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flykespice — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:05:09 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48512420

Points: 6

# Comments: 5

New comment by flykespice in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

flykespice — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:32:12 +0000

> If a growing number of people have the sentiment that an engineer vibecoding an idea has less value than a human doing it then that is all that will matter in the end.

Because if you put them on balance that will be the truth.

New comment by flykespice in "FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL"

flykespice — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:28:04 +0000

I am facing that very dilemma. I lean more to the anti-AI side, I don't want to get my skills atrophied by relying on it, but I recognize its potential productivity boosts as tempting to use.

Brazilian Food-Delivery Giant iFood Targeted in Alleged 43.8M Data Leak

flykespice — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:14:53 +0000

Article URL: https://darkwebinformer.com/brazilian-food-delivery-giant-ifood-targeted-in-alleged-43-8m-record-customer-data-extortion/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315593

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by flykespice in "Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us"

flykespice — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:35:01 +0000

This isn't much impressive because can always import some package to do everything to you.

New comment by flykespice in "Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us"

flykespice — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:49:03 +0000

For reference, here is the video with the timestamp when he shorts the power supply with the paperclip: https://youtu.be/Wh2OCBZpzZ8?t=273

Instead of deleting the video and owning up to his mistake, he just deactivated the comments...

New comment by flykespice in "Zero Lines Maze: What the 8-Bit Guy's One-Liner Can Still Teach Us"

flykespice — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:42:05 +0000

Most of his restoration work on videos limited to just being cosmetic at best with his expertise just being retrobriting.

When there was an issue on the motherboard, he almost always outsourced to his more tech-savy friends to fix it for him.

New comment by flykespice in "GitHub bans researcher for exploits; expert calls it vindictive"

flykespice — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:12:02 +0000

They just got banned from Gitlab too... https://xcancel.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2059393892470972783

New comment by flykespice in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

flykespice — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:14:24 +0000

Since memory is becoming an expensive commodity, I guess the old ways of being precious on the efficient memory usage of your program (like it running on the constrained 1mb memory back then) are making a comeback.

I only feel sorrow for the electron devs, they will have a hard time.

New comment by flykespice in "Android Is Compose-First"

flykespice — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:51:02 +0000

Jetpack compose is very refreshing to use, it integrates well with Kotlin DSL capabilities.

My only problem is its Web target is still very dull to use, with its long cold startup time and since it's all rendered into one big canvas elements, it doens't integrates well with browser native acessibility features.

Android Is Compose-First

flykespice — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:38:22 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/compose/first

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48195668

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by flykespice in "Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software"

flykespice — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:47:24 +0000

I see no reason those emulators wouldn't fall under the Blunded App rule, they "execute code" (interpret instructions).

It's just Apple enforcing their rules when they see fit...

New comment by flykespice in "Apple is enforcing an old App Store rule against a new kind of software"

flykespice — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:28:56 +0000

Apple enforces their rules rather arbitrarily. Wouldn't emulators also fit the definition of self blunded apps?

Anyway, I am glad I have never owned any Apple products in my life.

They can screw themselves with their tight grip on user freedom.

New comment by flykespice in "Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust"

flykespice — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:29:21 +0000

multi-language codebase are a nightmare to work with

New comment by flykespice in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

flykespice — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:25:06 +0000

That isn't the same thing.

It's you're using AI tool to code, obviously the tool should be given due credits on the commits, for ethics.

but in this case Microslop is branding any commits as "co-authored by Copilot", even if the user never used any AI tool.

This is blatant attempt violation of commits authorship ethics and user rights.

New comment by flykespice in "Dav2d"

flykespice — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:05:48 +0000

> I'm white and European btw.

Why did you feel the need to explicitly specify that you're white as one of the reasons you didn't hear the news?

I'm not american either, but the news is all over social media platforms like reddit and Twitter, it's hard to turn a blind eye on them.

The Fourth Beta of Android 17

flykespice — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:12:43 +0000

Article URL: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/04/the-fourth-beta-of-android-17.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47916667

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by flykespice in "SDL Now Supports DOS"

flykespice — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:45:21 +0000

I'm more impressed by the fact they accepted it upstream, specially for an OS target that is long gone from the market and has virtually no users.

Usually upstream projects would reject such PRs under the reason they just increase maintenance cost with little to no benefit to the userbase.

New comment by flykespice in "SDL Now Supports DOS"

flykespice — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:38:22 +0000

SDLception

New comment by flykespice in "Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)"

flykespice — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:17:12 +0000

I find that a very bold move, how will they reivent the wheel on the man-years of optimization work went into LLVM to their own compiler infrastructure?