Hacker News: buf

New comment by buf in "Starcraft: Ashfall"

buf — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:15:19 +0000

Saw Starcraft, spent 30 minutes living the nostalgia playing this.

New comment by buf in "Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free"

buf — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:09:08 +0000

Doesn't that go against Apple and Google policy?

New comment by buf in "Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free"

buf — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:18:31 +0000

How do you do it?

New comment by buf in "Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?"

buf — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:36:48 +0000

Not only that, from light's perspective, it takes no time at all. ;)

New comment by buf in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"

buf — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:37:44 +0000

Except this isn't like saying that at all. This isn't fraud, because it's legal in almost every circumstance.

New comment by buf in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

buf — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:14:08 +0000

It's made for keyboard enthusiasts. Give it a shot. Maybe you'll be one of them.

New comment by buf in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

buf — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:06:32 +0000

Internet comment of the day awarded to CharlesW.

New comment by buf in "Googlebook"

buf — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:37:31 +0000

I'd love to read more about your setup. I'm doing about half of what you have.

New comment by buf in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

buf — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:18:49 +0000

It will be replaced with private networks soon. Last step of anonymous internet.

New comment by buf in "Claude Opus 4.7"

buf — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:45:50 +0000

No, I wrote them myself (training my wetware to write more as I get older).

I was using claude to create a codex of characters/lore/etc. I also had it auto-build a website promoting the books.

New comment by buf in "Claude Opus 4.7"

buf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 03:57:01 +0000

Just chipping in to say that I've never seen it churn for more than 20 minutes in two years worth of usage. The longest I've ever seen it churn is when I had it give extremely detailed analysis of five fictional novels simultaneously.

New comment by buf in "Molly guard in reverse"

buf — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:46:34 +0000

Fun random fact, Eventbrite was first a security company called Molly Guard. I spent years cleaning out the 'mg-' prefixes from the code.

New comment by buf in "Show HN: Browser-based interactive 3D Three-Body problem simulator"

buf — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:08:08 +0000

I spent a long time playing with the sim. Nice work.

Most of the random data sets that I ran ended up with a two body system, where the third body was flung far into space never to return. However, some of these were misleading. I had one running for 15 minutes at 5x, and the third body did eventually return.

New comment by buf in "How I use my terminal"

buf — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:40:06 +0000

TOME can be natively performing with tmux panes.

Steps:

1. have two panes open

2. In pane 0, have your cursor or a line or multiple lines of code

3. :VtrSendLinesToRunner

4. In pane 1, the lines are performed

New comment by buf in "How I use my terminal"

buf — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:35:26 +0000

I'm a tmux/vim user and heavily use claude code. It's good.

New comment by buf in "How I use my terminal"

buf — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:29:45 +0000

I've been using a very similar setup with vim/tmux for about 20 years. I've tried all the new IDEs but still keep coming back. With AI, I thought I was going to have to change until Claude code. Now I'm back in my happy place.

Heroku login down for 7 hours

buf — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:59:33 +0000

This, I think, is finally the last straw for me.

I've already moved my databases off heroku long ago, tried many various PaaS (render, fly) and tools (kamal) for VMs on places like DO and Hetzner. All my newer apps are running this way with lots of learning curves.

I just can't fathom an enterprise business being down this long.

Rest in peace, Heroku. You were great once.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44238401

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New comment by buf in "AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data"

buf — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 07:51:18 +0000

Elena's article is content marketing. It doesn't look dead to me.

New comment by buf in "Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?"

buf — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 04:08:46 +0000

Yes, I generally build new products around my current audience.

New comment by buf in "Ask HN: Founders, what was the major sourcing channel for your first 100 users?"

buf — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 17:15:46 +0000

I thought they were still doing one free lesson. It's been a while since I was on Reforge though.