Hacker News: rychco

New comment by rychco in "A guide to Gen AI / LLM vibecoding for expert programmers"

rychco — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:39:43 +0000

> as if just because they have more experience THEY CAN

I don't follow. Why wouldn't you believe that a senior engineer, that has been reviewing code for years, be any better at reviewing code?

New comment by rychco in "Electric bikes might just be the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers"

rychco — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:25:57 +0000

Agreed. E-bikes have gotten my elderly relatives moving too. From essentially sedentary to active on a daily basis.

Teens + other able bodied people are inactive for reasons unrelated to ease of pedaling.

New comment by rychco in "Electric bikes might just be the healthiest thing to ever happen to teenagers"

rychco — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:20:40 +0000

This is cute, but the real reason our teens are inactive & unsocial is because of awful zoning laws + exurban sprawl. It’s not realistically possible to meet your friends anywhere, their homes are too far away & there aren’t any third-spaces to spend time at.

New comment by rychco in "Ask HN: What projects do you donate to?"

rychco — Tue, 27 May 2025 10:44:15 +0000

I’ve (irregularly) donated to Zig, Janet, Blender, Godot, and Raylib. Outside of software, I have also donated to EFF (electronic frontier foundation).

New comment by rychco in "Tell HN: TIL about Not By AI, A Badge you can add if your work is "human made""

rychco — Sat, 03 May 2025 22:28:46 +0000

If this was a strong signal for quality that many people started relying on… AI creators would just lie about it.

The only ones benefiting from this are notbyai.fyi

New comment by rychco in "Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation"

rychco — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 15:44:55 +0000

I don't necessarily think this is a bad goal, but the term "vibe coder" is almost certainly considered derogatory now.

New comment by rychco in "Most promoted and blocked domains on Kagi"

rychco — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:05:44 +0000

I think it’s more likely that Kagi users value relevant search results & accurate information.

New comment by rychco in "Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord"

rychco — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:46:30 +0000

> Note that there have been rumours about Discord preparing to go public

That’s disappointing, but even now it’s hard to imagine they’re particularly profitable. The core functionality of Discord is entirely free and I doubt that Nitro / other paid features earn that much.

New comment by rychco in "YouTube Premium Lite: Ad-Free Viewing for $7.99/Month"

rychco — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:07:42 +0000

We all know this is just the starting point & they'll inevitably raise the price without good reason. However, this is genuinely what I had been asking for; none of the youtube music nonsense.

The (current, temporary) price is reasonable, so I'll probably give it a try.

EDIT: Nevermind, I didn't realize that background play wasn't included.

New comment by rychco in "Discovery Coding"

rychco — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:33:20 +0000

This is mostly my experience, except that I DO know the problems.

I don’t get to define the deadlines, that’s up to someone in a department entirely unrelated to engineering. Therefore I only have time to ship fragile, barely-tested code which is built on fragile untested legacy code.

New comment by rychco in "US newspapers are deleting old crime stories, offering subjects a 'clean slate'"

rychco — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 17:28:57 +0000

The prison-industrial complex in the United States encourages this. While less than 10% of prisoners are in “for-profit” prisons, there’s a large industry of private companies beyond this that profit off federal prisons; in addition to providing cheap prison labor or goods made by prison laborers (AKA modern slavery)

New comment by rychco in "Supreme Court wants US input on whether ISPs should be liable for users' piracy"

rychco — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 11:05:10 +0000

Unfortunately this is largely not the case in North America, there is no reliable public transit outside of urban areas.

New comment by rychco in "'I had no idea being a social drinker would damage my liver by 31'"

rychco — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:52:33 +0000

Social binge-drinking is the norm. Amongst my peers, I’d define this as drinking to the point of severe drunkenness on a roughly biweekly basis.

I think it’s genuinely frightening how normalized this is.

New comment by rychco in "Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted to Same Tier as Gnome-Based Fedora Workstation"

rychco — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:00:27 +0000

Interestingly, I've tried KDE multiple times on different devices & each time there's a Wifi issue that's not present in any other linux desktop. Even the steam deck's default steamos has this issue in desktop mode.

I suspect it's something related to my wireless router, but non-KDE desktops work perfectly fine so I'm mildly confused.

New comment by rychco in "Godot for App Development"

rychco — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:32:38 +0000

I'm happy to see that this usage of Godot has continued. I've been interested in using Godot for application development since I saw their official "Apps & Tools - 2022 Showreel"[1] video. The only concern I see commonly mentioned is in terms of accessibility (lack of screen reader support, etc.) - which could be a major drawback for certain types of software.

[1] https://youtu.be/9kKp0oguzr8?si=tib32MgkXFqri7mC

New comment by rychco in "Love of cargo bikes is changing how we deliver goods in our cities"

rychco — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 19:34:52 +0000

(Clearly not North America)

New comment by rychco in "House committee approves bill requiring new cars to have AM radio"

rychco — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:04:15 +0000

If they actually cared about public safety, they would pursue legislation to require analog controls & eliminate touchscreens in vehicles.

New comment by rychco in "Why Copilot Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming"

rychco — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 20:03:22 +0000

There’s not much to talk about here. Of course you won’t improve when a third party is producing your code.

That being said, I’m interested to see what happens to LLM effectiveness over time as the amount of LLM-generated code starts infecting training data.

New comment by rychco in "Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good"

rychco — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 19:20:50 +0000

Allowing users to re-prioritize search results directly harms their true product: ads

New comment by rychco in "Dawn of a new era in Search: Balancing innovation, competition, and public good"

rychco — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 20:51:12 +0000

I’ve been a happy Kagi customer for probably 2 years(?) now. Highlights for me, as a professional:

- I can blacklist low-value domains (such as geeksforgeeks) that dominate the top of many programming searches.

- I can increase/decrease the priority of domains or pin domains to the top of searches, such as official documentation for languages/libraries.

- I can use “Lenses” to filter results for programming/academic/forum results.