Hacker News: dexwiz

New comment by dexwiz in "The Ü Programming Language"

dexwiz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:46:30 +0000

Bold claims with no examples. Anyone can make a markdown chart with some pros and cons. Description by comparison is weak.

New comment by dexwiz in "Remote work, not AI, has sidelined recent college graduates, research finds"

dexwiz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:28:29 +0000

Great, more RTO mandates.

New comment by dexwiz in "Ask HN: Why would people in town be upset about a datacenter being installed?"

dexwiz — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:39:48 +0000

Because these data centers put enormous pressure on local utilities, pay 0 dollars back into the local economy, and get tax breaks. Often they are facilitated by backroom deals with local politicians. This plays both into anxieties surrounding AI and general corruption.

New comment by dexwiz in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"

dexwiz — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:36:05 +0000

Files became an implementation detail.

New comment by dexwiz in "Why Most Senior Devs Plateau, and What to Do"

dexwiz — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:06:09 +0000

Because we value leadership over craftsmanship. Ever since people like Ford showed that it was not individual skills but optimized systems that make the biggest corporate machines with the most potential for profit, we have prioritized one over the other.

New comment by dexwiz in "I did everything but my app doesn't attract anyone"

dexwiz — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:58:55 +0000

Does it do anything novel? Looks the same as any other basic stock ticker app. Most of the popular ones are made by companies with massive marketing budgets.

New comment by dexwiz in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

dexwiz — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:36:48 +0000

We had a private network on campus circa 2010. Streaming was up and coming but not huge. Gnutella was great on the gigabit intranet. You could download entire HD movies in minutes where conventional torrents may be hours.

New comment by dexwiz in "Show HN: Faction Fiasco – single-player card battler, 100 unhinged characters"

dexwiz — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:41:02 +0000

I would rather see MS Paint art like Slay the Spire than ai slop art. I think you could have done ai art for a demo but it's so obviously ai, it immediately turned me off. And may turn others off too.

New comment by dexwiz in "Show HN: Faction Fiasco – single-player card battler, 100 unhinged characters"

dexwiz — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:11:19 +0000

Bleh AI card art. One of the best part of card games is the ability to showcase high quality illustrators.

New comment by dexwiz in "Most Developers Have Never Built Anything Real – The Numbers Are Embarrassing"

dexwiz — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:21:55 +0000

Hosting and public are different. This measure is like saying unless you are painting public murals you haven't made real art. The take is just so wrong it's hard to know where to start.

New comment by dexwiz in "Most Developers Have Never Built Anything Real – The Numbers Are Embarrassing"

dexwiz — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:05:45 +0000

I build stuff that people use every day (judging by the flood of tickets I'll get if I ship a bug), but my public github profile looks like a ghost account. 99% of what I build is proprietary, and is either in a private or self hosted repo.

I'm not sure scanning public GitHub is a great way to identify "do nothing" developers.

New comment by dexwiz in "Where the goblins came from"

dexwiz — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:06:16 +0000

Prompt engineering is mostly structured thought. Can you write a lab report? Can you describe the who, what, when, where, and why of a problem and its solution?

You can get it to work with one off commands or specific instructions, but I think that will be seen as hacks, red flags, prompt smells in the long term.

New comment by dexwiz in "Tell HN: Site Is Trash Now"

dexwiz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:47:06 +0000

Where ya headed?

New comment by dexwiz in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

dexwiz — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:57:55 +0000

Rules for thee but not for me.

New comment by dexwiz in "How to get better at guitar"

dexwiz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:07:54 +0000

Maybe? This seems to be more aimed at procrastination. Making map or a tool is still doing a thing, just not the thing.

New comment by dexwiz in "How to get better at guitar"

dexwiz — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:20:29 +0000

There should be a saying like "A tool is not the task" similar to "A map is not the land." As professional tool makers it can be easy to replace the task with a tool in theory, but that's not reality.

In a similar vein I think that's why there are so many devs making game engines instead of games.

New comment by dexwiz in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

dexwiz — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:36:02 +0000

Because many people run on policies and then just don't follow up. Trump ran on "no more wars" and then started a war. Most people have such a team mindset they will choose denial over admitted they were duped, and then do it all again.

New comment by dexwiz in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

dexwiz — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:20:25 +0000

Because our government is not run for the workers but the owners. Full stop.

New comment by dexwiz in "Do your own writing"

dexwiz — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:55:39 +0000

Sometimes people just need something else to tell them their ideas are valid. Validation is a core principle of therapeutic care. Procrastination is tightly linked to fear of a negative outcome. LLMs can help with both of these. They can validate ideas in the now which can help overcome some of that anxiety.

Unfortunately they can also validate some really bad ideas.

New comment by dexwiz in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

dexwiz — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:49:40 +0000

This assumes you wake up and are given liberties. There are much worse fates. Waking up and owing your life to the company forever is pretty awful.

Worse even is never truly waking up but instead being replicated and turned into the brain for a servitor. If you believe the Roko Worshippers, you might be woken up just to be tortured.