Hacker News: stevehine

New comment by stevehine in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

stevehine — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:55:26 +0000

There is also a meta post where the bot details the methodology [1] - I find this is at least as concerning as the fightback post itself.

[1] - https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

New comment by stevehine in "Problem with selling developer tools is that devs have no purchasing authority"

stevehine — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 12:42:52 +0000

This isn't everyone's experience - I've got two precision laptops - they are 12 and 10 years old and have never shown so much as a sniffle of a problem, neither has my Latitude laptop that I lug around for personal use. Maybe I just got lucky ?

New comment by stevehine in "If you can't reproduce the model then it's not open-source"

stevehine — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 19:37:55 +0000

This depends, how many times does it need to hear the song to build up a reasonably consistent internal reproduction, and are you paying per stream or buying the input data as CD Singles - or just putting the AI in a room with the radio on and waiting for it to take in the playlist a few times ?

New comment by stevehine in "Reflections on quitting my job"

stevehine — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 09:40:54 +0000

You're kidding right ? We're not footballers or athletes.. at 45 I feel like I only really started to approach the top of my game in the last 10 years and I've no desire to ease up or stop learning. There's an age bias that is quietly unravelling predisposed on IT as a whole being a young industry rather than because young people are better at it.

New comment by stevehine in "Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel"

stevehine — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 12:25:33 +0000

VS Code / Visual Studio both have a 'rainbow indent' extension which colours the indented space rather than the highlighted code. But it relies on the code being formatted correctly; rather than anything semantic in the language. It's still useful !