amrangaye (u/amrangaye)

amrangaye commented on Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran'; gist.github.com/avestura/... · Posted by u/avestura

e-khadem · 6 months ago

I would argue that not every society will thrive under a democracy. The people must be somewhat educated, politically savy, considerate, and accommodating. At least this has to be true in the beginning of a democracy where the people are laying the foundations.

Now I agree that the policies of the United States may not always be in the interest of the people from that part of the world, but a "mild" dictator like the one that the Saudi Arabia has or the one that Turkey has right now, these are better models sometimes. The SA of 50 years ago had no notion of human rights and severely under developed and could in no way support a democracy. Of course a dictatorship is not ideal, and the people of SA will have to pay a terrible price for it some day, but for now a dictatorship that "bows" to the west is not the worst thing either.

amrangaye · 6 months ago

Spoken like someone who’s never lived under a dictatorship :)

amrangaye commented on Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere github.com/omnara-ai/omna... · Posted by u/kmansm27

forsakenharmony · 7 months ago

The cost of maintaining code has absolutely not gone down and every line of code is tech debt

The big issue with AI coding is that is kills the fun part of software development (actually writing code) and just becomes reviewing and understanding code you didn't write

amrangaye · 7 months ago

“Kills the fun part of coding” - absolutely not! Coding is a lot more fun now that I can move from idea to working prototype in an evening without having to figure out individual libraries, research and learn them etc. The last time I felt this excited / into tech was when I first discovered Ruby on Rails and started using it for projects.

I’ve done several projects that would take months to complete otherwise with “vibes coding”, including: an African fairy tale generator for my daughter, a farm management system for the ministry of agriculture in my country, a Gambian political comic strip creator, a system that generates ten minutes summary podcasts of all my country’s news etc. I’ve also had great success with clients - and got them to sign on much faster - by just putting together a quick demo now that I show them instead of sending a proposal and pitch deck describing what I’ll build for them. It makes them so much more excited and we can make changes almost in realtime.

I’ve noticed a lot in the industry and even on hn, that coders - especially long time ones - tend to “look down” on vibes coding, the same way they did with scripted languages back in the day, and I imagine the same way with compilers. I think this will generally fade out as it becomes industry standard, but in the meantime sometimes I see comments on hn that are so discouraging and cynical it makes me wonder if the person actually tried it out or had just pre judged it. I also think the phrase “vibe coding” is a terrible name, cause it makes it sound like a lazy way of doing things. It’s so much more than that, and lets you think and plan at the idea level. Things like planning your system before you ask it to implement also help a lot.

amrangaye commented on What if we made advertising illegal? simone.org/advertising/... · Posted by u/smnrg

amrangaye · a year ago

I think he missed one of the use cases for advertising: providing “free” services to people in the “third world”. I come from west Africa, majority of people can’t afford to pay for Facebook, YouTube, whatsapp etc even though these are their main means of communications. Even if they could afford it (“just a few cents is nothing” to us on here - to these people that’s how much they make in a day), they don’t use traditional banking services and certainly not access to credit and debit cards to make payments. I hate ads too, for all the reasons mentioned in the article. But I don’t see a feasible way to make these services available for the 1 billion plus people I’m describing. Open to ideas.

amrangaye commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) · Posted by u/david927

ryanjamurphy · a year ago

Would love to do something similar. Have you written about the technicals/set up somewhere?

amrangaye · a year ago

Not yet as I’m still finessing it to her needs. She has a problem getting rid of thumb sucking, and finally asked for a fairy tale with a thumb sucking princess who eventually stops sucking her thumb lol. It’s a fun activity and also letting me learn about LLMs.

amrangaye commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) · Posted by u/david927

joelfried · a year ago

Sounds super unique. Please include me too if you do any public follow up? I'd actually enjoy reading those, myself as I've collected folktale collections for years!

amrangaye · a year ago

Will do. Hn has no way of tagging people or following up though so I’m not sure how to share once I go live. But if you shoot me a message I’ll update you once done. amrangaye at gmail dot com.

amrangaye commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) · Posted by u/david927

tcmart14 · a year ago

This sounds pretty cool. As another commenter asked if you have a write up, I just want to throw my hat in and say, I would enjoy reading a write up what your doing. From the technical bits to a review by your daughter of how well the stories came out.

amrangaye · a year ago

Thank you. Yes she’s been enjoying them a lot now that we don’t have to repeat the same stories every night :) I’ll share on here once I’m done and also the right up.

amrangaye commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) · Posted by u/david927

amrangaye · a year ago

Does “vibe coding” count :-) I’m from west Africa and lately been very interested in African fairy tales to read to my daughter. Ended up building ( a GPT-backed interface that can insert her in any African story she wants. We also have a list of African queens who’re not famous anymore but did amazing things (look up Queen Nzinga for example). So I’m doing a series of little children’s books about each queen - have them exported to PDF so I can print them out and bind for her: her own little Collection of fairytales. I plan to put it online later - even if you’re not African I think it’s a great way to explore our history.

amrangaye commented on Elon Musk's Demolition Crew projects.propublica.org/e... · Posted by u/raybb

motorest · a year ago

> Who is incompetent in this list?

The definition of competence is "having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully."

You're posting in a forum mainly followed by engineers. Your average experience engineer knows well what a kid straight out of college brings in in terms of ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully. We know, because some of us are tasked with onboarding said kids to come straight from college. Some of us had the privilege of onboarding elite recruits from college, and even they need guidance to be effective at their job.

And you just assume these randos don't? They parachute into organizations, systems, and services they are completely oblivious about, they antagonize and are outright hostile to the existing staff and procedures, they even try to push code without knowing a thing about anything, and this doesn't raise any red flags with you?

> I think they can figure out a government ledger.

Do you really know, though? I don't think so.

amrangaye · a year ago

+1. And “figure out a government ledger” sounds like a friend who would ask why google spend so much money when “it’s just one page with a search box”. Government spending and the amounts involved in budgeting and appropriation etc are far more complex than that, even for small countries.

amrangaye commented on The Ugly Truth About Spotify Is Finally Revealed honest-broker.com/p/the-u... · Posted by u/LordAtlas

DyslexicAtheist · a year ago

> a proportion of the listeners don't recognize they are listening to slop

this is perhaps the crux of the matter!

Very few people in my social circle whose taste in music I share. The majority of them don't even have a "taste" and content with whatever their car-radio pumps out.

Does that drive me mad? Mildly.

Appreciating and recognizing great music is a deeply personal experience.

Like appreciating different culinary tastes that requires training and exposure (ideally from a young age), it's also hard work (the older and more settled our tastes get).

amrangaye · a year ago

“The majority of them don’t even have taste” - by your definition of taste perhaps? :-) just sounds condescending - taste is whatever they like, not what you decide is good to like.

amrangaye commented on What we know about CEO shooting suspect bbc.com/news/articles/cp9... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

asdafasad · a year ago

Ahaha, yeah, right? It's just ridiculous. What a laughable debate, this whole insurance thing is. It's just the free market working to optimize outcomes.

By the way, can you help me understand what a 'pre-existing condition' is? Literally nobody outside of America has experience with this term.

amrangaye · a year ago

Only a “laughable debate” and “just the free market” if you haven’t actually had to deal with these insurance companies when you have a health issue and have never paid your dues late. I’m guessing you’re from somewhere in Europe with universal health care?