Hacker News: istillcantcode

New comment by istillcantcode in "Typing and Keyboards"

istillcantcode — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:36:39 +0000

Tangentially related to the lack of computer literacy in younger generations, but there are a lot of speed demons on their phones these days. I have high confidence that there are more people in the US that can type faster than 50WPM with the default Android or iOS keyboard than a physical keyboard. At this point I would bet on a cheap phone shaped USB touchscreen to use as a keyboard with a PC. It would be a cool Kickstarter project if its not already before getting cloned by 6-7 companies if successful.

Also looking into using my phone as a keyboard as a write this comment too. I don't know why I have not looked into it sooner, but it seems like a no-brainer now that I am writing this out.

New comment by istillcantcode in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

istillcantcode — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:50:03 +0000

Game is a little bloated and loads slow especially compared to Roblox. The other games are not as fun as the ones in Roblox either. Both have a lot of doo doo, but Roblox does have some neat indie gems. It reminds me of BYOND but in 3D. The launcher sucks, and there is nothing like Steam Input or RSS feeds for everything. I added steam RSS feeds for some games to my feed reader and I still use the client to check for updates for other games. There are a lot of small features that none of the other stores really have.

New comment by istillcantcode in "How kernel anti-cheats work"

istillcantcode — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:09:02 +0000

I could have sworn online gambling people fixed this years ago with just wifi. I thought I remembered reading a comment on here about the online gambling for kids no cheating people not talking to the online gambling for adults no cheating people.

New comment by istillcantcode in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

istillcantcode — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:35:30 +0000

This feels like a waste of time and money. Why are people so interested in tracking people who on average can't read or write better than a 12 year old child? By my count, I'm assuming things will be increasingly degraded for about the next 8-10 years or so.

New comment by istillcantcode in "We were right about Havana syndrome"

istillcantcode — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:40:39 +0000

I listen to a lot of conspiracy podcasts for fun. This is the one conspiracy that's so mundane it does not even make it on many of the shows. If someone brings it up everyone is like, "well yeah of course they have that shit". Its not cool enough for the conspiracy shows/grifts.

New comment by istillcantcode in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

istillcantcode — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:19:04 +0000

I always wonder if this will fix the bot and ad/click fraud issues rampant on the Internet.

New comment by istillcantcode in "Voxile: A ray-traced game made in its own engine and programming language"

istillcantcode — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:59:13 +0000

I appreciate when games load fast (this one does). Its one of the signs I use to see if a game is worth my time. Most of the games I play, I am playing the game within 20-30 seconds of opening the game from my desktop. I'm naively assuming that in order for a game to load fast you have to have a good plan of what order to load things in. It feels like an attention to detail thing to me.

New comment by istillcantcode in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

istillcantcode — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:03:40 +0000

I have a text file of commentors I normally disagree with and check in on them from time to time (about weekly). Its good fun and often I find there will be topics I do agree with them on. Reading the same opinions all the time is no fun.

New comment by istillcantcode in "Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI"

istillcantcode — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:44:27 +0000

I prefer Googles. I can only afford the free models. I normally copy and paste my stuff into 4-5 models and compare the responses. Its probably a waste of time, but very mentally satisfying. I mostly program as a form of mental stimulation instead of trying to become a billionaire. Taking this perspective, using AI agents is not really the same experience, and less mentally stimulating than programming.

New comment by istillcantcode in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

istillcantcode — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:02:25 +0000

These guys need to spend a few million on helping them be cool because its fucking their money up. Zuck was headed in the right direction for a minute there. Thiel and Altman are still too weird for most people. Karp is probably in the middle to me. Tasteless, sauceless, billionaires.

New comment by istillcantcode in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

istillcantcode — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 02:26:41 +0000

Anyone read the goal lately?

New comment by istillcantcode in "MIT Living Wage Calculator"

istillcantcode — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:22:08 +0000

I have found if you scroll all the way to the right, you get the living wage with multiple roommates and bumming a ride to work or waiting for the bus. My area most of the full-time entry level fast food/Walmart/gas station jobs pay about a dollar less than that number.

New comment by istillcantcode in "I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me"

istillcantcode — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:04:32 +0000

How is this going to work with real id to get on the internet everywhere? Wouldn't that mess with the fake bot problem?

New comment by istillcantcode in "An Implementation of J (1992)"

istillcantcode — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 04:29:08 +0000

I am new to array languages, but have really enjoyed the experience of using them so far. I have consistently had much better experiences following the tutorials and doing sample problems in most of the array languages I have tried compared to other languages.

I love being able to see an example and type it my editor in without having to switch back and forth a bunch of times because I forgot some syntax by the time I switched windows. Your data is a ball of dough and you can knead it into whatever shape you want with the primitives.

Even if I don't know what the symbols are, its still easier to remember because its less stuff you have to type in. Its a little bit of work up front to learn some of the verbs (why not use Anki and some mnemonics), but you really do have so much more room to think about the problem in your head. The compression is like a cool breeze on a hot summer day.

New comment by istillcantcode in "You used to be able to just create a Native GUI App in 10 seconds"

istillcantcode — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:49:29 +0000

I tried this using RosettaCode examples awhile ago and its still possible in quite a few languages. I was trying to find examples where you could just copy the code in, click run, and get a GUI.