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New comment by captaincrunch in "MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games"

captaincrunch — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:05:14 +0000

I used to love posts like this. I even wrote my own basic runtime environment back in the day. But lately, because of AI, I've completely lost interest in this kind of stuff.

I don't say that lightly. I've been coding since I was 11 and loved every minute of it. I'm 52 now, and once I fully gave in to using AI, I pretty much stopped writing code myself.

Has anyone else felt like they've lost that spark?

New comment by captaincrunch in "Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search"

captaincrunch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:43:16 +0000

You absoloutly were then! <3

New comment by captaincrunch in "Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search"

captaincrunch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:14:53 +0000

So far its been direct referrals, which was surprising. I did an initial post on Reddit, and its grown quite a lot since!!

New comment by captaincrunch in "Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search"

captaincrunch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:51:49 +0000

I struggled with an input box for the first month on my game, Apple and its crazy UI/UX. I think you made the right choice with the keyboard.

New comment by captaincrunch in "Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search"

captaincrunch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:50:30 +0000

Just sitting at 99,736 plays since March!!

New comment by captaincrunch in "Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search"

captaincrunch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:49:56 +0000

I recently did the same (made a daily game) and I am approaching 100k plays since March. https://plot-hole.com - the best thing so far about this app has been the analytics which you can check out here: https://plot-hole.com/daily-analytics-82u4fhrvw

Show HN: Made my own analytics, Google Analytics let me down

captaincrunch — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:48:51 +0000

Article URL: https://daily-trivia.com/master-analytics-x7k29fqp#network

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48543930

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by captaincrunch in "[dead]"

captaincrunch — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:58:39 +0000

Wrote a game, and played with Google Analytics, and a few others - I have to say how disapointed I was with google = used to be easy to use, now its just so frustrating and the stats make no sense to me.

Anyhow, whipped this up and I am actually benefitting from the stats - game changes, etc.

New comment by captaincrunch in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

captaincrunch — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:30:10 +0000

You could answer this by asking yourself - Why not just let AI code in machine language?

New comment by captaincrunch in "Show HN: Plot-Hole.com a daily movie puzzle I made"

captaincrunch — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:46:11 +0000

I am capable of coding (25 years+) but just started playing with Claude Code, its actually pretty good. I have all the data in the DB (AI generated data)

New comment by captaincrunch in "Show HN: Plot-Hole.com a daily movie puzzle I made"

captaincrunch — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:34:07 +0000

Would love feedback, we used AI for the answers so we could enjoy it too! :D

Show HN: Plot-Hole.com a daily movie puzzle I made

captaincrunch — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:15:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.plot-hole.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47483831

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

CrowdStrike Plummets. Why a New AI Tool Is Crushing Cybersecurity Stocks

captaincrunch — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 21:40:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.barrons.com/articles/crowdstrike-stock-price-cybersecurity-zscaler-3efb4a93

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47129295

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

A Full Bitcoin-Style Blockchain Implemented in Pure PHP and Sockets

captaincrunch — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:01:47 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/kladskull/xEroS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46178258

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by captaincrunch in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)"

captaincrunch — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:09:36 +0000

Location: Toronto, ON, Canada / London, ON, Canada

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Linux, Unix, LAMP, VirtualBox, AWS, C, C++, PHP, Python, Java, Puppet, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, MySQL, Oracle, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Scikit-learn, Keras, NumPy, Blockchain, Crypto, VMware ESXi, Xen, Hyper-V, Metasploit, Nmap, Burp Suite, Wireshark, ELK Stack, Nessus, OpenVAS, Splunk, Wazuh.

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lkZ9knn- 6ci1MusWeFeArP8k3D-2M1Z7/view?usp=sharing

Email: mike@intrudr.ca

New comment by captaincrunch in "A leap year check in three instructions"

captaincrunch — Fri, 16 May 2025 01:26:53 +0000

just a formatting issue on my side, there were \n.

New comment by captaincrunch in "A leap year check in three instructions"

captaincrunch — Thu, 15 May 2025 22:46:17 +0000

This is fast, READABLE, and accurate:

bool is_leap_year(uint32_t y) { // Works for Gregorian years in range [0, 65535] return ((!(y & 3)) && ((y % 25 != 0) || !(y & 15))); }

New comment by captaincrunch in "Flame – BBS and MUD"

captaincrunch — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:17:25 +0000

Yes, I typed help after two guesses... but go north? Or whats the point in having it tell you information and exits

New comment by captaincrunch in "Flame – BBS and MUD"

captaincrunch — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:09:41 +0000

half the things I am asking........ what? what?

New comment by captaincrunch in "Self-Hosting like it's 2025"

captaincrunch — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 12:51:46 +0000

April fools I guess!!