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I was at Big Sky Dev Con when they unveiled the GameBoy game. I kid you not my jaw dropped. I thought it was some sort of like emulator gimmick until they said "everyone can take a…

I added the qs because it defaulted to a story from 3 months ago.

Subsequent thread: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204770

soloterm.com is closed source

woah hey! you're speaking the shibboleths!

I'll take that bet

I think you're conflating a talent pipeline with ease of running PHP. Those are not the same thing at all

> We should fund open source! > Not like that!

My word... samwho is doing some of the best technical explainers on the internet right now.

I've run into that issue while developing https://soloterm.com . If you respond twice to their theme query probes, the whole thing bricks. Or if you're slightly out of order. It's …

damn framerate looks good

> But the good news is that we can increase our chances of encountering good luck. Every phrase in the article was carefully selected to make it clear that we're trying to increase…

My role? My role as a what?

I understand. I am, however, impotent against OpenAI. If I publish code to GitHub, I understand it will be used for training. I'd rather get the win for my family than try to fight…

Unfortunately we have to play the game according to the rules on the field. You can decide to opt out entirely (which is fine) or you can play the game and try to win. Personally, …

And guess how you make friends in high(er) places... by... publishing your work and making friends in your industry

No easy answers, I'm afraid. But I would still say you can get lots of social capital from creating things and talking about it. And these days, that can get you past the LLM-inund…

Very well said

You had me in the first half! <3

Hey! I wrote the article a few years ago. Fun to see it on HN again. It was here back when I wrote it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32071137 Lots of comments talking about …

Then define luck as "connecting with fellow nerds." Still works

Totally. An engineer, who (at the the time) works in marketing! Makes sense to me :D

I'm a software developer who was, at the time, working in a marketing role. Happy to answer questions.

I wrote the article. I'm not a marketing droid, I don't work for GitHub, just a guy recounting his personal experiences and hoping to help others.