what is the point of spamming hn with low quality llm comments.. do you put your hn karma on your resume or something? like what's the end goal
Readit Newsellg commented on FFmpeg 8.0 ffmpeg.org/index.html#pr8... · Posted by u/gyan
I have other things to do with my day than vibe-coding yet another stupid chat app with fewer features than one I can just download and get running in minutes. It’s not helplessness or misery, it’s just the finite number of hours I have in a day and the fact that other things are more interesting than that. I don’t grow my own wheat or maintain my own OS, either.
its ok to let other people have fun programming and code dumb tools. you can decide yourself what you want to or not to work on, doesn't mean you should be so negative towards the idea of people who do want to code these things
This is the most "just build your own Linux" comment I read this year.
Just download some tool and be productive within seconds, I'd say.
Kinda odd to be so dismissive of this mindset given this websites title. Whipping up your own chatui really is not that hard and is a pretty fun exercise. Knowing how your tools work and being able to tweak them to your specific usecases kinda rules!
ellg commented on Show HN: Appwrite Sites – the open-source vercel alternative appwrite.io/blog/post/ann... · Posted by u/eldad_fux
Yes and open about it. You can check my other HN posts, including the last one about Appwrite Sites, where I mentioned I'm a team member: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44027691
I also build with Appwrite, so I experience it as a user. You might have noticed some of my products on GitHub, including https://nextjob.work
Your previous comment was the absolute opposite of being open, honestly you saying this now makes me not want to go anywhere near this product fwiw.
It isn’t, arguably easier than installing Go (no GOPATH). Rust compile times are really slow compared to Zig or Go though.
(Edit: As this seems to trigger some people: I code in Rust. I’m just stating the facts.)
Dont disagree that compile times are slower compared to alternatives in this space, although I'm not sure I'd quite describe that as some sort of barrier to entry from contributing
At this point I see it as turn-off when a project like this uses Rust. Slow, massive tooling and such a huge barrier to entry, when we have Go, Zig or just C (this ends up being largely backed by libc/ucrt anyway?).
whats the actual barrier? installing rust? looking at the instructions this doesnt seem much harder than installing zig or go?
ellg commented on OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era openra.net/... · Posted by u/tosh
It’s not clear from the website but I’ve always been curious if these engines have community built assets that negate the need for real game assets. It would be really nice to sidestep the need to buy the games altogether (legally of course!)
In this case, EA released all the classic c&c games for free so its pretty easy to snag all the assets. I think the OpenRA launcher even has an option to download them for you.
There are 3rd party mods with their own assets too though, its a pretty neat engine.
ellg commented on Show HN: Namefinder.app – find ready to purchase domain names for your new idea namefinder.app/... · Posted by u/ellg