Hacker News: bigblind

New comment by bigblind in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

bigblind — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:41:18 +0000

I think you've just summed up late stage capitalism.

New comment by bigblind in "Show HN: CSS Studio. Design by hand, code by agent"

bigblind — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:00:06 +0000

This looks interesting! I understand not wanting to put out a narrated tour as the video, but being visually impaired, i find video demos without narration, that constantly move around/focus on different things hard to follow. It still might be worth putting a short screencast with you actually walkign through usijng the product and narrating it.

New comment by bigblind in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bigblind — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:33:17 +0000

It's unfortunate that this is necessary. It should be obvious that wearing noise cancelling headphones in trafic, including as a pedestrian, is a bad idea.

I'm legally blind, so I have my own bias here, but I think people really over-rely on sight. If you do want to listen to something while walking around a city, I can highly recommend bone conduction headphones, that keep your ears unblocked.

New comment by bigblind in "Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones"

bigblind — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:24:05 +0000

If you just bell once or twice, and don't aggressively keep ringing, I'd never consider a bicycle bell in a shared space rude. I even consider it good manners, though as others have said, that varies between cultures.

Being visually impaired, though, I'm grateful for cyclists who use their bell. It's immediately clear. For some reason, my brain takes slightly longer to process someone yelling "on your left!" or similar, than just a quick "ring ring".

New comment by bigblind in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

bigblind — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:52:41 +0000

It is a benefit if you're a stakeholder in those companies, or your friends are stakeholders and will pass on some of the winnings as a "thank you."

New comment by bigblind in ""

bigblind — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:38:05 +0000

I guess? At least there you can review the plan, but is this planning mode any better at making architectural decisions than when you prompt an LLM and let it make the changes directly? (it might be, just not sure.)

New comment by bigblind in "How I write software with LLMs"

bigblind — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:12:01 +0000

> On projects where I have no understanding of the underlying technology (e.g. mobile apps), the code still quickly becomes a mess of bad choices. However, on projects where I know the technologies used well (e.g. backend apps, though not necessarily in Python), this hasn’t happened yet, even at tens of thousands of SLoC. Most of that must be because the models are getting better, but I think that a lot of it is also because I’ve improved my way of working with the models.

I wonder whether at some point we'll get a translation model, that translates relatively vague requests into sound architectural decisions, with some embedded knowledge of the environment you're building in, and that can ask clarifying questions when there are multiple options with different tradeoffs.

New comment by bigblind in "Marketing for Founders"

bigblind — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:31:26 +0000

Here's an example of one of their dev logs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdym24sg1HQ

New comment by bigblind in "Reliable Software in the LLM Era"

bigblind — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:10:51 +0000

I guess it's too late for an "Eternal sunshine of the slopless mind"?

New comment by bigblind in "Parseword, making cryptic crosswords more accessible"

bigblind — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:00:37 +0000

I like this a lot!

One thing I found as a somewhat experienced solver of cryptic crosswords, is that it was confusing that I couldn't just type an answer. I skipped the tutorial/lesson, because I didn't want an explanation of how cryptic clues work, I just wanted to solve one. So a little, inline explanation for first time visitors on how to solve them on this site might be good.

New comment by bigblind in "Show HN: ImagineIf – Collaborative storytelling where AI visualizes each segment"

bigblind — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:55:04 +0000

This is an interesting idea, and I'd love to see whether people come up with interesting stories/imaginations with this, but I feel very strongly pushed to engage before I've even properly explored the platform to see the potential. Like, all the stories seem to have their images locked, I assume until I make an account. Then there's also this mention of a pro subscription and some deal for the. firlst N subscribers. I'm not even sure yet if this a platform that's worth enough for me to make an account, let alone pay money for. I understand that image generation isn't cheap so you need to think about monetization early, but I suspect you'll need more ways for people to see the value of it without the commitment of even creating an account to have this become successful.

New comment by bigblind in "LLM=True"

bigblind — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:25:54 +0000

I never considered the volume of output tokens from dev tools, but yeah, I like this idea a lot.

New comment by bigblind in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

bigblind — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:08:55 +0000

I can certainly believe that this is really an agent doing this, but I can't help that part of my brain is going "some guy i his parents' basement somewhere is trolling the hell out of us all right now."

New comment by bigblind in "Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly"

bigblind — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:52:50 +0000

This looks very neat indeed! Are there any plans to adding network limits? Like, you might want to avoid an agent running code that just requests a resource in a loop, or downloads massive amounts of data.

New comment by bigblind in "Project Genie: Experimenting with infinite, interactive worlds"

bigblind — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:07:00 +0000

Anyone else going to try it and just keep getting a 404 page?

New comment by bigblind in "Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites"

bigblind — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:24:31 +0000

Any recommendations for good European alternatives to Clooudflare? Is there an EU company that's as trustworthy when it comesq to DDoS protection?

New comment by bigblind in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

bigblind — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:46:16 +0000

i'd personalloy love a quick video demo on the home screen, with someone walking through the experience of using the app; other than that, looks interesting;

New comment by bigblind in "Every GitHub object has two IDs"

bigblind — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:03:57 +0000

I think more important than worrying about people treating an opaque value as structured data, is wondering _why_ they're doing so. In the case of this blog post, all they wanted to do was construct a URL, which required the integer database ID. Just make sure you expose what people need, so they don't need to go digging.

Other than that, I agree with what others are saying. If people rely on some undocumented aspect of your IDs, it's on them if that breaks.

Not All Browser APIs Are "Web" APIs

bigblind — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:41:38 +0000

Article URL: https://polypane.app/blog/not-all-browser-apis-are-web-apis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46589156

Points: 2

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New comment by bigblind in "Shut Up About the Water"

bigblind — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:51:12 +0000

Can someone tell me why this was flagged? To me, it feels like an important discussion to have