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New comment by rockbruno in "Blackholing My Email"

rockbruno — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:42:35 +0000

I had seen noclip's documentary about de_dust2 featuring him before but didn't piece the name together. Very happy to find that he has a blog!

New comment by rockbruno in "Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera"

rockbruno — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:09:45 +0000

I had no idea they blocked imgur on the UK. I'll move it to self-hosted!

New comment by rockbruno in "Ask HN: Where have you found the coding limits of current models?"

rockbruno — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:39:40 +0000

Problems that require deep knowledge of multiple repositories, e.g. when trying to debug issues involving dependencies. The models get confused very fast even with all code available locally, due to the size of the problem. But in my experience any kind of deep integration already messes up the models, even within a single repo.

New comment by rockbruno in "Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera"

rockbruno — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:34:20 +0000

Oh yeah I forgot to mention that, it was the first option I considered but getting it shipped to Sweden was super expensive. So it didn't make sense considering I just wanted the camera dump feature. Buying the pcb and port on the other hand only costed me about 10 bucks since I already had an Arduino laying around, and also served as some necessary soldering practice :)

Digitizing photos from the 1998 Game Boy Camera

rockbruno — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 11:50:44 +0000

Article URL: https://swiftrocks.com/digitizing-photos-from-the-1998-game-boy-camera

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47562342

Points: 68

# Comments: 15

New comment by rockbruno in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

rockbruno — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:16:03 +0000

When the AI companies run out of money, I predict tokens will stop being dirt cheap and such setups will become extremely expensive (even for regular software engineering to some extent). Then it's become clear how over-engineered most things we do with AI are

New comment by rockbruno in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

rockbruno — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:20:58 +0000

While true, my personal fear is that the higher-ups will overlook this fact and just assume that AI can do everything because of some cherry-pick simple examples, leading to one of those situations where a bunch of people get fired for no reason and then re-hired again after some time.

New comment by rockbruno in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

rockbruno — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:16:07 +0000

I think the "well defined prompt" is precisely what the person you responded to is alluring to. They are saying they don't get worried because AI doesn't get the job done without someone behind it that knows exactly what to prompt.

New comment by rockbruno in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

rockbruno — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 10:33:52 +0000

This gave me an idea. You should set it up to say "We must construct additional pylons" if it requires MCP permissions specifically

Emulating the Gameboy Printer with an Arduino

rockbruno — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 18:01:58 +0000

Article URL: https://mofosyne.github.io/arduino-gameboy-printer-emulator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568191

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rockbruno in "Scaling LLMs to Larger Codebases"

rockbruno — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:46:27 +0000

Yeah I experienced this yesterday and it was really cool. It really only happened once though.

Sourcekit-Bazel-bsp: iOS Development in Cursor / VSCode, for Bazel projects

rockbruno — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:44:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/spotify/sourcekit-bazel-bsp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45855190

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rockbruno in "A security incident that may involve your Plex account information"

rockbruno — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 07:25:08 +0000

I made an account there to use my Home Assistant as a media server and it's already the second time they reported that they messed up something. I heard you can install VLC on the Apple TV and stream through that, so I'll definitely do that and skip these weird middle companies.

New comment by rockbruno in "Isolated(any)"

rockbruno — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:15:17 +0000

I think Swift Concurrency is a great idea that unfortunately wasn't executed very well. The motivation behind it is that concurrency is difficult to understand and tricky to get right, but Swift Concurrency is at times even more difficult to understand and has even more pitfalls and gotchas compared to old-school synchronization primitives. I don't know where exactly it went wrong but it does feel that they really overcomplicated this feature.

New comment by rockbruno in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

rockbruno — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:25:48 +0000

The most hilarious yet infuriating thing for me is when you point out a mistake, get a "You're absolutely right!" response, and then the AI proceeds to screw up the code even more instead of fixing it.

Reducing email spam with a domain and catch-all aliases

rockbruno — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 13:25:09 +0000

Article URL: https://swiftrocks.com/becoming-unspammable-with-a-domain-and-catchall-email-aliases

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44423015

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rockbruno in "That 'unsubscribe' button may be a scam"

rockbruno — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 14:58:19 +0000

You can have aliases on Gmail if you use Google Workspace (for custom domains), but there's a limit and no support for wildcards. Wish they had those, because then it's very easy to find out who sold your data

New comment by rockbruno in "Root shell on a credit card terminal"

rockbruno — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:45:08 +0000

Aren't credit cards nowadays basically physical private keys? IIRC transactions are one-time payloads signed specifically for that operations, so intercepting that won't help you if I'm not mistaken about how cards work nowadays.

New comment by rockbruno in "XTool – Cross-platform Xcode replacement"

rockbruno — Sat, 17 May 2025 07:58:49 +0000

I think you are mixing some different concepts here. It's not that this is a layer on top of Xcode/xcodebuild, it's just that Apple today happens to package everything iOS/Swift-related together with Xcode releases. So even if you couldn't care less about the Xcode IDE itself or the xcodebuild build system, you still need to have it because this is the only way for you to download / install those toolchains. Apple could provide these separately, but they just don't.

New comment by rockbruno in "What’s new in Swift 6.2"

rockbruno — Sat, 10 May 2025 05:17:09 +0000

Agree on Paul Hudson being great, but not so much on the guiding around the pitfalls. One big issue with the Swift community in general in my opinion is that a lot of the community content is incredibly shallow. Most of them are fine with "there's this feature and you can do X with it, cool right?" style-content, meaning very few people actually take the time to explain what the trade-offs are / performance considerations / how things work under the hood, and IMO this took a huge negative hit in the average skill level of Swift developers.