Hacker News: phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=phist_mcgeeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Apr 2026 11:50:39 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"]]>Agreed that beads seems way over engineered for an issue tracker.

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:45:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772925phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772925https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772925<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Gas Town: From Clown Show to v1.0"]]>You're prompting it wrong!

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:44:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772918phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772918https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772918<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Claude Code Routines"]]>Let's see how it shakes out after Athropic and OpenAI fully stop subsidizing their plans, that may alter the calculus.

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:59:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772044phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772044https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47772044<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Many African families spend fortunes burying their dead"]]>So it was just the head of the family?

What if there were several of these birthday parties in succession due to siblings dying?

]]>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:03:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713477phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713477https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47713477<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"]]>Yeah but who pays the enormous cost?

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:51:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681801phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681801https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681801<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"]]>Tell that to the thousands of comp sci students who drop out every year because they don't like programming in C!

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:17:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668063phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668063https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47668063<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"]]>I mean they hired the guy who created it. It's not exactly like openclaw is a real product.

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:33:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656336phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656336https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47656336<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"]]>But will they pay the unsubsidized cost when anthropic needs to turn a profit?

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:32:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655903phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655903https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655903<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"]]>Does it matter that codex is now as good as claude code?

Check dev spaces like twitter and discord and all anyone talks about is claude-code, openclaw, opus 4.6 etc.

The mindshare went to anthropic.

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:31:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655895phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655895https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655895<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"]]>Trivia was always the hallmark of an insufferable programmer. Remembering the syntax to regex always struck me as a detail of programming, not a fundamental. I'm glad I no longer have to waste my life debugging it.

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:16:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655790phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655790https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655790<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"]]>Gross margin

]]>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:12:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655754phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655754https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655754<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"]]>The worst are the anecdotal poster claiming that they are faster and more correct than an LLM nearly all the time.

If that's not delusional thinking I don't know what is.

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:21:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646620phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646620https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646620<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"]]>Bang on.

]]>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:20:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646616phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646616https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646616<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "The Australian government has announced gambling advertising reforms"]]>RSLs and pub/bistros on shopping centres and along major thoroughfares are the big ones. They're absolutely everywhere, just not traditional pubs in the inner to mid suburbs as much.

]]>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:54:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624207phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624207https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624207<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"]]>RIP

]]>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:18:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580425phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580425https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47580425<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "I decompiled the White House's new app"]]>Isn't that state based?

Also I'd say the federal government's approach to ICE deportations is a little stronger than even the COVID measures.

]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:41:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557976phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557976https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47557976<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"]]>To add to it too, they only gate the download behind developer.apple.com or the app store. But the .app file doesn't phone home when installing

]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 01:27:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550579phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550579https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47550579<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"]]>I love a github repo's readme.md that only uses jargon and contains no intro paragraph on what the thing is or how it is to be used.

]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:56:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523824phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523824https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523824<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Goodbye to Sora"]]>What do you reckon? Do you think that is true for me and thousands of others, or that your opinion on this is too narrow and rigid?

]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:29:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515508phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515508https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47515508<![CDATA[New comment by phist_mcgee in "Goodbye to Sora"]]>Am I an untrained human if I believe that Claude Opus 4.6 produces generally better code than I do in most circumstances?

Even with years as a principal engineer at a company with high coding standards and engineering processes?

]]>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:59:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514954phist_mcgeehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514954https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514954