Hacker News: CleanCoder

New comment by CleanCoder in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

CleanCoder — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:05:54 +0000

When I got to the 1M LOC I involuntarily paused feeling like this must be satire.

New comment by CleanCoder in "EmulatorJS"

CleanCoder — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 05:00:02 +0000

Ok, I think it's time for me to finally build a controller PWA with websocket/webrtc so I can play games in the browser with my phone.

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

CleanCoder — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 08:06:49 +0000

Intrigued to see what a website that doesn't support Chrome has to offer.

New comment by CleanCoder in "Show HN: Astra – a new js2exe compiler"

CleanCoder — Tue, 20 May 2025 17:44:50 +0000

The amount of functionality an application provides should be the benchmark for the size rather than one's available disk space. I'm sitting on 20TB+ of available storage and anything over 1MB for a simple "Hello World" is excessive.

New comment by CleanCoder in "Ask HN: What are good high-information density UIs (screenshots, apps, sites)?"

CleanCoder — Thu, 08 May 2025 14:33:44 +0000

The low lag part is especially impressive. Here is Wes Bos taking a deeper dive into the intricacies of technologies used to accomplish this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ln-8QM8KhQ

New comment by CleanCoder in "Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord"

CleanCoder — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:14:55 +0000

The offering in its current form (https://i.imgur.com/zcmEOhr.png) does not feel truly communal.

New comment by CleanCoder in "Show HN: I built a landing page builder so you can capture leads in minutes"

CleanCoder — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 00:04:44 +0000

What would the cost of allowing random landing page generation be? Alternatively, an examples/showcase page could be useful in presenting the value proposition before potential user commits.

New comment by CleanCoder in "Ask HN: Should I use React for a personal portfolio?"

CleanCoder — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 22:20:13 +0000

One might say, OP is overREACTing.

New comment by CleanCoder in "Notepad Tab"

CleanCoder — Tue, 28 May 2024 05:14:17 +0000

It doesn't. Registering a dedicated .com domain is an overkill for this as well.

New comment by CleanCoder in "The Tetris Effect"

CleanCoder — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 17:06:44 +0000

> Whether or not you want to communicate "in the clearest way possible" is a choice.

This is far from "clearest way possible", it's not even in the middle. This choice impedes communication which makes is less useful, by your definition.

> But only the author/designer can speak to whether the design was successful in it's aims

I find it difficult to believe that the author's aim was to share a story in such way that's unnecessarily harder to consume, by a large portion of people otherwise interested in their thoughts.

New comment by CleanCoder in "Unshackle: A tool to bypass Windows and Linux password logins"

CleanCoder — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 13:10:52 +0000

The limitations of this tool are obvious from the author's documentation. Plus, a door lock would prevent this from working, so if you're living in a recent house and have thick door and lock the door, you don't have to worry about this attack vector. It's strongly suggested to also hot glue your USB ports shut for added security.

New comment by CleanCoder in "The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next"

CleanCoder — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 20:33:33 +0000

Interesting read (from HN today) about crawling a quarter billion webpages in 40 hours, for $580, over 10 years ago.

New comment by CleanCoder in "The end of Reddit? Why the blackout is still going – and what happens next"

CleanCoder — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:18:56 +0000

Who owns the user-generated content? Would it be feasible to clone Reddit (the site) and populate it with content scraped directly from Reddit? One could potentially even claim the same username by verifying their ownership of it on Reddit. Of course it's not easy but a mass social migration might be more practical than mass segregation in hopes of something else to slowly gaining traction.

New comment by CleanCoder in "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

CleanCoder — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 20:19:51 +0000

It's also possible to use Twilio with their GUI "studio" to create this entire flow. I've used it as call recording system for when I need to record outgoing calls and it's worked wonderfully (and was easy to set up).

New comment by CleanCoder in "Tell HN: My son is being bullied for owning an Android phone"

CleanCoder — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 21:30:51 +0000

I would hire a private investigator to get some dirt on the bullies' families and then have my kid ready with a response the next time he gets called out for NOT having the latest iPhone - "Well, I might NOT have an iPhone but at least my father doesn't have a second family in Tampa" or "You might think my Android is worse than your iPhone but at least my parents didn't need to remortgage the house two times to afford it" or "Maybe your sister can get me one then with all that OnlyFans money she's making?"

I am certain this would get the right kind of attention from the bully's parents the second little Johny makes dinner talk the most uncomfortable day in HIS family's life.

New comment by CleanCoder in "Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game"

CleanCoder — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 17:59:45 +0000

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "happens only in different timezones?" It sounds like an interesting bug to identify.

New comment by CleanCoder in "Pokemon Card Animation"

CleanCoder — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:22:05 +0000

Hey, you can shoot me an e-mail to cleancoder@416tech.com. Looking forward to hearing from you!

New comment by CleanCoder in "Pokemon Card Animation"

CleanCoder — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 03:47:22 +0000

I'm working on a project around this but am a developer and not a business/sales person so I'm actively looking for a partner/co-founder. The NFT part is not at the core of it but exists as ownership and authenticity validation mechanism, which if you consider the actual app is a tremendously valid use case. How can I find a co-founder to help drive this to market?

New comment by CleanCoder in "12 Factor App Revisited"

CleanCoder — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:03:06 +0000

Is the dark theme the only way to read this page? The contrast between white-background graphics and the surrounding (forced) dark theme makes it difficult to consume. I'm all for dark themes but in the absence of theme toggle controls it's fair to assume black text on white background is preferred as most browser extensions (i.e. DarkReader) will enable the option to view it in dark mode but they lack the inverse capabilities.

New comment by CleanCoder in "The future of artificial intelligence is self-organizing and self-assembling"

CleanCoder — Thu, 16 Dec 2021 09:11:32 +0000

My initial thought to "self-organizing and self-assembling" was "so, reproduction?" Followed by a similar this-seems-obvious revelation!