Hacker News: rideontime

New comment by rideontime in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

rideontime — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:23:32 +0000

We don't need to "guess." When somebody shows you who he is, believe him.

New comment by rideontime in "Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS"

rideontime — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:48:25 +0000

Seconded. The "personality" it tries to add is trite and tiresome and everybody immediately sees it for what it is, especially for a case like this where there's only so many ways to say "this is the default desktop color of an operating system." Not only that, but it's confusing - is "Windows Classic blue" a real thing, or just an attempt at a cute phrase? Just label the colors and be done with it.

New comment by rideontime in "AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job"

rideontime — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:10:45 +0000

This mirrors my experience. Vibe-coding one-off, low-risk apps, it's been fantastic. Trying to take the same approach when implementing features in massive legacy codebases has been an utter nightmare.

New comment by rideontime in "How to Exist"

rideontime — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 04:21:38 +0000

I'm pretty sensitive to slop and didn't get it from this one. This blog's existed since 2009.

New comment by rideontime in "Couple Stalked by eBay Settle for $56M"

rideontime — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:53:48 +0000

About time. Been hearing about this story for years. Apparently Devin Wenig contributed $2 million of the settlement, but I'd prefer to see him behind bars, too.

New comment by rideontime in "Modder Runs GTA III Inside GTA: San Andreas on an In-Game TV"

rideontime — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:29:59 +0000

The video mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_w6fo4KVy0

New comment by rideontime in "Better and Cheaper Than IPTV"

rideontime — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 21:40:33 +0000

What kind of streaming websites? Like, Netflix? Amazon Prime?

New comment by rideontime in "Better and Cheaper Than IPTV"

rideontime — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:36:57 +0000

Seems to be missing some context. What is this used for? Piracy?

New comment by rideontime in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

rideontime — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:29:03 +0000

Depressing to see all the AI-generated text in an article about a creative communication tool. Even the comic's punchline is clunky, and no human being would ever refer to Michael Jordan as the "Space Jam guy."

New comment by rideontime in "Secret Tracker in Claude Code Uncovered, Anthropic Directly Deletes Code"

rideontime — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:58:56 +0000

I love the random paragraph of Indonesian text in the middle of the "article." Here's the original reporting this ripped off without providing any new information: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/07/anthropic-outed-...

New comment by rideontime in "A better way to tie your gym shorts. (Or any drawstring) [video]"

rideontime — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:39:57 +0000

Hard to tell if that's the same as the Ian Knot: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

New comment by rideontime in "PlayStation Architecture"

rideontime — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:19:03 +0000

Copetti enjoyers should also checkout everything Fabien Sanglard has done, including the Wolfenstein and Doom Black Books, the Another World port analyses, and the other dozens of code reviews he's posted. https://fabiensanglard.net/

New comment by rideontime in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

rideontime — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:17:18 +0000

Name and shame.

New comment by rideontime in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

rideontime — Thu, 21 May 2026 04:17:21 +0000

And you're going to verify them on that tiny screen before executing them?

New comment by rideontime in "I keep tripping over "true, false, true""

rideontime — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:41:43 +0000

I was nodding along with the piece in the first half, then it repeated the same point five more times and I started to smell slop.

New comment by rideontime in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

rideontime — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:30:37 +0000

Same here. I don't care how they responded to the backlash, the fact that it happened in the first place was enough for me.

New comment by rideontime in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

rideontime — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:58:00 +0000

"Neo feudal lords" might read like hyperbole to those unaware of Brian Armstrong's "Network State" fanaticism. He may not be one yet, but he's certainly striving toward that goal.

New comment by rideontime in "AI Product Graveyard"

rideontime — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:06:19 +0000

Please stop posting this.

e: Apologies, I had this confused for the other "dead tech projects" website posted recently that was similarly full of false information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945955

To rephrase it: Please stop posting slop websites full of incorrect information.

New comment by rideontime in "I benchmarked Claude Code's caveman plugin against "be brief.""

rideontime — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:51:43 +0000

Was this actually easier to write than just writing what comes naturally?

New comment by rideontime in "Show HN: Rip.so – a graveyard for dead internet things"

rideontime — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:46:08 +0000

How does one "pour a 56k modem out"? This is the sort of nonsensical turn of phrase that AI writes.