Hacker News: ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ATMLOTTOBEERHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:54:27 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Goldman Sachs to laid-off tech workers: take time, earnings loss to find new job"]]>Got laid off last year, took about 6 weeks to find something. Similar comp, slightly better WLB actually. Might have just gotten lucky but 3% sounds about right for most people I know

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:52:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669800ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669800https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669800<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"]]>Yeah we moved to Claude a few months ago, mostly because the devs kept using it anyway. Altman stuff is interesting but at the end of the day you just go with whatever tool works

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:48:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669776ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669776https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669776<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"]]>Yeah my CTO says similar things. I usually just tell him to add it to the backlog and move on. At the end of the day these tools save us 3-4 eng hires and that’s what the board cares about

]]>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:22:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669613ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669613https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47669613<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"]]>I kinda agree with you but consider that the perf on apple silicon is so much better that you’re probably still better off using the gimped tablet thing.

]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:31:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551319ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551319https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47551319<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"]]>The actual soln is to use oss stuff and aggressively send claude code into the weeds whenever you find a big, then upstream the fixes.

I switched from IntelliJ to emacs for this reason and it’s been great

]]>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:41:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536766ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536766https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47536766<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier"]]>he knows. that's why he said viscosity. reread it slowly

]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:39:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309744ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309744https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47309744<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "War prediction markets are a national-security threat"]]>It’s a way to pay for valuable information

]]>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:40:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294449ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294449https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47294449<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Helix: A post-modern text editor"]]>Is this kind of comment not just a tautological rebuttal to any criticism of emacs

]]>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 12:59:48 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287278ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287278https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47287278<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"]]>Thank you. The guy being this upset about it is telling. The agent is in the right here and the maintainer got btfo; still going on whining about it days later

]]>Fri, 20 Feb 2026 04:42:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083855ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083855https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083855<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala"]]>Happy to see investment in sbt and the stdlib

Sad to see code coverage tooling called out as something they’re spending money on

Happy to see scala get sponsorship

]]>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:33:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812481ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812481https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812481<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Our approach to advertising"]]>Because the marginal profit of scaling labor is zero or negative?

]]>Sat, 17 Jan 2026 05:15:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46655488ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46655488https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46655488<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Roam 50GB is now Roam 100GB"]]>You actually bolster his point by using search as an example: search has been completely eaten alive by a better alternative (ai chat).

]]>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 04:26:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628024ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628024https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46628024<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"]]>Opus 4.5 and update your priors. This was certainly true >6months back and is no longer the case

]]>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:18:03 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582557ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582557https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582557<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Buteyko Method"]]>I’m actually good friends with Jacob Kiplimo. He swears that the reason he was able to have such success in the half last year was by exclusively breathing through his nose during training.

]]>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 04:44:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333682ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333682https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46333682<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Show HN: AlgoDrill – Interactive drills to stop forgetting LeetCode patterns"]]>Idk isn’t copying someone else’s work verbatim boring to you? Usually i try to do at least 15-45minutes of novel research in physics/math with my morning coffee

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:51:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217705ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217705https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46217705<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "NYC congestion pricing cuts air pollution by a fifth in six months"]]>Even if the govt lights the money on fire we still get the benefit of fewer cars in lower manhattan.

What in particular about the MTA would you change?

]]>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:30:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214096ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214096https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46214096<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "The Origins of Scala (2009)"]]>Ignore that person they don’t know what they’re talking about lol

]]>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:07:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093239ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093239https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46093239<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Ask HN: Does anyone just listen to their own AI music now?"]]>Ask hn does anyone else have bad taste

]]>Tue, 25 Nov 2025 21:33:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051066ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051066https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46051066<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Gemini 3"]]>Why should normal people be incentivized to make trades on things they probably haven’t got the slightest idea about

]]>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 22:17:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972991ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972991https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45972991<![CDATA[New comment by ATMLOTTOBEER in "Gemini 3"]]>Correct, and this is actually how all markets work in the sense that they allow for price discovery :)

]]>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:27:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970812ATMLOTTOBEERhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970812https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45970812