Hacker News: dylanz

New comment by dylanz in "Rubish: A Unix shell written in pure Ruby"

dylanz — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:07:36 +0000

I've used bash for 20+ years. I've tried so many other shells but always go back to bash. Thanks Brian!

New comment by dylanz in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

dylanz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:45:13 +0000

Hah! I was too. I was at a bar with Chris trying to convince him to base the company off of hg instead of git but they already had the domain name and had already started building it.

New comment by dylanz in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

dylanz — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:43:44 +0000

13274 here!

New comment by dylanz in "“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”"

dylanz — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:34:54 +0000

Does it work on cryptography? Can it find out the methods behind the fourth Kryptos problem?

New comment by dylanz in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

dylanz — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 23:48:04 +0000

> Claude basically disregards your instructions (CLAUDE.md) entirely

Does anyone know of a way to fix this? Claude constantly disregards my CLAUDE.md. I put a decent amount of time into it and it's pretty much worthless without explicitly telling it to reference it before each prompt.

New comment by dylanz in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

dylanz — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 22:45:48 +0000

Climbing easy routes in a gym is pretty low impact. It’s only when you start to move into really hard crimps or slopers where you’ll hurt yourself. I was a climber bum for years and have climbed crazy stuff around the world and never hurt myself to where I couldn’t type. A lot of bloody tape, but still able to type.

New comment by dylanz in "Show HN: I built a synthesizer based on 3D physics"

dylanz — Fri, 02 May 2025 23:00:54 +0000

This is insane. I've used tons of virtual synths in my life but this is by far the coolest I've ever seen. Mick's video was amazing!

New comment by dylanz in "GSA Eliminates 18F"

dylanz — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:21:22 +0000

This sucks for accessibility.

New comment by dylanz in "Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam"

dylanz — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 22:58:41 +0000

I haven't played your game but I've watched a ton of Real Civil Engineer's videos on it. It looks like a blast and I love watching his videos. How did you get into game development? Congratulations on the success!

New comment by dylanz in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

dylanz — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:24:48 +0000

Great points! I agree with everything you said here with exception to the point about it not being a monetary solution. I've built an "extremely" janky coop for almost no cost in the past. At one point I got absolutely sick of eggs because there were so many than I ended up trading neighbors for other goods. The whole thing ended up making/saving me a ton of money in the end. Let me reiterate how unsafe this coop was however... it was as spacious as it was dangerous (very).

New comment by dylanz in "Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus"

dylanz — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 02:34:34 +0000

I’ve been listening to SomaFM since 2000! Legendary station.

New comment by dylanz in "Show HN: An homage to Tom Dowdy's 1991 screensaver, "Kaos""

dylanz — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 23:34:56 +0000

/me reinstalls electric sheep

New comment by dylanz in "Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video]"

dylanz — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:16:08 +0000

Agree completely. I loved Tears and didn’t once think it looked bad in any way. It was a very clever game and made me feel like a kid again. That’s what I’m looking for in a Nintendo game. I’ll jump on my PS5 if I want to be wowed graphically.

New comment by dylanz in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

dylanz — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 16:10:56 +0000

Pick up a phone and call a lawyer. If any lawyers have already hit you up about this, talk to them.

New comment by dylanz in "Once You Try a Four-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back"

dylanz — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 18:57:18 +0000

Once You Try a Three-Day Workweek, It's Hard to Go Back

New comment by dylanz in "GitHub was down"

dylanz — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 23:33:02 +0000

Who's the Bozo Doofus maintainer? https://yhbt.net/unicorn/LATEST. I love that we can still see Unicorn in action. I rarely had problems with it back in the day.

New comment by dylanz in "IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired"

dylanz — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:50:03 +0000

Private equity playbook

New comment by dylanz in "In 2024, please switch to Firefox"

dylanz — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 16:30:31 +0000

I unfortunately switched back to Chrome last week after having used Firefox for years due to not being able to use sites I frequent. I constantly ran into issues with Heroku, GCP (go figure), and a few financial sites I'd log into regularly.

New comment by dylanz in "Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp"

dylanz — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:38:17 +0000

I remember hacking on the same Ruby projects as you, then running into you the same way in the Erlang world. Man, that was almost 15 years ago! You’ve built some awesome stuff along the way… congrats, and keep hackin’!!

New comment by dylanz in "MGM is down, cybersecurity attack ongoing"

dylanz — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:26:08 +0000

I live in Vegas and it also sucks for all the local MGM employees that are getting called in to have to deal it. That said, I hope things get figured out and your trip goes well!