Hacker News: freeplay

New comment by freeplay in "OLED iPad Mini"

freeplay — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:14:40 +0000

Especially when you have Apple money.

New comment by freeplay in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

freeplay — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:32:34 +0000

Writing code has never been the bottleneck. System design, testing, integration, CI/CD, etc. These have always been the things that were the most time consuming and thought intensive. Those haven't changed as much.

However, if you don't think there are productivity gains by several orders of magnitude when actually writing the code, you're either using it wrong or you were the fastest dev in all the land.

New comment by freeplay in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

freeplay — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:27:27 +0000

The unfortunate truth is you spent the last few weeks writing it by hand when you could have done it in a few days with an LLM.

New comment by freeplay in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

freeplay — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:30:36 +0000

Not a chance.

For your personal projects or as a hobby, absolutely. But in a professional setting, coding by hand gone forever.

New comment by freeplay in "13 Months Sober (2025)"

freeplay — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:30:43 +0000

To be fair, I've never had an issue with drinking. I stopped in my mid twenties and haven't a drink in 20 years. But I never say I'm "sober" since that kind of insinuates it was a problem at one point. If someone offers me a drink, I just say "no thanks I don't drink."

New comment by freeplay in "Coding is not solved"

freeplay — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:18:42 +0000

If you think it would have taken a single engineer one year to do this, you must not work in the industry. This would have taken multiple engineers at least a year.

New comment by freeplay in "PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand""

freeplay — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:25:09 +0000

caveman mode good

https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman

New comment by freeplay in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

freeplay — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:07:35 +0000

You want to be able to launch apps without unlocking your phone? Slippery slope.

New comment by freeplay in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

freeplay — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:05:05 +0000

But what if someone discovers a iOS 0day worth several million dollars and burns it to compromise your app specifically? /s

New comment by freeplay in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

freeplay — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:03:17 +0000

Nailed it. Assume your client is compromised and/or malicious regardless of how it was built.

New comment by freeplay in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

freeplay — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:37:09 +0000

If the wiki was configured to allow anyone to edit, they may have broken ToS at the very worst. Nothing illegal happened.

That's very different than popping an artifactory server with a 0day.

New comment by freeplay in "Playa Phone"

freeplay — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:32:52 +0000

Oh I thought make it official meant consummating the marriage in front of everyone. If it meant making it an official marriage, I agree.

New comment by freeplay in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

freeplay — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:43:26 +0000

Agreed. Before I had finished reading, I honestly thought you declined the $100 because everything ended up alright, you got to see some dolphins, and have a cool story to tell.

New comment by freeplay in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

freeplay — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:15:09 +0000

Exactly this. I know HN is obviously a very pro tech, pro science demographic, but I can't believe there's so little opposition to having our coasts littered with wind turbines.

I don't care how energy efficient it is. It's dystopian and depressing.

New comment by freeplay in "Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else"

freeplay — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:28:19 +0000

This makes the assumption that humans are needed to drive these AI assisted workflows. I don't think that's going to be the case at all.

The majority of office jobs are comprised of many simple tasks that current and, to an even greater extent, future, models can handle with ease.

Not all companies are looking for 10x productivity gains. I assume most of them probably just want to do exactly what they are doing now but with lower costs.

New comment by freeplay in "Midjourney Medical"

freeplay — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:27:38 +0000

Elysium is playing out right before our eyes

New comment by freeplay in "How to automate Instagram engagements with computer vision (and get banned)"

freeplay — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:44:56 +0000

1. Social media accounts with lots of engagement and high follower counts are worth big money these days. However, it takes a ton of effort to build that up organically. It's not difficult to see possible motives for something like this.

2. Leveraging their private APIs will get you banned even quicker than OPs method.

New comment by freeplay in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?"

freeplay — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:38:57 +0000

Some spaces just can't be "disrupted."

New comment by freeplay in "Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?"

freeplay — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:07:00 +0000

This was my first thought when I saw "travelers going between countries."

You're going to have a problem getting carriers to sign up because they are assuming all of the risk. Unfortunately, "oh you don't understand - I got paid $27 by CarrierPigeon™ to bring this unmarked, brick shaped package into the country" just isn't going to fly with customs/feds.

New comment by freeplay in "Goodbye to Sora"

freeplay — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:55:17 +0000

Genuinely curious what the [morally] good use cases for Sora would be.