Hacker News: ianberdin

New comment by ianberdin in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (April 2026)"

ianberdin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:29:16 +0000

I am creating ai website builder https://playcode.io/ai-website-builder, the full stack part.

I have been working on it for 10 years already.

New comment by ianberdin in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

ianberdin — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:14:39 +0000

Yesterday I faced 5h window limit for the first time. I was surprised. Max 20x plan. Usually I work 12-15 hours per day 7 days a week with no limits. But yesterday it was under 3 hours… what a pity.

New comment by ianberdin in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

ianberdin — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:43:15 +0000

Well, 70% of my commits are “123”.

New comment by ianberdin in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

ianberdin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:37:23 +0000

Yeah, I see. Is it possible to get a corrupted state? Let’s say we had realtime database actively writing at that moment?

New comment by ianberdin in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

ianberdin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:17:22 +0000

Insane. Does it possible to fork to another bare metal machine? Maybe multi region as fly io. If not, I bet you have huge disk sizes on your machines to store all the snapshots (you said, you store them and bill only for disk space).

New comment by ianberdin in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

ianberdin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:18:46 +0000

Congrats guys! Would share some technical details, I bet you have great stories to tell. Let’s, what is forking? You completely copy disk, make ram snapshot and run it? If CoW, but ram? You mentioned 8GB ram vms. Sounds like impossible to copy 8Gb under 500ms, also disk?

New comment by ianberdin in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

ianberdin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:02:55 +0000

Also modal.com, I saw a few more as well.

New comment by ianberdin in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

ianberdin — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 20:50:38 +0000

I use it ultra extensively and it works absolutely fantastic. Sometimes I think: "people are right, it is worse now" and then realize it is mistake, poor context or poor prompt. Garbage in, garbage out. No, it works not worse, but better.

I built entire AI website builder https://playcode.io using it, alone. 700K LOKs total. It also uses Opus. So believe me, I know how it works. Trick is simple: never ever expect it finds necessary files. Always provide yourself. Always.

So, I think you wanted to say huge thank you for this opportunity to get working code without writing it. Insane times, insane.

Huge thanks for 1M context window included to Max subscription.

New comment by ianberdin in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

ianberdin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:44:26 +0000

If people can misuse - they will.

New comment by ianberdin in "Turning a MacBook into a touchscreen with $1 of hardware (2018)"

ianberdin — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:41:35 +0000

I was laughing so much. Thank you. Unexpected tech!

New comment by ianberdin in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

ianberdin — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:53:48 +0000

Are they affiliated with RAM sellers?

New comment by ianberdin in "Show HN: 2.7KB Zig WASM – live globe showing executions at 300 CF edges"

ianberdin — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:43:08 +0000

What do you sell? Names? Names for what? Site is kinda laconic…

New comment by ianberdin in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

ianberdin — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:20:57 +0000

It’s a pure delight to read this docs / pitch.

New comment by ianberdin in "If you thought code writing speed was your problem you have bigger problems"

ianberdin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:51:15 +0000

I don’t agree. I have built Replit clone alone in months. They have hundreds of millions of funding…

Btw: https://playcode.io

New comment by ianberdin in "Lies I was told about collaborative editing, Part 2: Why we don't use Yjs"

ianberdin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:06:23 +0000

YJS works perfectly. I use it for years on PlayCode. But you are talking about the specific plugin for prosemiror.

Yes, here I agree: yjs core is well written, while plugins are “nice to have”.

New comment by ianberdin in "Pyodide: a Python distribution based on WebAssembly"

ianberdin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:59:41 +0000

Yea, I even built online ide based on Pyodide. Insane peace of software. You can try here: playcode.io/python

New comment by ianberdin in "I've built a better Lovable clone alone"

ianberdin — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:42:07 +0000

Thank you, let me address that.

New comment by ianberdin in "I've built a better Lovable clone alone"

ianberdin — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:41:12 +0000

*rebuilt on top of JavaScript playground I had since 2016.

New comment by ianberdin in "TypeScript 6.0 RC"

ianberdin — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:23:28 +0000

No way I turn it on. Not a joke.

I've built a better Lovable clone alone

ianberdin — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:21:43 +0000

Article URL: https://playcode.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47283362

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