Hacker News: Anon1096

New comment by Anon1096 in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

Anon1096 — Fri, 15 May 2026 18:53:36 +0000

A bug-for-bug port to Rust is the first step to fixing that. Assuming the port is actually 1:1 without any behavioral changes, these bugs already exist in the Zig code. The difference is now it's known where effort can be dedicated in order to one day have a memory-safe release of Bun. People have absolutely lost their mind over this and completely forgotten the benefits Rust gives you. I feel like I've gone back 10 years reading threads about the Rust port of Bun these are the exact same arguments we see from people advocating continued use of C++.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

Anon1096 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:55:19 +0000

It's interesting you call these sites and advertising opportunities absolutely necessary for things like visual arts businesses and yet don't think they are doing any good in the world. If the ad spots and targeting didn't exist then niche internet-ads-dependent businesses also would not.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

Anon1096 — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:15:16 +0000

I'm guessing you have 0 insight into the work that the ads, ranking, apps, and sales teams do to keep the gravy train flowing and even expanding 30% every year. If Meta fired even just half the ranking workers, the recommendation models (both ads and feeds) would very quickly become stale and start shedding many Fortune 500 companies worth of revenue.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

Anon1096 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:13:34 +0000

Conspiratorial nonsense

New comment by Anon1096 in "Killed by Apple"

Anon1096 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:06:37 +0000

For people complaining about the quality of the entries of the page, I would encourage you to take a look at the often-cited on this very site https://killedbygoogle.com/ and compare. There we have things like Dopple, "Killed recently, Doppl was an early experimental AI app launched by Google Labs in June 2025 to create a "digital twin" or virtual model of yourself for trying on outfits. It was 10 months old."

The quality of entries on killed by apple seems largely comparable if not higher.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

Anon1096 — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:32:23 +0000

Every time a github outage is posted I start wondering more and more what % of hacker news commenters have actually worked on a system with >10k active hosts and have seen what it takes to run them and how internal dashboards are presented. So much of the criticism just makes 0 sense especially the third party uptime pages.

New comment by Anon1096 in "I am worried about Bun"

Anon1096 — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:34:16 +0000

> We understood (and knew for a long time) that the large AI labs are not monetarily profiting from subscription users that make heavy use of their subscription.

I dont think this is "understood" or "known" to anyone except Ed Zitron. Subscription plans like Claude Code also have rolling usage limits, it could be profitable. Inference is very cheap and unless you're using OpenClaw no one is actually maxing out the usage window at all times. I'm sure in aggregate the subs are not money furnaces.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"

Anon1096 — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:04:58 +0000

If measured the same way, ie combined status across all products, then codeberg is also at a whopping 0 9s.

https://status.codeberg.org/status/codeberg

New comment by Anon1096 in "Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets"

Anon1096 — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:13:50 +0000

If the yes side is heavily favored because it's a "sure thing" then there will eventually be people who bet no and hire guards (or go themselves) to defend the weather sensor from the hairdryer-wielders.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

Anon1096 — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:39:39 +0000

The fully loaded cost of a senior engineer is already well past 400k. +5k a month is not that much if it helps them be XX% more productive. Personally at a different big tech I'm in the mid 4 digits AI spend per month and it helps me a lot, basically all coding has been trivialized and I work on an extremely large codebase. I'm spending more time on things closer to direct value generation like data analysis and experiment tweaking rather than spending time moving a variable across 10 layers of abstraction and making sure code compiles.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

Anon1096 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 12:34:55 +0000

I wouldn't ask an LLM to output this directly. For an ellipse ascii I would guess that having it write a python program to generate it and then run it would work much better. Using claude sonnet 4.6 on a free account it seemed to work (sorry in advance if the hacker news formatting is horrendous)

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New comment by Anon1096 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

Anon1096 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:46:21 +0000

I interviewed in the past 2 years and my experience matches the parent. Very professional and the interviewers were great to talk to. Same with Google.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

Anon1096 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:14:54 +0000

Meta offices are pretty full at 5pm lmao. In fact they are still decently full at 7pm after dinner at 6. Baffles me why people just make up random crap in areas they clearly know less than nothing about.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

Anon1096 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:11:27 +0000

Inflation is by definition the change in prices of a general basket of goods. Some things will outrun the basket and some things will underrun it. In general consumer durables have underrun, things like TVs and yes, sofas, are way way cheaper now than ever before. I'm not really sure why you would exclude IKEA type furniture, in most cases it's probably as good or better than a really old hand crafted one. If back then you needed to get an ultra luxury sofa but now you can get an IKEA one for the same general quality then that's a massive win for affordability even if the ultra luxury category still exists.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

Anon1096 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:44:05 +0000

> If you only look at PRs and don't ever care about commits, why are they even being sent to reviewer in the first place? Just send a diff file.

This is in fact what hg does with amending changesets and yes it works far better. Keep PRs small and atomic and you never need to worry about what happens intra-pr. If you need bigger units of work that's what stacking is for.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

Anon1096 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:16:51 +0000

One of Microsoft's problems is their pay is significantly lower than FAANG and so you very very rarely see people with expertise in the same verticals jump to Azure. I get that "the deal" at Microsoft is lower pressure for lower pay but it really hinders the talent pipeline. There are some good home grown principals and seniors, but even then I think the people I worked with would have done well to jump around and get a stint at another cloud provider to see what it's like. Many of them started as new grads and their whole career was just at Azure.

Meanwhile when I was at another company we would get a weekly new hire post with very high pedigree from other FAANGs. And with that we got a lot of industry leading ideas by osmosis that you don't see Azure getting.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

Anon1096 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:25:07 +0000

The post is so dramatized and clearly written by someone with a grudge such that it really detracts from any point that is trying to be made, if there is any.

From another former Az eng now elsewhere still working on big systems, the post gets way way more boring when you realize that things like "Principle Group Manager" is just an M2 and Principal in general is L6 (maybe even L5) Google equivalent. Similarly Sev2 is hardly notable for anyone actually working on the foundational infra. There are certainly problems in Azure, but it's huge and rough edges are to be expected. It mostly marches on. IMO maturity is realizing this and working within the system to improve it rather than trying to lay out all the dirty laundry to an Internet audience that will undoubtedly lap it up and happily cry Microslop.

Last thing, the final part 6 comes off as really childish, risks to national security and sending letters to the board, really? Azure is still chugging along apparently despite everything being mentioned. People come in all the time crying that everything is broken and needs to be scrapped and rewritten but it's hardly ever true.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Claude loses its >99% uptime in Q1 2026"

Anon1096 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:59:45 +0000

If you are asking this question you don't understand what it takes to hit 5 nines in a real life measured system.

New comment by Anon1096 in "Apple Business"

Anon1096 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:02:45 +0000

Yep. Truly horrid policy. Where I work our issued iPhones suck to use without App Store access; no Bitwarden was the killer for me personally. Everyone I checked with uses their personal email/Apple ID instead of the MAID, and there's a sword over your head if you ever accidently copy/paste something from internal emails to something like Notes which has iCloud sync (we're semi serious about leaker). Absolute failure of an MDM setup by Apple.

New comment by Anon1096 in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

Anon1096 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:12:54 +0000

Anyone who used the phrase "measly" in relation to three nines is inadvertently admitting their lack of knowledge in massive systems. 99.9 and 99.95 is the target for some of the most common systems you use all day and is by no means easy to achieve. Even just relying on a couple regional AWS services will put your CEILING at three nines. It's even more embarrassing when people post that one GH uptime tracker that combines many services into 1 single number as if that means anything useful.