Hacker News: kentf

New comment by kentf in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

kentf — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:43:01 +0000

I don't understand the need to use AI for this kind of convo. +1 to this.

Attractor: Build your own software factory agents

kentf — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:54:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/strongdm/attractor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335609

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

OpenAI's Symphony: Agent Management Layer

kentf — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:51:04 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/openai/symphony

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47303922

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Thank you HN

kentf — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:18:01 +0000

If you are reading this, thank you.

Thank you PG.

Thank you Jessica.

Thank you YC.

Thank you to the devs and mods over the years.

I have been coming here everyday for 10+ years (god maybe even 20?) and it makes me feel alive, makes me feel like building and shipping more to keep up with this amazing community. There is a lot of hate and snark sometimes, but it's all good. Keep going, and thank you.

Thank you for daily inspiration and the fire to build something that you all think is cool and useful.

Much love,

Kent from Canada.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948767

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kentf in "Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL"

kentf — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:14:32 +0000

ha, great minds. Posted nearly the exact same thing, but you were first, so upvote for you.

New comment by kentf in "Like Game-of-Life, but on Growing Graphs, with WASM and WebGL"

kentf — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:14:07 +0000

This is beautiful. Have you looked at Stephen Wolfram's Physics project?

https://www.wolframphysics.org/

Reminds me of watching his idea of spacetime coming into existence.

New comment by kentf in "Transparent leadership beats servant leadership"

kentf — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:56:27 +0000

Love this, thank you for sharing.

Ask HN: Why No Crypto / Web3 links?

kentf — Wed, 28 May 2025 02:32:31 +0000

Is there a rule against posting crypto / web3 links or is the HN community allergic to it?

I’ve been building in web3 / crypto for years now and think the depth of social and technical problems are super interesting.

Lots of other places to post but curious why no / very few crypto links here.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44112303

Points: 3

# Comments: 6

X402 - HTTP based payments from Coinbase

kentf — Wed, 07 May 2025 03:20:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/coinbase/x402

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43911943

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by kentf in "Kino: Pro Video Camera"

kentf — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:56:35 +0000

Take my money.

New comment by kentf in "Visualizing algorithms for rate limiting"

kentf — Fri, 17 May 2024 02:42:57 +0000

Excellent work on this. You can feel the craft and time you put into this post. Well done.

PR can move a market overnight

kentf — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 03:00:19 +0000

Article URL: https://ewakened.com/meta-goes-for-apples-jugular/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40127991

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Good end-to-end testing teams / apps?

kentf — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 14:32:53 +0000

We are Web3 company with a good battery of automated tests, but doing end to end testing in Web3 with different wallets, waiting for transactions to confirm is a tough problem to solve.

I am looking for a local or outsourced team that can take on end to end testing, and potentially some exploratory (try and break this) testing.

https://testlio.com/ seems to be the front-runner from some of my research and looking at reviews but would love to support a YC company, or that ethos.

Anyone have any recommendations or building something like this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40013383

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by kentf in "jQuery v4.0 Beta"

kentf — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 03:15:47 +0000

Don't forget Prototype (http://prototypejs.org/)

New comment by kentf in "Water"

kentf — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 00:11:24 +0000

This is really cool. Thanks for building it.

New comment by kentf in "Ask HN: What boosted your confidence as a new programmer?"

kentf — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:22:47 +0000

Not knowing how to do it and reading and failing until I figured it out. Repeat for 15 years to become a skilled crafts person.

Ask HN: Next.js or Rails for a new project in 2023

kentf — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 03:23:25 +0000

I am torn. I am master level Rails and advanced beginner React / Next from my time at Tilt back in 2014-2015.

When in doubt, I go to Rails but can't decide if I am just comfortable and holding onto the past, or if it's because ActiveRecord and the opinionated nature of it, is still so good.

How are you all thinking in 2023? I know there is no answer, but I would love to know what others think.

To sharpen, I am more curious about the following dimensions: * Hiring * Maintainability * Community

Less worried about technical aspects, as in my experience those are rarely the things that make or break a project / app.

Also, I know I can build a Rails backend, and then go React on the front-end, might happen, but if I go Rails, I might go full Turbo etc.

Thank you!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34672923

Points: 6

# Comments: 5

Amazon.ca Is Down

kentf — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 17:44:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.amazon.ca/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32321959

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by kentf in "Andrej Karpathy leaves Tesla"

kentf — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 02:29:25 +0000

I shared a desk with Andrej when he was interning at our lab for the summer at the University of Toronto. One of the smartest people I ever connected with about all CS topics. Hopefully he finds what he is looking for and takes a well earned break.

New comment by kentf in "Buttons as Finite Automata"

kentf — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:03:27 +0000

I love computer science.