Hacker News: LucidLynx

What happened at Id Software with layoffs [video]

LucidLynx — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:47:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA64Ogzm_VU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49318824

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Beyond C: wrapping Dear ImGui in Swift with zero FFI

LucidLynx — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:50:32 +0000

Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/swift_cpp_compatibility_with_raylib_and_imgui/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298033

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The screwdriver test, or What separates real engineers from the rest

LucidLynx — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:13:44 +0000

Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/a_story_of_screwdriver_drivers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49219829

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

Almost all coders at Id Software have been fired, following Xbox reset

LucidLynx — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:42:41 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/ScottApogee/status/2074198967550685268#m

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48818551

Points: 47

# Comments: 14

A Story of Screwdriver Drivers

LucidLynx — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 13:28:50 +0000

Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/a_story_of_screwdriver_drivers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48794184

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Painless Swift development on unsupported Linux distros

LucidLynx — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:51:41 +0000

Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/distrobox_and_swift/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48710275

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Bringing Swift to the Apple ][

LucidLynx — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:26:54 +0000

Article URL: https://yeokhengmeng.com/2026/06/swift-on-apple-ii/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48670579

Points: 68

# Comments: 3

The PM Trap: AI Won't Turn Engineers into Managers

LucidLynx — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:43:26 +0000

Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/the_mud_and_the_mind/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48515377

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

By Necessity: The Return of the Engineer

LucidLynx — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:03:04 +0000

Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/the_return_of_the_engineer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509960

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by LucidLynx in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

LucidLynx — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:31:10 +0000

>> Slop is not a distinct style, it can be overlaid on top of many others. Even when I got it to make a page to look like X, it looked like X with slop.

Today, I can visit a website and instantly tell it was generated using LLMs and agents from A to Z:

1. Everything is in blue or mauve gradient, with a white background, and a single JavaScript-heavy page that lags as soon as you scroll a little.

2. There are always a ton of 404 pages.

3. Third, the HTML comments often expose credentials and to-do lists—sometimes even right above the login page (true story...).

This kind of website is a hard pass for me, and I add the company (and its founders) to my personal blacklist of people and companies I’ll never use anything from.

New comment by LucidLynx in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

LucidLynx — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:32:56 +0000

Then I would prefer the 20% that pay less, but do something good for humanity.

New comment by LucidLynx in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

LucidLynx — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:32:10 +0000

Thanks, but I don't need this 3x more. I just need ethics.

New comment by LucidLynx in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

LucidLynx — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:29:47 +0000

I am very very sad reading that, indeed.

It is absolutely not what I think about "job" and "contributing to society": I would prefer to be paid less but work in an ethical company than the other people of this thread...

This is maybe why I am feeling so "disconnected" with Tech and devs today.

New comment by LucidLynx in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

LucidLynx — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:51:55 +0000

Yes, and I found one. It pays enough for having a very stable life, and in a company with ethics!

No reason to be that sarcastic, the job market is not dead (at least not in Europe).

New comment by LucidLynx in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

LucidLynx — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:39:28 +0000

I have a serious question to anyone working at Meta and reading this: HOW can you still work at this company!?

Why don't you quit this very toxic company, and start working at another place or even on your own? I genuinely don't understand...

Let just Meta die!

New comment by LucidLynx in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

LucidLynx — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:02:00 +0000

As an European: 100x YES!

I really like the direction and the transparency of Mistral, among those players.

Made (By Humans) in California

LucidLynx — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:21:59 +0000

Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/made_by_humans_in_california/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286142

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Who will buy your services if you fire us all?

LucidLynx — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:18:25 +0000

Article URL: https://carette.xyz/posts/who_will_buy_your_services/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48185789

Points: 274

# Comments: 319

New comment by LucidLynx in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

LucidLynx — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:18:37 +0000

Is this really the state of "software engineering" today? :/

New comment by LucidLynx in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

LucidLynx — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:22:39 +0000

The winner in the long term will be the one that will deliver the best performance and low-memory ratio for local models.

Anthropic, OpenAI and Mistral are just companies that are making money right now (still not profitable), but will lost their tractions and values in the long term.

However, I am more appealing to see how OpenCode Go subscriptions will go in the future: cheaper than big techs, more tokens, and they don't train on our data to (try to) improve...