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New comment by usernamed7 in "I restarted a 10 year old Xeon 174 times to delete 12 flags and gain 4 TPS"

usernamed7 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:18:31 +0000

> I am telling you the count because the count is the point.

> The honest caveat, because it matters:

> This one I got right in the original, and now I have the number to back it.

Thanks Claude.

New comment by usernamed7 in "Ponytail – make your AI agent think like the laziest senior dev in the room"

usernamed7 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:57:13 +0000

> You ask for a date picker

wow... this is me

New comment by usernamed7 in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

usernamed7 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:13:15 +0000

Slashing prices is only going to go so far...you couldn't pay me to use chatGPT or codex. I used chatGPT for a long time but once i switched to anthropic i could sense a higher quality and a lot less frustration and correction on my part.

New comment by usernamed7 in "Tailwind and slop apps"

usernamed7 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 00:56:32 +0000

I agree there is a "sameness" that you get from tailwind.

Tailwind has a unique benefit in that you can change the CSS of the page and just that page. There is no chance that you make a change that breaks the rest of the site because you wrote a rule wrong. In some environments/applications this is a big deal.

But honestly that's the only credit i'll give it. The class names are still confusing to me and you do get more flexibility with CSS. And i'd rather be writing classless css and targeting custom HTML elements anyway.

New comment by usernamed7 in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

usernamed7 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:24:44 +0000

this reads to me as a false equivalence. Choosing a Mac is opting into a specific alternative. Choosing Windows is just taking the default.

New comment by usernamed7 in "Retro Synthwave on YouTube"

usernamed7 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:54:30 +0000

These are long synthwave mixes that were uploaded before Suno became popular (it was released December 2023)

Retro Synthwave on YouTube

usernamed7 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:54:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=synthwave+before%3A2024-01-01&sp=EgIYAg%253D%253D

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350548

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

AI Slop Is a Choice

usernamed7 — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:17:57 +0000

Article URL: https://building138.com/ai-slop-is-a-choice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48348766

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by usernamed7 in "2026 HIPAA Security Rule Update"

usernamed7 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:13:31 +0000

I was thinking the same - makes the article feel very amateur and unprofessional. And I know for a fact that AI can do a better job at writing than this, I doubt they read it and had any sense of how poor the writing actually is.

New comment by usernamed7 in "Why 'Smart' Products Have Started to Look Like the Dumb Choice"

usernamed7 — Sat, 16 May 2026 16:57:12 +0000

I've been reflecting on this lately. I bought a window air conditioner which has higher BTU but also has an "app" you can download on your phone. Which I have no interest in. The remote has basic controls and that's...fine.

My old air conditioner would remember its last mode and temperature settings but this one has amnesia and starts up in the same state blank state every time. It also automatically raises the room temperature over night which is dumb.

I haven't bothered downloading the app, because I don't need my air conditioner on the wifi and i can't fathom what would be so great about an app when i basically just need on/off functionality.

I see the same thing happening with cars. I heard that dave (of dave's garage on YT) has a car from 2018 that can no longer start remotely because the car company shut down the servers. It's not even 10 years old!

And good luck finding a TV that isn't "smart" that shows you their own ads, sends screenshots of what you watch, and pauses ads when you press mute. Ridiculous.

From Today, Software Engineering Is Dead

usernamed7 — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:08:07 +0000

Article URL: https://building138.com/from-today-software-engineering-is-dead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48093950

Points: 15

# Comments: 11

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.