scrame's comments

On: Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made

[scrame]

you say in your own essay that you're response was "bitch sick my sick". you come across as a narcissistic arrogant spoiled brat.

On: The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok

[scrame]

This is the guy that created bittorrent, btw. I know that was a long time ago, but he's not just some random blogger.

[nipponese → scrame]

I guess we're not going to talk about his cryptocurrency?

[EGreg → scrame]

Glad to see Bram getting into things lately. Second appearance on HN

[llm_nerd → scrame]

A "random blogger"? Hell, I don't even claim to be that. But the weird Cohen cultists who think his opinion is anything more than peanut gallery because of something he did two decades ago need to get a grip maybe.

Hey wait a minute, I think Hawk Tuah Girl has a hot take on Claude Code quality! Not some random blogger, she'll give it the hawk tuah!

As an aside, it's absolutely hilariously ironic that someone else pointed out how worthless this blog post is, and every reply is some variation of "it's just a blog post, bro. It's just, like, thoughts and you're expecting too much". Irony. Boy, good it isn't some "random blogger".

[dang → llm_nerd]

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.

[claudiug → scrame]

99% of people here dont know what is bittorrent. but they can vibe it :)

[hungryhobbit → scrame]

Given his background, you'd think he'd know that he should provide some evidence for his position (instead of making this completely unsupported rant).

[Waterluvian → hungryhobbit]

I think you're interpreting the structure and goal of "Bram's Thoughts" wrong. It's a guy's blog, not a thesis defense.

[_moof → hungryhobbit]

It's a blog post, not an academic paper. Do you cite every source when you're conversing with colleagues?

[tombert → _moof]

I wasn't too upset with Bram's article, but I do think people should be citing specific claims, even in blog posts.

If you make an assertion in a blog post, I have no idea if you got the information from a respected scientific journal, or Reddit, or InfoWars, or the writing of a bathroom stall. It's hard to know if the assertion is grounded in reality or just something you made up.

The response I get to this is universally "LOL just look it up yourself man!", but that feels like a cop out. When I write blog posts, I put inline links all over the place to try and justify my assertions to show where I'm getting this information. If I sourced some bad information from a bad source, it's clear to know where I got it from and you can either notify me or disregard the assertion.

On: GPT‑5.3 Instant

[scrame]

What's the point in learning to work with these models when a new one comes out every 2 weeks?

On: Coding agents have replaced every framework I used

[scrame]

quite a bit of software you would need to understand the assembly. not everything is web-services.

[verdverm → scrame]

I've only needed assembly once in more than 20 years of programming, not a webdev

It was during university to get access to CPU counters for better instrumenting, like 15 years ago. Havent needed it since

[manofmanysmiles → scrame]

I've found LLMs (since Opus 4.5) exceptionally good at reading and writing and debugging assembly.

Give them gdb/lldb and have your mind blown!

[HarHarVeryFunny → manofmanysmiles]

Do you mean gdb batch mode (which I've heard of others using with LLMs), or the LLM using gdb interactively ?

[manofmanysmiles → HarHarVeryFunny]

I wrote a wrapper python script debug.py that will run gdb as a subprocess, and then takes input from the args.

Usage is somewhat like:

$ debug.py start $ debug.py -c "break main" $ debug.py -c "continue"

Cursor at least doesn't seem to like running interactive programs yet.

On: Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs

[scrame]

Assuming you can buy GPU's at a reasonable price.

On: The Jeff Dean Facts

[scrame]

My further comment will be buried, but its a rip on Chuck Norris facts, and was pretty ... whatever ... "geek culture". That was only proved by Chuck Norris' endorsement of Mike Huckabee back in 2007: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--EGyU57efY

On: The Jeff Dean Facts

[scrame]

I get jeff dean is a great engineer and probably had nothing to do with this, but I always thought this "googly" memeing of chuck norris was so lame.

I mean, chuck norris even did it to endorse mike huckabee. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--EGyU57efY

On: The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup

[scrame]

so... what's he actually doing with 10 terminals of claude code?

[johnfn → scrame]

Working on Claude Code?

[cluckindan → johnfn]

Yo dawg, we heard you like for Code to code Code for you.

On: Replacing JavaScript with Just HTML

[scrame]

yes, because most everyone dreads working with javascript, which is why there is so much tech built around not dealing with it.

On: IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

[scrame]

and it never will, because IPv4 has become a defacto reputation system for the exact same reason that IPv6 was created: a limited supply. It wouldn't surprise me to see the continued balkanization of the internet that there is a particular underclass of exclusively IPv6 traffic, but its not going to take over everything because once decentralized systems are now in the hands of a few decisionmakers in the case of, say, email.