Hacker News: brandly

New comment by brandly in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

brandly — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:59:14 +0000

Aren't the Rust unsafes a reflection of the Zig it was ported from? However now that you're working with Rust, you're in a position to continue improving and eliminating the unsafes.

New comment by brandly in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

brandly — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:18:43 +0000

By what measure do you think they're not anywhere near Anthropic's models?

New comment by brandly in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

brandly — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:12:42 +0000

https://mattbrandly.com

New comment by brandly in "OpenAI acquires Sky.app"

brandly — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:26:54 +0000

Thiel Fellows too.

New comment by brandly in "Next.js is infuriating"

brandly — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:48:27 +0000

He made a whole new blog to complain about Next.js and built the blog with Next.js

New comment by brandly in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

brandly — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:44:00 +0000

Still significantly more popular than the alternatives.

New comment by brandly in "Succinct data structures"

brandly — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 14:54:36 +0000

But “official” is defined in descriptive dictionaries to include descriptive dictionaries.

New comment by brandly in "Younger cannabis users have reduced brain function, finds largest study yet"

brandly — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 02:28:52 +0000

Source?

New comment by brandly in "One-man SaaS, 9 Years In"

brandly — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 02:52:46 +0000

Similar MRR?

New comment by brandly in "Software galaxies"

brandly — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:45:06 +0000

Add the dataset!

New comment by brandly in "Software galaxies"

brandly — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:43:20 +0000

I wrote up some details about adding Elm packages to this if you want to do the same for hackage! https://mattbrandly.com/every-elm-package/

New comment by brandly in "Software galaxies"

brandly — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:42:40 +0000

I think this is a 9 year old snapshot of Bower

New comment by brandly in "Why I failed in $1,7k monthly revenue in my first SaaS?"

brandly — Wed, 22 May 2024 20:36:56 +0000

> What should I do to understand better why my churn rate is high?

A lot of products include some questions as a part of the cancellation flow to get more feedback from customers about why they're leaving. General startup advice is always "talk to customers", so at a small scale, you could also do things like offer a $25 Amazon gift card for them to get on a call where you could chat with them about why the product doesn't meet their needs.

Good luck!

New comment by brandly in "Sora: Creating video from text"

brandly — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 05:10:51 +0000

Link to state of the art at the time please!

New comment by brandly in "Duolingo Sucks, Now What?"

brandly — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:10:37 +0000

> Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI

Source?

New comment by brandly in "Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth"

brandly — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 02:03:35 +0000

Eh, the future of space travel and exploration is very bright.

New comment by brandly in "Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code"

brandly — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 20:22:38 +0000

You should write a longer post about it!

New comment by brandly in "Software disenchantment"

brandly — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 19:06:35 +0000

https://danluu.com/everything-is-broken/

New comment by brandly in "Stochastic Parrot"

brandly — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 17:18:08 +0000

Regardless it's a good thing! Many people have had no reason until recently to break out of thinking that money=usd or intelligence=humans.

New comment by brandly in "In Praise of Top Down Programming"

brandly — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 21:04:40 +0000

That site's layout is like 80% ads, 20% content!