Hacker News: Doches

New comment by Doches in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

Doches — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:09:32 +0000

> It turns out we don’t have to care about any of this [...], so none of this matters in any kind of deep way, but: we’ve decided to just be a blog again, so: we had to learn this, and now you do too.

I found this closing sentence utterly delightful, particularly in an age of endlessly filtering every piece of text I read on the internet through a mental "was this written by Claude, Codex, or (just possibly) a human?" filter.

New comment by Doches in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

Doches — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:40:50 +0000

Skywise is basically a re-branded Palantir Foundry, and Palantir’s not exactly a big believer in avoiding US tech…

New comment by Doches in "Show HN: Rejourney – Open-source revenue leak prediction for web and mobile apps"

Doches — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:26:29 +0000

Did you look at them, or did you just tell Claude to look at them? /s

Seriously, though — if the history is valuable and interesting, include it. If it provides context in general, include it; if it’s just overconfident marketing fluff straight from the parrot’s mouth, drop it. I like my READMEs to open with the ‘why’ of the project: why I built it and why you might need it too.

New comment by Doches in "Show HN: Opening lines of famous literary works"

Doches — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:48:29 +0000

Truly evidence that we’re living in the worst timeline — the Bulwer-Lytton has been one of the highlights of my year for as long as I can remember. My parents introduced me to it before I could read; I remember them laughing and crying as they tried to explain to four-year-old me why this one inscrutable sentence was the funniest thing on earth. I’ve looked forward to it ever since, though recently I’ve only checked in to read the dishonorable mentions and winners once every few years.

Knowing I’ll never again check and find a year’s crop of perfect sentences dims the light more than I would have expected. Sad times.

New comment by Doches in "Show HN: Rejourney – Open-source revenue leak prediction for web and mobile apps"

Doches — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:11:40 +0000

> Endpoint views break down request volume, errors, latency, and status codes. Crash and ANR detail adds the app version, device, and thread context around a failure. This is where a problematic UI transition can be connected to a backend or runtime condition.

The project README reads like a first draft straight out of Claude, and it's incredibly off-putting. The 'Show HN' post here is so much better; clearly you're capable of writing a decent explanation of what this project is, its history, and for whom you've built it. Take the time and write the damn README yourself.

If you expect human attention, put in human effort.

You're a sophomore at UT, so as a UTCS alum (:wave: from a fellow Turing Scholar) I'm not letting you off the hook. Unless things have majorly changed, I know you're taking 6 hours of writing-heavy coursework.

New comment by Doches in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

Doches — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:11:25 +0000

That's up to GoG; I've submitted every game I've released to them and it's like talking into the void, never a response. They're a delight as a customer, but kind of half-assed as a platform (at least if you're a self-published indie).

New comment by Doches in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

Doches — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:42:36 +0000

Ooh! I’d love to see that, or to have a chat and swap ideas. My email is in my profile if you’d be up for it.

New comment by Doches in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

Doches — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 19:14:57 +0000

You’ve got me; I was very much a Battle Chess addict once upon a time…

New comment by Doches in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

Doches — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:59:05 +0000

There must be something in the water! I’ve been working on a (very different) chess-like roguelike, and just released the demo. Check it out if you’re a fan of weird chess puzzles, bad chess puns, and Hnefatafl!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3856240/Pieces_of_the_Kin...

New comment by Doches in "Chevron signs 20-year power agreement with Microsoft for West Texas data center"

Doches — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:04:41 +0000

I know this is nitpicking, but as a Texan I have to correct you on a point of grammar. The “west” in “West Texas” (and similarly for the other regions) isn’t an adjective; it’s part of the proper noun and should be capitalized. So it’s “West Texas,” not “west Texas.”

Yes, this is weird and no, I have no idea why we do it, but it’s really weird to read “export it to east Texas” — to the extent that I had to re-parse the sentence to figure out what you meant.

Apple rolls out encrypted RCS messaging in beta

Doches — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:08:16 +0000

Article URL: https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/05/apple-rolls-out-encrypted-rcs-messaging-in-beta/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48098468

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Doches in "Two millionth electric car registered as market rebounds from tax changes"

Doches — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:02:04 +0000

EVs aren’t exactly new; there’s a deep, accessble secondhand market by now. I’ve been using a 2019 Nissan Leaf as a primary family car for two years now, that I picked up off Gumtree for around £3k. It’s been one of the best (little) cars I’ve ever owned.

Not saying new EVs aren’t pricey, but if you want into electric on a budget (i.e. because you don’t feel like you can afford to fill up on diesel) it can absolutely be done.

New comment by Doches in "Restoring a Sun SPARCstation IPX part 1: PSU and NVRAM (2020)"

Doches — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:00:34 +0000

Oh, man; I got my hands on a (dead) one of these when I was a freshman in college (2004) and instead of trying to restore it my friends and I gutted it and used it as an original Xbox case mod. It was pretty satisfying to show up at LAN parties with what looked like a Solaris box and watch people boggle when we played Halo on it...

New comment by Doches in "If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't?"

Doches — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:59:40 +0000

Garbage in, garbage out.

(If OP was trying to make the bull case then the same snark would still apply.)

New comment by Doches in "Claude Experiencing Elevated Errors Across All Platforms"

Doches — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:35:40 +0000

I've spent the last couple days building out an automated classifier on top of the batch API, and just this morning (about a minute before the outage began!) started running my first live tests. I thought I was going mad!

New comment by Doches in "Europe Worries About Another Trump Blowup, This One on Tech"

Doches — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:03:02 +0000

Non-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/jDjGZ

Europe Worries About Another Trump Blowup, This One on Tech

Doches — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:02:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/world/europe/europe-united-states-trump-digital-services-act.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47072491

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by Doches in "Light Mode InFFFFFFlation"

Doches — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:56:37 +0000

I’ve noticed this tendency in my own UI work as well: dark designs tend to get darker, and light designs lighter, when updated or refreshed in isolation. Is there a term for this kind of ratcheting effect?

New comment by Doches in "The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)"

Doches — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:19:27 +0000

It's not clear from the linked page, which seems to have been last updated in 2022, aside from user comments asking for support. Thank you for the clarification!

New comment by Doches in "The Ultimate Windows Utility (2022)"

Doches — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 11:17:49 +0000

> When someone already has a broken system...

To be fair, this tool doesn't claim to fix a broken system; as near as I can tell it doesn't actually remove the underlying Windows installation, so the core problem will remain.