Hacker News: lofties

New comment by lofties in "Have an LLC"

lofties — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 02:47:33 +0000

If you're worried about piercing corporate veils, you're probably not trying to get your lil' side project off the ground.

New comment by lofties in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

lofties — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 06:46:27 +0000

What are you having it do?

New comment by lofties in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

lofties — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:28:22 +0000

I don't want my Claude to sound "natural". Claude is a robot and it should do behave like a robot. It should do what it's told. Nothing more and nothing less.

New comment by lofties in "Show HN: Huzzah – a novel approach to coding with AI"

lofties — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:07:12 +0000

I could do this before too. The way I work is that I just write some functions, fully annotated, in whatever language the project is in, with a comment on what I expect the code to do, and an empty return. Then get an LLM to fill in the functions.

Helps me think about the problem, like your post mentioned, but I don't have to pay a tax on converting a prototyping language to a different language.

New comment by lofties in "There's no such thing as a small software team anymore"

lofties — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:56:15 +0000

My biggest issue with these type of posts is that they never answer the "why". Hell, they don't even ask the "why".

> The more modular your code, the more agents you can run

OK, but why would I want to run more agents? So I can be more productive? What does this productivity lead to? And are we actually being more productive? Take a look at Bun's repo on GitHub which seems to be fully automated. Well over 5000 PRs open.

What's the use? How can we justify these 5000 PRs? Over the past years, software has become considerably more shit. Are these 5000 PRs improving the quality of software?

Is the end-user reaping the rewards? Are they getting better software, cheaper?

The answer to all of those is going to be "no".

And let's take Uber for example. They have many teams, and many more times the services. Has ride hailing become cheaper? No. Has it become more efficient? No.

Nothing is getting better, but at least we're all off worse!

New comment by lofties in "The 37signals Manager Playbook"

lofties — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:03:54 +0000

For me personally, the goal of a take-home was always to see how the candidate walks through code, discusses code, and how well they take feedback.

This is why I'd ask candidates for previously written code they were proud of, rather than telling them to code something trivial.

New comment by lofties in "Lovable raises $400M Series C"

lofties — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:57:32 +0000

Oh you wouldn't know them. They ... uh... go to a different school.

New comment by lofties in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

lofties — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 02:02:59 +0000

> AI companies would do well to realize that civil disobedience is a thing.

Civil disobedience? In this economy?

New comment by lofties in "Chatto is now open source"

lofties — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:41:22 +0000

Wow, it's using NATS! I used NATS extensively 10+ years ago, and I'm happy to hear it's still around. Our infrastructure had hiccups across our fleet of machines, but one part that always remained up and running without complaining on some dinky machine was NATS. Well, that and Redis. No complaints ever.

New comment by lofties in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

lofties — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:32:06 +0000

I'm pretty sure this is exactly what is happening in real life. I pressed F12 damnit! Go into the bios already!!

New comment by lofties in "Can we have the day off?"

lofties — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:16:22 +0000

Right, so if it's happening already, nothing is going to change. Four days a week it is!

New comment by lofties in "Can we have the day off?"

lofties — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:15:37 +0000

You're right. We need to bring back protracted violent strikes by unions and socialists!

New comment by lofties in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

lofties — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:27:20 +0000

Reading the code? Who has the time.

Aah, I am sure the chickens of vibe coded origin, will never come to roost.

Show HN: Draw a Picture for My Cat

lofties — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:52:24 +0000

Article URL: https://brian.jp/blog/do-cats-dream-of-led-arrays-36/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47600173

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by lofties in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

lofties — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:42:39 +0000

You could make this same post and replace any component with Wayland. At the end of the day the Linux community will continuously set the Linux Desktop back by N years. The most obvious case of this is Linus Tech Tips trying Linux to replace Windows for gaming, getting lost in what distro to pick, and then being flamed online for choosing the "wrong" distro. It's impossible for anyone without the time and curiosity to choose a Linux distro, and then to stick with it. My only "hope" for the year of The Linux Desktop is SteamOS, since that will have a commercial force driving adoption and removing the need for consumers to make a choice entirely.

New comment by lofties in "Making Chocolates: Lessons Learned"

lofties — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:12:49 +0000

I made some chocolates for my wife, it was a pretty fun project overall and a lot easier (if messier) than I thought it would be. Can highly recommend if you ever want to make an original present!

Making Chocolates: Lessons Learned

lofties — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:12:49 +0000

Article URL: https://brian.jp/blog/making-chocolates-lessons-learned-35/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47394377

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by lofties in "Claude Code Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Agent"

lofties — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:39:50 +0000

I've been struggling quite a bit the past year or two, coming to terms with a new reality that vibe coding is here to stay. After some introspection, I feel like the problem is tied to losing my identity more than anything else, and that it doesn't have to be that way. Anyway, I wrote about it here. I hope someone who struggles with the same issue finds this helpful.

Claude Code Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Agent

lofties — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:39:50 +0000

Article URL: https://brian.jp/blog/claude-code-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-agent-34/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243962

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by lofties in "Show HN: Quantifying opportunity cost with a deliberately "simple" web app"

lofties — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:30:55 +0000

Even if I would've bought Nvidia, Bitcoin, or whatever stock... who is to say I would've had the balls to hold it all the way to whatever they're at today. I probably would've ended up like the guy who spent 10,000 bitcoin on a pizza.