Hacker News: ppqqrr

New comment by ppqqrr in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

ppqqrr — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:47:39 +0000

...says yet another company hell bent on integrating it into every facet of our lives. This reads like a celebration, if you ask me.

New comment by ppqqrr in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

ppqqrr — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:10:47 +0000

the discourse around "code quality" has always attracted the least nuanced minds, ones who see the world and the phenomenon of life as nothing but territory to be divided up by the latest buzzwords. the worst ones insist that we narrow the discussion even further, to focus on the conflicts between these buzzwords. whenever i have to sit through such discussions, i try to meditate on the irony of mother nature weaving the most functionally brutal, ruthlessly redundant poetry that is the genetic code, only for the resulting creatures to deny themselves the power of the principles inherent in their own construction.

New comment by ppqqrr in "Lessons from building multiplayer browsers"

ppqqrr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:44:26 +0000

i'd use a 2D canvas browser. not sure why anyone would need live multiplayer for their browser, just let them save canvas state to file and share it. that's how it works with Blancs. https://blancs.io

New comment by ppqqrr in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

ppqqrr — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:56:18 +0000

i intend to invest $40B in my wife's pottery business; she will invest the same amount in my uber-for-dogs AI SaaS startup. our GDP is gonna be wild.

New comment by ppqqrr in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

ppqqrr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:08:20 +0000

i've learned in two years of unemployed hacking that there is a camp 3: you treat code like an evolving life form, requiring both ingenious introspective craft and utilitarian grit to survive and thrive. a product is a trajectory of software in time, and software is a trajectory of code in time; this is no different from how our genetic code determines our physical existence, which then shapes our lives. there is no spectrum between code vs product; if you want to remain relevant in software design, you must see them as layers of a larger whole (and there are many, many more layers once you go beyond the binary of code VS product).

I made a 3D Browser to review my HN upvotes [video]

ppqqrr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:14:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MiMlorMMJM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589621

Points: 3

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New comment by ppqqrr in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

ppqqrr — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:40:36 +0000

yes. it's like a giant finger pointing at the moon, and everyone's talking about the finger.

New comment by ppqqrr in "We indexed the Delve audit leak: 533 reports, 455 companies, 99.8% identical"

ppqqrr — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 20:55:49 +0000

what do you expect? if you’re “automating” an audit, it already means you don’t care. the LLM is there to blur the calculus of responsibility, take the blame if someone cares enough to look. happy customers, until someone “delves” a little too deep (like you did) and ruins the slumber party.

New comment by ppqqrr in "Ask HN: AI productivity gains – do you fire devs or build better products?"

ppqqrr — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:49:25 +0000

false dichotomy. neither company will make it. the winner will be some solo dev with a singular vision and ruthless dedication to quality. “teams” do not have visions, individuals do. the more people are involved in a product, the blurrier the vision becomes, the more insidious the vested interest of the organization to profit from the user, rather than align themselves with the user. solo devs do not have such problems, because they’re no different from users, aside from the fact that they were users before the software existed. they make the software because they want to use it, and there is no amount of payroll employees that can replicate the quality and innovation that results from this simple, genuine self-interest.

New comment by ppqqrr in "Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English"

ppqqrr — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:13:41 +0000

i’ve been doing this for a while, you create an extra file for every code file, sketch the code as you currently understand it (mostly function signatures and comments to fill in details), ask the LLM to help identify discrepancies. i call it “overcoding”.

i guess you can build a cli toolchain for it, but as a technique it’s a bit early to crystallize into a product imo, i fully expect overcoding to be a standard technique in a few years, it’s the only way i’ve been able to keep up with AI-coded files longer than 1500 lines

New comment by ppqqrr in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

ppqqrr — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:38:18 +0000

Even the most cockeyed reading of history will tell you that it is absolutely vital to the survival of humanity and all that is good on this earth that the US military be tied down and held back.

New comment by ppqqrr in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

ppqqrr — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:50:21 +0000

i’m confused now. if he’s a serial child rapist sending mexican goons into american cities to murder white nurses, does that mean he’s more of a populist, or less? figured i’d check with the expert.

New comment by ppqqrr in "AI didn't break copyright law, it just exposed how broken it was"

ppqqrr — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:41:36 +0000

copyright is not “broken,” it was always a two-faced scam designed to protect “owners” at the expense of creators. don’t expect this blatant hypocrisy to kill copyright, either - death of copyright is a slippery slope leading straight to communist utopia, and the death of the global acqui-parasite class

New comment by ppqqrr in "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)"

ppqqrr — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:00:14 +0000

anyone who has to look that far back in history for examples of righteous resistance… is serious about neither history or resistance.

New comment by ppqqrr in "The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world (2019)"

ppqqrr — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:21:11 +0000

in a world where getting 3 people to show up to dinner is a challenge, a coherent, organized group large enough to be visible as a percentage of the population is an exceedingly rare and powerful entity. but history shows that such an entity is usually either 1) stable and peaceful, but actively decaying due to its position of hegemony or 2) unstable and violent, using conflict to sharply define its boundaries and growing by dividing the rest of society into "insiders" and "outsiders". some days i feel like we're microbes stuck in microbiological cycles. but if we make it past this rut, we will have all that we need to lay down an even stronger foundation, to codify systems and organizations designed to scatter and suppress hate and intolerance.

New comment by ppqqrr in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

ppqqrr — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:02:44 +0000

if you wanna cheer for fascism, you should do so openly. no one is fooled anymore, and no one will think any higher of you for being in denial about it

New comment by ppqqrr in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

ppqqrr — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:38:41 +0000

yeah, he’s a real populist with the <15% that wants the federal boot on everyone else’s neck. i think there’s a name for that specific type of “populism”.

New comment by ppqqrr in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

ppqqrr — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:46:29 +0000

https://livingsoft.net

New comment by ppqqrr in "Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving"

ppqqrr — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:10:49 +0000

not for the indians.

New comment by ppqqrr in "React vs. Backbone in 2025"

ppqqrr — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 01:06:43 +0000

nothing lives forever. software comes into life out of necessity, develops complexities, eventually becomes incomprehensible, obsolete and dead. it’s a natural cycle that we should work into the user experience, instead of defining it as a failure state that we need to “solve for”.