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New comment by schnebbau in "Show HN: The Zelda timeline to catch up before the Ocarina of Time remake"

schnebbau — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:20:00 +0000

What a rollercoaster.

New comment by schnebbau in "Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts"

schnebbau — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:32:48 +0000

This is not a healthy way to think. Meta strong-arming news websites is not the beginning of the end. Get off the internet and try to enjoy your life.

New comment by schnebbau in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

schnebbau — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:51:56 +0000

AI.

New comment by schnebbau in "I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities"

schnebbau — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:05:31 +0000

The examples were a one shot. The creativity hasn't even been applied yet.

New comment by schnebbau in "I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities"

schnebbau — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 14:00:43 +0000

> Anyone could have taken the time to learn what they wanted, the tools and the resources were available.

False in reality. Just ask any dev who has had to listen to family and friends' app ideas over the last decade. The good news for them is soon they will never be asked again.

New comment by schnebbau in "I gave Opus 5.5 one prompt and six hours to visualize Invisible Cities"

schnebbau — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:58:45 +0000

I totally understand. I'm a developer with almost 20 years experience myself and it has taken me a while to come to terms with this too. Fortunately, I made enough during the good times to see me out once my job ceases to exist. I'm sorry for everyone who didn't.

I think I found a planet nobody knew existed. I used Claude Code to find it

schnebbau — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:13:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1wzw8zd/i_think_i_found_a_planet_nobody_knew_existed_i/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994840

Points: 9

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New comment by schnebbau in "Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month"

schnebbau — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:20:55 +0000

That comment was over 5 years ago. That's a long time, and from estimates he has millions of users now. Definitely making big money.

New comment by schnebbau in "Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month"

schnebbau — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:07:15 +0000

1:1? No, because AI won't know all the outputs, only the ones you show it.

Also if it could recreate it that would be fine, because it would be doing so without having access to the source.

New comment by schnebbau in "Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month"

schnebbau — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:55:22 +0000

I think we're going to see a lot more of this going forward.

I think we're also going to see the strategy to be to remove the processing and magic sauce from the client and move it to the server where it can't be decompiled and rebuilt with AI.

New comment by schnebbau in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

schnebbau — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:18:10 +0000

Prove it?

New comment by schnebbau in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

schnebbau — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:17:23 +0000

Feel free to disagree, but you will be wrong.

New comment by schnebbau in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

schnebbau — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:06:48 +0000

This is just wishful thinking.

Building the product was never the hard part. Getting it in front of people is. That will continue to be true, except the build stage will be even easier.

New comment by schnebbau in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

schnebbau — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:46:09 +0000

I climbed out of the code trenches years ago - I have multiple small companies, I'll be fine.

And yes, they both have moats that will take AI at least 5 years to erode, at which point I'll just retire.

Regarding the dog shit code comment: this is the problem with your whole line of thinking. Customers don't care if the code is dog shit. They care if they get value from the product.

As I mentioned, there will still be some demand for devs who code by hand, similar to how theres still demand for blacksmiths who make ornamental weapons.

New comment by schnebbau in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

schnebbau — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:03:52 +0000

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New comment by schnebbau in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

schnebbau — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:01:02 +0000

Because no one is going to hire developers who write code by hand, apart from a few niches. For the same reason that no one hires a courier who delivers by horse anymore, or a miller who uses windmills to grind their grain, or a cooper who continues to use wooden staves and iron hoops instead of forming plastic or metal containers, or...

New comment by schnebbau in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

schnebbau — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:40:48 +0000

Codeberg are going to have issues in the future when all code is AI generated (except for artisanal code of course, written for the love of the craft but not to achieve anything of merit).

New comment by schnebbau in "Show HN: Make cursed fonts like Times New Bastard"

schnebbau — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 08:33:28 +0000

Well today I learned corner-shape is a CSS property now.

New comment by schnebbau in "Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta"

schnebbau — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:15:54 +0000

> Undo the acquisitions of Insta and Whatsapp - I don't care that will be expensive, thats a shareholders problem.

Yikes. I thought this was America.

New comment by schnebbau in "Nike exits the S&P 100 after 18 years and a $200B market-cap wipeout"

schnebbau — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:19:20 +0000

> The human body really was never supposed to go over 50

As I get older I'm beginning to align with this.

When you're younger you think everything is going to be great until you die from a short illness at the average age of 79. Wrong. In my cohort of friends, notable age-related degradation started appearing in our late-30s/early 40s, even in the fit ones who stayed active.