Hacker News: rickreynoldssf

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "The death of web development education"

rickreynoldssf — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:26:26 +0000

Most of the stuff these Ed-Tech companies taught is counterproductive. Much of it was unnecessary solutions to problems that didn't exist. So so many Web tools are things created because their creator didn't properly understand HTML, JavaSript, CSS and the DOM. Then these schools taught everyone these unnecessary things and they become the standard and made things overly complex and give us massive build times for stuff that was never meant to need a build phase in the first place.

LLMs with HTMX and plain old CSS and JavaScript (maybe Typescript) is the future. Getting back to little to no build times and frontends that don't take up 1+ GB of RAM on the clients

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Pi 1.0"

rickreynoldssf — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:57:11 +0000

This is hitting at the right time. Codex is already in the enshitification phase. They just broke their CLI version with some new thing that no one likes.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Qwen Image 2.1"

rickreynoldssf — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:48:24 +0000

People it renders look Asian. If you give it a reference image of a caucasian it will render an Asian. I wonder why?

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Fastpotify"

rickreynoldssf — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:30:56 +0000

To give you an idea of the kinds of Engineering decisions going on at Spotify, they do thousands of deploys per day and are PROUD of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-E24t0YM2g

Must be one of THE WORST engineering orgs running right now.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Starbase, LA"

rickreynoldssf — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 21:16:00 +0000

I wonder how many environmentalists are losing their shit over this and burring the lawsuit machine.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Incident with Github.com"

rickreynoldssf — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:54:57 +0000

Does anyone get the feeling that Microsoft is trying to kill GitHub in favor of ADO?

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "I recreated the Apple Lisa computer inside an FPGA [video]"

rickreynoldssf — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:49:10 +0000

I see this kind of thing and have two reactions.

1. Wow! That's so cool!

2. Why didn't someone this smart spend that time to build something that really matters?

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "What is going on right now?"

rickreynoldssf — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 13:15:54 +0000

I think a lot of the impressions of AI generating slop is a case of garbage in/garbage out. You need to learn HOW to ask for things. Just asking "write code to do X" is wrong in most cases. You have to provide some specifications and expectations just like working with a junior engineer. You also can't ask "write me a module that does X". You need to design the module yourself and maybe ask AI for help with each specific individual endpoint.

These juniors you're complaining about are going to get better in making these requests of AI and blow right past all the seniors who yell at clouds running AI.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "The End of Handwriting"

rickreynoldssf — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:09:42 +0000

I was an artistic kid and essentially came up with my own distinct handwriting "font". It was beautiful. 35 years later, all typing, I've lost most of it. Now my handwriting is illegible especially because that "font" is still the way I write but I don't have the muscle memory to execute it any more. The whole use it or lose it is very real.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "DOOM CAPTCHA"

rickreynoldssf — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 20:25:58 +0000

Kind of hard without strafe.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Busy Status Bar"

rickreynoldssf — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 13:35:23 +0000

You would probably get interrupted more by people wondering what that thing is.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "John Carmack on inlined code (2014)"

rickreynoldssf — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 09:44:41 +0000

He's definitely not talking about 5 line functions and DRY.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "John Carmack on inlined code (2014)"

rickreynoldssf — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 12:23:30 +0000

The clean code people are losing their collective minds reading that. lol

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels"

rickreynoldssf — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:15:53 +0000

There was a startup called RheoTV started by ex-Apple people that did exactly that and it didn't work out.

There was also something called NeverThink that had the same fate.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Call the compiler, fax it your code [video]"

rickreynoldssf — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:32:24 +0000

That's got to be actually useful. I can't think how but there's got to be some situation where that is the best solution.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Collection of publicly available IPTV channels"

rickreynoldssf — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 14:09:17 +0000

Crashes my browser :(

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "The forgotten war on beepers"

rickreynoldssf — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 14:15:14 +0000

I'm old so... I remember when someone having a beeper was awe inspiring. "Oooh that dude must be a doctor!" After a while it became more like "Oh that dude's sketchy" and finally "Oh wow that dude must be poor"

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "OpenAI board reappoints Altman and adds three other directors"

rickreynoldssf — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:53:55 +0000

I can't wait for the book(s) that will have details about what really happened over that period of chaos.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Updates to US verification requirements"

rickreynoldssf — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:34:55 +0000

Chase will let you but then close your accounts within 6 months when their trust and safety team does their audit triggered by your transaction. It's a well known thing that Chase loves to boot customers for sneezing the wrong way while interacting with them.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Updates to US verification requirements"

rickreynoldssf — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:16:05 +0000

It's not so easy for customers to buy crypto to make these Web3 payments. If your bank is Chase you basically cannot without them closing all your accounts.