Hacker News: ChrisbyMe

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)"

ChrisbyMe — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:22:33 +0000

Hah as a satified customer this is really heartwarming to see

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

ChrisbyMe — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:45:52 +0000

A bit tangential but i really think the .nyc domain is underappreciated.

SF/Mountain View etc don't even have one! you get a little piece of the NYC brand just for you!

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

ChrisbyMe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:37:41 +0000

https://www.chrisbako.com/ and https://www.chrisbako.nyc/

handmade :)

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:58:17 +0000

Mm this is my experience as well, but I'm not particularly worried about software engineering a whole.

If anything this example shows that these cli tools give regular devs much higher leverage.

There's a lot of software labor that is like, go to the lowest cost country, hire some mediocre people there and then hire some US guy to manage them.

That's the biggest target of this stuff, because now that US guy can just get equal or hight code in both quality and output without the coordination cost.

But unless we get to the point where you can do what I call "hypercode" I don't think we'll see SWEs as a whole category die.

Just like we don't understand assembly but still need technical skills when things go wrong, there's always value in low level technical skills.

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "enclose.horse"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:54:14 +0000

I found the same algorithm! The top down solution didn't really work.

Very fun game

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android"

ChrisbyMe — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:44:45 +0000

yes! I looked into implementing adblock on the iPhone notification tray and it didn't look like it was possible. Glad someone is working on it for android.

Apps shouldn't be allowed to send notifications for Ads! I give any app on my phone one chance to be annoying and then turn them off.

This feels like something where we should be able to use an on device classifier or even LLM to bucket notifications, similar to a spam inbox.

Even better if they can pull any potential coupons out for use later without flavor text from the notification itself.

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "The State of AI Coding Report 2025"

ChrisbyMe — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:25:57 +0000

Hey! Thanks for publishing this.

Would be interested in seeing the breakdown between uplift vs company size.

e.g. I work in a FAANG and have seen an uptick in the number of lines on PRs, partially due to AI coding tools and partially due to incentives for performance reviews.

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 19:17:03 +0000

Agree, the death of the junior SWE is greatly exaggerated. (At least in FAANG)

Maybe there was some idea that if AI actually solved software engineering in a few years you wouldn't need any more SWEs. Industry is moving away from that idea this year.

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "alpr.watch"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:09:17 +0000

Very cool, I was thinking about building a similar thing when I saw the Flock discourse, but got busy with the holidays.

Any interesting technical details? Getting the actual data from govt meetings looked like it was the hardest part to me.

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "ArkhamMirror: Airgapped investigation platform with CIA-style hypothesis testing"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:07:25 +0000

Interesting tool, do you have some domain knowledge as an analyst or something similar? I've always been curious what research tools analysts are using outside of like, Google.

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?"

ChrisbyMe — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:45:13 +0000

Very cool, this is exactly what I was looking for to answer the how question.

These projects look awesome, if I'm ever in the UK I'll checkout their museum.

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?"

ChrisbyMe — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:26:04 +0000

I actually wrote the post so thank you! I hadn't found that guys website and will check it out.

There's a really interesting history of automata at Disney too, someone made a very good video about it here if you haven't seen it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjNca1L6CUk

Who Hooked Up a Laptop to a 1930s Dance Hall Machine?

ChrisbyMe — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 18:55:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chrisbako.com/posts/2025-12-04-speelkok-museam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151363

Points: 58

# Comments: 12

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:16:06 +0000

I mean if you're getting X number of users per day and you don't need to pay for bandwidth or anything, there's gotta be SOME way to monetize down the line.

If your userbase or the current CEO likes it or not.

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:12:32 +0000

Interesting that this announcement is tied in with one for Claude Code revenue.

Feels like maybe AI companies are starting to feel the questions on their capital spending? They wanna show that this is a responsible acquisition.

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:36:26 +0000

Very cool. If you're interested in things like this you might wanna checkout CGP Grey's videos on tracking down various stories from books through archives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "How to repurpose your old phone into a web server"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:31:15 +0000

That's a cool setup.

I've always wanted to get into wardriving but I've never had an opportunity.

is this something you have to do for work or is there a network of wardrivers out there?

I live in NYC so it'd probably be closer to warwalking, but still could be fun.

Software Engineering Is Map Making, Not Magic

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 17:26:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chrisbako.com/posts/2025-11-16-what-the-fuck-is-swe

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46123774

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "How to repurpose your old phone into a web server"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 20:11:07 +0000

Interesting, I wonder if using a regular sff pc fan might work if you don't need the touchscreen.

Just thermal paste to the battery hah

New comment by ChrisbyMe in "Orion 1.0"

ChrisbyMe — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:36:06 +0000

Mm maybe hugged to death getting an error on startup

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