Hacker News: indy

New comment by indy in "ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux"

indy — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:33:33 +0000

it can consume more of your RAM

New comment by indy in "The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded"

indy — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 07:03:15 +0000

Many such cases across all aspects of society.

New comment by indy in "So, you want to make a game engine (2023)"

indy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:42:53 +0000

It helps to just write games and then over time an engine will emerge from the common code you carry across projects.

Starting from a checklist of features for a game engine almost always ends in wasted effort

New comment by indy in "A 77-year-old Republican man is staging a solo protest against Flock cameras"

indy — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:24:12 +0000

No need to damage the cameras, just place some balloons in front of them.

New comment by indy in "Is surveillance risk chilling your online speech?"

indy — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:40:50 +0000

"do you find yourself expressing yourself less freely on the internet than you did five years ago?"

No, because five years ago was probably the high point of online speech restriction. A time where people were banned from platforms like Twitter and Facebook for expressing political opinions or stating scientific facts

New comment by indy in "Understanding the Odin programming language"

indy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:25:07 +0000

"coupled with a complete lack of _hard evidence_ to back up their views"

Didn't Casey Muratori write a proof of concept windows terminal to highlight Microsoft's substandard implementation? And Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade+ developing his own programming language and funding the development of a game. Seems like they are backing their views.

New comment by indy in "GPT-5.6"

indy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:10:22 +0000

You wouldn't be leaving Claude Code, just trying something new. If you don't like it just resume using Claude.

Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror

indy — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:50:47 +0000

Article URL: https://wordgard.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48772573

Points: 341

# Comments: 104

New comment by indy in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

indy — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:44:19 +0000

This is a completely unexpected turn of events that no one could have possibly foreseen.

New comment by indy in "The Green Side of the Lua"

indy — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:13:38 +0000

Share this article on LinkedIn and you'll have countless managers talking about how they initiated a company wide policy to convert all Python scripts into Lua using Claude

New comment by indy in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

indy — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:43:45 +0000

"The LGBTQIA flag obviously"

"It's clearly the national flag"

New comment by indy in "America Lost the Mandate of Heaven"

indy — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:43:16 +0000

Do you think there is a level of guilt amongst some working Americans? A case of "I shouldn't be earning this much money for this little work"

New comment by indy in "X Randomly Banning Users for "Inauthentic Behavior""

indy — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:43:58 +0000

Out of the anger inducing frying pan and into the group-think fire.

Mercurial Dyson – a plan for the disassembly of planet Mercury

indy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:47:46 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/RokoMijic/MercurialDyson/blob/main/written_report.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629013

Points: 58

# Comments: 49

New comment by indy in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

indy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:50:17 +0000

The culture within the npm/js community has mainly been one of using the package manager rather than "re-inventing the wheel", as such the blast radius of a compromised package is much greater

New comment by indy in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

indy — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:54:52 +0000

Since this requires some files from the original Civilization how do people obtain legal copies of the game? It's not available on Steam or GOG

(Or am I being hopelessly naïve by asking such a question?)

New comment by indy in "Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores"

indy — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:14:05 +0000

This together with Valve's work on Fex may mean that Android users will be able to install Steam on their devices

New comment by indy in "Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)"

indy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 12:31:23 +0000

A less cynical interpretation of his actions would be that he's never shown to be motivated by money and is working on technology that interests him and that he can make an important contribution to

New comment by indy in "Terence Tao, at 8 years old (1984) [pdf]"

indy — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:43:15 +0000

Careful, we live in a society which has taken a side in the nature vs. nurture debate and if you're deemed to be on the wrong side of that then you'll be accused of being a nazi

X down: Social network suffers major global disruption

indy — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:12:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/gmzigks6j

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035173

Points: 3

# Comments: 0