Hacker News: greg_dc

New comment by greg_dc in "Show HN: I built a 144Hz sci-fi RTS using a 15,000line React monolith and Canvas"

greg_dc — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:18:13 +0000

I'll be honest dude. I just played the demo and had absolutely no idea what was happening until that plasma wraith showed up and instakilled me.

The tutorial is like: Step 1. Drag asteroids away from planet. Step 2. Do all the other mechanics.

Everything was smooth and looked good, but we need some sort of hint about what we're supposed to be doing.

New comment by greg_dc in "How to Implement an FPS Counter"

greg_dc — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 13:00:14 +0000

This was really interesting! I'm not a game dev, but I am a game player. FPS counter are just kind of part of the scenery so I never considered what is actually involved in the calculation. This was like a mini episode of 99% invisible.

New comment by greg_dc in "1-Bit Hokusai's "The Great Wave" (2023)"

greg_dc — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:50:08 +0000

Man, this is the sort of stuff that makes me glad for Hacker News. Someone doing a hyper niche, high effort artistic project for no reward other than it's something they want to do. In a time where I have to second guess absolutely everything in case it's just AI slop there's something so wonderfully human about this sort of endeavour.

I would never have known it existed and, in some tiny way, my life is better now that I do.

New comment by greg_dc in "My phone replaced a brass plug"

greg_dc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:46:19 +0000

Huh! Fellow Edinburgh resident here. I had no idea there was a rifle range here.

New comment by greg_dc in "My phone replaced a brass plug"

greg_dc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:45:48 +0000

Clickbait is where the title leads you to believe the article is more interesting than it is. I'd argue this was the opposite of that.

New comment by greg_dc in "UK Biobank leak: Health details of 500k people offered for sale on Alibaba"

greg_dc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:38:06 +0000

In fairness, is this any worse than what Palantir will do with the whole countries NHS records? And they're being paid by the government to do it!

New comment by greg_dc in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

greg_dc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:35:13 +0000

Meta will go down in history as the quintessential case study of late stage capitalism. A company that has provided a consistently worse product over time and produced consistently less value over time to the detriment of both their users and employees, yet somehow gets consistently more profitable.

New comment by greg_dc in "Hear your agent suffer through your code"

greg_dc — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:24:02 +0000

Honestly, I don't care about Opus 4.7. This is the true evolution of agentic coding.

New comment by greg_dc in "How to hit your Claude weekly limit so you can go outside and touch grass"

greg_dc — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:20:59 +0000

How will I know how to touch grass if I don't have any tokens left to ask Claude?

New comment by greg_dc in "Medical data of half a million Britons listed for sale on Chinese website"

greg_dc — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:15:10 +0000

Probably no worse than we're actively paying Palantir to do now...

New comment by greg_dc in "Enforcing new limits and retiring Opus 4.6 Fast from Copilot Pro+"

greg_dc — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:48:24 +0000

Anthropic are also looking at removing Claude Code from their pro subscription. Will only be included at their $100/m and up packages. Looks like these AI companies are starting to realise they have to actually be profitable at some point and can't just rely on hype and investment forever.

New comment by greg_dc in "Highlights from Git 2.54"

greg_dc — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:21:59 +0000

Those new git history commands will save me an average of maybe a minute a day, but it's still definitely handy nonetheless! After 2 months, that's an hour back!

The git log -L change is nice to see as well. Anything that makes git more filterable gets my vote.