Hacker News: bitbasher

New comment by bitbasher in "The White House is making arcade games racist"

bitbasher — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 15:45:20 +0000

Those are all terrible things but none of them are racist, unless the word has a new meaning.

Disgusting? Xenophobic? Sure.

New comment by bitbasher in "The White House is making arcade games racist"

bitbasher — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:50:43 +0000

Why is building a wall racist?

New comment by bitbasher in "an ambiguity in C89 which will never be fixed"

bitbasher — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:12:04 +0000

That doesn't make it any less interesting :)

New comment by bitbasher in "Show HN: MicroCodex Coding Agent – OpenAI/codex reimplemented in C++ <1MB binary"

bitbasher — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:11:40 +0000

Here I was thinking 1MB still feels way too large.

New comment by bitbasher in "I Built Ziggers: A Marketplace to Hire Verified Gig Workers in Minutes"

bitbasher — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 22:34:18 +0000

What does the average zigger do?

New comment by bitbasher in "The five primitives I run a one-person company on"

bitbasher — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:54:44 +0000

Wish the article was written by a human. When I read lines like: “Agents draft. I approve. Agents execute.”

I convulse a bit.

New comment by bitbasher in "Ask HN: How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects?"

bitbasher — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:38:11 +0000

A simple qemu virtual machine is nice and quick to spin up. I mainly work inside an openbsd or linux virtual machine. I use a different vm for each project and I have a "sandbox" vm I use to run random things I download/test.

New comment by bitbasher in "Cosmic DE's First Seven Months"

bitbasher — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:23:13 +0000

Decent updates but still lacks a lot of small polish. One thing that annoys me is the mouse cursor. I wish it would disappear when typing or idle.

New comment by bitbasher in "Cosmic DE's First Seven Months"

bitbasher — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:20:55 +0000

Yes— this is annoying. At first I thought my sound wasn’t working. Took a while to figure it out…

New comment by bitbasher in "C Strings: A 50-Year Mistake – By Trần Thành Long"

bitbasher — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:58:54 +0000

We had a "Karl" at my first engineering job. Karl happened to be our team lead, but he produced a lot of Karl code. Many expletives and facepalms in that office. It got so bad, a member on our team that was highly religious asked to have their own office (and he got it).

New comment by bitbasher in "Ask HN: Does it still make sense to write code by hand?"

bitbasher — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:37:22 +0000

I do all of my code by hand. I don't even use an LSP. It makes sense as long as it makes sense to you.

You don't need to change the way you do things because of some perceived thing you're missing out on. That is what the AI companies want you to feel and think because it benefits them.

This applies to more than AI, but programming language choices and more. Heck, it even applies to social issues and politics :)

Make your own choices and walk your own path.

New comment by bitbasher in "The zero-cost fallacy: open-source software in the agentic era"

bitbasher — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:25:15 +0000

I recently read Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and the Bazaar. It was oddly sad to read.

The enthusiasm and optimistic view of open source and the future of software and craftsmanship. Looking at it in 2026.. incredibly sad.

Forget the bazaar. Back to the cathedral.

New comment by bitbasher in "Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for ~$1.3k)"

bitbasher — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:20:09 +0000

Funny how I could tell without reading anything. I immediately lost interest upon noticing.

New comment by bitbasher in "Show HN: I RL-trained an agent that trains models with RL (for –$1.3k)"

bitbasher — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:21:21 +0000

Lots of emoji in that readme. Was it mainly codex?

New comment by bitbasher in "Reject Modernity, Return To 80s, Learn C"

bitbasher — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:56:16 +0000

For in the darkest hour, hope springs eternal.

New comment by bitbasher in "Christopher Nolan says younger audiences are utterly rejecting AI-generated slop"

bitbasher — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:42:10 +0000

Bad news for Christopher Nolan, AI isn't the only slop audiences reject.

New comment by bitbasher in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

bitbasher — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:32:23 +0000

I have been self hosting my repositories on my own VPS using nothing but Git itself (you don't need to install anything else). Sharing write access is a bit of a pain, but I tend to work on things alone anyway.

New comment by bitbasher in "Ask HN: Is GitHub preparing to go behind a login wall?"

bitbasher — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:11:34 +0000

I believe so. I cannot view any repository from my phone. It asks me to log in first.

New comment by bitbasher in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

bitbasher — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:10:23 +0000

Why buy this over a framework desktop?

New comment by bitbasher in "Do you need separate systems when you already have Postgres?"

bitbasher — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 16:29:29 +0000

I was on the Postgres train for 10+ years. Then I fell in love with Sqlite and have been using it for everything.