Hacker News: RyanHamilton

New comment by RyanHamilton in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

RyanHamilton — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:46:29 +0000

Let me introduce you instead to the one golden rule. He who has the gold, makes the rules.

New comment by RyanHamilton in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

RyanHamilton — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:16:26 +0000

I've tried and tried to get an LLM to delete code, it couldn't do it. I knew a file was 40% bad so what I ended up doing was deleting the file, then asking AI to create the missing file. That's how I got AI to delete code :)

New comment by RyanHamilton in "The room the economy can't see"

RyanHamilton — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:47:20 +0000

It's long but it really expands the point of this article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4SmgrAmdUQ

New comment by RyanHamilton in "GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis"

RyanHamilton — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:56:54 +0000

Could it be possible, these firms are optimizing for two things: a) Better performance. b) Gathering data from you to further improve performance later. I've also found the huge amount of planning rather than iteration frustrating. I've felt like I'm teaching a junior!

New comment by RyanHamilton in "Google changes its search box"

RyanHamilton — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:29:59 +0000

AI crawls your post, corrupts your idea or alters it to advertise a product and then passes that along. Still happy?

New comment by RyanHamilton in "Google changes its search box"

RyanHamilton — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:27:00 +0000

I built a passion reference site. A large part of that passion came from knowing and talking to the people I was helping. One person emailing or saying thanks would later help power me through to create more useful articles. Enriching openai/claude/ms/google and no thanks from an individual, has disincentivized me from writing more.

New comment by RyanHamilton in "I am building a cloud"

RyanHamilton — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:58:49 +0000

Can you expand how it redefined computing for you personally?

New comment by RyanHamilton in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

RyanHamilton — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:05:50 +0000

Is it about the users or the data the users generate. Pretty easy to see the day devs are replaced by the data they themselves generated. Companies are only going to get one chance to grad this data. Similar to the internet cutoff.

New comment by RyanHamilton in "What is happening to writing? Cognitive debt, Claude Code, the space around AI"

RyanHamilton — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:18:58 +0000

I would guess he's looking to compare the equivalent of fast-food to fine-dining or nutritious eating.

New comment by RyanHamilton in "RIP Low-Code 2014-2025"

RyanHamilton — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:00:42 +0000

Very correct! Why internal dashboards keep getting rebuild: https://www.timestored.com/pulse/why-internal-dashboards-get... It took me a few years to home in on the exact idea you've captured and I work in this exact area. There's a middle layer between UI team and notebook experiments that isn't worth companies building themselves.

New comment by RyanHamilton in "Congress wants to hand your parenting to big tech"

RyanHamilton — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:09:24 +0000

The article is ignorant of reality. "The typical under-13 social media user is not a sneaky kid. It’s a family making a decision together. " No, every other kid had it and the parent had no choice else their child would be ostracised. Their example of kids learning about volcanoes in youtube. Ha! Go look at the view number for mindless nonsense... Minecraft blabbering then find me a volcano with more child views.

New comment by RyanHamilton in "You have three minutes to escape the perpetual underclass"

RyanHamilton — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 09:38:37 +0000

Yes, the ability to command a kingdom was relative to the number of people with force you could convince AND pay to be on your side vs the others. With automation, drones and AI, you no longer need any convincing just capital.

New comment by RyanHamilton in "The rise of industrial software"

RyanHamilton — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 17:01:40 +0000

The term is Institutional knowledge. "An organization's collective memory, encompassing the unique expertise, experiences, processes, and cultural insights built over time by its members, acting as a vital asset that guides operations, decision-making, and continuity, often residing in seasoned employees' tacit understanding but also in documented procedures and data. It includes deep technical skills..."

New comment by RyanHamilton in "The Origins of APL (1974) [video]"

RyanHamilton — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 19:57:03 +0000

My favorite quote from this video, that I wish more languages would embrace is:

"I went from application to application trying to use the same techniques. The most encouraging thing is that they would work. After 2-3 years during which time the language had grown by accretion, it grew and grew, eventually I found it was shrinking.

    Essentially the idea was once you look at enough different applications you begin to see what is the general notion. So I came to generalisations that allowed me to take out whole chunks of special things I had put in.

    Furthermore to my surprise it turns out the general ideas are usually much simpler to understand than any of the special cases."

New comment by RyanHamilton in "QStudio SQL Analysis tool now open source"

RyanHamilton — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:41:12 +0000

QStudio is a tool for SQL analysis. Banks and hedge funds had been paying for it but this year we decided to open source it so that more people can use it. Like DBeaver/DataGrip it provides code highlighting, supports 30+ databases etc. but it also allows 15+ chart types with customization, excel export and table formatting.

QStudio SQL Analysis tool now open source

RyanHamilton — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:41:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.timestored.com/qstudio/release-version-5-open-source

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280316

Points: 23

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New comment by RyanHamilton in "Uncloud - Tool for deploying containerised apps across servers without k8s"

RyanHamilton — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 02:38:31 +0000

I've tried to refrain from commenting but your comment pushed me over the edge. I either want to dismiss your comment as ignorant that amazon is just a shopping cart or ignorant that you even need cloud technologies until you have 1000s of customers. But I must concede there's a chance you fall in that middle area and I'm wrong. It's < 5 percent. But yeah sure.. we have a scale problem and you're right you've identified the nonsense cloud technologies that won't fix it. I'm glad you chimed in to convince us but to build our own for 5000 customers.

New comment by RyanHamilton in "Show HN: Onlyrecipe 2.0 – I added all features HN requested – 4 years later"

RyanHamilton — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:45:29 +0000

Congrats on releasing and steadily improving. What was the most unexpected thing you learnt lately?

New comment by RyanHamilton in "Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse"

RyanHamilton — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 09:24:44 +0000

I would agree it's both. Ideally we would make many games restricted access and most games games less addictive. At this stage the only viable plan I can think of is for parents to join a cult or cult like group where the parents are dedicated to restricted screen time and enforcing outdoor play. One parent alone can't make it happen. Maybe the quakers were onto something. :)

New comment by RyanHamilton in "Roblox is a problem but it's a symptom of something worse"

RyanHamilton — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:23:15 +0000

This is a sympton of something worse. The bigger issue: Roblox isn’t the real problem, it’s filling the gap left by the disappearance of unstructured, unsupervised play in the physical world.

Kids used to build worlds, take risks, and form friendships outdoors. Now many have no safe places to roam, no peers outside scheduled activities, and no cultural permission to be on their own. So they do all that in Roblox instead.

You can tighten access control, but it won’t change the core dynamic: when real childhood spaces shrink, digital platforms become the default playground. Until kids have room to be independent offline, they’ll keep escaping online.