Hacker News: allthetime

New comment by allthetime in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

allthetime — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:32:45 +0000

I think a lot of us would pay them at this point, if they kept seriously working on the browser.

New comment by allthetime in "Kids These Days"

allthetime — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:28:29 +0000

One man's drugs, knives, and bombs are another mans skateboards and Amiga 500s

New comment by allthetime in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

allthetime — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:14:50 +0000

many games work flawlessly on Linux now. enough to make the switch anyways. a lot more than on mac.

New comment by allthetime in "ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs"

allthetime — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:36:35 +0000

The moat is marketing and good looking UI. They have been spamming Tik Tok et al. relentlessly and every lazy opportunist algorithm exploiter out there knows who they are, what they do, and that they can easily generate enough slop per cost to make their money back. So yeah, not a moat, but you're kinda missing the point. Just like Lovable is wildly over-priced, under powered, and has crazy levels of lock in built in (you can't even access your own supabase account that it uses for backend). It's not for you / us. Its for the masses who don't know (or want to know) any better.

New comment by allthetime in "ElevenLabs, TwelveLabs, ThirteenLabs"

allthetime — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:33:16 +0000

both of those things are available for free from others.

we can assume all of that is AI-generated rip off code anyways.

New comment by allthetime in "A Friendly Introduction to Racket"

allthetime — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:16:26 +0000

It is rich with information, to the point, and presented in a way that a motivated and competent reader can immediately know something about and be useful with racket. That’s how it was for me anyways; someone who didn’t know anything about racket before reading through this.

Wtf kind of intro to a programming language doesn’t include syntax rules? We are all informed, experienced, technologically inclined people here. Not dumb children.

I’m struggling to see your comment as anything more than contrarian babble.

New comment by allthetime in "Zig’s Io.Threaded is neat"

allthetime — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:12:14 +0000

Custom syntax highlighting / theming to emphasize names vs. qualifiers is very helpful.

New comment by allthetime in "Kobo can run apps now"

allthetime — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:08:42 +0000

In the case of the kobo, it is firstly a much more open platform than kindle. Secondly, existing projects have made much more performant reader apps than the stock one. Basic kobo (nickel) is a bit slow and can be even slower with a “bad” EPUB file (you will come across many online as they are often auto generated from other sources and are essentially a collection of html files). Installing a third party reader can make page flips and re-renders significantly faster and smoother as well as remove all unnecessary network processes

New comment by allthetime in "Kobo can run apps now"

allthetime — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:05:00 +0000

Try Plato

New comment by allthetime in "Git at any scale"

allthetime — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:02:13 +0000

The biggest, richest companies in the world are hiring top talent. Who woulda guessed.

New comment by allthetime in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

allthetime — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:59:12 +0000

No think, no worry.

New comment by allthetime in "The August 17 outage"

allthetime — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:56:31 +0000

You have thousands of users connected to a chat via websockets to a small cheap server that can just handle the load. Server has a hiccup, all clients disconnect, server comes back, all clients reconnect at once. Server can’t handle the load.

New comment by allthetime in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

allthetime — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 23:47:25 +0000

Every single one of my clients, early in their business, tried to underpay for foreign labour. Every single one of my clients came to me, willing to pay full price, to remake what cheap foreign contractors failed to do - or partially succeeded, but then failed to maintain. Good software business is so much more than code. It's communication and reliability and relationship building and maintenance. Clients pay me full price because we are in similar time zones and can clearly communicate to get things done properly so that they don't need to be remade next year and they have the guarantee that I will still be here.

New comment by allthetime in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

allthetime — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:30:10 +0000

github for hobbyists and small orgs and simple open source projects is wonderful.

github for large project that rely on CI tool is a nightmare (cost, downtime, etc.)

I'm guessing you dont know about the github actions bug that was running and endless loop consuming 100% cpu costing orgs insane amounts of money that they didn't fix for 3 years.

New comment by allthetime in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

allthetime — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:22:27 +0000

Startups aren’t dead. Software businesses aren’t dead. 90% of the traditional buyers of software aren’t building and deploying their own apps from scratch. With a little thinking, creativity, and confidence, you too can make things and sell them for money in 2026.

New comment by allthetime in "Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?"

allthetime — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:20:45 +0000

Anyone can do it? Is everyone you know making a million dollars a year with their software startup? Are you?

New comment by allthetime in "Gloomberb"

allthetime — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:23:54 +0000

I know a lot of traders from both university and growing up around rich kids. Their parents are invariably very wealthy. They were the ones who had the time and safety net to sit around on computers all the time (like me becoming a programmer)

I’m not in the trading world though so I haven’t met the ones that don’t fit this description.

But exactly zero of the people I know who were raised in either poverty or mediocrity are traders or involved in finance, aside from maybe accounting.

Of course, this is all anecdotal - but I’ve only ever seen Bloomberg terminals outside of office settings in the apartments of wealthy children.

Perhaps things were a bit different decades ago, in the scrappy past, but it feels like most higher earning spheres are closing in around pre-existing wealth.

New comment by allthetime in "Gloomberb"

allthetime — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:26:00 +0000

That should have been obvious from the mere fact that the bottom rungs are almost completely populated by silver-spooned nepo-babies.

New comment by allthetime in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

allthetime — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:22:01 +0000

I recently consulted for a vibe-founder who built yet-another ai voice chat and what shocked me about lovable was the lock-in. The supabase backend is completely inaccessible except through the lovable interface. You don’t have a supabase account, you can’t manage any of it directly.

The limits are also restrictive unless you wanna empty your bank account. I guess cheaper than paying us full time though.

New comment by allthetime in "AI Generated 3D Models Flood Market, but Almost No One Is Buying Them"

allthetime — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:11:14 +0000

There is an army of slop-merchants, ai-evangelists, scam artists, and people who hate having to pay for artistic talent because they have none that think exactly this way.