Hacker News: TripleFFF

New comment by TripleFFF in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

TripleFFF — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:55:40 +0000

Automating my email inbox, I just wanted to split them into folders according to the attachment name but the fields were often incomplete and ended up missing rules, and imap fetch was taking forever and kept failing. In frustration I decided to turn to ChatGPT to split them by messageid which I had never bothered with because the strings were too long to be useful. I initially intended to build a text list of messages and fetch them all one by one but I ended up making chatgpt crush all the instructions into one gigantic python dictionary using the messageid as keys and using it to generate a single pipelined imap call with success flags, dynamic folder naming, cleanup steps the whole works. I was just working on theory of what I knew was possible, and it's the ugliest table you ever saw, but it works and it runs from memory instead of reading and writing values to a temp file and I'd never been able to keep up with that level of nesting before

New comment by TripleFFF in "Rotten Dot Com"

TripleFFF — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:57:15 +0000

I always thought it sucked that ratemypoo got taken down but rotten didn't

New comment by TripleFFF in "The challenges of porting Shufflepuck Cafe to the 8 bits Apple II"

TripleFFF — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:02:07 +0000

My aunt had a Macintosh with this game and we used to play for hours. I still vividly remember because it was one of the first "computer" games I'd ever seen with sound

New comment by TripleFFF in "Ask HN: What features for an offline Hacker News reader?"

TripleFFF — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 10:15:22 +0000

I believe squid can do this, I experimented using it on a raspberry pi to cache HN locally so it could be accessed offline, it managed to get the front page ok but I honestly don't know enough to get it working, and the hardware I was using wasn't up to the task