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New comment by czhu12 in "Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?"

czhu12 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:39:53 +0000

Why use niche languages if you don’t mind me asking?

New comment by czhu12 in "Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?"

czhu12 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 07:38:43 +0000

Yeah that’s why I put in “meaningful”, I’ve done one liners but these days I barely do that, it’s almost easier to ask the model to find the files

Ask HN: Anyone here still writing code for reasons other than fun or learning?

czhu12 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 03:33:53 +0000

I’m curious if anyone here still actually writes code, in any meaningful amount, because they actually still need to. Excluding reasons like fun / learning.

I loved coding in the past, but no matter what I do at this point, I can’t find a reason to anymore that’s actually necessary

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50322477

Points: 12

# Comments: 24

New comment by czhu12 in "OpenAI raises less than half of $30B target"

czhu12 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:20:59 +0000

From first principles I think youre right, but also Anthropic is making something like 80% margins.

New comment by czhu12 in "Amazon’s “digital pacifier” for toddlers"

czhu12 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 05:24:14 +0000

I'm not a parent, but don't parents give their kids tablets all the time? The number of toddlers I've seen walking around with tablets glued to their faces makes me uncomfortable, but they're actually just ipads or android tablets. This product seems to me like just another tablet, with a slightly different build for kids.

I'd guess any parent who is already planning on giving their kid a tablet would get this but any parent who is against it will not? I'm not sure this product in isolation increases the number of tablet viewing toddlers.

New comment by czhu12 in "We're working on a new RuneScape MMO"

czhu12 — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:52:22 +0000

Runescape was the first thing that got me into coding. Fell in love with the game and had a ton of admiration for the devs who could spend decades crafting the same game, to create such a wonderful playground for so many millions of people.

Stopped playing after a few years but still have many fond memories of the joy I had everyday after school logging onto that game.

New comment by czhu12 in "Sonnet 5.5"

czhu12 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:02:59 +0000

The other thing too is that I’m having a hard time reviewing these massive PRs that are being generated. So much so that I’m having it write me a book (also vibe coded) that I can read through to learn about all the stuff it did as part of the pr review https://ai-lessons.oncanine.run/

New comment by czhu12 in "Tells of a Slop UI"

czhu12 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:29:36 +0000

Yeah brutalist is exactly right, that is basically what I prompted for. I didn't realize a bunch of other people were doing this. Actually the only inspiration I had for this was watching the movie (Brutalist) a few years back.

New comment by czhu12 in "Tells of a Slop UI"

czhu12 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:28:37 +0000

You could be right, I haven't seen too many like this yet, but it did some out with this staggeringly fast. The style I've seen the most are the gradients + font changes mentioned in the article.

New comment by czhu12 in "Tells of a Slop UI"

czhu12 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:25:50 +0000

At least some of these are just for lack of caring. I vibe coded this landing page recently https://tui2web.com/ and fought off a lot of the defaults the LLM came up with after a few hours of iteration. Feel free to roast it, I'm not really attached, but I thought it did a reasonably good job.

New comment by czhu12 in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

czhu12 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 15:23:29 +0000

Just dropping by to say that you're doing gods work advocating for more housing. Its exhausting seeing amount of cynicism around how the status quo just can't be changed for this or that reason, but seeing the small, incremental, advocacy over decades pro housing groups put in is really inspiring. An incredible amount of progress has been made here

Show HN: Tui2web – use any TUI on the web

czhu12 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:22:08 +0000

I built this utility because there have been a ton of times I started a claude session and then wanted to go for a walk, or a coffee break, while thinking about whatever I was working on, and keep prompting the agent.

I used a hacky VPS + Termius setup while I was backpacking / nomading across Europe and Asia, which allowed me to be modestly productive, but connections kept dropping, and the transfer of files, context, etc from my laptop to VPS was annoying.

tui2web basically mirrors any terminal UI application (claude, opencode, omp, even bash or vim) to the web. I know claude and codex (?) has remote sessions, but I never managed to get it working and none of the other open source harnesses do, and they all require way too much setup on my phone when I already have a mobile browser I quite like.

All traffic runs through a relay I'm hosting and providing for free. I was using this for a few days myself before it became too sketchy to run this through public internet, so I added first class Tailscale support.

I think the security is definitely top of mind. Anything on public internet feels prey at this point, curious to hear if anyone has any feedback to make this more locked down.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49846613

Points: 7

# Comments: 2

New comment by czhu12 in "Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices"

czhu12 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 02:05:01 +0000

The economist did a piece in defense of private equity a few months ago. Basically boils down to more efficient resource allocation across an entire economy, deep pools of capital to rapidly transform businesses into things people want to buy from.

Gift link: https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2026/02/19/a-love-letter-...

New comment by czhu12 in "Minimal Phone 2"

czhu12 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:33:51 +0000

I find for these what happens is that the phone itself can’t actually install certain banking or security apps, and also our workplace restricts it.

Inevitably I have to carry two phones around Anyone find a solution around this?

New comment by czhu12 in "An empirical study of harness design for coding agents"

czhu12 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:53:21 +0000

I think they are referring to the file https://github.com/SWE-agent/mini-swe-agent/blob/main/src/mi...

190 lines with comments included so close enough

Which is the actual agent? Everything else is just glue code to connect to different LLM providers, etc

New comment by czhu12 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

czhu12 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 01:47:49 +0000

I've been slowly working on https://github.com/CanineHQ/canine for about 2 years now. Basically a self hosted, FOSS that turns a Kubernetes cluster into something as easy to use as Heroku. Its grown to about 2000 active developers using it host small things at https://canine.sh

It was a pain point from a start up I cofounded before where we needed Kubernetes flexibility but developers hated using it. I figured there was no reason why it had to be hard to use and thus Canine was born.

Lately been playing around with setting up remote dev containers on your own compute as well -- basically like github codespaces, except self hosted.

Built in Rails + Stimulus

New comment by czhu12 in ">10x More Efficient Pretraining"

czhu12 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:35:41 +0000

"Almost nobody is using fable 5" at anthropic apparently

https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-features/almost-nobody-is-u...

New comment by czhu12 in "Compute-efficient pretraining and scaling to trillion-parameter models"

czhu12 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:44:28 +0000

its already true today according to openrouter usage stats. https://openrouter.ai/rankings Most people just use cheaper open weight

New comment by czhu12 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

czhu12 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:12:14 +0000

I've been slowly working on https://github.com/CanineHQ/canine for about 2 years now. Basically a self hosted, FOSS that turns a Kubernetes cluster into something as easy to use as Heroku.

New comment by czhu12 in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

czhu12 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:33:42 +0000

One thing that recently clicked for me was making podcasts for my girlfriend / friends / parents on the subject, highlights of books I’ve read. It’s like a virtual book club.

Somehow even though this adds a gigantic amount of burden to reading, it taps into a “productivity” seeking part of my brain that can then create a sense of focus and accomplishment after each book.

Since then reading has been a lot easier and I can usually get to 1 hour per day. Still really underwhelming but it’s way more than I managed to accomplish through sheer force of will in the past