Hacker News: johnwheeler

New comment by johnwheeler in "Sort branches by last commit date"

johnwheeler — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:26:22 +0000

Even better, "hey, chat GPT, list my branches by commit date."

I know that's not a popular answer, but I'm just trying to demonstrate the reality that this kind of knowledge isn't specialized anymore.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal"

johnwheeler — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:44:08 +0000

It's not a struggling company. I run an e-commerce website. I give people the option to use either Stripe or PayPal. I would say it's a 50 50 split. The company is making $5 billion in profit a year. What's wrong with people?

New comment by johnwheeler in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

johnwheeler — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:22:23 +0000

The thing is, is it's not a subjective thing. It's objectively bad. I think that's what the story is or the appeal of the post. It's calling out, something that everyone else thinks is so great, but it's actually really pretty bad compared to the competition. Trust me, I used to want Claude to win, but it's not.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion"

johnwheeler — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:50:49 +0000

I don't know why this comment's getting down voted. It's absolutely true. I would also add that Anthropic seems to limit, compute, the more you use it because I'm on the Max subscription, and it just stops working for me.

I'll ask it to do something and it'll say, I tried, but I couldn't do it over and over again or some variation of.

But it doesn't do that at the start of my subscription, so...

New comment by johnwheeler in ""Coding is solved" misses the point"

johnwheeler — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:37:27 +0000

This article misses the point. It assumes that the way business is currently done will be the way business is always done, but the LLM revolution aims to replace businesses that have these types of constraints sure initially it will work with them, but soon enough scrappy codebases will come out that hold their own and stand the test of time with LLMs at the helm

New comment by johnwheeler in "JetZero"

johnwheeler — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:33:23 +0000

looks expensive

Show HN: Dropper

johnwheeler — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:00:55 +0000

Article URL: https://dropper.page

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48927642

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by johnwheeler in "ChatGPT Work"

johnwheeler — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:42:29 +0000

In my experience, claude cowork has been pretty much useless. for the desktop control, it just seems like the The accessibility stuff is just not there yet on macOS to support it.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Grok 4.5"

johnwheeler — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:39:21 +0000

I think that Elon Musk went from being recognized as a genius to being recognized as a genius but someone who's harder to take seriously, because of all the ketamine he was doing for a little while there. I think that really damaged his reputation. You just can't help but look at him and think, he's a little bit of a jackass. It really shows how drugs can really mess up your reputation.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

johnwheeler — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:29:35 +0000

That's funny, I just asked the same thing. Usually employers aren't interested in people looking for jobs, they're interested in people that already have jobs.Maybe in an ideal world it would be otherwise, but we don't live in that world. When you don't have a job, you're kinda fucked.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2026)"

johnwheeler — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:29:00 +0000

Do these ever really even work? Can one person say that they've gotten a job from one of these?

New comment by johnwheeler in "Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access"

johnwheeler — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:17:55 +0000

Yeah, I've been crossing my fingers that they do some kind of reverse rug pull. I think most of the world is.

Smart marketing because it takes the wind out of your sails and then blows it right back and makes you feel like they're generous when all along they're just doing standard operating procedure.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund"

johnwheeler — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:04:25 +0000

Man, instead of "Thank you" they should've said "Fuck you"

New comment by johnwheeler in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

johnwheeler — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:26:47 +0000

That's one way to do it.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

johnwheeler — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:58:15 +0000

Well, of course they did. Are you kidding?

New comment by johnwheeler in "Show HN: Screen recording your crappy startup"

johnwheeler — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:42:42 +0000

Here are the reviews.

https://www.youtube.com/@screendotcam

Show HN: Screen recording your crappy startup

johnwheeler — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:04:33 +0000

Hi HN. I've been recording various startups for YouTube after they ask for it and I review it and give my honest opinion and show the difficulties I have in using some of the websites.

Some of the websites are not bad at all and they're they get good reviews. I would like you to take a look at my YouTube and also post your link here if you want me to review it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48663527

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by johnwheeler in "The Coming Loop"

johnwheeler — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:56:41 +0000

What is a loop in simple terms?

New comment by johnwheeler in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

johnwheeler — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:27:13 +0000

Yeah, it's a good polished piece of software no doubt. I'm not denying that, but the hype it gets is just... I don't know.

New comment by johnwheeler in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

johnwheeler — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:03:21 +0000

I use Ghost TTY coming from iTerm for no other reason than I saw everybody else using and praising it.

Is there some special feature I'm missing? I would only call it a marginal improvement. If that. I fail to see what the big deal is.