urbandw311er's comments

On: Claude 4

[urbandw311er]

I hate to say it but it smacks of an attempt to increase persuasion, dependency and engagement. At the expense of critical thinking.

On: What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)

[urbandw311er]

As in: you’re saying he just copied it for his YT? Or as in we should watch it because it’s interesting

On: Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room

[urbandw311er]

That is so terribly inefficient it makes me physically anxious.

On: Critical Warning for External Purchases in Apple App Store

[urbandw311er]

Yes, they do have a personal, well documented beef about this.

On: Internet Artifacts

[urbandw311er]

You mean the Internet? ;-)

On: The recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android

[urbandw311er]

Good catch - that’s horrendous and feels like absolute fobbing off with “type a bunch of cliches”

On: The great displacement is already well underway?

[urbandw311er]

Hey Shawn

Tough times. You’re doing everything right (except perhaps reading too many of the comments which is probably not great for your mental health) - your break will come. The night is darkest before the dawn and all that.

Peace & love.

On: Ask HN: Cursor or Windsurf?

[urbandw311er]

This is the way.

Getting great results both in chat, edit and now agentic mode. Don’t have to worry about any blocked extensions in the cat and mouse game with MS.

On: I built a native Windows Todo app in pure C (278 KB, no frameworks)

[urbandw311er]

Great answer, helpful and not judgemental.

On: Ty: A fast Python type checker and language server

[urbandw311er]

It’s like when we hit a new month the quota of “talk about Rust” credits is renewed.

[andenacitelli → urbandw311er]

Say what you want, Astral ships impressively fast and their stuff works well. Python has been looking for better tooling for a long time.

[rc00 → urbandw311er]

The timing of the recent batch of propaganda makes it hard to believe it's not coordinated. I wouldn't suggest paid actors but maybe just an attempt to counter some fairly visible and negative recent takes. The amount of "I love Rust but" comments make it hard to take the commentary seriously too.

[Philpax → rc00]

Is it really that hard to believe that people like the language and the problems it solves for them?

[urbandw311er → Philpax]

I think what stands out (and becomes quite tedious) is that most posts on HN don’t tend to include the language choice in the headline.

So a typical HN post might be “A new widget that saves times rendering Python code”. Whereas we get this constant barrage of “A new widget that saves times rendering Python code in Rust” with Rust appended to it.

[urbandw311er → urbandw311er]

PS: just to explain, the original post title was like this but it has now been modified to remove Rust.