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New comment by lemagedurage in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

lemagedurage — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:59:13 +0000

Yes, you have to imagine a much bigger star beneath the viewport.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Working on Products People Hate"

lemagedurage — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:35:35 +0000

Don't attach your pride to how well a product you work on is received. You can still take pride in improving a poorly received product, or even in just trying.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Working on Products People Hate"

lemagedurage — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:28:10 +0000

And another lesson: we define business success by how much money they make, not by how beneficial they are to society.

New comment by lemagedurage in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

lemagedurage — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:13:43 +0000

True. I feel like the main way a tool could differentiate from jq is having more intuitive syntax and many real world examples to show off the syntax.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

lemagedurage — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:07:36 +0000

Steam runtime already gives developers a single target rather than having to support different distros individually.

If Steam Deck, the new Steam Machine etc take a significant part of market share, I think it will be more enticing for game developer to release a native version for Linux. Providing a native version should still be more robust and performant.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)"

lemagedurage — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:12:22 +0000

Wow, that feels quite restrictive. "Classic for Git" would be allowed, but it doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

lemagedurage — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:45:19 +0000

I have noticed this in GitHub issues too. Where many long paragraphs used to indicate high quality, now it's the opposite.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

lemagedurage — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:38:24 +0000

Yes, the more personal the context, the more the humanity aspect / being relatable matters.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

lemagedurage — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:33:44 +0000

To me the rhythm of the text makes it clear whether I'm reading something AI generated or not, usually.

Otherwise, not using em dashes, adding some mistakes and writing more like how you think/talk helps :)

New comment by lemagedurage in "Apple cuts China App Store commission fees after government pressure"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:27:36 +0000

Good on them. Platforms taking more than 10% feels unjustified and monopolish.

New comment by lemagedurage in "I gave an AI $50 and full autonomy for one day. Here's what it built"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:21:52 +0000

Did you ask it to make money?

New comment by lemagedurage in "Project Naawi"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:19:03 +0000

Would love to hear from the human behind this AI stuff. What are you making and why?

New comment by lemagedurage in "Ask HN: How do you guys deal with enshittification mentally?"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:05:26 +0000

As builders we should find pride in producing something beautiful. As the norm becomes more shitty, something nice becomes more refreshing.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Ask HN: What's your biggest pain point when joining a new developer team?"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:53:53 +0000

I wonder if this would work even better by picking a random person of the three and pinning it on them. The bystander effect disappears completely and now there is accountability.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Ask HN: Have you successfully treated forward head posture ("nerd neck")?"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:50:39 +0000

I forced myself to evaluate my own posture whenever I get up. This was difficult at first but comes naturally now. No special tools, just making a strong mental note each time I forget. It's not been working perfectly but pretty well.

New comment by lemagedurage in "AI is supercharging fake work"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:45:59 +0000

I'm sorry.

I do agree with your post. It looks like HR is already impacted a lot by many people applying to many jobs through AI. Imagine filtering through 1000s of AI job applications to find the human who tries their best to sound professional.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Ask HN: 100k/year individual token usage?"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:19:00 +0000

I can only imagine the cost of maintaining the 100K+ LOC codebases that are slopped out today. We can't keep growing the context windows and amount of agents, right? Or do we stick with greenfield projects?

New comment by lemagedurage in "Ask HN: Would this eliminate bots for good?"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:07:47 +0000

Maybe an attacker could record a couple hours of glove usage, and then replay this with slight variations.

New comment by lemagedurage in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:32:55 +0000

Yes, it's nice to have a strict compiler, so the agent has to keep fixing its bugs until it actually compiles. Rust and TypeScript are great for this.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Good software knows when to stop"

lemagedurage — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:08:39 +0000

We shouldn't discount nostalgia. Sometimes an otherwise objectively worse product is better because it reminds people of the past.