Hacker News: don_searchcraft

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important"

don_searchcraft — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:37:02 +0000

I love Tattered Cover but to be fair the folks that bought it in 2020 ran it into the ground. It was barely limping along, you'd go in and because of their debt issues they weren't stocking the shelves so you'd be pressed to find what you were there for.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Humans welcome (bots must wear name tags)"

don_searchcraft — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:32:43 +0000

Good policy IMO. There have been a flood of AI written posts on Reddit

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Fyrox Game Engine 1.0.0"

don_searchcraft — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:31:18 +0000

I have a few game ideas that I've been sitting on, excited to try out Fyrox.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Web Components: The Framework-Free Renaissance"

don_searchcraft — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:50:26 +0000

Agree. web components are not a 1 to 1 replacement for a component based framework. There was a lot of promise but the implementation is lacking.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Show HN: Context Lens: Devtools for your agent context"

don_searchcraft — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:46:09 +0000

Pretty interesting to see how widely the token use differs across the models for the same task.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Google Antigravity"

don_searchcraft — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:29:29 +0000

If you work in a team there are some pretty good remote collaboration tooling built into Zed.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript"

don_searchcraft — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:26:08 +0000

These TC39 proposals take way too long to get approved and implemented.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Synology reverses policy banning third-party HDDs"

don_searchcraft — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:21:56 +0000

Glad they reversed but they could have saved themselves those losses if they had an understanding of what their customers wanted. Anyone putting together a NAS will want full control over the drive selection.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Tcl-Lang Showcase"

don_searchcraft — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 16:20:19 +0000

I used Tcl a lot early in my career, building sites for the web using Vignette StoryServer as well as AOLServer. It powered a lot of the early 2000s web.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Show HN: Traceroute Visualizer"

don_searchcraft — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 18:41:32 +0000

This is pretty sweet, nice job. i dig the mapping visualization.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "The GitHub website is slow on Safari"

don_searchcraft — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 16:50:40 +0000

The diff view on large PRs is pretty much unusable on all browsers.

Elasticsearch Is Bloated

don_searchcraft — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:08:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMt15zOaQpY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45040788

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine"

don_searchcraft — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:34:24 +0000

Its certainly beautiful to look at but the search capability itself is not very good.

Wasp: The full-stack application framework for the web [video]

don_searchcraft — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:53:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cptAQw3QbYo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45013863

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by don_searchcraft in "VHS-C: When a lazy idea stumbles towards perfection [video]"

don_searchcraft — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:12:53 +0000

I wish I never got rid of my VCR and tapes.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Introduction to AT Protocol"

don_searchcraft — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 20:03:01 +0000

Would love for more platforms to embrace the AT protocol.

New comment by don_searchcraft in "Search all text in New York City"

don_searchcraft — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 19:59:47 +0000

There are definitely some mistakes with the OCR, seeing quite a few instances of OPEN being mistranslated as OBEY

New comment by don_searchcraft in "We rewrote the Ghostty GTK application"

don_searchcraft — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:32:32 +0000

I love 99% of what Ghostty brings to the table as a terminal replacement but the copy / paste issues with it are incredibly frustrating and I run into them almost daily.

Improving Trust in AI Systems

don_searchcraft — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:51:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.searchcraft.io/posts/improving-trust-in-ai-systems

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44510055

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by don_searchcraft in "The world could run on older hardware if software optimization was a priority"

don_searchcraft — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:04:51 +0000

100% agree with Carmack. There was a craft in writing software that I feel has been lost with access to inexpensive memory and compute. Programmers can be inefficient because they have all that extra headroom to do so which just contributes to the cycle of needing better hardware.