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New comment by aarondf in "Warp is now open-source"

aarondf — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:48:52 +0000

soloterm.com is closed source

New comment by aarondf in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

aarondf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:07:37 +0000

woah hey! you're speaking the shibboleths!

New comment by aarondf in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

aarondf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:46:17 +0000

I'll take that bet

New comment by aarondf in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

aarondf — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:38:14 +0000

I think you're conflating a talent pipeline with ease of running PHP. Those are not the same thing at all

New comment by aarondf in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

aarondf — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:17:06 +0000

> We should fund open source!

> Not like that!

New comment by aarondf in "Quantization from the Ground Up"

aarondf — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:27:04 +0000

My word... samwho is doing some of the best technical explainers on the internet right now.

New comment by aarondf in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

aarondf — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:15:33 +0000

I've run into that issue while developing https://soloterm.com.

If you respond twice to their theme query probes, the whole thing bricks. Or if you're slightly out of order. It's very delicate.

New comment by aarondf in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

aarondf — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:27:34 +0000

damn framerate looks good

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:04:22 +0000

> But the good news is that we can increase our chances of encountering good luck.

Every phrase in the article was carefully selected to make it clear that we're trying to increase the odds. Nothing is sure. But if you play the game right, the odds of winning go up

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:02:51 +0000

My role? My role as a what?

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:54:02 +0000

I understand. I am, however, impotent against OpenAI. If I publish code to GitHub, I understand it will be used for training. I'd rather get the win for my family than try to fight a megacorp. I'm sorry.

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:42:59 +0000

Unfortunately we have to play the game according to the rules on the field. You can decide to opt out entirely (which is fine) or you can play the game and try to win. Personally, I will play and try to win.

That means I will make things, talk about them, and accrue social and/or actual capital for me and my family. I can't stop any megacorp from training on my code, and it's futile to try. I CAN build cool things, talk about them, and get cool jobs or friends or a following or whatever. I understand not everyone is comfortable with this tradeoff.

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:34:22 +0000

And guess how you make friends in high(er) places...

by...

publishing your work and making friends in your industry

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:30:55 +0000

No easy answers, I'm afraid. But I would still say you can get lots of social capital from creating things and talking about it. And these days, that can get you past the LLM-inundated HR front door if you want a job. If you hang out on twitter long enough you'll see people go from "hey I made this cool thing" to "hey cloudflare/vercel/etc hired me to come work on cool-thing-adjacent thing!"

It's a pretty repeatable pipeline. And having proof that you can DO something makes you stand out. Maybe moreso than ever!

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:52:08 +0000

Very well said

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:51:52 +0000

You had me in the first half! <3

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:39:18 +0000

Hey! I wrote the article a few years ago. Fun to see it on HN again.

It was here back when I wrote it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071137

Lots of comments talking about how this is just some sort of ploy to feed the machine. I don't know what to tell you. I can only tell you it changed my life and the lives of many others. Hope it can help you too!

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:37:24 +0000

Then define luck as "connecting with fellow nerds." Still works

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:36:37 +0000

Totally. An engineer, who (at the the time) works in marketing! Makes sense to me :D

New comment by aarondf in "Publishing your work increases your luck"

aarondf — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:35:50 +0000

I'm a software developer who was, at the time, working in a marketing role. Happy to answer questions.