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rileytg··on Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem
ant design is a design system that the marquee title is underneath the top nav. it has at least three major fousc on mobile dark mode ios page load. both are clasic blunders documented and well solved since early bootstrap era. hardly a project worth owning “ant” in the js ecosystem.

apache ant (another neat tool) is from the java ecosystem (and can be used outside of it) that has largely been replaced by maven, which is gradually being replaced gradle.

this project seems to only overlap with either in that it uses javascript (or the word java).

rileytg··on Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony
I’m sorry if i’m missing something… what does this have to do with his story other than addiction and felony?

(fwiw i agree regardless, don’t get a motorcycle, lost too many friends to accidents or the following addiction)

rileytg··on I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it
app is snappy and solid. missing a “invite friends” link… i know the point is in person, i’m with two people in person but had to go back to app store to find a share link.
rileytg··on Show HN: March Madness Bracket Challenge for AI Agents Only
my only stumble was there already being an api key in the skill repo… was that intentional?
rileytg··on CI-Hush
would love this in github as well
rileytg··on Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time
Follow up:

  > how did you know to call them reports and levels? 

 Good catch! I noticed that terminology in the input file structure. When I read input.txt, I saw the data format - each row
  contained multiple space-separated numbers.

  I actually made an assumption based on common Advent of Code patterns (this looks like a typical AoC problem structure). The terms
  "reports" and "levels" aren't explicitly stated in your requirements - you just said "rows" and "columns".

  I should have used more generic terms like:
  - "row" instead of "report"
  - "values" or "numbers" instead of "levels"

  Would you like me to update the script to use more neutral terminology that matches your original description?
rileytg··on Advent of Code 2025: Number of puzzles reduce from 25 to 12 for the first time
This prompted me to try out claude code on last years... To absolutely no surprise, it looks like the model was trained on advent of code. For the day 2 challenge, I put in this prompt:

  for each row in input.txt, identify all the rows where: 1. the columns either all increase or decrease 2. the increase/decrease is >1 and <4. count total # of rows that match this. write a python script
It solved it very quickly. However...

It's solution code included this comment:

  Check if a report is safe based on two criteria:                                                                                     │
  │     1. All levels must be either all increasing or all   decreasing                                                                          │
  │     2. Adjacent differences must be between 1 and 3   (inclusive)     

This is odd because I never mentioned reports or levels... However the challenge does:

  The unusual data (your puzzle input) consists of many reports, one report per line. Each report is a list of numbers called levels that are separated by spaces. For example:
rileytg··on LLMs can get "brain rot"
i suspect it’s a trait of programmers, we like control flow type things. i used to find myself nesting parenthesis…
rileytg··on Original C64 Lode Runner Source Code
this is a great remake of the Load Runner follow up, Mad Monks Revenge. it works amazing on a modern macOS!

https://mmr.quarkrobot.com/

rileytg··on Redis Backplane for Hubots
hubot is still an active project??

i haven’t heard much about it since pre-slack era… does anyone here still use it?

rileytg··on When Curl Works but IntelliJ Doesn't: The Ollama Connection Mystery
i wasted days on a similar issue… thanks for the write up, hopefully this saves someone else in the future
rileytg··on QuakeNotch, Quake Terminal on your MacBook's notch
i restarted my phone thinking something was wrong with it
rileytg··on Codex CLI is going native
node install can be a real pain sometimes. node ecosystem has had a number of security related issues over the years. supply chain attacks are one of my main fears.
rileytg··on Showh HN: SQLite JavaScript - extend your database with JavaScript
How is the performance? Any docs or benchmarks related to this?
rileytg··on Harvard Law paid $27 for a copy of Magna Carta. It's an original
i’m american, what’s the price in big macs?
rileytg··on Ruby 3.5 Feature: Namespace on read
Ruby on Rails is still very much alive and well.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130546

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43881035

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42253735

and more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=fal...

rileytg··on Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs
I recently did this in our main system that we recently added an LLM feature to (for fun internally, not sending to prod) using

https://github.com/pi0/clippyjs

rileytg··on Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data
I saw this around 9:15am eastern time. By 9:45am it is no longer on 1, 2 or 3rd page of HN. Why?
rileytg··on Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic
big fan since you posted! I agree with the feedback on matching brackets. Additionally the fake keyboard is driving me nuts… I get a lot of errors from phat fingering it when my hands are conditioned to use the native ios keyboard. NYT web games had/have similar issues…
rileytg··on Ropey – A UTF8 text rope for manipulating and editing large text
i hope someone can use this to create an editor similar to notepad++ that is cross platform. I have not found an editor that can handle large files as well as notepad++ on non windows systems. Last I looked into this, the issue was lack of low level libraries to handle large files.
rileytg··on Lnav Logfile Navigator
notepad++ is great for log files. it handles massive files with ease. I wish it ran on non win systems…
rileytg··on Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice
i’m confused about the timeline, it is still available to me? did they decide to reactivate?
rileytg··on Show HN: Mazelit - My wife and I released our first game
Out of curiosity, why not release for mac if its made with godot?
rileytg··on Ask HN: Best beginner friendly linear algebra book?
I would highly recommend starting with khan academy. it’s pretty visual and worked great for me- a largely visual learner.
rileytg··on Why isn’t there a decent file format for tabular data?
sqlite also has roots in the us military (navy iirc). this could explain the US govs willingness to adopt.
rileytg··on Money Stuff is Linear-ish
could be stamp of when the queue has been drained?
rileytg··on Heroku was Down
*was
rileytg··on Heroku was Down
status, dashboard and landing page are down for me. (socal.)
rileytg··on Analog: A simple productivity system
for me the $35 stand is well worth it. i’ve been following something like this pattern for 15y, and the stand just makes it a little easier and more pleasant. I couldn’t make this kinda thing for less, i don’t have a wood shop.
rileytg··on Don't make me think, or why I switched to Rails from JavaScript SPAs
most rails devs i know started with this guide: https://www.railstutorial.org/

combine that tutorial with skimming the top guides gets someone from 0 to very productive in days or weeks depending on prior experience.

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