Hacker News: tquinn35

New comment by tquinn35 in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

tquinn35 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:09:23 +0000

It is for sure readable, why so dramatic?

New comment by tquinn35 in "Show HN: Textile – A desktop app for weaving together bits of text"

tquinn35 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:26:55 +0000

I’m a little confused what this does. Is it like espanso?

New comment by tquinn35 in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

tquinn35 — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:16:49 +0000

I think the key word is “believes”. There is no proof that AI usage improves productivity. Token maxing is essentially customers paying to try and prove a business’s unsubstantiated claim. The AI companies should be proving their claims themselves not the other way around.

I do think AI has value and is useful but the idea of token maxing is ridiculous.

New comment by tquinn35 in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

tquinn35 — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:58:35 +0000

Who’s it important for?

New comment by tquinn35 in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

tquinn35 — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:12:21 +0000

Not sure what your trying to say here

New comment by tquinn35 in "Claude is not your architect. Stop letting it pretend"

tquinn35 — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:08:46 +0000

Quite an extreme view. Chances are it lands someplace in the middle.

New comment by tquinn35 in "Claude Is Not Your Architect. Stop Letting It Pretend"

tquinn35 — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:36:41 +0000

I agree with what you’re saying but I think the difference is many managers and above think that AI is infallible or at least much less so than it actually is and that causes problems.

Everyone is aware that humans write poor code and treat the code as so. Not so with AI code. I’ve seen devs and managers cut corners in testing/reviewing code cause AI wrote it and they think it’s solid. Sure you could blame anyone cutting corners, and that would be technically correct, but the notion is so deeply embedded in many managers and higher ups that’s it’s hard to fight back. AI companies push this narrative and many individuals who do not routinely use it believe it. There is a manager at my company who loves to reference a video anthropic released last year claiming that Claude could build an app start to finish essentially unaided. He believes it’s the lack of user skill that’s the issue and not a false claim by a startup trying to make as much money as possible.

New comment by tquinn35 in "Open source Kanban desktop app that runs parallel agents on every card"

tquinn35 — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:58:08 +0000

Isn’t this just vibe kanban? https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban

New comment by tquinn35 in "The only moat left is money?"

tquinn35 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:35:35 +0000

I disagree. I think creativity is still a valid moat. You still need to build good products. Its like a restaurant anyone with some money can open a restaurant but you need to has the creativity to make a good one.

New comment by tquinn35 in "Show HN: Timeretain – Track, visualize, and export your hours"

tquinn35 — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 15:53:49 +0000

You for sure hit the minimalist aspect and it's a good looking app! I am not sure if you're mean in general time tracking or with Timeretain. In general time tracking no but I use time tracking for personal use and not for tracking paid projects. For me having a mobile app is a big deal since I use it track personal habits etc but thats probably more of niche use. My advice would be keep you focusing on your minimalist approach since you saw the need for that but I would investigate toggls business model and see if you can match that while catering to a different subset of users. Good luck!

New comment by tquinn35 in "Show HN: Timeretain – Track, visualize, and export your hours"

tquinn35 — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:08:01 +0000

I am not saying that everything should be free but once this has a price tag I can't see why I would pay for this when I can use Toggl for free. Toggl is more mature thus more feature rich and stable, it would be a hard switch.

New comment by tquinn35 in "Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire"

tquinn35 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:00:48 +0000

The number that was quoted was "in the ballpark of 30%"

New comment by tquinn35 in "Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire"

tquinn35 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 19:40:03 +0000

I disagree with this. I work at a large US bank and from the conversations I have been apart all the big banks are moving into crypto. So much float is moving out of the banks that they are scramble to catch up to try and control the damage. They are all planning to become crypto banks in a custodial sense to maintain float. Lots of people want to hate the new trendy thing but once this gets mainstream banking support everyone one will be on board.