Hacker News: bdlowery

New comment by bdlowery in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

bdlowery — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:56:30 +0000

well yes, you were in Toronto, where there is a very very veeerry high cheating ratio compared to other areas.

New comment by bdlowery in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

bdlowery — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:54:49 +0000

everyone knows what the cause of that transition was.

hint: look at canada.

WenWare

bdlowery — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:50:52 +0000

Article URL: https://wen-ware.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47923193

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bdlowery in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

bdlowery — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:13:01 +0000

Yes

New comment by bdlowery in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

bdlowery — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:43:31 +0000

Zulip is a website packaged into an electron app. It does not take $1billion to implement webrtc into a website as screensharing + video / audio calls are a solved problem on the web (Zulip is a web app).

Where did you get the idea that it takes a ton of money to do it?

New comment by bdlowery in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

bdlowery — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:32:53 +0000

so instead of discord, google, meta having access to private convos... we should all switch to Zulip and have Zulip being the one with access to those convos? Or join someones self hosted instance and let them have access to those convos?

I am confused.

New comment by bdlowery in "Show HN: Moltbook Overtaken by Shellraiser"

bdlowery — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:48:17 +0000

There is no "agent". It's someone using the public api routes to post stuff to the website. You can see the routes here and generate your own token to post on the website - https://www.moltbook.com/skill.md

New comment by bdlowery in "Idle MMO"

bdlowery — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:37:26 +0000

Built largely by one person with Laravel. Hundreds of millions of requests each month. Millions of signed up users.

Idle MMO

bdlowery — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 01:44:35 +0000

Article URL: https://web.idle-mmo.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46832481

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

AI, Laravel, and the Gap Between Code and Architecture

bdlowery — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:38:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.galahadsixteen.com/blog/ai-laravel-and-the-gap-between-code-and-architecture

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46722520

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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

bdlowery — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:20:40 +0000

Looks vibe coded

SimpleMMO – How I made a hole a home (2021)

bdlowery — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 04:12:51 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.galahadcreative.com/simplemmo-how-i-made-a-hole-a-home/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45961308

Points: 18

# Comments: 4

From Zero to 35M: The struggles of scaling Laravel with Octane

bdlowery — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 03:08:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.galahadsixteen.com/blog/from-zero-to-35m-the-struggles-of-scaling-laravel-with-octane

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45950542

Points: 14

# Comments: 0

New comment by bdlowery in "You Are in a Box"

bdlowery — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:37:48 +0000

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New comment by bdlowery in "The Frontend Treadmill"

bdlowery — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 19:53:55 +0000

Svelte will never overtake react. It won’t even overtake Vue.

New comment by bdlowery in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

bdlowery — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 06:24:13 +0000

Person who resembles 0.000001% of the internet userbase complains on hacker news.

More news at 7.

New comment by bdlowery in "Running an open source app: Usage, costs and community donations"

bdlowery — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 18:47:53 +0000

https://f5bot.com/ was free for like 8 years and it processed hundreds of thousands of db records a day, and it barely cost anything.

New comment by bdlowery in "'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything'"

bdlowery — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 15:29:48 +0000

You skipped all the hard parts, all the struggling, and now you have a working product without a mental model and can't level up to doing harder things on your own. Struggling IS learning. You didn't try different paths, piece different info together, and then eventually create a mental model. You just used ChatGPT to skip to the end result.

It's like enrolling for a Calc 2, cheating on all the homework to get an A, and saying "did i learn anything? No, but it solved all of these annoying homework problems for me!" Now when you have to take the 1st exam you're screwed because you didn't learn anything.

AI is an impediment to learning web development

bdlowery — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 15:18:20 +0000

Article URL: https://ben.page/jumbocode-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757711

Points: 229

# Comments: 216

New comment by bdlowery in "macOS Sequoia is available today"

bdlowery — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 05:27:30 +0000