Hacker News: guytv

New comment by guytv in "The future of version control"

guytv — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:14:45 +0000

I just let claude do all conflict resolution for me. code conflicts are a solved problem.

New comment by guytv in "White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit"

guytv — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:03:50 +0000

Correction:

> - before 2012 there was no smartphone

- by 2011, 35% of US adults had smartphones, iPhone released June, 2007

New comment by guytv in "We mourn our craft"

guytv — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:59:09 +0000

you’re probably not doing it right.

I’ve been programming since 1984.

OP basically described my current role with scary precision.

I mostly review the AI’s code, fix the plan before it starts, and nudge it in the right direction.

Each new model version needs less nudging — planning, architecture, security, all of it.

There’s an upside.

There’s something addictive about thinking of something and having it materialize within an hour.

I can run faster and farther than I ever could before.

I’ve rediscovered that I just like building things — imagining them and watching them come alive — even if I’m not laying every brick myself anymore.

But the pace is brutal.

My gut tells me this window, where we still get to meaningfully participate in the process, is short.

That part is sad, and I do mourn it quite a bit.

If you think this is just hype, you’re doing it wrong.

New comment by guytv in "List animals until failure"

guytv — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:28:12 +0000

where are the high scores?

Engaging healthily with chess: an Acceptance and Commitment therapist's guide

guytv — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:11:31 +0000

Article URL: https://lichess.org/@/tackyshrimp/blog/engaging-healthily-with-chess-an-acceptance-and-commitment-therapists-guide/Nlb0wzid

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46679163

Points: 1

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A 16-inch Laptop that Expands to 23.8 inches of Screen Space

guytv — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:26:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTyQnfXHKQs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46614039

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by guytv in "The chess bot on Delta Air Lines will destroy you (2024) [video]"

guytv — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 07:59:42 +0000

I wanted to check it out. After login I am immediately redirected to a page asking for $80/year without me even understanding what the service does. Unrealistic expectation. Show me value first, ask for money later

AndyMik90/Auto-Claude: Autonomous multi-session AI coding

guytv — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 08:43:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/AndyMik90/Auto-Claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46363586

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by guytv in "I'm just having fun"

guytv — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 09:58:09 +0000

This hits different when you apply it to chess.

Instead of obsessing with my rating on I just turned on Zen mode in lichees and hid all the numbers.

The game became fun again — Just "oh that was a cool tactic, let me try this weird opening, what happens if I sacrifice my knight for vibes?"

Turns out the rating was a distraction from the actual game.

Same energy as your point about "fucking around" being the point.

The elo was just making me miserable; removing it made me better anyway.

New comment by guytv in "Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)"

guytv — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 11:02:07 +0000

> Simplex is developed by a person who has a rather difficult view of the world. couldn't find it. what's his view of the world?

New comment by guytv in "Signal knows who you're talking to (2023)"

guytv — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 10:59:55 +0000

what was his answer?

New comment by guytv in "Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

guytv — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 20:38:08 +0000

Every cent poured into this boom is building Google’s future competitors.

Of course he’s nervous - what else would you expect him to say?

New comment by guytv in "The surprising benefits of giving up"

guytv — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:43:38 +0000

From my own entrepreneurship scars, the real curse is never knowing when “enough is enough.”

If I’d pushed a little harder, would it have finally broken through?

Figma, Airbnb, and the other freak successes only exist because they didn’t quit.

New comment by guytv in "Randomness Testing Guide"

guytv — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:17:14 +0000

If you take the UTF-8 binary for “hello world” and paste it there, it passes 4 out of 5 randomness tests.

Strange.

(0110100001100101011011000110110001101111001000000111011101101111011100100110110001100100)

New comment by guytv in "Pakistani newspaper mistakenly prints AI prompt with the article"

guytv — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 13:34:35 +0000

Which raises the question: if everything is generated, why bother reading it at all? Just ask the LLM what you want to know—why treat headlines like bookmarks?

New comment by guytv in "The lazy Git UI you didn't know you need"

guytv — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:46:33 +0000

Tried it more than once, still SourceTree is easier to use.

Jurassic Systems

guytv — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 08:26:25 +0000

Article URL: https://jurassicsystems.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45873744

Points: 1

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New comment by guytv in "Code review can be better"

guytv — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:05:30 +0000

Anyone actually done long-term pair programming and lived to tell the tale? Is it real, or just a utopian fantasy?

New comment by guytv in "Code review can be better"

guytv — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:01:16 +0000

With AI based coding (no, i won't use "Vibe coding", thank you) this workflow improves a lot. Instead of jumping straight into code, I have my engineers write a Notion doc that describes what needs to be built. Think of it like an LLD, but really it’s a prompt for Claude-code. This forces them to think through the problem at a low level, and they share the doc with me before sending it to Claude — so I get to review early in the process. Once we finalize this "LLD" or "low-level-prompt", they hand it to Claude. The next time I see the work is in a GitHub PR. At that point, we rarely have to throw everything away and start from scratch.

New comment by guytv in "Fish 4.0.0"

guytv — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:25:44 +0000

Can someone from the team share how the dev coordination for the Rust migration was handled? I only see a single PR (#9512)—how was the work organized?