Hacker News: debone

New comment by debone in "AI is making junior devs useless"

debone — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:04:19 +0000

My experience is that 100% of AI devs are reinventing the wheel, most of the time for no better reason than "I can do it" or "not invented here"

Is indie game dev even viable as a business in 2025?

debone — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:47:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2025/11/08/is-indie-game-dev-even-viable-as-a-business-in-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45940493

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Streetlight Effect

debone — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:24:43 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45578685

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by debone in "Doing Rails Wrong"

debone — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:13:07 +0000

Had similar experience with Rust. It's a constant stream of invalidation of your problems "you're holding it wrong".

New comment by debone in "Valley of Despair"

debone — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 07:29:33 +0000

Thanks for this. It reminded myself I am on this exact place with my current game. I thought it'd would go away with more projects done, but I feel like it's getting worse at every iteration.

R.U.B.E: Really Useful Box2D Editor

debone — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 16:33:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.iforce2d.net/rube/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44249301

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Quartz 4: static site generator for digital gardens

debone — Sun, 25 May 2025 13:25:40 +0000

Article URL: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44087644

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by debone in "The Second Half"

debone — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 18:41:29 +0000

Not really true.

You can have a book where in the last chapter you have a phrase "She was not his kid."

Knowing nothing else, you can only infer the self-contained details. But in the book context this could be the phrase which turns everything upside down, and it could refer to a lot of context.

Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life

debone — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:52:14 +0000

Article URL: https://johnnydecimal.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43128093

Points: 578

# Comments: 291

Procedural Hydrology: Dynamic lake and river simulation (2020)

debone — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:44:09 +0000

Article URL: https://nickmcd.me/2020/04/15/procedural-hydrology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42972420

Points: 31

# Comments: 4

New comment by debone in "Simulating water over terrain"

debone — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:41:18 +0000

No, seriously, do check https://nickmcd.me Incredible!

LLMs as a Tool for Thought

debone — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:48:35 +0000

Article URL: https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/llms-as-a-tool-for-thought

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206749

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by debone in "An End, and a Beginning"

debone — Tue, 29 Aug 2023 16:38:30 +0000

It sounds like the Gumroad story.

On the other hand, despite amazed by their UX thinking, I tried to use Muse and the lack of structured content (tasks, lists, connections) was a deal-breaker.

Vercel: Our Official Hosting Partner

debone — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:11:35 +0000

Article URL: https://astro.build/blog/vercel-official-hosting-partner/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37295358

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Pretty TypeScript Errors – Make TypeScript Errors Human-Readable in VSCode

debone — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:38:07 +0000

Article URL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yoavbls.pretty-ts-errors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35611452

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by debone in "Ask HN: Is TypeScript worth it?"

debone — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 10:53:08 +0000

I'm wondering what do you mean by obvious things, do you have any example? TypeScript can infer types[0] even through context, and it's even a good practice to let TypeScript do that for you.

[0]: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/type-inference....

New comment by debone in "NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation"

debone — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 09:42:42 +0000

If you look the picture in the Webb's original rotation, there are 4 shining stars (?) on the middle-right of the picture. Now, if you follow down with your eyes, there's a structure that's eerily similar to the Pillars :)

New comment by debone in "NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation"

debone — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:57:01 +0000

Even more interesting when you think about the plethora of events that must be happening there in this interval of time at human scale. The Sun alone, 8 light minutes away, in seconds is consuming hydrogen and generating energy at amounts that we as humanity could use for thousands and thousands of years.

New comment by debone in "NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation"

debone — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 20:41:41 +0000

No, I was thinking in terms that the pillars are glowing and illuminating themselves, which would be really coincidence to have this luminescence only on areas that would look like a shadow or not.

It turns out that for my original question, there is actually something illuminating it from the top-right. As massive as the pillars are, they are part of a yet bigger structure [0] and the brightness generated is allowing us to see it with better depth. It's really incomprehensible to grasp how large things can get.

[0]: (mobile data warning 52mb pic) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Eagle_Ne...

New comment by debone in "NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation"

debone — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:59:56 +0000

Ah, so radiation is being emitted and blocked in a way that coincides to the way we interpret 3d objects, is that right? Because if it would be uniform, the bright orange colors would be uniformly distributed?