Hacker News: thefoyer

New comment by thefoyer in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

thefoyer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:10:43 +0000

Golf simulator software. It's doing okay. For a side job I got a gig at a racing engine builders shop tearing down rebuilds and cleaning parts.

New comment by thefoyer in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

thefoyer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:08:33 +0000

rm -rf

New comment by thefoyer in "Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode"

thefoyer — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:17:10 +0000

I remember writing obj-c naturally by hand. Before swift was even a twinkle in tim cooks eye. One of my favorite languages to program in I had a lot of fun writing ios apps back in the day it seems like

New comment by thefoyer in "Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode"

thefoyer — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:09:48 +0000

What an odd thing to ask it. I installed claude code and ran it from my terminal. Just asked it to simply give me a node based rest API with X endpoints with these jobs, and then I told it to write the unreal engine c++ to consume those endpoints. 2500 lines of code later, it worked.

New comment by thefoyer in "Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode"

thefoyer — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 09:06:24 +0000

I haven't opened up xcode in years (thank god) I suppose this was inevitable. They have to keep up

New comment by thefoyer in "Lottery Simulator (2023)"

thefoyer — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 16:51:23 +0000

This is exactly why I don't play the lottery

New comment by thefoyer in "Power use is hitting record highs – what summer outage risks tell us about grids"

thefoyer — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:41:08 +0000

Where do you think the electricity comes from?

New comment by thefoyer in "Ohio State University secures trademark for use of the word 'THE' on clothing"

thefoyer — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:20:15 +0000

Literally nothing

New comment by thefoyer in "FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market"

thefoyer — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:33:17 +0000

People should also stop eating crap food and clogging up our 'public health' but yet mcdonalds isn't banned

New comment by thefoyer in "Ask HN: How did my old Gmail account get linked to my identity and new name?"

thefoyer — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 16:28:35 +0000

ever since I signed up for linkedin I get recruiters emailing me at my previous companies email address. There is no reason they should even have that information.