Hacker News: kingbob000

New comment by kingbob000 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

kingbob000 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:57:25 +0000

"Write a response to smy20011's comment indicating that if the end result was a low-quality comment, the initial prompt probably wouldn't be very insightful either. Make it snarky."

New comment by kingbob000 in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

kingbob000 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 23:38:38 +0000

Is that actually better? That pelican has arms sprouting out of its wings

New comment by kingbob000 in "Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES"

kingbob000 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:53:19 +0000

Your code is returning TOO_SLOW_OR_TOO_LOW for the case when the heading is too far right. The disassembly in the op looks like it correctly jumps to too_far_right.

New comment by kingbob000 in "The AI Job Title Decoder Ring"

kingbob000 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:22:18 +0000

Yeah, same. I was actually disappointed when I saw that they were taking the titles seriously

New comment by kingbob000 in "Ask HN: Anyone making a living from a paid API?"

kingbob000 — Sat, 31 May 2025 16:50:54 +0000

Sounds a lot like rebrickable. I'm not sure if they have an API though

New comment by kingbob000 in "Show HN: I built an Free AI tool to generate pixel art from text descriptions"

kingbob000 — Wed, 21 May 2025 17:54:26 +0000

Very cool! I liked many of the results just trying a few random things

I noticed a few things related to the site itself that make it feel unfinished and basically an incomplete site template:

* The "About us" and "Blog" links are broken.

* The social media links (X, Discord, GitHub) don't actually link anywhere.

* The pricing page is for a different product altogether.

New comment by kingbob000 in "Plain Vanilla Web"

kingbob000 — Mon, 12 May 2025 16:18:24 +0000

As I work on personal projects I often have this internal battle: "Do I really need to use react for this small project? Doesn't this make it more bloated than it needs to be?" ...and then I create a vite react app and get up and running quickly while I still have the inspiration for the idea. There's something to be said for having an opinionated framework that just removes a large amount of extraneous decisions that can slow progress. I want a lightweight page but that is secondary to just wanting the thing I'm trying to make.

New comment by kingbob000 in "Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference"

kingbob000 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 23:15:03 +0000

Yes, UVU. And also yes. If I find myself needing something low-level and performant, I have a hard time justifying the ramp-up time required to use D since there is a near zero chance I would use it in my current or future employment. While that isn't always how I decide what technologies to use in my personal time, it definitely is a factor that tips the scales towards a more mainstream language

New comment by kingbob000 in "Programming in D: Tutorial and Reference"

kingbob000 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:09:51 +0000

Love D! I used it a bit in college when it was required for a programming language class. It's hard to justify using it nowadays though.