Hacker News: erikbye

New comment by erikbye in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

erikbye — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:07:56 +0000

Comments from your "preferred commenter" are like songs from your favorite band, sometimes they disappoint you.

New comment by erikbye in "I’m joining OpenAI"

erikbye — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:48:29 +0000

Right. Shopify apps, too, is a gold mine.

New comment by erikbye in "I’m joining OpenAI"

erikbye — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:33:07 +0000

It's funny to me how still so many don't realize you don't get hired for the best positions for being a 10x programmer who excels at hackerrank, you get hired for your proven ability to deliver useful products. Creativity, drive, vision, whatever. Code is a means to an end. If you're the type of programmer who thinks of yourself as just a programmer, and take pride in your secure code, ability to optimize functions and algorithms, you're exactly the kind of programmer AI will replace.

Quality of code has never had anything to do with which products are successful. I bet both youtube and facebook's codebase is a tangled mess.

New comment by erikbye in "Netflix Animation Studios Joins the Blender Development Fund as Corporate Patron"

erikbye — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 21:41:07 +0000

Compared to Microsoft Office suite, Libre suite is definitely not slow.

New comment by erikbye in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

erikbye — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:07:41 +0000

Davinci Resolve for video editing. It's what I'd use on Windows, as well.

Lightroom vs Gimp does not make sense, should be Gimp vs Photoshop if anything.

For photos you can use digikam + darktable/rawtherapee.

New comment by erikbye in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

erikbye — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:06:15 +0000

Which two specific functions?

New comment by erikbye in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

erikbye — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:59:50 +0000

Compared to which software? Ableton? Reaper? Did you use RT kernel? JACK or ALSA? Pipewire?

DE will also affect performance.

New comment by erikbye in "Claude Code CLI was broken"

erikbye — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 09:21:43 +0000

I read or heard somewhere at least 80% of CC is written by CC and Aider (before CC was mature enough)

New comment by erikbye in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

erikbye — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:03:36 +0000

C posts still make the front page here and there

New comment by erikbye in "Cloudflare was down"

erikbye — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:04:00 +0000

Cloudflare uptime has worsened a lot lately, AI coding has increased exponentially, hmm

New comment by erikbye in "Cloudflare was down"

erikbye — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:01:37 +0000

This is getting embarrassing.

New comment by erikbye in "Claude outage"

erikbye — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:13:42 +0000

* Sublimating...

New comment by erikbye in "Claude outage"

erikbye — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:13:18 +0000

Point me your repo, I want to see if AI can improve it.

New comment by erikbye in "Claude outage"

erikbye — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:12:11 +0000

It's a reminder to not rely on a single service.

Logic not strong in this thread.

New comment by erikbye in "Claude outage"

erikbye — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:05:28 +0000

Doubtful all services are ever down simultaneously, either way:

What do devs do when Github or Gitlab is down?

AWS? GCP? Azure?

Or whatever Atlassian product they're using.

Plus, most devs do a bit more than just produce lines of code.

New comment by erikbye in "How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me"

erikbye — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 09:31:07 +0000

The title here is beginner developer, but the article states non-developer.

Nevertheless, dev docs are usually written for reasonably experienced developers, but new to specific framework/library.

These docs would be too long-winded if they were to account for non-devs/complete beginners.

Please, don't cater to that audience in your docs.

New comment by erikbye in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

erikbye — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 02:46:59 +0000

Switched to Vivaldi long time ago. For reasons like this, ToS, Mozilla changing their mission, etc.

Vivaldi respects your privacy, supports Chrome extensions, and all the customizations you'd ever need.

New comment by erikbye in "Half-Life"

erikbye — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:30:57 +0000

Hah, that reminds me how I started leakfree.org, where Black Mesa got started. That was a long time ago.

New comment by erikbye in "What is Toybox?"

erikbye — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 10:55:00 +0000

The explanation is in the first sentence. How much clearer could he be?

New comment by erikbye in "The Guide to Git I Never Had"

erikbye — Sat, 11 May 2024 06:17:42 +0000

What's the other version control you use?