Hacker News: usernamed7

New comment by usernamed7 in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

usernamed7 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:41:06 +0000

I confirmed searching for "Iran" with a before set ends up showing me all recent results. BUT if i use this search form to generate the query (and not the youtube search bar) it works.

via the search form: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+%22iran%22+bef...

via the YT search: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+%22iran%22+bef...

New comment by usernamed7 in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

usernamed7 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:00:42 +0000

as expected, this is slop

New comment by usernamed7 in "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"

usernamed7 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:35:42 +0000

I won't be cancelling by subscription because I don't have one :) I have found I get way more value out of subscribing for 1-2 months to a service and then switching to another or going a few months without any.

At this point, netflix will keep raising prices. Because they can, and because they have to as a public company beholden to shareholders. I'm not sure there are other markets or other products/services they could expand into, i think they've already reached a point of saturation.

New comment by usernamed7 in "I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion"

usernamed7 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:39:03 +0000

This argument doesn't make sense to me. did airplanes kill road trips? AI lets you go faster, but you don't have to use it at all, or can use it in select ways to collab with. Unless you're somehow bothered by how other people code, you've only got more options now.

New comment by usernamed7 in "SpacetimeDB ThreeJS Support"

usernamed7 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:33:44 +0000

this is pretty cool! what I do for my project (3d voxel web page platform) is treat the scene as a document and push updates to the server when things change. this works well for distribution and simplicity, but does mean multi-player is "difficult". using spacetime to manage and track that info and have threejs render would be cool and enable a lot of things.

I may explore spacetimedb as a project sometime, although i am reluctant to be tied into a platform that my project cannot work without, that i cannot host myself, that can change their pricing/limits/terms of at any time and for which there is no alternative.

New comment by usernamed7 in "GPT-5.3-Codex being routed to GPT-5.2"

usernamed7 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:53:46 +0000

aaaaaaand this is why i prefer anthropic. There is just too much sneaky/misleading/deceptive things with chatGPT. Even if benchmarks show codex to be slightly better, the developer experience with claude code is much better.

New comment by usernamed7 in "You have to know how to drive the car"

usernamed7 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:43:37 +0000

glue work is real work and a lot of projects get stalled or blocked because there was no glue; especially in SOA where you have different teams with differing roadmaps integrating with each other. It's not just about communication/socialization, but also how code interacts and how the contract is defined.

The Computer Chronicles – Artificial Intelligence (1984) [video]

usernamed7 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:20:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S3m0V_ZF_Q

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662670

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by usernamed7 in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

usernamed7 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:18:11 +0000

I wish youtube would also take action. So much of my recommendations for music is just AI slop now. I'd be OK if they flagged videos as AI and let me block them. At first I was open to the idea of AI synthwave as a thing but now it's just gotten out of hand and every day i am flagging new channels to not be recommended.

New comment by usernamed7 in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

usernamed7 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:30:54 +0000

using tailwind docs is awful. I'd MUCH rather use an LLM than try to grok their documentation. That it was their only way to promote commercial offerings is not my problem, there are many other ways to approach this than encouraging a worse experience for devs.

New comment by usernamed7 in "Travel agents took 10 years to collapse, developers are three years in"

usernamed7 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 05:36:25 +0000

while AI does lower the barrier to who can do software development it does not nullify their need only moves them into more complicated domains. Yes, if you're job as a SWE was building landing pages, you're pretty much cooked. But if you're working in complicated domains, or domains that require a level of technical awareness or social skills to create success, AI is just an amplifier and makes the boring/frustrating parts easier.

I am using claude to build a pretty complicated project. Technically, a lot of what i am prompting are things that other people could prompt. But I also do find myself leveraging a lot of knowledge in shaping what the code should do and how it should do it, and also needing to step in when claude reaches limits of it's training. I am confident that the number of people who could build what I am building is pretty small.

So I think the author is creating a narrative that is unfounded. There will always be software engineers. There will always be engineering challenges that it takes a human to resolve. Yes, always; no matter how "smart" the AI gets. For sure, AI will be taking some development jobs. But calling for a collapse is simply hyperbole, shortsighted and naive.

New comment by usernamed7 in "T-Ruby is Ruby with syntax for types"

usernamed7 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:45:28 +0000

hey this is pretty cool! very interesting concept to transpile to rbs.

in most of my coding career (rails) i have not needed types. But when i was working on a large codebase with many teams, the lack of types was a recurring issue. now i work in a SOA and face different coupling challenges.

But i much prefer this syntax to what RBS required.

New comment by usernamed7 in "TailwindSQL – Like TailwindCSS, but for SQL queries in React Server components"

usernamed7 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:37:37 +0000

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"

-Dr. Ian Malcolm

New comment by usernamed7 in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

usernamed7 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:49:34 +0000

> We're developing a responsible access framework that makes models available to researchers for scholarly purposes while preventing misuse.

oh COME ON... "AI safety" is getting out of hand.

New comment by usernamed7 in "Be Careful with GIDs in Rails"

usernamed7 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:49:47 +0000

the AI hallucinated and somehow it's rails fault?

GID's are great - i think the issue is with how they leveraged rubyLLM for something they should inherently not be using LLMs for.

> Remember that GIDs were made for facilitating ActiveJob serialization - they are a system-level facility, not a product-level facility.

I think this is somewhat obvious given the signature like gid://awesome-app/Post/32; there is no scoping to the user or account so it should be treated like a global lookup. If you need scoping to a user/account you can build that.

Honestly I think this is a matter of the author using poor design decisions and over leveraging LLMs. But this is not the fault of Rails, it is working as expected.

Be careful with LLMs!

New comment by usernamed7 in "Transparent leadership beats servant leadership"

usernamed7 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:18:37 +0000

They just described servant leadership and called it something else. It's not about parenting or treating people like children.

New comment by usernamed7 in "Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)"

usernamed7 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 13:12:45 +0000

FWIW you don't even need to define custom elements to use them: https://html3000.dev/

New comment by usernamed7 in "Goodbye, Price Tags. Hello, Dynamic Pricing"

usernamed7 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:08:22 +0000

I expect price tags will become QR-code based, and you'll need their app to see the price. This will let them tailor prices to each person for minimal costs.

Transcription, Censorship and Sanitized Expression

usernamed7 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:14:50 +0000

Article URL: https://building138.com/transcription-censorship

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46057076

Points: 1

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New comment by usernamed7 in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

usernamed7 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:00:07 +0000

> Maybe that's because they can relate and you cannot.

Now you're deflecting. I passed no judgement i made an observation of your statement and you took it personally.