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New comment by brandnewideas in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

brandnewideas — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:08:39 +0000

This just plain won't happen. They'll either drive hardware prices through the roof, or heavily regulate open models. Radical changes are coming. It's a bleak, bleak future we live in.

New comment by brandnewideas in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

brandnewideas — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:34:14 +0000

Ironically enough, you using "GPT Astra" to query for such simple information is probably in no small way correlated to the state of software engineering (in these large corporations and otherwise) today.

New comment by brandnewideas in "Can AI design circuit boards yet?"

brandnewideas — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:34:05 +0000

Shattering changes to societal structure are coming.

New comment by brandnewideas in "Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide"

brandnewideas — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 17:54:20 +0000

You people are too far gone

New comment by brandnewideas in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"

brandnewideas — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:14:17 +0000

That's the worst part, I'm never 100% sure, and that uncertainty is so ... disempowering?

New comment by brandnewideas in "Why thinking out loud with someone beats thinking alone"

brandnewideas — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:56:04 +0000

This shit gets me irrationally mad. Well, the existence of such content doesn't, but the fact that other people aren't disdained by it (this dogshit has almost 300 upvotes on _HN_ right now) is what gets me.

New comment by brandnewideas in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"

brandnewideas — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:57:43 +0000

Opening that site prompts my browser to download a `Human_fart.wav` file.

New comment by brandnewideas in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

brandnewideas — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:23:55 +0000

That's one of the things I truly didn't get from my (very limited) experience with SQLAlchemy. Why not just have a method like orm.eq(User.id, user_id)? Much more readable.

New comment by brandnewideas in "Claude Opus 4.8"

brandnewideas — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:15:27 +0000

Really wish these slop announcements stopped hitting the front page. It's the exact same thing every time. X bumped from N.Y to N.Y+1. wow

New comment by brandnewideas in "Enabling Resizable Bar on RTX 3080 Vbios via GitHub"

brandnewideas — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:37:09 +0000

Both the scripts in the repository and the README seem to be fully AI-generated. The README in particular seems to be a summary of Claude's thinking process. Also both the script and the README are full of assumptions related to the specific host/configuration this was used on

New comment by brandnewideas in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

brandnewideas — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:09:09 +0000

Huh, I was unaware that BG3 had a native Linux release, as it's not listed on the Steam store page. Turns out that they released it only for the Steam Deck. Strange

New comment by brandnewideas in "Russia Poisons Wikipedia"

brandnewideas — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:03:38 +0000

I've edited the comment

New comment by brandnewideas in "Russia Poisons Wikipedia"

brandnewideas — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:00:21 +0000

What about the USA, or China?

New comment by brandnewideas in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

brandnewideas — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:30:29 +0000

Crippling personal computing isn't a side-effect of massive investments in data centers, but rather one of the primary drivers for it.

New comment by brandnewideas in "I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit"

brandnewideas — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:22:46 +0000

There are laws that prevent you from committing suicide?

New comment by brandnewideas in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

brandnewideas — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:18:28 +0000

I'm in absolute disbelief at the existence of this website. Idiocracy is at an all-time high.

New comment by brandnewideas in "AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip"

brandnewideas — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:58:32 +0000

Theoretically anything is possible with enough thought and work.

New comment by brandnewideas in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

brandnewideas — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:45:24 +0000

What a pointless, useless article. The shitty generated graphics are just the cherry on the cake.

Just read the official Claude documentation:

https://code.claude.com/docs/

New comment by brandnewideas in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

brandnewideas — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:56:57 +0000

Absolutely every single thing you could ever bet on can be rigged.

New comment by brandnewideas in "Kiro: A new agentic IDE"

brandnewideas — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 18:46:35 +0000

You're using a slop tool and expect it to produce anything but slop?