Hacker News: altern8

New comment by altern8 in "Free the Icons"

altern8 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:13:39 +0000

Back means the previous screen.

If you're in Chrome, the previous entry in the history. If you're in YouTube, the previous video. If you were previously on the main screen and you just clicked into an app, the main screen.

What's confusing about it? Seems very intuitive to me, it's like CTRL+Z, it always changes what it does but the behavior is to undo the latest action.

New comment by altern8 in "Free the Icons"

altern8 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:55:10 +0000

That's what made me switch to Android.

At least you can have 3-button navigation

New comment by altern8 in "Free the Icons"

altern8 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:07:16 +0000

Tahoe was such a huge mess, but I'm hopeful that the new CEO will turn things around and bring things back to normal.

If they do, I'll consider upgrading both OS and laptop, but right now I'm holding on to Sequoia

New comment by altern8 in "The case for physical media ownership"

altern8 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:32:55 +0000

AND, if you get hurt ad a Disney park you can't sue them because you agreed to Disney+ TOS.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-su...

New comment by altern8 in "More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)"

altern8 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:16:02 +0000

A little far-fetched..?

New comment by altern8 in "The case for physical media ownership"

altern8 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:34:01 +0000

This is so true, I pirated movies that I was ready to pay for so many times, just because they weren't available in my area, or there were no subtitles, or they only offered 720p.

You can download a MTK file at 4K with multiple audio tracks and subtitles and more often than not there are enough seeders to just start watching it while it downloads in the background.

They need to wake up.

New comment by altern8 in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

altern8 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:03:42 +0000

This will make it a lot more intuitive to play

New comment by altern8 in "TinyWind: A pixel pirate sailing game with real wind physics (380k+ kms sailed)"

altern8 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:02:55 +0000

Space to me means fire.

You can show the mini-map in a corner, right? Why do you need to toggle it, Slither has it shown at all times.

New comment by altern8 in "No, everyone is not using AI for everything"

altern8 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:48:42 +0000

Might be because there are less Swift projects to train with.

But I've seen Claude write crazy code in Python and JavaScript, too

New comment by altern8 in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

altern8 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:49:57 +0000

That sounds absolutely awful

New comment by altern8 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

altern8 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:20:35 +0000

I see. OK, I'll do that next time, thanks.

New comment by altern8 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

altern8 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:06:03 +0000

That's kind of weird that you're using this announcement to steer people to another project.

Or am I missing something..?

New comment by altern8 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

altern8 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:06:48 +0000

So, machines will allow ordering an app.

New comment by altern8 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

altern8 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:06:16 +0000

While eating the junk food I was talking about :-D

New comment by altern8 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

altern8 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:25:08 +0000

> I think, is that everyone who needs small software to manage a todo list or synchronize files, or whatever "normal" people do, will end up with bespoke personalized software written by their own AI

People can't be bothered to cook for themselves, and often order crappy, unhealthy food that costs 10 times as much just so they don't have to cook.

Now they're going to build their own software every time they think they need an app..?

New comment by altern8 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

altern8 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:57:27 +0000

They weren't going to, if not they would've done it already in the past.

You're not going to spend $30,000 and weeks of your time just to see if an idea you had under the shower can make a few bucks as a side project, but now that it's a 5-minute thing that costs you $5, why not.

New comment by altern8 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

altern8 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:50:14 +0000

AI-assisted coding is great, but vibe coding IMO is only good for disposable prototypes.

You're not going to vibe-code a financial app that needs to be maintained indefinitely.

You're also not going to mess with legacy systems.

I think that AI has definitely replaced _some_ engineers, but I don't think your use case is relevant. Your non-engineering friends have created their pet project because they now can, but it's not as if they were going to hire anyone to do it, right? They haven't up until now.

New comment by altern8 in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

altern8 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:45:08 +0000

I really don't get why this wasn't a requirement that was baked in since the beginning.

Apple must know that they have customers in EU countries..?

New comment by altern8 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

altern8 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:25:26 +0000

There is no way that LLMs can replace human engineers.

They're often wrong, dumb, and would turn any code into an unmaintainable mess in days if left unchecked.

I use LLMs every day because I can do less work at my job, but they suck and I would never use them for a personal project besides for very isolated and self-contained components.

It's a lot of marketing and hype.

New comment by altern8 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

altern8 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:41:06 +0000

It's extremely useful for UIs.

As a front-end guy, if I owned a project I would have the API AI-assisted and UI AI-driven.