below is based on my experience using (currently) mostly GPT-5 with open source code assistants.

For a new project with straightforward functionality? I think you (and "you" being "basically anybody who can code at all") can probably manage to go 10x the pace of a junior engineer of yesteryear.

Things get a lot trickier when you have complex business logic to express and backwards compatibility to maintain in an existing codebase. Writing out these kinds of requirements in natural language is its own skillset (which can be developed), and this process takes time in and of itself.

The more confusing the requirements, the more error prone the process becomes though. The model can do things "correctly" but oops maybe you forgot something in your description, and now the whole thing will be wrong. And the fact that you didn't write the code means that you missed out on your opportunity to fix / think about stuff in the first pass of implementation (i.e. you need to seriously review stuff, which also slow you down).

Sometimes iterating over English instructions will take longer than just writing/expressing things in code from the start. But sometimes it will be a lot faster too.

Basically the easy stuff is way easier but the more complex stuff is still going to require a lot of hand holding and a lot of manual review.

JeremyNT commented on Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt

eviks · 5 days ago

> Their purpose is to convey information in limited space.

No, that's only one of their purposes. Another one is faster visual parsing of shape recognition instead of reading even if space is not an issue (just like with all of these menus, they waste so much space on padding they could fit command names 3 more times)

JeremyNT · 5 days ago

Yes, and as much as I hate to defend modern UI designers, I believe the icons in the menus here are actually extremely helpful (even when duplicated).

In the first example, when I want to find the option to add or delete a row in this massive menu, the icons clearly convey the purpose. I can instantly filter a huge list of possibilities down to a few relevant entries.

JeremyNT commented on IBM to acquire Confluent confluent.io/blog/ibm-to-... · Posted by u/abd12

EarthIsHome · 6 days ago

Gnome has stagnated significantly.

JeremyNT · 6 days ago

I'm not sure this is bad? It's still maintained, and it isn't like there are frequent revolutions in UI design - if it works, it works.

Slow and boring is a pretty nice place to be.

JeremyNT commented on Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025 blog.cloudflare.com/5-dec... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

theideaofcoffee · 9 days ago

Yes, of course, I want the organization that inserted itself into handling 20% of the world's internet traffic to move fast and break things. Like breaking the internet on a bi-weekly basis. Yep, great tradeoff there.

Give me a break.

JeremyNT · 8 days ago

Lest we forget, they initially rose to prominence by being cheaper than the existing solutions, not better, and I suppose this is a tradeoff a lot of their customers are willing to make.

JeremyNT commented on Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros about.netflix.com/en/news... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

phartenfeller · 9 days ago

I don't like this. Netflix rarely creates excellent content; instead, it frequently produces mediocre or worse content. Will the same happen for Warner? Are cinemas now second behind streaming?

Edit: I agree Netflix has good Originals. But most are from the early days when they favored quality over quantity. It is sad to see that they reversed that. They have much funding power and should give it to great art that really sticks, has ambitions and something to tell, and values my time instead of mediocrity.

JeremyNT · 9 days ago

Is it actually worse than the status quo though? I'm not so sure.

I hate this era of consolidation but Warner and HBO have already degraded, so this may be the least bad outcome here.

JeremyNT commented on School cell phone bans and student achievement nber.org/digest/202512/sc... · Posted by u/harias

huhkerrf · 11 days ago

There have been 70 school shootings (not mass shootings) this year, including accidental discharges. Required caveat that any school gun deaths are too much, etc. etc.

But... this means that a student is significantly more likely to get injured or killed riding in car with their friends, but somehow that was allowed before phones. The school shootings excuse is not a reason to let kids have phones in schools.

JeremyNT · 11 days ago

Sure, and you can point out the stats all day long, but you're not going to defeat irrational parental concerns with this One Weird Trick.

So much of the way we treat education is based on vibes rather than reality.

JeremyNT commented on Is 2026 next year? google.com/search?q=is+20... · Posted by u/kjhughes

throwawaylaptop · 11 days ago

I'm sad to say it works on me. Sometimes I know I want an AI response. Instead of going to an AI provider, I just type the prompt into the url bar and Google via enter. Because I'll know I'll get googled AI blurb.

I used to write my search query in search terms, now I write it as an AI prompt.

JeremyNT · 11 days ago

See, this makes perfect sense... if the thing were actually reliable enough, but the current implementation is wrong a disturbingly high percent of the time.

If anything they should be throwing more money at it right now to get people hooked, then use a cheaper model later once people have already incorporated it into their workflows.