Hacker News: quxbar

New comment by quxbar in "Man finds $1M worth of Yu-Gi-Oh cards in a dumpster"

quxbar — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:42:16 +0000

About time somebody started flooding the millennial nostalgia collectibles market with fakes.

New comment by quxbar in "Boris Cherny: TI-83 Plus Basic Programming Tutorial (2004)"

quxbar — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:46:26 +0000

Ah yes, my first love. I remember creating a quiz game based on greek mythology, and a little RPG where I realized the power of exponential functions by wrecking my power curve.

New comment by quxbar in "Programming Still Sucks"

quxbar — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:17:27 +0000

I don't agree with everything this piece concludes, but I do admire getting to read through a whole HN article without feeling the sheen of AI co-authorship.

New comment by quxbar in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

quxbar — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:57:27 +0000

I actually realized last night that everything that got me excited about the internet circa 2013 is actually way easier now, fun little one-off websites are far more doable, but we've lost the zeitgeist perhaps. It makes me wanna move back to NYC and go to BrooklynJS again.

New comment by quxbar in "Commenting and Approving Pull Requests"

quxbar — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:14:40 +0000

I started doing this a few years ago, it works a treat with non-junior engineers. With the right testing in place, review becomes more about communicating the ideas clearly rather than gatekeeping.

New comment by quxbar in "OpenAI resets spending expectations, from $1.4T to $600B"

quxbar — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:15:07 +0000

If you go outside and they are burning witches, it's best to go along with it.

New comment by quxbar in "Launch HN: Omnara (YC S25) – Run Claude Code and Codex from anywhere"

quxbar — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:07:11 +0000

I really miss the old way of doing things. I know it was a maintenance nightmare, but I only really value having an iphone app with native notifications that lets me see exactly the same stuff I would see on my laptop. I don't manage a ton of agents, I typically have one main task I am focusing on and possibly another smaller task on the back burner.

New comment by quxbar in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"

quxbar — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:41:16 +0000

Yes, look at the massive 'success' of Vail, Colorado.

New comment by quxbar in "Quality Food Comes from Constraints"

quxbar — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:24:37 +0000

While refrigerated transport came with great benefits - everyday families who previously had meat only 1 or 2 nights a week could have it daily! - but I don't think we've yet realized the impact of only consuming food that has been dead and stored for several days.

New comment by quxbar in "[dead]"

quxbar — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 17:48:42 +0000

By your own logic, anything that can be done 'for women' would equally benefit you. You are in a woman's societal role, and being marginalized to the point of invisibility comes with the territory.

New comment by quxbar in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

quxbar — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:39:48 +0000

My mother always enjoyed playing Jeopardy! on alexa, it was a novel format and everybody could participate while sitting around and chatting. She happily would have paid for it, even the dreaded monthly subscription, but it was neglected. The service started being buggy (lagging, repeatedly restarting the day's question series) and now they've moved on.

If anyone knows of an open-source alternative I could stitch together, I am all ears!

New comment by quxbar in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

quxbar — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:02:49 +0000

After the better part of a decade spent with chromecast and legal streaming, I have been forced back to the high seas as of late. I can't reliably get programs without onerous subscriptions, each for one or two shows I actually care about.

New comment by quxbar in "A Fond Farewell"

quxbar — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 18:21:56 +0000

Getting into climbing was secondarily a health choice, but primarily a social endeavor for me.

New comment by quxbar in "Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix Demand OpenAI to Stop Using Their IP"

quxbar — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:05:08 +0000

vanilla ice would like a word

New comment by quxbar in "Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix Demand OpenAI to Stop Using Their IP"

quxbar — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:04:37 +0000

A lot of people will need to stop identifying as 'someone who makes art with enough value to trade it for the decent wage'. Millions of egos destroyed, not a dollar of GDP lost.

New comment by quxbar in "We need a clearer framework for AI-assisted contributions to open source"

quxbar — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:01:21 +0000

If one claims to be able to write good code with LLMs, it should just as easy to write comprehensive e2e tests. If you don't hold your code to a high testing standard than you were always going off 'vibes' whether they were from a silicon neural network or your human meatware biases.

New comment by quxbar in "Be Careful with Obsidian"

quxbar — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 12:37:42 +0000

Exactly this. After the enshittification of evernote I swore I would only write documents in formats and contexts where I can easily pick up and move.

New comment by quxbar in "AI and Home-Cooked Software"

quxbar — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:32:19 +0000

LLMs unlock a fundamentally different paradigm of interaction, in my experience a non-technical person with a good humanities background can describe what they want adequately. This is without needing to master the arbitrary grammar of a no-code system. Does often inevitably turn out to be a 'toy' version of what a real business needs? Yes, but it's still strictly better than previous ways of working.

New comment by quxbar in "Why your outdoorsy friend suddenly has a gummy bear power bank"

quxbar — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 22:43:02 +0000

Yeah, my assumption is a ton of people are getting for half the advertised capacity, and if they looked at actual 10Ah batteries this would be in line with their energy density.

New comment by quxbar in "Ton Roosendaal to step down as Blender chairman and CEO"

quxbar — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 18:31:58 +0000

His work has enabled so much creativity and he gets to give great software away for free, what a chad.