Hacker News: Snacklive

New comment by Snacklive in "Music for Programming"

Snacklive — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:58:42 +0000

Will Wood is such a great artist. Glad to see someone giving him recognition in the wild

New comment by Snacklive in "I am happier writing code by hand"

Snacklive — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:46:58 +0000

I have a problem vibecoding and frustrating experiences with coworkers that are a little too much into it.

I can use AI to help me explore libraries or to replace a search, generate small snippets here and there, or even scripts that i occasionally need. But i can't vibecode, i don't know how to let go, i babysit too much, i read the code and i feel uneasy if I don't understand what I'm building, or why I'm building it in a certain way, i need to understand how the pieces work to make a whole

New comment by Snacklive in "Uncrossy"

Snacklive — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 07:15:15 +0000

Fantastic work, very fun ! I actually only ran into the dead end scenario right until the last few words so not a frustrating first experience. But reading other comments maybe a setting to prevent the player to take a route that ends up unsolvable would be great. Kinda like the "Normal" and "Expert" Modes in worldle

New comment by Snacklive in "Show HN: B-IR – An LLM-optimized programming language"

Snacklive — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 05:29:58 +0000

I was thinking the same. Maybe if he tried to think instead of just asking the model. The premise is interesting "We optimize languages for humans, maybe we can do something similar for llms". But then he just ask the model to do the thing instead of thinking about the problem, maybe instead of prompting "Hey made this" a more granular, guided approach could've been better.

For me this is just a lost of potential on the topic, and an interesting read made boring pretty fast.

New comment by Snacklive in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

Snacklive — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 12:55:30 +0000

Recently i bought a book from Kindle because i couldn't find it in any other platform and I'm so happy it only cost me 1$ because i haven't been able to download the ePub version, none of the methods on the internet have worked for me or they need to use a physical kindle device. God it's so frustrating i just want to read a 1$ book on my Kobo

New comment by Snacklive in "Advent of Code 2025"

Snacklive — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:10:01 +0000

why would delegate to an LLM something that is supposed to be fun. THIS specifically is the kind of stuff you shouldn't delegate to an LLM

New comment by Snacklive in "Roadmap for improving the type checker"

Snacklive — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 06:42:45 +0000

Not much experience with multiplatform Kotlin. But Kotlin in the JVM compiles fairly large project +200k lines without cache in few minutes < 3, incremental compilations in the millisecond range maybe a few seconds if large chances were made

New comment by Snacklive in "Maduro launches app for Venezuelans to report 'everything they see and hear'"

Snacklive — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 05:15:51 +0000

This was already a thing, it played a massive role in the events following the past election.

After the election, every sane person knew that Maduro lost, however as the government didn't recognize the results and Maduro was declared president once again

A number of protests started in various cities, so the government instructed their followers to use the app to report any activity, during the following months it was scary to leave the house, the military and cops got free pass to search any citizen on sight, they were allowed to just take your phone and if something against the government was found they could take you to prison or use some kind of extortion.

Also, Maduro gave a free pass to the "Colectivos" basically criminals supported by the government with weapons to just terrorize the common people. IT WAS WILD, to be on the street, hear a group riding motorcycles and needing to take cover in a building if you didn't want to be shot

Much of this stuff was coordinated using the reports given by the app

New comment by Snacklive in "I Don't Have Spotify"

Snacklive — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 17:41:05 +0000

Seems like you can provide the link of an Spotify hosted song and the site would give you links for alternatives such as Youtube Premium and Apple Music

New comment by Snacklive in "Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me"

Snacklive — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:33:09 +0000

would you be interested in writing an article about it ? sounds really interesting

New comment by Snacklive in "What does it mean to be thirsty?"

Snacklive — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 05:17:31 +0000

YES YES i get migraines and it's my body saying "Hey you need more water to function you know ?" usually i don't feel any thirst nor hunger, although, i do get hungry more often, but i can last a day without food before my head starts to hurt

New comment by Snacklive in "Copyparty – Turn almost any device into a file server"

Snacklive — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 04:49:28 +0000

Saw the demo video on YouTube today. Almost made me rent a cheap vps with lots of storage just to run it

New comment by Snacklive in "First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV"

Snacklive — Fri, 09 May 2025 02:40:05 +0000

Twitter used to. My first username was "myusernameXII" cuz i thought it looked cool in one of the suggestions

New comment by Snacklive in "Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help"

Snacklive — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:16:40 +0000

That's just a way to create a toxic environment filled with elitism similar to StackOverflow

New comment by Snacklive in "Kagi for Kids"

Snacklive — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 20:38:18 +0000

This. I was a kid with too much free time and exposed to the internet with some but not enough supervision.

I stumbled with some f up stuff that i still remember to this day. But somehow I'm grateful that it wasn't the current brainrot

New comment by Snacklive in "From Languages to Language Sets"

Snacklive — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 19:58:20 +0000

> But in plain ones.. nope. C++, Java, whatever - noone checks things at runtime. Most of those do not have a way to know what some n-bytes represent

But then my question is, what are you doing that you need to manually check for types ? I mean i get it at some point, usually at the time of user input usually you need to run checks to actually convert some input into a valid type. But once it is inside your program you don't need to check anymore because well... static typing and all that, you should know what you have in every step just at a glance

New comment by Snacklive in "A Small Contribution to Curl"

Snacklive — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 02:02:37 +0000

i vividly remember getting bitten by a poor example in the android documentation when i was a beginner. It was a typo and a weird use of the " | " to separate some values.

It took me hours to debug why it was faulty in my app, until i asked for help on a discord server and someone answered me saying that the same mistake happened to them a few months back...

It seems small, but it really does help.

New comment by Snacklive in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

Snacklive — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:41:18 +0000

He paid account boosters and got mad when people called him out

New comment by Snacklive in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

Snacklive — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:37:09 +0000

> is busy playing video games

Funny thing, he faked that too. For a guy with so much money he is weirdly insecure about some absurd stuff

New comment by Snacklive in "To buy a Tesla Model 3, only to end up in hell"

Snacklive — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 01:15:07 +0000

for such an infuriating situation the phrase

> I didn’t have a car, I had a tamagotchi with wheels

Was too funny it made me chuckle loudly.

Anyway f Tesla