Hacker News: ttroyr

New comment by ttroyr in "GPT-5"

ttroyr — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:17:34 +0000

I think the biggest tell for me was having the leader of Cursor up vouching for the model, who has been a big proponent of Claude in Cursor for the last year. Doesn't seem like a light statement.

New comment by ttroyr in "GPT-5"

ttroyr — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:16:17 +0000

True. I'm surprised they are not based on e.g. OpenRouter usage or similar.

New comment by ttroyr in "GPT-5"

ttroyr — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 22:15:22 +0000

I would agree. I am a big fan of Claude and I've Claude code a bunch although after testing Codex & GPT-5 extensively, it just gets stuck in a rut way less often and much more often is able to pinpoint issues & fixes in the codebase.

New comment by ttroyr in "OpenAI O3-Mini"

ttroyr — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:33:15 +0000

Originally, actually there was a relationship between Cursor & OpenAI. Something like Cursor was supported by the OpenAI startup fund. So Cursor seems to have branched out. I think they are just emphasizing the models they find most effective. I'm surprised they haven't (apparently) incorporated Claude prompt caching yet for Sonnet.

New comment by ttroyr in "We need to reclaim our attention"

ttroyr — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 20:51:12 +0000

I find it ironic that the right sidebar of the guardian site has a "Most Viewed" list of articles constantly calling my attention away from the main article. As I scroll down, the list of "Most Viewed" articles follow...

New comment by ttroyr in "Show HN: Imba – I have spent 7 years creating a programming language for the web"

ttroyr — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 18:41:08 +0000

With a few minor exceptions, the responsive view looks great to me. The issues mentioned in this thread seem less to do with imba's architecture and more to do with rushed, last-minute marketing decisions (e.g. adding in the "we're hiring" chip; which, by the way, is fixed now). No excuses, of course, although as someone who painstakingly builds nice mobile views for complex web apps, no matter how good the library is (I was using Theme-ui), the process is still like building a house on-top of jello.

New comment by ttroyr in "Learn CSS"

ttroyr — Mon, 24 May 2021 15:51:29 +0000

Ditto; my first career break into the web app development world came from a friend who is a really talented developer although he had never heard of flexbox. I quickly helped him fix a frustrating layout issue and he got me a job developing a React app for the government. I didn't know React at the time although I've learned a ton since. All because I spent years messing around with CSS.

New comment by ttroyr in "Ask HN: What diagrams do you use in software development?"

ttroyr — Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:23:06 +0000

For front-end to back-end web development, UI/UX-friendly collaborative diagramming: https://whimsical.co and https://figma.com (new FigJAM tool).

New comment by ttroyr in "UX Challenges based in the real world"

ttroyr — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:37:23 +0000

Very relevant and well laid out! Ideally, in-person, human interaction is best for user testing although would be awesome to see these projects become immediately accessible for UX-interested users to practice with, via e.g. an artificial intelligence bot set up to respond to UX-related questions. Or even better, users get paired up with another UX-interested site visitor over video chat and they are each given a different, e.g., card sorting scenario to take the other person through.

New comment by ttroyr in "UX Challenges based in the real world"

ttroyr — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 18:31:16 +0000

Really helpful projects! Thank you for sharing. The set of skills you've highlighted resonate with my UX experience. I could see this becoming part of a course in the school system where I do UX/UI work and software development.

New comment by ttroyr in "I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier"

ttroyr — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 22:40:53 +0000

What would you think of a Facebook alternative that was the same, except it shows you content only based on who you're around most frequently (using GPS tracking or check-ins). That way your friends in real life (who you actually spend time with) match what you see of your friends' activity online.

New comment by ttroyr in "Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?"

ttroyr — Mon, 08 Oct 2018 20:37:27 +0000

Tulsa, OK. For my Midwestern town's relatively small size, low cost-of-living, & southern hospitality, there's an incredible diversity of ideas. Just recently, I've discussed internet security with Mozilla staff, augmented reality with a credit card processing programmer, media in West Africa with an international, Native-American university, theology with an well-known U.K. author, oil discovery with a geologist, language learning with a Spanish author, poverty education research with a doctorate-earning Nigerian, and permaculture with a data-scientist. There are endless niche tech clubs; international, artisan restaurants; and high-end art, music, & athletics ~ surprises most people who visit.

New comment by ttroyr in "Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook"

ttroyr — Tue, 02 Oct 2018 15:08:58 +0000

https://www.notion.so offers an excellent balance of power & simplicity. Definitely worth a try for those who prefer to visualize the connection between different projects. Shines in long-term planning & wiki knowledge collection.

New comment by ttroyr in "Bullshit Jobs"

ttroyr — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 22:07:09 +0000

This is hauntingly similar to my corporate experience. A procedure book seems helpful when it's standardizing general cases, although when it becomes only an end for safety rather than a beginning for further innovation, the dead weight builds up.

New comment by ttroyr in "Behind the Messy, Expensive Split Between Facebook and WhatsApp’s Founders"

ttroyr — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 18:22:05 +0000

When you've got a notification on your smartphone drawer and you tap or slide down on the notification to see the beginning message contents.

New comment by ttroyr in "Amazon warehouse workers 'peed in bottles' fearing punishment for taking breaks"

ttroyr — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 19:58:10 +0000

The trouble is not the decision to optimize for financial or physical health, the issue is that Amazon seems to see some people as part of its organism (long-term entity), such as its engineering talent, and other people, like these poor warehouse workers, as a temporary part of a future robotic optimization. Companies like Apple value their lowest level employees because nobody is sure that computers will competently replicate sympathetic customer service. Amazon doesn't need its warehouse workers' soft skills, only their muscle and basic logic.