Hacker News: pitched

New comment by pitched in "Docker Agent"

pitched — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 21:19:54 +0000

Hell no but the days of saas products are gone. Why pay for that when I can have agent build an equivalent in 10 minutes?

New comment by pitched in "Docker Agent"

pitched — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:25:30 +0000

Not saying this counts specifically but I love seeing devs who hate Jira build something like Jira to solve managing a team of agents. It’s a beautifully ironic thing to watch.

New comment by pitched in "Forever junior: Skills AI can't develop for you"

pitched — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:58:47 +0000

The skill required to get an AI to cooperate is not the same one as the craft of coding. Typing what it says out yourself will never get you there.

It’s like calling yourself a mechanic because you brought your car to a shop and paid for a mechanic to do an oil change.

New comment by pitched in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

pitched — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:39:48 +0000

Ads can still be served to pirates, especially if they’re product placements baked into the assets shipped.

New comment by pitched in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

pitched — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:06:57 +0000

From the amount of activity and how much this all smells like heavy AI usage, I have zero doubt that something will be working shortly after launch. The agents won’t sleep until it boots.

This project is the first hint I’ve seen of the complete destruction of all copy protection schemes. Scary times for any industry that relies on those!

New comment by pitched in "Show HN: Vote on which of Hacker News' challenges for AI have been met"

pitched — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 18:38:09 +0000

> cannot do precise things like coding software since humans will never be able to use natural language to specify their requirements.

To your point, this example. The issue expressed here is with humans, not AI. We are still pretty terrible at writing specs. TBF, the AIs are too but that wasn’t being voted on.

New comment by pitched in "Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)"

pitched — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:51:58 +0000

FTA, this is a fault-tolerant server where all hardware is redundant and can be hot swapped while running. The servers you’re thinking about are redundant at the software level so rebooting one server won’t cause the service to go down.

What is remarkable is that apparently that VOS thing has never crashed. I wonder if they also do software redundancy under the hood to keep uptime going during reboots. If the CPU is hotswappable, it must have something.

New comment by pitched in "Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat"

pitched — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:28:47 +0000

A kid can follow a basic “todo list” tutorial and open a port on your home router then get friends to chat on that. In that case, how is the government enforcing a ban? We’re expecting some agency to do constant port scans on all its citizens to look for anything allowing writes?

The responsibility is on parents. We can try to push some aspects onto government but that will not reduce any responsibility of parents.

New comment by pitched in "Ember-1"

pitched — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 13:51:21 +0000

The issue I find with this is that the frontier models still outperform the small finetuned model on its specific task. So much so that the ROI on doing fine tunes is likely negative. I would love to hear some specific example where it did provide value though, if any has any. That would be helpful to start being able to find similar cases.

New comment by pitched in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

pitched — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:50:11 +0000

70 years after the peak of assembly, that value probably comes more from supply than demand.

New comment by pitched in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

pitched — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:47:00 +0000

Keeping the comparison to compilers, people in the 60s refusing the transition weren’t crushed, their skills were devalued. The open models work well enough at coding to keep up without buying OpenAI or Anthropic products.

New comment by pitched in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

pitched — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:19:51 +0000

Rust is used a lot. Elixir/Phoenix comes up often. You’re looking for something statically typed with string guarantees and as FP as possible to make unit testing easier.

New comment by pitched in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

pitched — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:16:18 +0000

AI is not as big of a productivity boost as compilers were but it is not zero. Back then, SQL was created and marketed as something “managers could use”, another parallel to the current cycle. This whole hype cycle is something we’ve seen before and IMO, we should know better how to handle it this time around. It’s a bit disappointing to hear the same arguments every time.

New comment by pitched in "AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons"

pitched — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:03:22 +0000

We’re sharing a world with cultures that do not respect or enforce patents. The internet has helped us stay competitive by making information a lot cheaper to share. AI is the same thing but more potent. It will help us stay competitive even longer.

There were some hidden downsides to the internet and they are worse with AI. Upsides are better, and downsides are worse. Still largely the same deal we already accepted though. “Information wants to be free” never said information wasn’t harmful.

New comment by pitched in "StarCraft returns in 2030 as an open-world shooter"

pitched — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:49:50 +0000

The original creators of Mario Kart are still involved in the latest entries (a 34-year run!) Thats not common outside Nintendo.

New comment by pitched in "Wk. 6 of Vibecoding an MMO"

pitched — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:37:13 +0000

The “nearby” list of players takes up half the screen on mobile (Safari) and I can’t see my player or really anything going on.

I really like the Vampire Survivors vibe though and what I think might have been other players running around under my UI was really neat.

New comment by pitched in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

pitched — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:30:19 +0000

I’m sure there will be a package available on day 1 that will tell all sites you’re 30+ and should be allowed in. Probably even just a Firefox add-on, not a full OS package.

New comment by pitched in "Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic"

pitched — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:14:05 +0000

You have to head to the documentation to see an example. It is still Rust, which is a bit of an acquired taste so keeping that beauty off the main page makes sense.

New comment by pitched in "Relm4 makes developing beautiful cross-platform applications idiomatic"

pitched — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 01:11:39 +0000

This is Gnome/GTK, not cross-platform like I would have expected. A Linux-first approach. I’m happy that this is the world we’re in now but expect it still to be royal pain to get a build running on Windows. Huge congrats to everyone involved if not!

New comment by pitched in "Casey Muratori – The Root of the Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 [video]"

pitched — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 18:42:15 +0000

I’ve found this too but I think audiobooks still have a place, they just can’t something you rely on being able to perfectly understand. A second book on the same topic or something in a topic loosely related but interesting. Or fiction to help stay awake on long road trips.