lucasmullens

Joined 14 years ago

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Member since
Dec 15
CEO of Table Toad, a platform for designing board games (prototype at tabletoad.com)

Full Stack Web Developer

CS Degree from the University of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

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Recent submissions

Comment · 5 months ago
> Ellison's warning came during an hour-long Q&A at an Oracle financial analyst meeting in September 2024.

AI has been moving too fast to care about what some billionaire's opinion on it was 2 years ago.

Comment · 6 months ago
Comment · 11 months ago
How is something "obviously AI" for being written how you, a human, used to write?
Comment · 1 year ago
Some people like me are running a company and are still picking out their tech stack. I don't like Microsoft, and that absolutely affects how likely I am to use their services. My situation might not be that common but PR surely still matters some.
Comment · 1 year ago
Hey, so it's a bit obvious you vibe coded this, which makes me not want to trust it. Some red flags:

- The Apple icon is a literal apple and not the Apple logo.

- You've got 2 Mac download buttons that do the same thing right at the top, surely one of those is a mistake.

- "Watch it in action" is positioned poorly and fails to be a header for the video. Too close to the button above it.

- "Automatic version control" is not what a checkpoint is? "Version control" means git to almost everyone.

- Privacy link is a fake placeholder.

- "See It In Action" looks like you meant to add images and just forgot?

- You named this like 5 things. The website title is "Checkpoints for Claude Code", the domain is "Claude Checkpoints", the UI website title is just "Checkpoints" as if its a standalone brand, the contact email link uses "checkpoints-app.com", and finally you call it "Claude Diff" in the App Store description. Oh and the HN submission is a 6th one, "Claude Code Checkpoints".

Cool project though, sorry to be so critical.

Comment · 1 year ago
It has a big banner that says "Research preview: The browser extension is a beta feature with unique risks—stay alert and protect yourself from bad actors.", and it says "Join the research preview", and then takes you to a form with another warning, "Disclaimer: This is an experimental research preview feature which has several inherent risks. Before using Claude for Chrome, read our safety guide which covers risks, permission limitations, and privacy considerations."

I would also imagine that it warns you again when you run it for the first time.

I don't disagree with you given how uniquely important these security concerns are, but they seem to be doing at least an okay job at warning people, hard to say without knowing how their in-app warnings look.

Comment · 1 year ago
Come on, don't be mean. Imagine saying this in person to someone who just told you they got scammed. "You're just extremely gullible" is just so mean...show some empathy.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm pretty sure the comment wasn't a joke? I saw the stream last week, it was very impressive use of AI, I didn't realize it was AI until he started talking about doubling crypto.

What about the bio is satirical? I'm pretty sure that's sincere too.

Comment · 1 year ago
You're sharing your own tweet, is that allowed on HN?

Either way consider just posting the text or using a platform other than X, because without logging in I can't read it (without using the xcancel.com version someone else posted).

Comment · 1 year ago
> But with coding models they ignore context of the codebase and the results feel more like patchwork.

Have you tried Cursor? It has a great feature that grabs context from the codebase, I use it all the time.

Comment · 1 year ago
The "How" got dropped off the title, it's an article explaining what this guy wants, not an article saying Google turned Android into anything.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Honestly that was one of my first thoughts when I saw this, someone is going to draw one of those. People love trying to be offensive in something that barely allows communication. I remember seeing some MMORPG that had no chat where players would log in and just stand in the shape of a swastika.

Makes me wonder if it's reasonable to write an algorithm to detect that.

Comment · 2 years ago
It might be worth considering just changing the rules for the pawn to deal with this. It's hard to tell what it means to move "forward" on a board like this, even after understanding the indicators.

Maybe pawns could just move horizontally/vertically and attack diagonally, regardless of color?

Comment · 2 years ago
I remember learning that you get about 100ms for a basic UI interaction before a user perceives it as slow. And you get about 1s for a "full page navigation", even if it's a SPA, users are a bit more understanding if you're loading something that feels like new page.

Getting under 100ms really shouldn't be hard for most things. At the very least it should be easy to get the ripple (or whatever button animation) to trigger within the first 100ms.

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