Hacker News: bze12

New comment by bze12 in "Codex for almost everything"

bze12 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:38:10 +0000

It mostly feels like they’re just converging on each other. The latest Claude Mac app release pushed a new UI that looks almost exactly like Codex’s.

New comment by bze12 in "The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon"

bze12 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:21:14 +0000

> This part is especially fascinating to me, since it turns an optimization done out of technical necessity into a gameplay feature.

Reminds me of blood moons in Zelda https://www.polygon.com/legend-zelda-tears-kingdom/23834440/...

New comment by bze12 in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

bze12 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:30:48 +0000

It doesn’t even go upside down once, let alone 4 times

New comment by bze12 in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

bze12 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 02:05:53 +0000

Apple mostly cares about legibility and consistency in icons now, not art. All the new iOS features like tints and liquid glass don't lend themselves well to intricate designs. It's disappointing, but I tend to agree that the skeuomorphic icons are harder to read.

From their icon guidelines: "Embrace simplicity in your icon design. Simple icons tend to be easiest for people to understand and recognize. An icon with fine visual features might look busy when rendered with system-provided shadows and highlights..." https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

Self plug, but I made an app related to this - it's a conceptual art gallery for app icons. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to remove the functional premise and just let an icon be a decorative symbol. It's called 001 (https://001.graphics)

New comment by bze12 in "Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case"

bze12 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:55:43 +0000

I don’t feel great about this ruling. Whatever a “reasonable” fee is supposed to mean, Apple will interpret it to some ridiculous amount. Before the ban, they tried to charge 27%

New comment by bze12 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

bze12 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 05:24:03 +0000

Yes exactly. Not nfts, just collectibles within the app.

New comment by bze12 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

bze12 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 05:22:28 +0000

I’m working on a concept art gallery for app icons: https://001.graphics

I think app icons are an underrated artistic format, but they’ve only been used for product logos. I made 001 to explore the idea of turning them into an open-ended creative canvas. There are 99 “exhibit spaces” in the gallery, and artists can claim an exhibit to install art within. Visitors purchase limited-edition copies of pieces to display as the app’s icon, the art’s native format.

It’s a real-money marketplace too - the app makes money by taking commission of sales (Not crypto). I like economic simulation games and I think the constraints here could be interesting.

I’m currently looking for artists to exhibit in the gallery, if anyone is interested, or knows someone who may be, please let me know!

New comment by bze12 in "The RAG Obituary: Killed by agents, buried by context windows"

bze12 — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:08:57 +0000

This post was definitely written by an llm.

New comment by bze12 in "PayPal to support Ethereum and Bitcoin"

bze12 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:45:50 +0000

Nonprofits are major targets of card testing fraud, I wonder if that is related

New comment by bze12 in "Christie's Deletes Digital Art Department"

bze12 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 22:50:52 +0000

They’re folding the nft department into contemporary art. But I wouldn’t say the first interpretation is invalid either.

New comment by bze12 in "Type-safe and user-friendly error handling in Swift 6"

bze12 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 05:23:35 +0000

Oh I see, the original article didn’t use this syntax.

New comment by bze12 in "Purposeful animations"

bze12 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 05:18:34 +0000

iOS default animation speed is 350 ms, at least for SwiftUI. This has always felt a bit too slow. And recent system animation changes felt gratuitous to me (opening the action bar on iMessage for example).

OTOH this article is basically downstream of Apple’s interface design philosophy.

New comment by bze12 in "Type-safe and user-friendly error handling in Swift 6"

bze12 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 07:09:08 +0000

Why do we still have to write `catch let error as SystemError`? Why can't the error be inferred to have the type thrown by the function? I've always found swift's error handling syntax to be awkward

New comment by bze12 in "Shamelessness as a strategy (2019)"

bze12 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:36:39 +0000

This video gives a good overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xEi8qg266g

New comment by bze12 in "Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast"

bze12 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 17:08:34 +0000

Nice! I was already considering using reducto api. Will give this a try

New comment by bze12 in "Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds"

bze12 — Thu, 01 May 2025 00:43:50 +0000

Their entire setup was egregious.

They charge 27% for purchases made using external payment processors. Including Stripe fees that's net-zero (not even accounting for any chargeback risks). They severely limit how you can display the external purchase link too, and display an obnoxious warning screen when you tap it.

I would be surprised if a single developer adopted it.

https://developer.apple.com/support/storekit-external-entitl...

New comment by bze12 in "Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation"

bze12 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:12:41 +0000

Do you use firebase?

New comment by bze12 in "FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices"

bze12 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 04:55:10 +0000

I’ve found that apps like uber, coinbase, robinhood etc that offer subscriptions can opt you in somewhat unexpectedly because most people are accustomed to an IAP confirmation screen. They can bypass this due to the nature of their subscription, so one too many “continue” taps and bam you’re subscribed. They don’t display pricing so prominently either.

Happened to me with coinbase, I accidentally subscribed and got charged for 3 months. Luckily they were able to refund me since I didn’t actually use the service.

New comment by bze12 in "Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools"

bze12 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 04:06:38 +0000

I could imagine a hybrid where declarative statements drive the high-level, and lower-level details branch off and are hashed out imperatively (in chat). Maybe those detail decisions then revise the declarative statements.

The source of truth would still be the code though, otherwise the declarative statements would get so verbose that they wouldn't be any more useful than writing the code itself.

New comment by bze12 in "Firebase bill is usually $50, but I was surprised to see a $70k bill in one day"

bze12 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 01:34:25 +0000

How do you create your LLCs?