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New comment by gassi in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

gassi — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:13:17 +0000

Three years in and I'm still working on RomM (https://github.com/rommapp/romm), a self-hosted ROM manager and player.

Our latest 5.0 release includes a save sync engines, so your game saves can move between devices (compatible app required). Start playing on your PC, save + sync, grab your AYN Thor and pick up where you left off.

New comment by gassi in "Intercom changes name to Fin"

gassi — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:26:02 +0000

Ran out of VC money now that only AI companies get funding.

Cemu (WiiU emulator) compromised by Russian threat actor

gassi — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:34:10 +0000

Article URL: https://rentry.co/cemu-security-psa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117154

Points: 9

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New comment by gassi in "PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs"

gassi — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:19:11 +0000

You wouldn't hold that opinion it you did maintain a popular open-source repo or interact with AI "PR review" tools at a serious level. Even the most SOTA models are willing to accept/merge absolutely trash PRs so long at the summitter can convince it that is addressed it's review comments.

New comment by gassi in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

gassi — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:05:33 +0000

I've taken the position that anything the ultra-wealthy say is likely wrong, and every decision they take will negatively affect society, unless and until its corroborated by an unbiased source with expertise in the subject matter.

New comment by gassi in "Chuck Norris has died"

gassi — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:44:09 +0000

Fred Rogers, Terry Crews, Lin Manuel Miranda, Henry Cavill, John Cena, Steve Irwin and Dave Grohl to name a few.

New comment by gassi in "Grief and the AI split"

gassi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:39:12 +0000

And contribute your changes back upstream, right?

New comment by gassi in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

gassi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:10:44 +0000

The prompt itself is copyrightable but not the art/code generated from it.

New comment by gassi in "Minions: Stripe’s one-shot, end-to-end coding agents"

gassi — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:45:41 +0000

Sparkling DevEx

New comment by gassi in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

gassi — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:38:45 +0000

Wherever you want to be.

  Tailwind works for your team? Go for it.
  Inline CSS for your solo project? By all means.
  Still stuck on SASS? It'll keep working just fine.
  All in on modern CSS? More power to ya!

New comment by gassi in "Components will kill pages"

gassi — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 23:57:58 +0000

> In a world where we can type anything into a text box and get the information back instantly we are circumventing the need to visit websites altogether.

This is purely anecdotal, but the only people in my extended circle making this transition (to any extent) are the technically savvy; everyone else is slowly realizing how awful AI tools and "AI-first experiences" can be and are actively trying to avoid them.

New comment by gassi in "[dead]"

gassi — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 03:35:20 +0000

> Currently Senior Director of Engineering & Applied AI at Luxury Presence

Shovel salesman selling shovels, nothing to see here.

New comment by gassi in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

gassi — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:22:01 +0000

My favorite conspiracy theory is that these projects/blog posts are secretly backed by big-AI tech companies, to offset their staggering losses by convincing executives to shovel pools of money into AI tools.

New comment by gassi in "Software Pump and Dump"

gassi — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:57:10 +0000

In the last 6 months we've seen no fewer then a dozen vibe coded/AI assisted open source, self hosted projects launch that complete against ours. So far all but one has fizzled out, with the same pattern each time: announcement, repo with 1 giant commit, 2-4 months of feature releases, loss of interest from the author, and finally abandonment.

I expect once users get burnt enough time, they'll stop adopting the new cool thing until it's been out long enough with consistent releases.

New comment by gassi in "The Cults of TDD and GenAI"

gassi — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:55:09 +0000

> A coding agent allows one to feel the raw productive power a great programmer can tap into. It allows one to feel like the “10× programmers” they’ve sat next to in the open office for ten years, whose skills they never quite achieved themselves.

I fear this is the trap that most "new" developers will fall into over the next few years. I'm also worried the "great programmer" will cease to exist as the current greats retire, and the potential greats will never reach that level due to their reliance on LLMs.

New comment by gassi in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

gassi — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 04:45:02 +0000

> Parlour, of Seacroft, Leeds, who called for an attack on a hotel housing refugees and asylum seekers on Facebook, became the first person to be jailed for stirring up racial hatred during the disorder.

> Kay was convicted after he used social media to call for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set alight.

New comment by gassi in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber: Banning under-16s won't fix social media"

gassi — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 03:30:45 +0000

"Marlboro CEO: Banning under-16s from smoking won't fix lung cancer"

Not that I agree with the approach (digital IDs, age verification, etc), but of course a social media CEO doesn't want to see it's user base restricted.

New comment by gassi in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

gassi — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:01:46 +0000

I wouldn't use one without the other, which is how they won my business.

New comment by gassi in "European Alternatives"

gassi — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:30:32 +0000

Ah wasn't aware of that, thanks.

New comment by gassi in "European Alternatives"

gassi — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:29:55 +0000

No plans according to some recent reddit threads, but you can probably email their support for a more up-to-date info.