Hacker News: philipnee

New comment by philipnee in "Googlebook"

philipnee — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:41:13 +0000

Hey Google: please control my computer.

New comment by philipnee in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

philipnee — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:41:52 +0000

this is core inflation no? it's interesting that it doesn't account for food and energy. so likely much higher in reality...

New comment by philipnee in "I hate soldering"

philipnee — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:00:41 +0000

Soldering was my favorite part of ee course in the university… i even kinda liked the fume..

New comment by philipnee in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

philipnee — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:17:20 +0000

80% of my day to day job has never been pumping out lots of code. it is a complicated career is it? we do a lot of alignment, design and thinking. i can't even agree the idea of outsourcing thinking, i think AI is very good at helping us to think clearly, but it doesn't really "think" for us.

if you do that then... likely very replacable.

New comment by philipnee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

philipnee — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:29:38 +0000

seems.. interesting. will definitely be interested in testing this.

New comment by philipnee in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

philipnee — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:24:09 +0000

sure! - security layer between your local data and public internet, i use it as mcp server to let claude safely read/write to my computer!

cli: https://github.com/philipnee/mvmt ui: https://github.com/philipnee/mvmt-desktop

New comment by philipnee in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

philipnee — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:44:25 +0000

what exactly is going wrong with github aside from all the outages in the past x months? i honestly don't find it particularly disruptive to work/personal stuff. excuse my ignorant, maybe i don't use github enough to know what causes this fury...

fwiw - i do keep a fair amount of code in my computer. i don't push everything..

New comment by philipnee in "Watching TV with the Second-Party"

philipnee — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:44:08 +0000

I feel this must have been posted on HN before, but I was pretty shock at finding this out...

Watching TV with the Second-Party

philipnee — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:44:08 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.06203

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929954

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by philipnee in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

philipnee — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:13:08 +0000

thanks for bringing it back!

New comment by philipnee in "Commenting and approving pull requests"

philipnee — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:32:55 +0000

Just want to comment here. I hate reviewer leave a bunch of nits and stamp the PR. This is ambiguous, are these nits asks or just you opinions? What if I dont address all of them. Also folks need to take rejection lightly - your reviewer wants you to address something, thats really it.

New comment by philipnee in "Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing"

philipnee — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:21:43 +0000

Firstly - Greetings! It’s so rare to see a Clojure person in the wild! and secondly, I really resonated with this! it feels like we, computer programmer, typically overthink too much to begin with, and then LLMs come along and actually help us overthink even more!

New comment by philipnee in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

philipnee — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:06:20 +0000

was it actually? I don't know the full technical behind this but wiki does suggest: "A search engine called "RankDex" from IDD Information Services, designed by Robin Li in 1996, developed a strategy for site-scoring and page-ranking.."

This is before Google.

New comment by philipnee in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

philipnee — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:10:03 +0000

i argue that most ideas aren't necessary novel, so stealing idea isn't necessary bad.... e.g. i don't think google search was entirely novel, but was well executed.

honestly - meta has built quite a lot of cool things, but c-suite is probably to be blamed for what's going on today.

New comment by philipnee in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

philipnee — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:06:36 +0000

build and tear down metaverse. zero sum.

New comment by philipnee in "Ask HN: Building a solo business is impossible?"

philipnee — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:08:12 +0000

here's my take - the hardest part isn't doing more computer programming, it is context switching between technical and sales. It has been done, so it is possible, but it is very difficult as people said.

very few computer programmers have good business insight. we know how to build cool stuff, but most of the cool stuff are either - unable to directly bring values to people or cool but no one cares. that's why we need a cofounder, ideally, a person closer to product/sales, who can help you to make connection, understand what people want, shapes product... all the non computer programming stuff.

also - we tend to work in isolation when being the only founder. at least for myself, i sometimes live in my own head, which can be very far from reality...

despite that - i share the same sentiment with you and will not give up trying to found a business :)

New comment by philipnee in "Show HN: Stage – Putting humans back in control of code review"

philipnee — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:53:25 +0000

(i find)the right way to read a PR can differ a lot from project to project. it's not just about context, or syntax, or workflow...

sometimes the best entry point is the PR description or an external ticket. sometimes you need to read the code first to understand the reasoning behind the changes. sometimes the diff itself is fine, but you have to go back several PRs to see how the codebase got into its current state.

i guess like everyone said here, there no right way to do it.

but i enjoy the video and the project, kudos ;)

New comment by philipnee in "Do I Stop Learning Coding? DSA?"

philipnee — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:42:36 +0000

producing code is just part of the programming, albite a very important part. from my very limited exp, i say programming is more about ...reasoning about behavior, managing complexity, making tradeoffs, handling failure, and building things that still make sense six months later.

AI gets your there faster, but you still need to do the work.

Also think about.. understanding correctness, performance, memory, concurrency, failure modes, and long-term maintainability is another.

just IMHO.

New comment by philipnee in "Ban the sale of precise geolocation"

philipnee — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:34:32 +0000

companies don't buy anymore, they just take it. think about Claude, every time you use it, you are literally give away your code, your data, and even your personal information.

New comment by philipnee in "Spending 3 months coding by hand"

philipnee — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:31:54 +0000

still remember my assembly class with HC11 20 yrs ago: amazed by how much we can do with so little hardware.