Hacker News: virgil_disgr4ce

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "Show HN: Typebase – A single-folder back end you write in TypeScript"

virgil_disgr4ce — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:00:32 +0000

Am I missing something? The entire point of next.js is that it's backend+frontend in one project

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "IPFS Maintainers Winding Down"

virgil_disgr4ce — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:42:07 +0000

please define "authentic activity" and "inauthentic activity"

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists"

virgil_disgr4ce — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:34:27 +0000

Yeah I'm wondering the same thing. It's bizarre and unsettling and seems off-brand for HN.

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "First human trials of designer protein therapies stun US neuroscientists"

virgil_disgr4ce — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:14:33 +0000

China is an authoritarian regime that brutally punishes dissidents. Just throwing this out there because apparently everyone seems to have forgotten this.

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "Don't classify, hallucinate"

virgil_disgr4ce — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:27:24 +0000

Your call is important to us. Please listen carefully, as our menu options have changed.

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "Music Generation by a Composer, for Musicians"

virgil_disgr4ce — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:57:43 +0000

Am I crazy or is there no way to actually hear wtf this is supposed to be selling??? "Audition stems" goes to a tone wheel but nothing actually does anything??

God I hate this.

Vibe-Coded App About a Topic I Just Learned About, by AI, for AI.

Vibe Theory replaces real ideas with a chatgpt conversation I had for 5 minutes. Access confusing buzzwords, sticky lingo parroted by LLMs, and adaptable blorg zorgations crafted for immediate, slopworthy internet points.

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

virgil_disgr4ce — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:13:32 +0000

Hm? The self-awareness is the advantage. Instead of just regurgitating cringy bullshit, write something sincere, something you actually find interesting, something you liked writing and something you'd enjoy reading.

Like any sincere creative work, it takes effort. You may have to push yourself hard, yes. But like most things, it does get easier with practice.

I'd like to think that the era of AI slop will cause more people to become more sincere and thoughtful because it's a competitive advantage!

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "Improving Heuristics for A* Pathfinding"

virgil_disgr4ce — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:48:08 +0000

I legit love this idea as a general book concept

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "Danish high schoolers will have to verbally defend written assignments"

virgil_disgr4ce — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:40:19 +0000

Yes, yes, yes. Thank you for posting this. It drives me absolutely freaking crazy when people do the "Oh, I'm just not _____," having essentially decided they are not _____, and therefore will never learn or change.

Like every time I hear "Oh I'm just not a math person." It's not that I expect everyone to like math because I do, not at all. But I do expect people to not artificially limit themselves. :/

On Folk Interactions

virgil_disgr4ce — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:09:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inventbuild.studio/blog/on-folk-interactions-3a12f33c951380ba94d1ec52db669b20

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195135

Points: 1

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New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

virgil_disgr4ce — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:05:57 +0000

Man you must be really fun at parties

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage"

virgil_disgr4ce — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:05:16 +0000

All of this is exactly why I started Slow Code. I like programming. Lots of people like programming. I don't want to stop doing that. So we meet up once a month to practice that.

https://slowcode.dev

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?"

virgil_disgr4ce — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:02:02 +0000

> did Psychedelics more than a few times

If you want to specify LSD, you should do that, not "psychedelics." There are many, many psychedelics. They have sometimes radical differences. You cannot generalize that word into "many people never make it back." That is flat-out wrong, not to mention harmful.

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?"

virgil_disgr4ce — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:59:38 +0000

Whose record?

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "A Discord Alternative – Echoed"

virgil_disgr4ce — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:38:45 +0000

Man, the Nitro stuff is garbage, but it's bizarre that you're equating the ENTIRE UI to that. It's really not that obtrusive. I don't like it either but it's like 0.5% of the UI

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "A Discord Alternative – Echoed"

virgil_disgr4ce — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:37:38 +0000

Yeah; I get the impression that people saying this really mean "I hate the stupid upsells." Which is fine, I do too. But I guess on HN there's more clout to claiming it's the UI that's the problem?

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "The hardest way to make a GIF"

virgil_disgr4ce — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 19:03:58 +0000

This reminds me in the best way of Lynch's Lumiere competition entry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds-OKH2ow4o

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "Buried Apple feature turns an iPhone into the perfect kids' dumb phone"

virgil_disgr4ce — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:59:15 +0000

Monumental Deployment Mastermind

Supamachine: A Deterministic State Machine for Supabase Authentication

virgil_disgr4ce — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:13:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inventbuild.studio/blog/announcing-supamachine-a-deterministic-state-machine-for-supabase-authentication-3932f33c9513806abcc1f3c03ceab606

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48820684

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by virgil_disgr4ce in "How Alberta Eradicated Rats"

virgil_disgr4ce — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:32:24 +0000

The Freakonomics podcast did a series on rats and their relationship to cities and humans and talked about Alberta's approach—it was really fascinating, I'd recommend it: https://freakonomics.com/podcast-tag/sympathy-for-the-rat