What a tired headline, what a tired topic. Can't believe how much joy has been sapped from my life reading about AI
Readit Newsericyd commented on Coding agents have replaced every framework I used blog.alaindichiappari.dev... · Posted by u/alainrk
ericyd commented on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw brandon.wang/2026/clawdbo... · Posted by u/brdd
FWIW, the screenshots all have the dates spanning the last couple days.
But yeah, I can't imagine me getting used to a new tool to this degree and using it in so many ways in just a week.
That makes it even less believable. They talked about how this tool has replaced some other tools such as flight price trackers. How in the world could that happen in 1 week to such a degree that you wrote a whole blog about it?
ericyd commented on A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw brandon.wang/2026/clawdbo... · Posted by u/brdd
Wait I'm ignorant, how long has OpenClaw/Clawdbot existed? This person listed like 6 months of activities that they offloaded to the bot, I thought this thing was pretty new.
ericyd commented on Peerweb: Decentralized website hosting via WebTorrent peerweb.lol/... · Posted by u/dtj1123
This response feels disproportionate to the comment's comment
Only if it's your primary use of HN, see the guidelines and FAQ linked at the bottom of almost every page here. If you just use HN for self-promotion, that's discouraged and you have a good chance of getting shadowbanned. If you participate in the community and also self-promote, that's fine.
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
I should have looked, this makes total sense that there would be a published policy on this. Thanks for clarifying.
ericyd commented on Nannou – A creative coding framework for Rust github.com/nannou-org/nan... · Posted by u/dmit
OPENRNDR is amazing and I love using it for generative art, especially installations, not so much for stuff to share on the web. I find the API is way more tuned to my programmer brain compared to Processing/p5.js. The only problems, I think, are:
- It's Kotlin/JVM. Looks pretty, is ergonomic to write in, runs everywhere. But also, I feel forever chained to IntelliJ and cant wrap my head around the build system at all.
- Small community. Searching for issues, tutorials, or anything of that sort doesn't yield that many results. Not a problem if you're self-sufficient enough, but might stop me from recommending it to a beginner. The development also seems kind of slow.
I share these feelings; I don't use JVM anywhere and so booting up IntelliJ just for art felt weird. I eventually decided to write an SVG library in TypeScript heavily inspired by the OPENRNDR API [1]. Of course, if small community is one of your concerns, then I can't help you there, as the community for my library is just me.
Is it a faux pas to submit your own blog to HN? Almost surely.
ericyd commented on A Single Diplomatic Meeting Crashed Gold 7% in One Hour lightcapai.medium.com/the... · Posted by u/sevenal
I mean... this article is just Gobbledegook. Gold went up because of political instability, a deal was announced and gold went down because of political stability. Oh sorry no it "executed a deterministic fallback". No one is impressed because you name check ISO standards.
Even the conclusion feels unnecessarily contrived:
> The lesson for 2026 is clear: Do not trade the headlines. Trade the Anchor. And right now, the geopolitical anchor is in Türkiye.
ericyd commented on Nannou – A creative coding framework for Rust github.com/nannou-org/nan... · Posted by u/dmit
I used Nannou for several months, it's actually how I got into creative coding and was my first real foray into Rust. I didn't find the compilation time to be a huge issue for me, but I did find the strictness of Rust to be a problem. Creative coding for me evolved into making beautiful (to me) visual patterns with code. I had no interest in understanding or fixing a mutable shared value because this code was meant to exist for only a few moments, not to power an enterprise system.
I eventually moved on to OPENRNDR [1] which I loved, but these days I just use TypeScript.