Hacker News: daredoes

New comment by daredoes in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

daredoes — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:41:46 +0000

Pokemon Go was pitched as Pokemon on your phone with AR to integrate into day to day life. There's no reason to expect anything but the Pokemon games I've played, now natively on my phone with AR integration.

What came out was a clone of Ingress with a skin and a shop. It lacked the full set of Pokemon, which all the assets for already exist. It lacked having a six-Pokemon team. It lacked trading, a core feature of Pokemon in every generation of games. Gyms weren't even gyms, they were some sort of checkpoint XP farm thing.

If it had been pitched as what it was, I may have enjoyed it more. Instead, I found myself vastly disappointed with what I was able to achieve playing it compared to Pokemon on my Nintendo DS or some other handheld console.

I don't think this was a politics-based decision. I feel misled and disillusioned.

New comment by daredoes in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

daredoes — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:40:49 +0000

It would seem to me that purchasing a piece of software as an AI company is just an outright admission that they could not generate an equivalent piece of software for a better price?

If it was cheaper to use their internal AI to create these tools, they would.

New comment by daredoes in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

daredoes — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:26:15 +0000

What's the long-term or even short-term strategy to make money?

It's not like $60m in funding was given as charity.

New comment by daredoes in "Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed"

daredoes — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:39:12 +0000

Love [this take](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866#issue...)

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> Just my own observation that the same pattern has occurred at least 3 times now:

> release a model; overhype it; provide max compute; sell it as the new baseline

> this attracts a new wave of users to show exponential growth & bring in the next round of VC funding (they only care about MAU going up, couldn’t care less about existing paying users)

> slowly degrade the model and reduce inference

> when users start complaining, initially ignore them entirely then start gaslighting and make official statements denying any degradation

> then frame it as a tiny minority of users experiencing issues then, when pressure grows, blame it on an “accidentally” misconfigured servers that “unintentionally” reduced quality (which coincidentally happened to save the company tonnes of $).

New comment by daredoes in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

daredoes — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:26:37 +0000

https://daredoes.work

New comment by daredoes in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

daredoes — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:13:05 +0000

Love the simple application

New comment by daredoes in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2026)"

daredoes — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:24:48 +0000

  Location: Los Angeles, CA
  Remote: Open to in-person, hybrid, and remote
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Typescript, React, Python, Retool. (Also worked in Ruby[BE], Kotlin[BE], React Native[FE])
  Résumé/CV: https://daredoes.work | Github: https://github.com/daredoes | LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daredoes
  Email: me  daredoes  work

Hello! I'm a full-stack engineer with a big love for the HomeLab & Home Assistant communities (I try to support some FOSS stuff when I can!)

If you've read this far, I humbly ask you to read my LinkedIn recommendations, and if you do follow up with an email, rick-roll me. I could use the laugh.

New comment by daredoes in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2026)"

daredoes — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:42:29 +0000

Sent an email a couple weeks ago! Just a bump to be on the lookout for it!

New comment by daredoes in "Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month"

daredoes — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:11:27 +0000

Was just looking at this the other day for personal reasons. Great work!

New comment by daredoes in "NoLongerEvil-Thermostat – Nest Generation 1 and 2 Firmware"

daredoes — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:08:26 +0000

Have this be an add-on supported by HomeAssistant and I'm in

New comment by daredoes in "Show HN: Tommy – Turn ESP32 devices into through-wall motion sensors"

daredoes — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:47:04 +0000

This is awesome! I'll be trying this soon and joining the Discord after work!

New comment by daredoes in "Ask HN: What's with the repeated job posts on "Who's hiring"?"

daredoes — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 04:16:49 +0000

I was hired by this guy for my first job in Software Engineering after applying via Hacker News in 2018. True story!

New comment by daredoes in "Show HN: Beatsync – perfect audio sync across multiple devices"

daredoes — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:20:30 +0000

Have you seen snapcast? That's currently my go-to audio sync solution for running whole house audio. Always open to alternatives, but so far nothing beats the performance and accessibility

New comment by daredoes in "Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?"

daredoes — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:30:11 +0000

Check out Twinkly. Little pricey, but if you can grab them on sale they're super cool.

New comment by daredoes in "Ask HN: What are the best programmable holiday lights?"

daredoes — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:29:45 +0000

The ESP8266 is no longer recommended for WLED due to its lack of resources

New comment by daredoes in "Biological Miracle – Wood Frog"

daredoes — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 21:05:52 +0000

this was really helpful! thanks!

New comment by daredoes in "Ask HN: What is happening in tech unrelated to AI?"

daredoes — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 00:40:34 +0000

Open Source Home Automation is on the rise. Check out Home Assistant

New comment by daredoes in "Meta has run hundreds of ads for cocaine, opioids and other drugs"

daredoes — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 22:40:48 +0000

hi Jon! We've worked together before! Fun to see you randomly on the internet. Love the name "Jon-line"

New comment by daredoes in "Ask HN: Where to sell vintage computers?"

daredoes — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 15:23:27 +0000

Check out the Bloop Museum. They'd be happy to have donations or volunteer help. https://www.facebook.com/bloopmuseum/

New comment by daredoes in "Thread: Tech we can’t use or teach?"

daredoes — Sat, 11 May 2024 07:25:25 +0000

I wouldn't mind if developing for it as a hobbyist was so difficult if it had some quality products and user interfaces.