Hacker News: phaser

New comment by phaser in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

phaser — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 22:08:18 +0000

Here’s how i do it: I create a lot of stuff using AI to the max, but I also spend the necessary of time on reviewing that the AI is producing code that passes my cognitive load standards. this involves some tokens spent on grooming code and documenting well. Most of this is effortless thanks to an AGENTS.md based on this: https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load/blob/main/READM... but i have a good sense of catching when things are getting weird and i steer back.

Then, when credits run out. It’s show time! The code is neatly organized, abstractions make sense, comments are helpful so I have a solid ground to do some good old organic human coding. I make sure that when i’m approaching limits I’m asking the AI to set the stage.

I used to get frustrated when credits ran out because the AI was making something I would need to study to comprehend. Now I’m eager to the next “brain time hand-out”

It sounds weird but it’s a form of teamwork. I have the means to pay for a larger plan but i’d rather keep my brain active.

New comment by phaser in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)"

phaser — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:13:46 +0000

Starlink was never about giving people untethered access to the internet.

New comment by phaser in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

phaser — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:24:41 +0000

In Chile we have an expression that reminds me why I love my home dialect so much: "Vender humo" (to sell smoke) - not quite the same as smoke and mirrors, it conveys that someone, in a spectacular way, manages to sell something that vanishes upon reaching the hands of the buyer, like smoke.

New comment by phaser in "Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV"

phaser — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:18:47 +0000

Reminds me of the people of the future in Mike Judge’s “Idiocracy” who watch large TVs where most of the space is taken by advertising.

It’s amazing how this one turned morphed from humor into an eerie warning of the future in 20 years.

https://youtu.be/YqQ6D0Bu-a8

New comment by phaser in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

phaser — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:56:53 +0000

Yeah, the choice of title is indeed strange. But it does convey a personal point of view about the platform very well. Largely inscrutable? Compared to what?

New comment by phaser in "Microslop Manifesto"

phaser — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:51:43 +0000

Is Microsoft the really the main force drowning the internet in slop? I appreciate the discussion on the subject but why is it so specific on Microsoft and the userbase of Bing?

It’s funny because I wanted to register this domain for the lulz 3 months ago (Microslop is a fictional company in my videogame Microlandia) but the price was ~15k so i settled for the cheaper microslop.net

Whoever wants to get the message across has certainly big motivations ;)

New comment by phaser in "European Tech Alternatives"

phaser — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 06:13:27 +0000

Every time I see an idea like this (or a politician talking about tech 'sovereignty') I feel sad for the 20-year-old me who really believed in the declaration of the independence of cyberspace.

> Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

edit: formatting

New comment by phaser in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

phaser — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:13:35 +0000

yeah! I love the em-dash — they really took it away from us :(

New comment by phaser in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

phaser — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:46:51 +0000

I get that a lot. I’ve wondered why. It’s a bit sad and funny at the same time. I’m not a native english speaker which makes it even more confusing…

New comment by phaser in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

phaser — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:42:09 +0000

it was in this link included in this same story https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2026/02/03/the-sideprocalypse/

New comment by phaser in "Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning"

phaser — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:24:52 +0000

I launched an idea 75 days ago, here as Show HN. It snowballed into a little community and a game that now sells every day. Maybe not an overnight sensation but the encouragement I found in the community was the motivation that i needed to take it further to a bigger audience.

It was not just a product launch for me. I was, sort-of in a crisis. I had just turned 40 and had dark thoughts about not being young, creative and energetic anymore. The outlook of competing with 20 year old sloptimists in the job market made me really anxious.

Upon seeing people enjoying my little game, even if it's just a few HNers, I found an "I still got it" feeling that pushed me to release on Steam, to good reviews.

It was never about the money, it was about recovering my self confidence. Thank you HN, I will return the favour and be the guy checking the new products you launch. If Show HN is drowning, i will drown with it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46137953

The Homunculus

phaser — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:43:43 +0000

Article URL: https://explodi.tubatuba.net/2026/02/09/the-homunculus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945109

Points: 2

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New comment by phaser in "Apple, What Have You Done?"

phaser — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 10:08:51 +0000

I have the exact same problem. plus, I have usually surprised system processes eating up CPU like ‘suggestd’ and it’s hard to get information about what it does. I guess one could find out by reverse engineering, but that’s not the point. they could easily make it transparent and documented and the feeling of my own computer being a black box is constantly pissing me off. I regret all my investment in the Apple ecosystem and I wish I hadn’t locked me in as much.

New comment by phaser in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

phaser — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:52:13 +0000

Maybe this is the living room dumb-TV that I was waiting for

New comment by phaser in "Memoir by Steve Jobs’ eldest daughter describes ways he was cruel to her (2018)"

phaser — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 21:59:38 +0000

Do we have mass murdering CEOs now? What did I miss?

New comment by phaser in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

phaser — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:46:42 +0000

Microlandia - The Brutally honest city builder.

I started making this game several years ago, sporadically, abandoning it for month-long periods, but after posting it here a few times in Show NH I got the encouragement I needed to publish it to itch.io, then to Steam.

This month it crossed the $500/month mark by far, but it was a long road to get it to a state where it can actually be an interesting enough game to make money.

https://microlandia.city

New comment by phaser in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

phaser — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:33:37 +0000

It’s interesting to see the posts from warpbuild, blacksmith, buikdjet and others defending their business model that was based on the inefficiency of GitHub. I love the fact that git is built in such an open way that if you are worried about running in your own infrastructure you can easily deploy it (It’s just like SSH!) yourself. At least for me, cheaper GitHub actions is a win because I can’t justify running my own git. But these companies that are based on offering you a faster or cheaper github actions service are actually the worst of both worlds: they are not your platform and they are not in the position to offer you a better service. I’m not gonna miss them when they’re gone or transformed into an AI pivot.

New comment by phaser in "Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder"

phaser — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:38:11 +0000

Hahah this is the third time I get this. Now I can't unsee it... will do it :)

New comment by phaser in "Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder"

phaser — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:19:50 +0000

Regarding custom buildings, it will likely start as a simple JSON setting some variables like workerCapacity, studentCapacity, depth, height, etc and a voxel 3D file, so players can create cities with custom architectural styles.

Like a city with only stalin-era and soviet-era buildings. Or something where all the residents live in victorian townhouses.

New comment by phaser in "Show HN: Microlandia, a brutally honest city builder"

phaser — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 09:34:41 +0000

Thanks for the purchase. In the next days I plan to release many bugfixes targeting Linux and steam deck, it's the most requested thing at the moment.