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Re:The AI Aesthetic on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:57PM (#49129452)
Ha interesting! Well I don't hate it but much prefer the current version ofc

But that's how taste works! It's personal

Re:The AI Aesthetic on Friday July 31, 2026 @06:56PM (#49129448)
Well yeah I liked it as well at the time but also it feels a bit out of place? Like what does a rollercoaster have to do with this product?
Re:The AI Aesthetic on Friday July 31, 2026 @12:02PM (#49124819)
Thank you! Yeah it's all part of the process
Re:The AI Aesthetic on Friday July 31, 2026 @03:55AM (#49120272)
Oh yeah I mean check these out:

https://imgur.com/a/kLKTtAz

https://imgur.com/a/9fidnRv

The rollercoaster on the second one was the breakthrough that then eventually led to what I have today

Re:The AI Aesthetic on Thursday July 30, 2026 @11:57PM (#49118827)
Interestingly, I've found that AI has actually made me more interested in design because I'm now able to actually do some things, whereas before I couldn't get my creative visions built.

As an example, I recently built my company's website and I'm really happy with the result. I wanted it to have some hints of Rollercoaster Tycoon, and with a lot of experimentation, direction, tinkering, and examples I got to something that I really liked. Two years ago my company website would have been some generic Bootstrap thing until I hired a designer.

There's a lot to improve and certainly some aspects of it feel like AI still but it's generally gotten a lot of positive feedback and above all I really like it. Considering writing a blog post about my creative process here because I'm a dev with no design background at all.

Sharing a screenshot as to not promote: https://imgur.com/a/xqKi6X6 (in the website everything in the park moves btw)

Finnish libraries are fantastic. Many had free-to-use 3D printers as far back as 2012!

Libraries are a place of possibilities and fun, and it makes people want to be there. You can imagine the long-term positive impact this has.

Re:But yak shaving is fun on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @02:56PM (#48560215)
I love this. My very own static site generator, Teeny [1], is going on five years now. It's 350 lines of hand-written JS and has powered all my blogs and personal websites for years. It currently powers https://yakko.dev.

I added plugins this year which made it really powerful and allows me to keep the core small.

[1] https://github.com/yakkomajuri/teeny

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Sunday June 14, 2026 @09:46PM (#48535553)
A platform that offers a simple deploy path for internal tools in your own infra.

Basically, build anything using your agent of choice (Claude Code, Codex, etc) and get it live in your company's infra without having to provision anything yourself / loop in a DevOps person.

App goes behind company auth (e.g. SSO), and everything's handled for you: custom domains, governed storage APIs, observability, analytics, role-based access control, etc.

Private Alpha atm.

https://railcode.dev/

Re:What's gonna happen to software engineers? on Monday June 01, 2026 @10:08PM (#48365097)
OP here. So I've also been running a survey about how developers are feeling about AI (added a link to the post) and 60% of respondents said that using AI actively makes them more tired. Most also report being more productive with AI. One would think these two things combined make up for initiatives for shorter work weeks and the like, but from what I've seen, at least for now, the opposite seems to be happening.

P.S. Sample size is currently small but I've also gathered a fair amount of qualitative data to indicate both of these things. Of course measuring productivity is also far from a science.

Congrats on the launch!

Tiny bit of feedback on the demo video: the beginning makes me dizzy and I'm not sure what's going on (was watching on my phone).

Re:Instructure Pays Ransom to Canvas Hackers on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @02:04PM (#48111919)
I believe attacks like this often include copying data and then deleting it from the victim's servers.

Although of course returning is a weird term in the sense that the attackers will almost certainly keep the data as well.

DuckDuckGo browser helped mask some stuff, but definitely a fair amount still goes through.

Annoyingly the web is becoming a bit more annoying to browse as a DuckDuckGo (mobile) and Brave (desktop) user. With a VPN on top it gets even worse.

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