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Re:One Month Without AI on Saturday September 26, 2026 @09:05AM (#49856150)
Yeah, only if you had coding skills in the first place.
Re:Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @06:25AM (#49255903)
Ha, that’s why I’m hosting simple cgit server for myself only. Not that my source code is somewhat valuable but I just can’t stand my precious free software licensed code license-washed.
Re:Old Computer Challenge on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @04:40AM (#48730007)
No!
Re:Ferrari Luce – Designed with Jony Ive on Monday May 25, 2026 @10:53PM (#48274444)
Hate to say but this was in one of the Simpson’s episode
I actually hope “product people” won’t be involved as long as possible. “Product people” is mostly a reason of our current state of enshitification of most of the products. I would actually try my best to gatekeep.
Re:Give Django your time and money, not your tokens on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @05:58PM (#47418909)
I now want to create a public index of “slop” contributors. People need to know their “heroes”.
Installed and activated Windows 7 yesterday on the laptop I was preparing to sell. Surprised to learn something my brain offloaded long time ago. We had Apple Glass in 2008 on Windows!
Are you telling me AI bros lying about their products? No way that ever happened…
Re:AI is a business model stress test on Saturday January 10, 2026 @02:02PM (#46568837)
Following your analogy, parrots should be considered human.
Re:Stop Slopware on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @04:39PM (#46369778)
You still need to do the cooking yourself to master it. If that cook will be giving you a readymade dish, can you say you can cook? Although yes, that’s the goal for many…
Can automated solution eat all the books if enforcement is at doors threatening to break?
Mind me asking what do you use instead of MSVC?
Re:1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in Budapest on Wednesday November 26, 2025 @03:09AM (#46055238)
Just wanted to say hello to my fellow metalheads. And thanks for the song recommendation!
Re:The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need on Monday November 10, 2025 @03:38PM (#45880625)
Maybe one day, but after almost 15 years of using handful of git aliases I just can’t switch to anything else.
Oh shoot, should’ve bought wedding cakes for bulk rate!
How about 1000 hours reading/commenting HN?
Weird, I have “the same leg, and it doesn’t hurt”.
My nostalgia levels and annoyance of modern remakes market finally made me to buy Windows 98 machine and spend £5 per original CD on eBay with games I wanted to re-experience.
Re:Helium Browser on Thursday September 25, 2025 @02:54AM (#45369977)
My problem with donating to Mozilla is the donation goes into a pocket of their greedy CEO and only a small fraction to those who do the browser development. And that’s mostly why I donate to Ladybird.
Re:I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster on Saturday September 20, 2025 @10:21AM (#45313651)
Yes, but this is boring. Saying this as an owner of home server with ProxMox.
Fun fact, that’s what happened in my country of birth, which is USSR. To some extent.
Finally, affordable housing!
Re:Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:32PM (#45118420)
Sublime Merge comes to mind, but I used it briefly before switching to JetBrains products.
There’s a search engine for exact such websites — https://wiby.me
Re:The Level Design Book on Wednesday May 28, 2025 @08:37AM (#44115372)
Thankfully there’s not enough money in hobby level design for AI slop investment, so this won’t happen.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Monday May 26, 2025 @09:03AM (#44097079)
I caught myself on being so overwhelmed on possibilities current state of tools and technologies can one easily utilise, so ended up working on exactly nothing at all.
Re:Open-source interactive C tutorial in the browser on Sunday April 27, 2025 @10:52AM (#43812356)
Most of the users of this website probably run ad blockers, thus the traction. Bu I agree.
Re:How University Students Use Claude on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @01:10PM (#43634586)
What kind of projects are those? I am genuinely curious. I was excited by AI, Claude specifically, since I am an avid procrastinator and would love to finish tens of projects I have in mind. Most of those projects are games with specifical constraints. I got disenchanted pretty quickly when started actually using AI to help with different parts of the game programming. Majority of problems I had are related to poor understanding of generated code. I mean yes, I read the code, fixed minor issues, but it always feels like I don’t really internalised the parts of the game which slows me down quite significantly in a long run, when I need to plan major changes. Probably a skill issue, but for now the only thing AI is helpful for me is populating Jira descriptions for my “big picture refactoring” work. That’s basically it.
Re:Less Htmx Is More on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @05:51AM (#43619918)
My favourite part is when you middle click the link to be opened in a new tab to be read later to find out that it opens a bunch of main pages or nothing at all. That’s a top level UX.
Re:Everything Is Ghibli on Monday March 31, 2025 @08:12PM (#43541445)
A friend of mine tried to create stock illustrations in Disney style on Etsy, got banned almost immediately for copyright infringement. I guess it depends.

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