Hacker News: hackeradam17

New comment by hackeradam17 in "AI coding at home without going broke"

hackeradam17 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:31:49 +0000

Same, but I suspect that I don't have any issues with hitting caps because I actually still do plenty of the thinking myself, and just use the AI to help accelerate some of the boring stuff I don't want to do myself. This has been especially nice for my personal projects at home. It has made me much more likely to actually want to work on my side projects when I don't have to deal with some of the tedium after working on my company's tedium all day.

I suspect that most of these people who are burning through thousands of dollars worth of tokens at home are largely producing big ol' piles of slop.

New comment by hackeradam17 in "Easily run Windows software on Linux with Bottles"

hackeradam17 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:44:17 +0000

In all honesty, trying to shoehorn the CC apps to run on Linux just isn't a viable solution. As someone that does a ton of photo and video stuff it was a sticking point for me for quite awhile as well. Luckily, I don't make my living from my photography, so I was finally able to just dive head first into the open-source tools to start figuring out a new workflow.

New comment by hackeradam17 in "Open Source Project Name Checker"

hackeradam17 — Sat, 14 Oct 2017 16:04:36 +0000

So, I like the idea of having an easy way to check for naming conflicts, but as others have said, the implementation definitely needs some work.

As others have pointed out, it seems very unreliable and there isn't really any feedback given to the user that the app is actually working, waiting for a response, failed to get a response, etc.

New comment by hackeradam17 in "Windows 10 Tip: Turn Off File Explorer Advertising"

hackeradam17 — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 14:34:59 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I'm getting beyond fed up with Microsoft's crap, but unfortunately it's either them or Apple (which isn't much better) for a number of the tools I need access to. If only Linux could get competitive in the video editing space :(

New comment by hackeradam17 in "Create Your Own Shell in Python"

hackeradam17 — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 18:44:37 +0000

The funny thing is that I was literally just wondering about how shells are implemented right before getting on HN. Thanks for sharing, this should prove most useful :)

New comment by hackeradam17 in "Winbuntu – Blurring the Lines Between Linux and Windows"

hackeradam17 — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 20:15:58 +0000

Fair enough. To be honest I was lost in terms of titling it and kept bouncing back and forth between different titles :)

New comment by hackeradam17 in "Building a BitTorrent client from scratch in C#"

hackeradam17 — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 19:23:05 +0000

I've been considering trying my hand at creating a bittorrent client. This should prove to be most helpful!

Winbuntu – Blurring the Lines Between Linux and Windows

hackeradam17 — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 18:47:52 +0000

Article URL: http://www.hackeradam17.com/2016/07/05/blurring-the-lines-between-linux-and-windows-with-winbuntu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12038641

Points: 19

# Comments: 6

New comment by hackeradam17 in "How Cincinnati Salvaged the Nation’s Most Dangerous Neighborhood"

hackeradam17 — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 23:36:29 +0000

I am from and live in Cincinnati. As some others have stated, this article greatly overstates the changes that's occurred in OTR. Yes, parts of Vine and Race street have been cleaned up a great deal, but go just a street over, or even a little further on said streets and you are right back in an area that is anything but the "good" part of town.

It's not at all uncommon to go into these areas and see sights such as drug deals and prostitution occurring right out in the open. When I worked for Kroger (which, granted, has been several years now), they used to have to keep a police presence at the Vine street store because it was so common to have problems there. Sadly, much of OTR is still what I would consider urban plight.

Setup a Ruby on Rails Development Environment on OS X

hackeradam17 — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 17:35:01 +0000

Article URL: http://hackeradam17.com/2014/04/24/setup-a-ruby-on-rails-development-environment-on-osx/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7641683

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by hackeradam17 in "An Introduction to x86_64 Assembly Language"

hackeradam17 — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:25:19 +0000

From seeing some of the suggestions here I think I will extend this with two more articles:

1) Some more detail about how the low level of the computer actually works 2) A more "beginner friendly" guide to getting started in programming assembly.

New comment by hackeradam17 in "An Introduction to x86_64 Assembly Language"

hackeradam17 — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 00:20:01 +0000

Doh! Just when you think you've found all the editing mistakes :)

An Introduction to x86_64 Assembly Language

hackeradam17 — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:02:37 +0000

Article URL: http://hackeradam17.com/2014/03/18/an-introduction-to-x86_64-assembly-language/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7422703

Points: 193

# Comments: 54

A High Level Look at Compilers for Reverse Engineers

hackeradam17 — Fri, 21 Jun 2013 04:34:01 +0000

Article URL: http://hackeradam17.github.io/blog/2013/06/20/a-high-level-look-at-compilers-for-reverse-engineers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5916531

Points: 1

# Comments: 0