How does this compare to https://aframe.io ?

haha, funny, I was thinking the same thing!

Pretty cool.. I had no idea Hal was such a hacker on the personal computers in those days... makes me think of Bitcoin whenever I hear Hal mentioned

He wasn't hacking. Hal worked for Aph, and Aph contracted with Mattel to deliver console game cartridges.

There was once a contest between Caltech and MIT. Each was to write a program to play Gomoku, and they'd play against each other. Hal wrote a Gomoku-playing program in a weekend, and it trashed MIT's program.

It was never dull with Hal around.

Great article. I need to care more myself even if other do not care, thanks for the wake up call!

Almost skipped this as there were no comments. Ended up favoriting it. Thanks :)

I remember trying to help a fellow student in Manchester University around 1991 and thinking I was deleting a subfolder when in fact I was in their home directory:

rm -rf *

: and deleting everything from their Sun Workstation Unix account. Apologies!

I went to clear some games off a drive to make room for new games, went to type RM -rf ./ and accidentally smacked enter instead of a slash. Wiped out a few games before I could stop it.

Got lucky there was nothing really important on there, and it didn't take long to fix things up. Fortunately, some stuff I was removing was at the top anyway.

Wow, I see you made SQLWindows too. I am in awe!

You have probably heard the saying "Never meet your heroes; you will be disappointed."

When I think about SQLWindows, I mostly think about what I got wrong.

Specifically, I had the mindset that "I don't know anything about databases, I'm just a Windows UI guy."

So I didn't put any effort into understanding SQL databases and maybe creating any kind of visual interface for the database.

Instead, I just worked on the Windows application side and dropped you into raw SQL for any database code.

You can also blame me for the outline code editor. All I can say is the classic excuse: "It seemed like a good idea at the time."

As someone building a JS type low code tool (yazz.com) which is also open source I am very impressed. Well done!

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

I “wish” AI would replace me so that I could do other stuff than coding

ive loved the past two weeks of working on a project where cursor is doing 98% of the coding, i have a sweet project at 20x the normal speed i could do it

Thanks. I've tried Cursor, but probably more useful on smaller codebases I found and for simple code changes. Can you share the github repo that you use it on, or give me an indication of the codebase size that you use it on?

It's a React project with less than a hundred files made by me/claude. Not really sure of lines of code. It's not overly complex but somewhat novel - it's recreating a game interface and engine and not really a traditional web app. Don't really want to associate my github with my HN username because I used to be a bit more adversarial when posting anonymously on the internet and I'm not super proud of that and don't necessarily want it tied to my real name :)

Ok I'm using cursor again. It is helping me with about 10% of the autocomplete on a very simple one file NodeJS project, but anything more complex it definitely messes it up.

my use is mostly with the chat window, i tell it what i want or the changes i want and it generates the file for me. i rarely use the auto complete