Hacker News: basketbla

New comment by basketbla in "Show HN: Micasa – track your house from the terminal"

basketbla — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:35:34 +0000

Is there even a Wichita, Arkansas?

New comment by basketbla in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

basketbla — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:51:44 +0000

Probably pretty big difference in system prompt from using the apps vs hitting the api, not that that’s necessarily what’s happening here. + I think openclaw supports other models / its open source and it would be pretty easy to fork and add a new model provider.

New comment by basketbla in "Gradient.horse"

basketbla — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:39:55 +0000

The unsettling music perfectly matches the vibe of the horse creatures marching along (especially with the non-horses enabled).

Side note I also keep expecting the severance theme after the first note.

New comment by basketbla in "Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases"

basketbla — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:14:59 +0000

Still not as bad as Roblox! (but yeah still bad)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28249094

New comment by basketbla in "Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases"

basketbla — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:04:19 +0000

Weirdly I agree. After seeing the truly god-awful pay to win gambling-filled landscape of Roblox, Fortnite feels pretty tame and respectful. V bucks aren't shoved down your throat, the battle passes are pretty transparent about what you get, and the whole cosmetics store feels less lootbox-heavy than a lot of games.

Edit: ope literally just saw this in another comment, whoops: https://www.ign.com/articles/as-fortnite-enables-third-party...

New comment by basketbla in "Show HN: A store that generates products from anything you type in search"

basketbla — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 18:28:10 +0000

Fantastic. These descriptions are great too.

Visibility watch (https://anycrap.shop/product/visibility-watch-makes-you-visi...)

Bortle gun (https://anycrap.shop/product/bortle-gun-portal-gun-that-shoo...)

New comment by basketbla in "Paul Graham Hacker News Archive"

basketbla — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:56:50 +0000

After seeing "Do things that don't scale" trending the other day, I thought it would be fun to have a hackernews archive of all the Paul Graham essays.

This was vibe coded pretty quickly so can't vouch for its integrity, if anyone has modifications they want to make here's the repo: https://github.com/basketbla/pg-scraper

Also please let me know if something like this already exists! There was a reddit thread where somebody posted this:

https://www.reddit.com/domain/paulgraham.com/top/?sort=top&t...

But I don't know if there's an equivalent thing for hackernews.

Paul Graham Hacker News Archive

basketbla — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:56:50 +0000

Article URL: https://pghn.rhett.info/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44974349

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by basketbla in "Ask HN: How to find mentors while working remote?"

basketbla — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:51:37 +0000

That makes a ton of sense, thank you!

Ask HN: How to find mentors while working remote?

basketbla — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:11:25 +0000

So far in every internship and job that I've had, there's been a more senior engineer whose brain I can pick. Just curious if anyone here has suggestions for finding similar opportunities outside of a job?

For context: I graduated college 2 years ago and have been working at a remote startup since. Now I'm going out on my own to focus a little more on some of the side projects I've been working on, but even a week in I'm starting to feel the strain of working on something solo.

Location has also been a little bit of an issue for me. I was in the bay area for college and found it much easier to find events / people to learn from. I moved to the the twin cities after graduating and haven't really been able to find the same community here.

Any advice is appreciated!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44561142

Points: 9

# Comments: 3

New comment by basketbla in "Building an AI app builder with an AI app builder built with an AI app builder"

basketbla — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:11:32 +0000

One of my first posts on HN! It's a writeup about building a bolt.new clone inside of bolt.new and then building another bolt.new clone inside of the bolt.new clone.

Advice/feedback welcome!

Building an AI app builder with an AI app builder built with an AI app builder

basketbla — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 19:54:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rhett.info/blog/bolt.new.new.new

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44524807

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by basketbla in "Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs"

basketbla — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:54:32 +0000

Pretty fantastic follow-up to https://www.latent.space/p/clippy-v-anton

New comment by basketbla in "Garfield Minus Garfield"

basketbla — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 17:47:13 +0000

This is hilarious. Reminds me of this old pete holmes Garfield sketch (looks like the original got taken down).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayjz18d8Kpo

Show HN: Kwack, it quacks when you type

basketbla — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:27:47 +0000

Just found out about Klack (https://tryklack.com/) earlier this week, but from my research it looks like making your keyboard quack is still an open problem (https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/17not9f/how_c...).

I'm announcing Kwack: it quacks when you type. Only for mac.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374948

Points: 2

# Comments: 0