Hacker News: wordofx

New comment by wordofx in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

wordofx — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:19:21 +0000

Yes. You don’t want opinions you disagree with. Got it. Basically admitting you side with the assassin.

New comment by wordofx in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

wordofx — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 23:06:49 +0000

You don’t need to take guns away to solve gun violence. He’s 100% right. Start dealing with crime. Stop allowing criminals into the country. Stop releasing criminals back onto the streets. Stop ignoring people with violent tendencies.

New comment by wordofx in "iPhone Air"

wordofx — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 01:03:12 +0000

Oh now it’s about a status symbol. So you can’t afford a status symbol and you’re upset? :(

New comment by wordofx in "iPhone Air"

wordofx — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:08:50 +0000

Awww you upset you can’t afford it?

New comment by wordofx in "Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users"

wordofx — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:58:07 +0000

This does not prove that Meta does not have the ability to decrypt the messages.

New comment by wordofx in "Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users"

wordofx — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:02:05 +0000

Meta/WA. Same thing. Might have worked at WhatsApp but FB still advertises based on conversation content.

New comment by wordofx in "Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users"

wordofx — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:49:14 +0000

So much for that e2e encryption that HN claimed was so good and that META couldn’t possibly use what’s app messages to do advertising from.

New comment by wordofx in "Using Claude Code to modernize a 25-year-old kernel driver"

wordofx — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 05:58:56 +0000

I disagree with their CoC on AI. There are so many projects which are important and don’t let you contribute or make the barrier to entry so hard, and so you do best effort to raise a detailed bug description for it to sit there for 14 years or them to tell you to get fucked. So anyone who complains about AI isn’t worth the time and day and I support not getting paid as much if at all.

New comment by wordofx in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

wordofx — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:54:47 +0000

> Most users will just give a vague tasks like: "write a clone of Steam" or "create a rocket" and then they blame Claude Code.

This seems like half of HN with how much HN hates AI. Those who hate it or say it’s not useful to them seem to be fighting against it and not wanting to learn how to use it. I still haven’t seen good examples of it not working even with obscure languages or proprietary stuff.

New comment by wordofx in "Survey: a third of senior developers say over half their code is AI-generated"

wordofx — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 08:10:58 +0000

> because my corporate code base is a mess that doesn’t lend itself well to AI

What language? I picked up an old JS project that had several developers fail over weeks to upgrade to newer versions of react. But I got it done in a day by using AI to generate a ton of unit tests then loop an upgrade / test / build. Was 9 years out of date and it’s running in prod now with less errors than before.

Also upgraded rails 4 app to rails 8 over a few days.

Done other apps too. None of these are small. Found a few memory leaks in a C++ app that our senior “experts” who have spent 20 years doing c++ couldn’t find.

New comment by wordofx in "Claude Sonnet will ship in Xcode"

wordofx — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:01:43 +0000

Almost no one uses copilot unless they are not allowed to use anything else or don’t know any better. MS could have been a leader in this space but MS couldn’t understand why people didn’t like copilot but loved the competition.

New comment by wordofx in "Aspects of modern HTML/CSS you may not be familiar with"

wordofx — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:31:03 +0000

Unfortunately we are stuck with trash tailwind.

New comment by wordofx in "Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed"

wordofx — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:43:24 +0000

Things are only created or expanded if there is a return. Its that simple.

New comment by wordofx in "Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines"

wordofx — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:03:50 +0000

I’m wondering at what point the minority are going to finally accept ai is here to stay.

New comment by wordofx in "Will Smith's concert crowds are real, but AI is blurring the lines"

wordofx — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 07:02:15 +0000

I thought Willy had disappeared into the shadows after his wife embarrassed him to the point he prob won’t step foot in public again…

New comment by wordofx in "What makes Claude Code so damn good"

wordofx — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 20:39:33 +0000

I have most of the tools setup so I can switch between them and test which is better. So far Amp and Claude Code are on top. GH Copilot is the worst. I know MS is desperately trying to copy its competitors but the reality is, they are just copying features. They haven’t solved the system prompts. So the outcomes are just inferior.

New comment by wordofx in "I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface"

wordofx — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 09:42:24 +0000

So zig isn’t a serious language. It’s just some trash apis thrown together.

New comment by wordofx in "I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface"

wordofx — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 09:38:25 +0000

Na. It’s flat out laziness. Don’t make excuses. Either write docs or stop worrying code.

New comment by wordofx in "FFmpeg 8.0"

wordofx — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:02:55 +0000

Wouldn’t be surprised if Theo did a video about investing in ffmpeg and how he revived it and has been consulting to the developers and we should bow down and praise him for resurrecting ffmpeg.

New comment by wordofx in "I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform"

wordofx — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:28:05 +0000

PMs don’t help make good software.