Hacker News: rickreynoldssf

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.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Every default macOS wallpaper"

rickreynoldssf — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 18:11:15 +0000

I still use a background tile from MacOS 7.5. I guess that makes me reallly old and a bit spectrumy

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)"

rickreynoldssf — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 20:20:37 +0000

I didn't even have to read the article to know how someone got scammed on Marketplace. Its nothing and I mean NOTHING but scams (oh with the exception of stuff people are giving away).

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies"

rickreynoldssf — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:50:52 +0000

Are personal printers really still a thing? I can count on 1 finger how many times I needed to print something in the past few years and FedEx Kinkos is perfect for that. I'd rather pay like $5 rather than have some bulky ugly thing taking up space on my desk.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Scammers are ruining Facebook marketplace"

rickreynoldssf — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 17:31:18 +0000

Reporting the scammers to Meta is pointless. I was bored a while ago and scambaited about 10. I posted stuff like couches bed frames etc. I built up a long chat history that plainly showed they were scamming them reported them. Weeks later all the accounts were still active and scamming. Funny thing is ALL the responses to my items were from scammers. No real person inquired and everything I posted was very nice high quality.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Ask HN: Netflix doing mass layoffs today?"

rickreynoldssf — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:36:43 +0000

This really shouldn't be a shock for Netflix employees. According to Netflix's culture page (https://jobs.netflix.com/culture) They are a team, not a family.

When you're on a team you know you can be cut at any moment. It's ruthless over there and the recruiters will make sure you're aware of that early in the interview process. Netflix was never known as a good place to work which is why they pay outrageous salaries and the average employment length is a little over a year.

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads"

rickreynoldssf — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:05:47 +0000

You're expecting too much from poorly trained contractors in India who review these reports (if a human reviews them at all).

New comment by rickreynoldssf in "Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access"

rickreynoldssf — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 23:40:07 +0000

I'm not sure what was expected after they reverse engineered a private API and used it.