Hans Hübner

I was born with a QWERTY keyboard in my mouth.
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2026-05-11 10:05:03 UTC

We're running in circles: Back in the time sharing days, developers were by-and-large limited by the amount of computer time they or their employer could afford. Minicomputers and PC's fundamentally changed that, and for the last 20 years, most applications could comfortably be developed on cheap personal hardware. With AI, we're back to where we were 40 years ago.

2025-10-05 17:13:20 UTC

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But the terminal certainly is!

2025-08-03 20:00:49 UTC

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I'm using copilot and Cursor in my day job. The initial bafflement has faded over time, and I find vibe coding much less enjoyable than writing code myself. It is often much faster, though, and it allows me to tackle bigger projects so I see that value. What I don't experience, however, is an improvement of how well the code generators work. At this point, I am not convinced that LLM based GenAI is going to be improving in quality enough to actually be competitive as developers.

2025-08-03 09:27:40 UTC

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If something is "the only possible answer", it is likely not the actual answer :)

2025-08-03 08:27:53 UTC

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It seems to me that there is a lot of stupidity at work. It is not a surprising discovery that captital has no brains. But still, the scale is staggering.

2025-08-03 07:43:12 UTC

The sheer amount of money that is going into AI infrastructure is terrifying. It is not that I believe that these systems are inherently evil. What scares me, however, is that even though AI is not delivering on most of the promises that its proponents make, it exists in a colossal form now. What is it going to do for people and the economy? What is it actually good for? What problems does it solve? The answers that I see are dwarf-like when compared to the resources spent to build it.

2025-07-27 15:51:48 UTC

OK, so there is a company that bought the rights for the Commodore brand outside of the USA and they're now fighting back Retro Fractic's "new Commodore". That is a great start, folks! Nice job!
https://commodore.inc/press-release-of-23-july-2025/

2025-07-09 14:58:33 UTC

These folks from Italy found a VAXstation II that had Videotel BBS software on it and resurrected it. https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-videotel-bbs-server-resurfaces-from-a-dec-vaxstation-ii.1253693/ #retrocomputing #retronetworking

2025-02-13 21:18:18 UTC

The Uncomfortable is a collection of deliberately inconvenient
everyday objects by Athens-based architect Katerina Kamprani
https://www.theuncomfortable.com/