Hacker News: purpleredrosehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=purpleredroseHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:58:51 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by purpleredrose in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"]]>tufte

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:47:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591007purpleredrosehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591007https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47591007<![CDATA[New comment by purpleredrose in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"]]>Still curious

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:28:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223593purpleredrosehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223593https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47223593<![CDATA[New comment by purpleredrose in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"]]>Serious question here, not trolling.

Ghostty looks great; obviously a lot of hard work went into it.

My question is why? I am seriously curious about what motivated you to make this considering the space is already so crowded with reasonable solutions.

I see this kind of almost duplication of effort a lot, and I am really interested in what motivates people to undertake these kind of projects.

]]>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:21:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218294purpleredrosehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218294https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47218294<![CDATA[New comment by purpleredrose in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"]]>> 've used Windows for as long as I've been alive. At 6 years old, my first computer was a Windows 98 machine,

this sounds like child abuse.

]]>Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:48:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801288purpleredrosehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801288https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46801288<![CDATA[New comment by purpleredrose in "Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code"]]>Code will be write only soon enough. It doesn't work, regenerate it until it passes your tests, which you have vetted, but probably was also generated.

]]>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:08:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425668purpleredrosehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425668https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425668<![CDATA[New comment by purpleredrose in "Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code"]]>Code is going to be write only soon enough. There will be no debt just regenerated code.

]]>Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:07:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425648purpleredrosehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425648https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45425648