Hacker News: nicetryguy

New comment by nicetryguy in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

nicetryguy — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:38:07 +0000

I'm right there with you!

New comment by nicetryguy in "Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?"

nicetryguy — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:29:18 +0000

Ok, i just generally disagree with the premise. Why does it have to be "100% vibe coded" or "0% vibe coded"? There is a very happy medium that is getting ignored here. As a coder with various language experiences, i can just get like a good kick and a template with Claude and continue in any language i want and have the LLM do the redundant parts. As someone with some soldering experience, i could have an LLM cook up and explain a circuit that might have taken me months trying to mangle myself. I think LLMs empower creativity more than ever, and creative people can have a wonderful time with LLMs softening the initial headbanging and tedious redundancies of any project.

New comment by nicetryguy in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

nicetryguy — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:36:34 +0000

It's not that simple. Claude Code allows you to use the Anthropic monthly subscription instead of API tokens, which for power users is massively less expensive.

New comment by nicetryguy in "GPT-5: It just does stuff"

nicetryguy — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 18:32:42 +0000

"Vibe Coding" seems like magic at first but starts falling apart realllll quick at a certain complexity level or if you want to make changes to existing code. If you don't keep an eye on your architecture, you will end up with a bowl of untangleable spaghetti code and some comically terrible engineering choices. That said, agentic coding in the right hands with well defined tasks can have you outputting days / weeks of work in one session; it's not every task, it's not every session, but if you can drive the "idiot savant" in the right direction it's truly an awe-striking and almost alien process to behold.

New comment by nicetryguy in "GPT-5"

nicetryguy — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:23:58 +0000

Yeah. We're entered the Smartphone stage: "You want the new one because it's the new one."

New comment by nicetryguy in "GPT-5"

nicetryguy — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:21:14 +0000

Very generic, broad and bland presentation. Doesn't seem to have any killer features. No video or audio capabilities shown. The coding seems to be on par with Claude 3.7 at best. No mention of MCP which is about the most important thing in AI right now IMO. Not impressed.

New comment by nicetryguy in "Live: GPT-5"

nicetryguy — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:48:14 +0000

This thread was about the livestream and the other thread was about the article, disagree but ok

New comment by nicetryguy in "GPT-5"

nicetryguy — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:21:16 +0000

Yeah, they sure clicked away from it very fast and kept adjusting the scrollbars. It was confusing what it was trying to display. Furthermore, the prompt contained "Canvas" and "SVG" while as someone with webdev experience these are certainly familiar concepts, i wouldn't consider those in the "casual lexicon" for a random user trying to help a middle schooler with homework. I'm not impressed...

IMO Claude 3.7 could have done a similar / better job with that a year ago.

New comment by nicetryguy in "Donkey Kong Country 2 and Open Bus"

nicetryguy — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:02:45 +0000

I don't always make 6502(ish) errors, but when i do, it's usually the memory address instead of the immediate! It's a very common and easy mistake to make, and i believe Chuck Peddle himself deeply regretted the (number symbol, pound sign, hashtag) #$1234 syntax for immediate values. I made # appear bright red in my IDE, it helps, a bit... Even the ASM gods at Rare fell victim to the same issue!

New comment by nicetryguy in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

nicetryguy — Mon, 26 May 2025 09:35:22 +0000

AWS? Possibly. They have a huge head start and haven't lost much ground yet. The warehouses and physical delivery? No way in hell. Any competing physical infrastructure would take a decade from the first shovel hitting the ground today.

New comment by nicetryguy in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

nicetryguy — Mon, 26 May 2025 09:33:39 +0000

> AWS is the money maker ... everything else is incidental.

Considering Amazon kills and steals all kinds of small businesses and ideas that would be a godsend for Americans.

New comment by nicetryguy in "At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work"

nicetryguy — Mon, 26 May 2025 04:27:13 +0000

> Andy Jassy ... said working faster was essential because competitors would gain ground if Amazon doesn’t give customers what they want “as quickly as possible” and cited coding as an activity where A.I. would “change the norms.”

Bruh, no competitor is going to set up an army of datacenters and warehouses on the gargantuan scale of amazon anytime soon... What do customers want? How about fixing your search function accuracy and policing the disgusting influx of scam products with fake reviews!!! Ugh. How about you get AI working on THAT jackknife...

New comment by nicetryguy in "How Nintendo bled Atari games to death"

nicetryguy — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:25:50 +0000

The lockout chip(s) are physical chip(s) on the cart and in the console that communicate directly with each other on the cart pins. The CPU is not involved. It's not a "secret key" in the cryptography sense per se.

New comment by nicetryguy in "TypeScript types can run DOOM [video]"

nicetryguy — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 17:30:21 +0000

Incredibly good video editing, unbridled insantiy, cheers!

New comment by nicetryguy in "DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days"

nicetryguy — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 06:18:42 +0000

With how they are releasing models and keeping the open source spirit alive? I hope to god they are. Let the quants cook!

New comment by nicetryguy in "Easy 6502"

nicetryguy — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 04:47:47 +0000

Amazing resource, classic at this point, still probably the best place to start a 6502 journey. I became an NES romhacker with released projects thanks to this as a first step!

New comment by nicetryguy in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025)"

nicetryguy — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:17:52 +0000

Curious, how did you get this contract?! I'd love a retro game dev gig like this. I have projects on RHDN on several different retro consoles and processors (6502 / Z80 / 65C816) and can work my way around WLA and the Mesen debugger with the best of 'em!

Also did you come up with a famicom audio expansion chip yourself? That's amazing!

New comment by nicetryguy in "It sure looks like Meta stole a lot of books to build its AI"

nicetryguy — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 02:34:27 +0000

Bringing up Facemash in the second sentence isn't doing anyone any favors, even if i agree with the message of the article, it just blatantly comes off as a hit piece. Comparing zucks college project with the empire of billions of users he eventually amassed is just disingeneous and uncalled for, and it makes me immediately distrust the author.

New comment by nicetryguy in "Stimulation Clicker"

nicetryguy — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 00:23:53 +0000

Major Cookie Clicker / Upgrade Complete vibes with this with a touch of social critique, love the descent into absolute chaos. Fun game and incredible artwork!

New comment by nicetryguy in "A modern 8 bit design, built using 1950s thermionic valves"

nicetryguy — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:38:24 +0000

Great for the winter! In all seriousness, amazing work. It's been tough to get tubes lately with the whole Ukraine situation sadly...