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New comment by asdfbank in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

asdfbank — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:47:59 +0000

My linux gaming experience has left me with a wierd irony... I have been stealing windows for the last 25 years and never ever felt like i owed M$ a cent. Now after totally switching to free stuff i suddenly feel (not in a bad way at all) a kind of debt to open source developers for just making cool stuff and putting it out there for me to use and play with and i'm not doing a crime anymore!

New comment by asdfbank in "[dead]"

asdfbank — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 08:18:58 +0000

I left reading this article because i don't have access...

New comment by asdfbank in "AI Will Never Be Conscious"

asdfbank — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:59:04 +0000

Never is a long time, and in that time, the term AI will mean a lot of things, digital and analog and maybe conscious

New comment by asdfbank in "Ask HN: Share your vibe coded project"

asdfbank — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:22:16 +0000

Not a programmer (accountant here) and thanks to Github copilot in VSCode, I was able to make the app I couldn't find. It's been a super fun hobby over the last 6 or 7 months, especially hosting it myself and my only cost now is Apple's recurring 99 USD in case i want to ship an update later, so I can keep it up for free into the future.

95% of the app is boilerplate API and DB stuff but I stood 0 chance of making this without the LLM handling syntax and the volume of code.

It's Plantshare and it helps people share and find plants, because if you do gardening, your plants are likely making more free plants all the time. which you can now share and find on this app. Saw an app for sharing tools in your neighborhood and I thought that was really cool, so I did this but for giving plants/seeds/cuttings away.

https://ps-prod.bloodys.cc/links/getplantshare

New comment by asdfbank in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

asdfbank — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:15:29 +0000

This is coming across as the "hobby police" here telling everyone what they can and can't do... I'm sure it wasn't meant that way but it reads that way.

The airplane company wont let you vibe code their systems anyway, and rightly so. the rest of us can just do whatever we like.

New comment by asdfbank in "The Platonic Case Against AI Slop"

asdfbank — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 20:28:12 +0000

I read this as the cost per unit of video produced. Of course it costs a lot to build power plants but they will produce exponentially more videos, exponentially faster and it's all about scale.

Edit... And the tech companies are certainly not paying the environmental costs now are they?

New comment by asdfbank in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

asdfbank — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:05:50 +0000

Recently launched my free app for gardeners to share plants with each other, Plantshare.

Now I'm working on a few changes to the app, most notable is moving any plants marked as 'for sale' out from the main section because it turns out people are more greedy than I anticipated and it's getting in the way of sharing the free stuff, cuttings etc.

There's also some demand for a web front end so I might work on that next. (currently only android and ios)

I had an initial boom of downloads in South Africa but lately most new downloads are in USA.

https://ps-prod.bloodys.cc/links/getplantshare/

New comment by asdfbank in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2025)?"

asdfbank — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 07:11:34 +0000

I love this "local first" focus, which for me translates into "relevant first". My app Plantshare (posted about it in this HN post) is not very useful if you're the only user for 40km around, but I've seen local pockets of signups that gain momentum and are then useful in that locality and the users make local connections.

I think the biggest hurdle for this would be to gain traffic in place of an existing entrenched local Facebook group or similar.

New comment by asdfbank in "Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2025)?"

asdfbank — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:32:41 +0000

I've been working on Plantshare, a free app that aims to help gardeners share plants with other local gardeners. If you do gardening, it's likely that your plants are making more plants all by themselves; use this app to share them and see what others near you are sharing. I basically made the app that I couldn't find.

Android and iOS are in a working beta, might do a web front end eventually too.

I'm not a professional at any of this (accounting day job) and there has been a lot of learning but in the end, what a trip, I made a software! I've had a ton of help to bring it to life from a friend who is an actual professional at the back-end stuff (thanks Balthromaw) and copilot too.

https://ps-prod.bloodys.cc/links/getplantshare

New comment by asdfbank in "Ask HN: How do you use AI to convince people you didn't use AI to get an idea?"

asdfbank — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 14:33:09 +0000

That's like asking how do you convince people you dug a hole without using a shovel... who cares what tools were used unless you're in some kind of game with such rules. the shovel is just a tool and it didn't dig the hole, you did.

Lots of ideas are new to the person coming up with them, only to find out that it was invented 50 years ago, doesn't mean you cheated. AI or not, just own it.

New comment by asdfbank in "Ask HN: What am I doing wrong Re Agentic coding"

asdfbank — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 07:59:24 +0000

I agree with this, break it down further.

When instructing it to execute the plan, i would even have it only execute step 1, then you review. then step 2, review and so on. this prevents it from going down a rabbit hole and you can adjust the plan's steps or change course more easily.

New comment by asdfbank in "Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used"

asdfbank — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:43:28 +0000

Thank you for sharing this, now I feel less dumb. Recently I had the pain of publishing my app (Flutter/Dart) on the apple Appstore, admittedly, my first experience using a mac in the last 30 years so I don't speak mac at all, but like, I know computers right?... famous last words.

I thought I was "holding it wrong"... like really badly wrong! and all I was trying to do was clone my repo and compile it for the store, that's it. took me nights and nights to get over each subsequent hurdle and false peak and missing import and then at the end, oh please upgrade and start again.

Thank goodness I only need it for that 1 step and I can do everything else on computers and software that is normal for me. As a first time app maker, I've had a super experience with Flutter in VScode.

New comment by asdfbank in "Raspberry Pi 5"

asdfbank — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 11:41:12 +0000

True, it's called Treasure Island because of all the stolen treasure it holds.. but jokes aside (shouldn't be a joke) i'm going to have a friend pick up one for me in UK and send it over to ZA where pricing is so so much worse.