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New comment by twoquestions in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

twoquestions — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:29:11 +0000

This is what I'm doing right now to learn Electron, I essentially had Opus write me a tutorial to write the application I want to have, and I'm modifying bits and pieces as I go. It's been enlightening thus far, and the bot isn't always right so I still need to look up documentation on occasion.

New comment by twoquestions in "Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns"

twoquestions — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:21:53 +0000

If they're skimping on their posters, what else are they skimping on?

It's cheap, looks cheap, and signals laziness. This is the sentiment I'm getting even from non-technical people on Facebook these days.

New comment by twoquestions in "Steam Machine"

twoquestions — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:38:58 +0000

Prebuilt machines have a terrible reputation, I could see people wanting this for a PC that you don't need hardware expertise to boot up. If you're reading this you could probably pick out your own parts and assemble them for cheaper, but for people who want a console-style plug-and-play type experience I could see the market for it.

Pricey, but so is any other sort of electronic entertainment hardware these days.

New comment by twoquestions in "SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable"

twoquestions — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:08:28 +0000

Trip report: FFXIV does great, but both Hades and Hollow Knight have atrocious lag. I don't know why different games are different for Bluetooth lag performance, when they're all great on my Windows machine.

New comment by twoquestions in "SteamOS Linux 3.8 released as stable"

twoquestions — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:39:03 +0000

I hope the Bluetooth audio latency issue I've been having is fixed. I have two Bluetooth pairs of headphones, one open-ear and one noise-cancelling, and they both have either a half-second or one-second latency between what happens on screen and the audio feedback.

Luckily wired headsets work perfectly fine.

New comment by twoquestions in "The Military Failures of Fascism"

twoquestions — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:37:30 +0000

Stalin's Russia didn't have a cult of machismo quite like Germany or Italy did, they measured themselves by industrial and intellectual might, rather than how manly they were. Yes there are quite a few similarities I'll grant you, but they didn't have that particular weakness.

New comment by twoquestions in "Migrating to the EU"

twoquestions — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:50:29 +0000

For the longest time it was an economic axiom that regulations drive off businesses, and here stronger laws are directly attracting business!

New comment by twoquestions in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

twoquestions — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:02:47 +0000

This, I've been using SpecKit for a while for my side project and it's been working beautifully. I generally spend more than half my time working on the specs, until implementation is an afterthought, Claude already knows what to write and where. The /speckit.analyze and /speckit.clarify tools are extremely useful for me.

2025 State of JavaScript Results

twoquestions — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:41:32 +0000

Article URL: https://2025.stateofjs.com/en-US

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47095014

Points: 3

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New comment by twoquestions in "Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation"

twoquestions — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:06:58 +0000

Glad to see Anthropic continuing to invest in the longevity and quality of their open-source dependencies!

If you missed it, they bought Bun a while back, which is what Claude Code is built in: https://bun.sh/blog/bun-joins-anthropic

New comment by twoquestions in "Unpopular Opinion: Bootstrap is a better front-end framework than Tailwind"

twoquestions — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:13:36 +0000

Same, it feels like Bootstrap but much, much more customizable. When I'm not using ShadCN that's what I reach for by default, it's been much nicer to work with, personally.

New comment by twoquestions in "VS Code deactivates IntelliCode in favor of the paid Copilot"

twoquestions — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:18:15 +0000

I've been having a very good time with Zed. Great vim motion support, and fast to the point where using VSCode feels like driving a semi truck by comparison.

https://zed.dev

New comment by twoquestions in "Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon"

twoquestions — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 13:11:19 +0000

Before I clicked the article, I said to myself "The victim's gotta be Black", and lo and behold. AI has inherited police's (shitty, racist, and dangerous) idea that any Black person is a dangerous monster for whom anything is a weapon.

New comment by twoquestions in "Zed is now available on Windows"

twoquestions — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:48:49 +0000

It's extremely refreshing to see the editor's memory and processor usage be smaller than the webapp tab I'm working on.

I'm really liking it thus far!

New comment by twoquestions in "Vibe engineering"

twoquestions — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 13:23:16 +0000

People keep comparing LLMs to automated looms, but I find them more comparable to cruise control than autopilot.

I've been working on a character sheet application for a while, and decided to vibe-code it with Spec-kit to help me write up a specification, and for things I know it's been great. I tried using Claude to make it into a PWA (something I don't know very well) as an experiment, and I've found the nanosecond the model strays out of my experience and knowledge everything goes straight to Hell. It wraps my codebase around a tree as if I'm not paying attention while driving.

It's a tool you'll have to learn to use, but I can say with absolute confidence it's no replacement for actual skills, if anything it highlights the gulf between people who know what they're doing and people who don't, for better and worse. It sacrifices some of the 'code under your fingers' feeling for management tasks, which I personally really like, as I've always wanted to document/test/code review/spec things out better, and I now understand the pain of people who'd rather not do that sort of thing.

https://github.com/github/spec-kit

New comment by twoquestions in "Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy"

twoquestions — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:12:36 +0000

I 90% agree with you, though Apple did stand up to the FBI some years ago. The US gov't at least is much more restricted on what data it can collect and act on due to the 4th Amendment among other laws, and as another commenter said Apple can't blackbag me to El Salvador.

Apple/FBI story in question: https://apnews.com/general-news-c8469b05ac1b4092b7690d36f340...

New comment by twoquestions in "Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs"

twoquestions — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:29:46 +0000

I've fallen in love with using Vimium when browsing, and the real thing elements are much easier to use than JS substitutes.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vimium/dbepggeogbai...

New comment by twoquestions in "Ask HN: What is your fallback job if AI takes away your career?"

twoquestions — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 12:28:42 +0000

Probably the same thing I'm trying to do as a side gig now, building software to help solo/small company artisans keep track of customers/payments/taxes.

Essentially, make tools for others in my position that are going to try selling pottery or soap until they can hopefully turn it into a full time thing.

New comment by twoquestions in "Consider Knitting"

twoquestions — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 13:31:53 +0000

Hardest possible concur with everything OP said.

Knitting and other fiber arts are the grandmother of computer programming, and I'd go so far as to say your CS education is incomplete without at least passing knowledge of fabric weaving and especially weaving machine history.

Ignorance is not your fault, unfortunately they can't teach you everything in college, and people tend to downplay the importance and history of "women's work", much to all our detriment.

https://www.scienceandindustrymuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stor...

New comment by twoquestions in "Vimium: A browser extension that provides Vim-style keyboard controls"

twoquestions — Fri, 30 May 2025 15:17:11 +0000

When I first saw this, I thought it was a joke to make fun of vim fanatics, but once I installed and started using it, it fit my hands really well almost immediately. Amazing, good work!