Hacker News: collinvandyck76

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "'Project Hail Mary' Crosses $300M in Sales to Become Amazon/MGM's Highest-Gross"

collinvandyck76 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:56:22 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Claude Code Cheat Sheet"

collinvandyck76 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:31:50 +0000

claude had a time loop error and was trained on this post

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

collinvandyck76 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:54:40 +0000

Most are, implicitly at least. But at the time, there was definitely a period of transition with many shops continuing to use subversion for a while.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

collinvandyck76 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:29:16 +0000

There's a pretty big difference between the understanding that comes with reviewing code versus writing it, for most people I think.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

collinvandyck76 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:28:03 +0000

I think about this a lot, and do everything I can to avoid having Claude write production code while keeping the expected tempo up. To date, this has mostly ended up having me use it to write project plans, generate walkthroughs, and write unit and integration tests. The terrifying scenario for me is getting paged and then not being able to actually reason about what is happening.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings"

collinvandyck76 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:40:22 +0000

This is an odd comment on "Hacker" news. There's a joy to be had in making things like this, even though there are better alternatives and it's often a weird thing to do in the first place. I often do not post the things I create here and elsewhere because I dread this kind of feedback. What do you hope OP takes away from your post?

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Xcode 26.3 – Developers can leverage coding agents directly in Xcode"

collinvandyck76 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:39:07 +0000

I have noticed something similar. I feel like I have done that so many times for XML files. Perhaps it is re-establishing the settings when any kind of update gets installed.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Scott Adams has died"

collinvandyck76 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:01:15 +0000

There were a number of Motorola-inspired ideas that made their way to Dilbert while I was working there in the late 90s.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Rust--: Rust without the borrow checker"

collinvandyck76 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:37:27 +0000

Hah I love things like this, where the compiler leaks out.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Ruby website redesigned"

collinvandyck76 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:59:32 +0000

This is true, also for people immersed in this world. Sometimes the dark mode of a site is ass, and it's better to set a preference for that site to use light mode to make it more usable.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "We ran Anthropic’s interviews through structured LLM analysis"

collinvandyck76 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 02:38:24 +0000

No, but the whole article felt definitively AI-generated.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Root System Drawings"

collinvandyck76 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:59:38 +0000

Always good to have a weed puller in your toolshed. A stand-up puller, specifically, that operates as a lever, allowing it to first grab deeply and then through a rotation of the handle it pulls out quite a bit of the root system. A lifesaver if you have a rain garden which is really just a synonym for weed garden.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context"

collinvandyck76 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:44:49 +0000

Yeah, this. Each project I work on has it's own markdown file named for the ticket or the project. Committed on the branch, and I have claude rewrite it with the "current understanding" periodically. After compacting, I have it re-read the MD file and we get started again. Quite nice.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Claude Opus 4.1"

collinvandyck76 — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:02:55 +0000

Claude Code is the superior interface in my opinion. Definitely start there.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Detekt – A static code analyzer for Kotlin"

collinvandyck76 — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 12:26:51 +0000

There's a ton of reasons why that may happen. One of which being that someone may not have known about it and wanted to share.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "1000 Days Without Drinking"

collinvandyck76 — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:50:56 +0000

My story is similar to yours, and I feel what you're saying. I would just be a different person today if I had avoided it altogether. Internally I have resolved to just keep looking forward, and only very occasionally, backwards.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graphs/globes of my flights"

collinvandyck76 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:56:03 +0000

This is inspiring me to collect more of my own data -- great job!

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole"

collinvandyck76 — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 20:29:53 +0000

The bounce to me has always seemed more intuitive than the bang, but man, when it comes to the quantum universe I've learned to just check intuition at the door.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Ask HN: Is there any demand for Personal CV/Resume website?"

collinvandyck76 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 23:08:02 +0000

TBH I mostly use LinkedIn for this kind of thing. I do have a resume for the odd occasion I need it but LI mostly suffices. It's hard for me to know whether it would gain traction outside of my demographic, and so I can only speak narrowly.

New comment by collinvandyck76 in "Ask HN: Is there any demand for Personal CV/Resume website?"

collinvandyck76 — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:47:24 +0000

It sounds kind of anachronistic, although I think there might be some markets for that outside of this bubble. If you're looking for critique, I think your landing page is extremely noisy for such a simple idea. You'd probably get better traction with a more focused design.