Hacker News: rileytg

New comment by rileytg in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

rileytg — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:08:37 +0000

app is snappy and solid. missing a “invite friends” link… i know the point is in person, i’m with two people in person but had to go back to app store to find a share link.

New comment by rileytg in "Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only"

rileytg — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 06:08:51 +0000

my only stumble was there already being an api key in the skill repo… was that intentional?

New comment by rileytg in "CI-Hush"

rileytg — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:35:01 +0000

would love this in github as well

New comment by rileytg in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

rileytg — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:40:33 +0000

Follow up:

  > how did you know to call them reports and levels? 

 Good catch! I noticed that terminology in the input file structure. When I read input.txt, I saw the data format - each row
  contained multiple space-separated numbers.

  I actually made an assumption based on common Advent of Code patterns (this looks like a typical AoC problem structure). The terms
  "reports" and "levels" aren't explicitly stated in your requirements - you just said "rows" and "columns".

  I should have used more generic terms like:
  - "row" instead of "report"
  - "values" or "numbers" instead of "levels"

  Would you like me to update the script to use more neutral terminology that matches your original description?

New comment by rileytg in "Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time"

rileytg — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:30:14 +0000

This prompted me to try out claude code on last years... To absolutely no surprise, it looks like the model was trained on advent of code. For the day 2 challenge, I put in this prompt:

  for each row in input.txt, identify all the rows where: 1. the columns either all increase or decrease 2. the increase/decrease is >1 and <4. count total # of rows that match this. write a python script

It solved it very quickly. However...

It's solution code included this comment:

  Check if a report is safe based on two criteria:                                                                                     │
  │     1. All levels must be either all increasing or all   decreasing                                                                          │
  │     2. Adjacent differences must be between 1 and 3   (inclusive)

This is odd because I never mentioned reports or levels... However the challenge does:

  The unusual data (your puzzle input) consists of many reports, one report per line. Each report is a list of numbers called levels that are separated by spaces. For example:

New comment by rileytg in "LLMs can get "brain rot""

rileytg — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:07:43 +0000

i suspect it’s a trait of programmers, we like control flow type things. i used to find myself nesting parenthesis…

New comment by rileytg in "Original C64 Lode Runner Source Code"

rileytg — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 22:49:34 +0000

this is a great remake of the Load Runner follow up, Mad Monks Revenge. it works amazing on a modern macOS!

https://mmr.quarkrobot.com/

New comment by rileytg in "Redis Backplane for Hubots"

rileytg — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:42:11 +0000

hubot is still an active project??

i haven’t heard much about it since pre-slack era… does anyone here still use it?

New comment by rileytg in "When Curl Works but IntelliJ Doesn't: The Ollama Connection Mystery"

rileytg — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:00:51 +0000

i wasted days on a similar issue… thanks for the write up, hopefully this saves someone else in the future

New comment by rileytg in "QuakeNotch, Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch"

rileytg — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:20:05 +0000

i restarted my phone thinking something was wrong with it

New comment by rileytg in "Codex CLI is going native"

rileytg — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 02:19:13 +0000

node install can be a real pain sometimes. node ecosystem has had a number of security related issues over the years. supply chain attacks are one of my main fears.

New comment by rileytg in "Showh HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript"

rileytg — Thu, 22 May 2025 13:49:28 +0000

How is the performance? Any docs or benchmarks related to this?

New comment by rileytg in "Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original"

rileytg — Thu, 15 May 2025 22:02:32 +0000

i’m american, what’s the price in big macs?

New comment by rileytg in "Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read"

rileytg — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:48:54 +0000

Ruby on Rails is still very much alive and well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130546

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881035

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42253735

and more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

New comment by rileytg in "Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs"

rileytg — Tue, 06 May 2025 17:41:34 +0000

I recently did this in our main system that we recently added an LLM feature to (for fun internally, not sending to prod) using

https://github.com/pi0/clippyjs

New comment by rileytg in "Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data"

rileytg — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:46:48 +0000

I saw this around 9:15am eastern time. By 9:45am it is no longer on 1, 2 or 3rd page of HN. Why?

New comment by rileytg in "Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic"

rileytg — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:06:57 +0000

big fan since you posted! I agree with the feedback on matching brackets. Additionally the fake keyboard is driving me nuts… I get a lot of errors from phat fingering it when my hands are conditioned to use the native ios keyboard. NYT web games had/have similar issues…

New comment by rileytg in "Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text"

rileytg — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:48:30 +0000

i hope someone can use this to create an editor similar to notepad++ that is cross platform. I have not found an editor that can handle large files as well as notepad++ on non windows systems. Last I looked into this, the issue was lack of low level libraries to handle large files.

New comment by rileytg in "Lnav Logfile Navigator"

rileytg — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:45:21 +0000

notepad++ is great for log files. it handles massive files with ease. I wish it ran on non win systems…

New comment by rileytg in "Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice"

rileytg — Tue, 21 May 2024 01:40:37 +0000

i’m confused about the timeline, it is still available to me? did they decide to reactivate?