Hacker News: raccoonhands

New comment by raccoonhands in "Google killed my $1M ARR startup overnight"

raccoonhands — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:53:26 +0000

good luck my friend

New comment by raccoonhands in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

raccoonhands — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:31:55 +0000

im quite concerned for the dumbing down symptom to take full effect. learn to code has become learn to read rofl

New comment by raccoonhands in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

raccoonhands — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:29:55 +0000

0.01% chance of happening. also i am actively trying to kill my love for coding and move onto 90% agentic at this point since it's doing me more harm than good. i dont think ill get another chance to write code in the future all things considered besides for comp. programming activities

New comment by raccoonhands in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

raccoonhands — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:20:41 +0000

the way i see it HN people want to know how things work and are interested in improving their skills but ai is kind of the opposite of that. not trying to be biased here but it's true. the way to get good with ai is to optimize personal workflow, and its less about solving interesting problems along the way. the pursuit of technical knowledge is now less interesting because it's more of an academic calisthenics now more so than it was previously- at least for a certain subset of applications

New comment by raccoonhands in "Ask HN: Were CS profs right to look down on programming in light of modern AI?"

raccoonhands — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:14:59 +0000

wdym the way they looked down on programming? was it a thing to look down on pre-ai?

New comment by raccoonhands in "Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?"

raccoonhands — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:11:51 +0000

not really. the structure of react / vue / svelte is much better than a vanilla alternative. i woudl say it amplifies ability for ai to write code a little bit

New comment by raccoonhands in "Why senior engineers let bad projects fail"

raccoonhands — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:43:42 +0000

you can do your best to play it smart. perhaps following this direct advice isn't wise but something tweaked to your own understnading of it is likely the option. I agree with the post. a way id reword it is "don't get too deep into politics, take a step back instead and assess the trade-offs of being involved or not"

New comment by raccoonhands in "Why C++ programmers keep growing fast despite competition, safety, and AI"

raccoonhands — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:05:26 +0000

i personally enjoy it because i just think it's a blast to write and typically understandable and explicit in its language.

with the caveat that i know it could be better. at this point i just think it's simpler than some of the stuff out there from a 'whats happening underneath the hood' perspective

New comment by raccoonhands in "No Instagram, no privacy"

raccoonhands — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:14:20 +0000

if you're a passive person, there are most likely more famous people for them to judge and make fun of if that's what you're worried about who tarnish their images online every day! i look at posts like these like sharing a photo album with friends

New comment by raccoonhands in "When so much knowledge is produced every day, how do you keep up?"

raccoonhands — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 17:31:01 +0000

Here's my secret: be the spreader of current events to your coworkers. If you do this enough, they'll mimic you and do the same. Now you have an army of web-crawlers reporting back to you and all you need to do is process that information and decide what's important.

The only way I found out about a website I've come to use pretty much daily because it proved itself very useful to my job is though this method.