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New comment by coolcoder613 in "Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?"

coolcoder613 — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:12:15 +0000

You can also use an indented (code) block

    - Remove AI from your editor completely.
    - Start a project which is easy and fun for you, something you did when first learning to code. Text-based adventure game, or some silly little app that is just for fun.
    - Or take a new language or some aspect of coding, that you have only brushed over, but want to learn better, and learn it properly by doing coding exercises or some silly project that teaches you the syntax etc.
    - Most importantly relearn how fun coding is

New comment by coolcoder613 in "Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?"

coolcoder613 — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:15:35 +0000

For fun, for personal projects.

New comment by coolcoder613 in "Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?"

coolcoder613 — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:02:53 +0000

How so?

New comment by coolcoder613 in "Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?"

coolcoder613 — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:03:55 +0000

Not exactly, that's more due to the projects. Let's say I want a music player with scrolling lyrics, I have a greater desire to have and use that music player than I do to build it. If there was a music player that already did exactly what I wanted I would use that. I think that might be a good way to put it: What I may be looking for is a project that I would build even if it already existed.

New comment by coolcoder613 in "Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?"

coolcoder613 — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:47:42 +0000

  1. I don't have AI in my editor in the first place, mostly use web chat with a bit of gemini CLI
  2. Good ideas; worth considering
  3. I'll pass
  4. That is my goal

I think the last time I really tried to code by hand was a temporal clock. I thought it would be simple but I bit off more than I could chew math-wise. The last time I was sucessful (as far as I can remember) was a small PR to a game mod manager.

New comment by coolcoder613 in "Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?"

coolcoder613 — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:31:13 +0000

The conflict between wanting the result versus wanting to program. The result tends to win out. Instant gratification, in short. If I want something enough to not lose interest when programming it myself, I usually want it enough to forego programming it myself in favour of having it earlier.

Ask HN: How to get back into programming without AI?

coolcoder613 — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:18:00 +0000

It's been a long time since I've written code without AI, and I miss it. How can I get back into it without ending up reaching for AI?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263955

Points: 9

# Comments: 21

New comment by coolcoder613 in "New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire"

coolcoder613 — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:32:26 +0000

https://archive.md/8jQ6G

New comment by coolcoder613 in "Leviathan (1651)"

coolcoder613 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:52:55 +0000

It is easier to see in other fonts, but yes, I am aware of that. However as far as I am aware, it was never used to join an e and t that were not the latin et.

New comment by coolcoder613 in "Leviathan (1651)"

coolcoder613 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:16:06 +0000

&c as an abbreviation for etc was very common historically. For example, look at the OP. It would not normally be used for an et that is not the latin et (and), as in et cetera. Its use for an 'and' in latin carried over to english, for some reason, and that usage has stayed with us.

New comment by coolcoder613 in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

coolcoder613 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 23:27:53 +0000

Same here, pretty much. I was able to get to 1200 without much difficulty but 1200 took a lot of effort to decipher.

Austrian cow shows first case of flexible, multi-purpose tool use in cattle

coolcoder613 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:26:53 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-01-austrian-cow-case-flexible-multi.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46689767

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by coolcoder613 in "The Tulip Creative Computer"

coolcoder613 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:38:29 +0000

As well as micropython, there is also a port of ulisp. http://www.ulisp.com/show?4JAO

New comment by coolcoder613 in "The Tulip Creative Computer"

coolcoder613 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:48:10 +0000

I have used the T-Deck with tulipcc for coding and writing, although these days I mostly use it as a calculator. I wrote a GUI text editor for it, which you can find here:

https://github.com/coolcoder613eb/notepad

I haven't done too much coding with it, but I have on occasion fixed bugs in the text editor on the T-Deck itself.

New comment by coolcoder613 in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

coolcoder613 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 23:07:25 +0000

Not celtic, germanic, i.e. Anglo-Saxon derived words.

New comment by coolcoder613 in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

coolcoder613 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:03:01 +0000

I believe the username is from the AI simulation of HN in 10 years.

New comment by coolcoder613 in "In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)"

coolcoder613 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:31:47 +0000

Indeed. The influences are prominent, but it is BeOS modernised, not BeOS reimplemented.

It's hardware requirements are little, even overlapping with BeOS on the low end. I have personally run Haiku beta5 on a 666Mhz Pentium 3 with 256MB of RAM (normally, I run BeOS on that machine, with 512MB of RAM). I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here, besides a general call to give Haiku a try on that old thinkpad, in a VM[0], or anywhere else really.

[1] If you're using virtualbox don't give it more than 1 cpu, virtualbox has a bug which makes haiku slow with multiple CPUs.

New comment by coolcoder613 in "In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)"

coolcoder613 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 10:20:15 +0000

Well at this point the BeOS (binary) compatibility is incidental. It is it's own system, and daily drivable for a great number of people. (admittedly not for gamers, but there are working nvidia drivers (not public (yet))), Firefox and derivatives have been ported, as well as most of the big name foss apps (libreoffice, etc) have been ported.

New comment by coolcoder613 in "In the Beginning was the Command Line (1999)"

coolcoder613 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:33:21 +0000

Have you tried Haiku recently?

New comment by coolcoder613 in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

coolcoder613 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:01:42 +0000

Indeed, the only winning move is not to play.