Hacker News: wuliwong

New comment by wuliwong in "Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web"

wuliwong — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:05:07 +0000

They have tests, this person is just wrong.

New comment by wuliwong in "Rune: A native GPU-rendered Rust UI framework for macOS, Windows, Linux and web"

wuliwong — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:04:28 +0000

What are you talking about? They definitely have tests.

New comment by wuliwong in "I Read the Clankers' Code"

wuliwong — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 19:49:10 +0000

> Ok but that sounds like a user issue: you’re bad at prompting and you’re putting it on the LLM.

>Shit, I forgot to add you're a distinguished principal 10x engineermaxxer who's unfailable, make no mistakes and double-check your shit.

I know he's being funny and explains later but obviously that's not enough. There's lots of guardrails you can put on code delivery pipelines that help. In my experience the code produces good results way higher than 95%. 95% would be horrific.

New comment by wuliwong in "Supermarket freezers across Europe hit by second suspected cyber-attack"

wuliwong — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 17:16:08 +0000

I'm not saying I think the benefits outweigh the risks but to say there is no reason is to just be willfully ignorant.

New comment by wuliwong in "[dead]"

wuliwong — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 18:06:26 +0000

Added 10 new fighters all based on classic monster characters. If you liked Mike Tyson's punchout, this should be fun.

New comment by wuliwong in "DoorDash to acquire Instacart"

wuliwong — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 15:36:54 +0000

Those are the only two options of course!

New comment by wuliwong in "It's still OK to enjoy programming"

wuliwong — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:01:54 +0000

I'm a little in the middle, I was always really good at programming, it just clicked for me. As a physicist, I could see that I was OK at the math and physics but excelled at the programming piece. At the same time, I never really cared much about the art of programming itself. It still was a means to an end. I know that does make it so I can't totally empathize with engineers who just love the art of programming and the existential fear they might be feeling with the looming AI takeover.

New comment by wuliwong in "It's still ok to enjoy programming"

wuliwong — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:58:52 +0000

Sewing had been a relevant skill for 10s of thousands of years. Programming has been relevant for 10s of years.

New comment by wuliwong in "Super Punch World"

wuliwong — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:51:04 +0000

I am a big Mike Tyson's Punchout fan back in the day. I've only ever made one really crappy game in the past that I never released and yes I used AI heavily on this game. I keep NOT putting this out in public, so I am doing it now rather than what likely would be never. Hope you like the game, would love feedback on the gameplay and any bugs or suggesitons.

It's pretty difficult on a mobile browser btw. You can play it but it's tough to defeat some of the opponents. There is controller support for those that partake.

The story is pretty thin, just thought about fighting all the people in my company made me laugh.

Super Punch World

wuliwong — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:51:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.superpunchworld.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50107432

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by wuliwong in "Submarine cable resilience"

wuliwong — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:55:51 +0000

Underwater cables have been one of the more awe inspiring things for me. I know nothing about them but they seem SO crazy and yet we have them running all across the oceans. .·°՞( ̑ ᗜ ̑ )՞°·.

New comment by wuliwong in "Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages"

wuliwong — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:13:35 +0000

What do you think they should have called it? Any suggestion that is an unfamiliar term would mean that almost nobody would have clicked on the link and therefore it would not have risen to the top of HN and therefore none of us would even know this exists. I think I think I can accept a loose definition of ASCII art for actually being able to see this page.

(=ᵔᗜᵔ=)

New comment by wuliwong in "You are no longer invited to dinner"

wuliwong — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:19:50 +0000

100% I have been a "party thrower" for years and it is obvious that the bulk of our friend group never hosts an event. I think this is probably the way it's been with humans for a long time though. It is an interesting observation.

New comment by wuliwong in "The problem is not the AI code, but nobody knows anything anymore"

wuliwong — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:29:13 +0000

>We’ve had to know everything about the product/business from day 1

I know this is being hyperbolic but I thought this was an odd post to include. I've met plenty of data engineers that don't have great knowledge of the business/product and SWEs that do have that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by wuliwong in "Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos"

wuliwong — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:15:19 +0000

I don't want to be a hater but I made this a while ago and I honestly think the videos are a good bit nicer than what you are creating with Opus 5.5. https://mnfst.video/

New comment by wuliwong in "Devil's Arrows: Ancient builders hauled 55k-lb stones 11 miles for UK stone row"

wuliwong — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 19:11:48 +0000

I initially read the title as 55,000 one pound stones. I was thinking, huh that does seem like a lot of work. (>▽<)

New comment by wuliwong in "I have a theory that software drives people insane"

wuliwong — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:27:12 +0000

Which he talks about in the article of course.

New comment by wuliwong in "I have a theory that software drives people insane"

wuliwong — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:24:49 +0000

This was written at a really easy level. It was not at all hard to understand. Disagreeing with something and not understand it are very different but often the latter is feigned to make the writing seem written by an inferior. It's kinda like an ad hominem attack. (≧▽≦)

New comment by wuliwong in "I have a theory that software drives people insane"

wuliwong — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:15:39 +0000

Or maybe he thought it was more effective to talk specifically about something he had actual experience rather than saying "it shows up everywhere" with no way to actually support the claim?

New comment by wuliwong in "I have a theory that software drives people insane"

wuliwong — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 20:49:42 +0000

I don't usually dig these little tirade blog posts but I genuinely laughed, related, and enjoyed this one.

I particularly liked this quote:

>You can watch sensible people argue for an hour over a button because, somewhere deep inside the conversation, the button has become connected to a future pile of money.

I have worked in a number of different types of jobs; from restaurants, to nursing homes, to roofing, to physics research. And finally for about 15 years I've been developing software at various companies of various sizes (Giant corporations to tiny startups). Part of what he describes is what attracted me to this industry. The feeling of being able to create something that people can actually use and might actually make money (maybe A LOT of money) was/is stimulating. Having witnessed the craziness that can come from that seed, well I just think he did a great job of explaining it. I appreciate that he tries to balance showing the insanity with the fact that there are times when the underlying driver is real. That's probably true of most insanities though. :)

Anyway, I'm not leaving the industry but I think it's really difficult for the AI agents to tell what is crazy and what isn't, so they are picking up this insane culture. (^▽^)