Hacker News: gamegod

New comment by gamegod in "eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business"

gamegod — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:41:32 +0000

This press release was brought to you by the number 4

New comment by gamegod in "Subaru is killing off gas cars and will only sell EVs in Europe"

gamegod — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:37:33 +0000

If you're buying a Subaru, you're buying it because you value safety and reliability of the car, because your life/livelihood depend on it. You're not concerned about the infotainment system.

New comment by gamegod in "Firefox Enterprise"

gamegod — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:36:39 +0000

For all the garbage Mozilla puts out, this is actually a good idea.

New comment by gamegod in "Show HN: Floe – an open-source plugin for sample libraries – CLAP/VST3/AU"

gamegod — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:35:10 +0000

This looks great. Maybe a Kontakt killer? There's definitely a niche for something like this. It's good cross-promotion for your sound libraries too.

New comment by gamegod in "The August 17 outage"

gamegod — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:43:08 +0000

Yeah, seems like AI slop is going to kill GitHub's free tier. I just don't see how the economics of having to host this much slop and provide service to slopcoders is going to convert into dollars for them otherwise. None of the humans involved are going to end up in big enterprises. It's all cost, with no pathway to revenue.

New comment by gamegod in "So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂"

gamegod — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:44:18 +0000

To me, this is great that demonstrates how ridiculous carbon capture and storage is. I just can't imagine us paying to do something like this at scale, when we have a much more straightforward alternative: Stop burning fossil fuels, and use clean energy instead. Right? Like why even both going through the effort of carbon capture, when we're still going to have to stop burning fossil fuels anyways, in order to fix the climate?

New comment by gamegod in "Iroh 1.0"

gamegod — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:33:59 +0000

Sounds good, but the first step in your quickstart is getting an API key, and I'm oh, so I guess your sales pitch was a lie and this is really just another Cloudflare-like play to build another intermediary in the internet. If that's not the case, then I shouldn't need an API key for hello world...

New comment by gamegod in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

gamegod — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:43:20 +0000

It's 100% fake, and half the comments here are from 20 year olds working at AI companies.

New comment by gamegod in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

gamegod — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:05:47 +0000

It's the ultimate product for marketers. It inserts itself as an advertisement into every conversation now and defends itself against criticism. Just crazy. There's no hope for the rest of us.

New comment by gamegod in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

gamegod — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:47:19 +0000

This is such an insightful comment. It also underscores why these AI companies' marketing efforts are promoting rewrites.

New comment by gamegod in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

gamegod — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:18:51 +0000

If you need decentralized messaging and not some cryptocoin front, Delta Chat (https://delta.chat/) is what you're looking for.

New comment by gamegod in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

gamegod — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:45:24 +0000

Giving the oil companies, some of the richest companies on the planet, MORE money is a benefit? Is that your idea of good governance? You don't think there's better uses of that money that's coming right out of your pocket and everybody elses?

New comment by gamegod in "Realfood.gov includes a Grok search box"

gamegod — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:32:16 +0000

if you're rich enough, you too can buy the US government

New comment by gamegod in "Show HN: Aventos – An experiment in cheap AI SEO"

gamegod — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:38:03 +0000

I stumbled across this a few weeks ago via Google or Kagi. One problem I have with a lot of AI tooling today is that I can't tell if it's a legit product, or just a toy that somebody vibe-coded in a day. AI can easily crap out a website that looks like this.

This is all just my 2 cents, so take it with a grain of salt, but I see trust and authenticity as a huge issue (made worse by LLMs), and it's doubly so with AI-based companies because it attracts flies.

One question I have is it's not clear to me that this all just doesn't boil down to plain old SEO. Does your platform generate recommended actions on how to improve your ChatGPT ranking? (and how is that different from just improving your PageRank?)

New comment by gamegod in "TruthWave – A platform for corporate whistleblowers"

gamegod — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 22:12:33 +0000

If this is a business, which it sure seems like it is, then this is such a messed up idea. Exploiting whistleblowers and the whistleblowing system for profit. And they're trying to incentivize whistleblowers with money too.

Whistleblowers take all of the risk here, and only get 20% of the proceeds. Seems like a pretty shit deal, besides being confoundingly greedy.

There already are people you can trust, who aren't anonymous, who are professionals bound by ethics, and who aren't out to sue for profit: Journalists. investigations@icij.org

New comment by gamegod in "Show HN: Refine – A Local Alternative to Grammarly"

gamegod — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:29:44 +0000

We don't use American English in Canada either.

New comment by gamegod in "Switching Pip to Uv in a Dockerized Flask / Django App"

gamegod — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:29:15 +0000

> How is C meaningfully more accessible than rust

They've been teaching C in universities for like 40 years to every Computer Science and Engineering student. The number of professionally trained developers who know C compared to Rust is not even close. (And a lot of us are writing Python because it's easy and productive, not because we don't know other languages.)

New comment by gamegod in "uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust"

gamegod — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 19:04:56 +0000

Bragging that your program is faster than anything written in Python is a low bar, lol.

Also, it seems like a sign that even Python tooling needs to not be written in Python now to get reasonable performance.

New comment by gamegod in "Insanity: Locked Out (2020)"

gamegod — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:19:51 +0000

Here's what happened to the Sidewalk Labs building: https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/10/torontos-bright-hope-inn...

New comment by gamegod in "Ask HN: Where Do Seasoned Devs Look for Short-Term Work?"

gamegod — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 15:33:27 +0000

As others said - use your network. Making a post on LinkedIn and trying to get your network to reshare it could help a lot.