Hacker News: BikiniPrince

New comment by BikiniPrince in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

BikiniPrince — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:48:10 +0000

We just need to socialism harder.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

BikiniPrince — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:08:48 +0000

That explains why it kept changing the estimated received date. It was doing weird things.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

BikiniPrince — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 22:00:55 +0000

It’s part of the change management process that all code is reviewed. This is needed as per several different compliance agreements. What’s probably happened is poor peer reviews from other junior engineers gets missed. That’s a lot of code reviews to send upstream.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

BikiniPrince — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:17:38 +0000

The wild fires are entirely because of lack of management. This is why insurance companies noped out. The crazies believe it is an environment impact to manage the lands and then it all burns down. At least someone can blame the fires on something else. I guess it’s a win?

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better"

BikiniPrince — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:54:47 +0000

Such wrong think! I think any forum that adopts this would be worth studying for simply helping to create a score to rate how soulless a site is. Maybe they could make the inverse that would rewrite whole forums for happy thoughts. Rose tinted glasses client? The name needs work.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better"

BikiniPrince — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:20:51 +0000

You found a loop hole! Need to patch that out!

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better"

BikiniPrince — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:19:13 +0000

These types of tools always show the authors bias. It’s a good strategy to quickly move on when found.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

BikiniPrince — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:20:55 +0000

My friends kids have access to his home servers. They don’t get to roam on the internet. It’s shocking to think parents might structure their child’s lives.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

BikiniPrince — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:00:13 +0000

I price most news sites at negative value.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

BikiniPrince — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:41:39 +0000

I bullet pointed out some ideas on cobbling together existing tooling for identification of misleading results. Like artificially elevating a particular node of data that you want the llm to use. I have a theory that in some of these cases the data presented is intentionally incorrect. Another theory in relation to that is tonality abruptly changes in the response. All theory and no work. It would also be interesting to compare multiple responses and filter through another agent.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

BikiniPrince — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:33:29 +0000

If you find a nice pure tech feed I would jump for joy. Too many places have been overtaken with nonsense.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

BikiniPrince — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:38:39 +0000

We deleted it from someplace. It's not our fault we have more places!

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

BikiniPrince — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:37:25 +0000

I spent 10 minutes on it this morning. I would rather go with ts6.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Eight European countries face 10% tariff for opposing US control of Greenland"

BikiniPrince — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:26:06 +0000

Sure if they want to chase away their tax revenue.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

BikiniPrince — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:41:46 +0000

Their train industry was built on ripping off companies they forced into poor agreements. They have wrecked industries with technological theft. I suppose it’s lawful from the CCP perspective.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Why senior engineers let bad projects fail"

BikiniPrince — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 06:20:28 +0000

That’s crazy sauce. I don’t lose.

The one time a project was heading to failure I went to the VP and explained the sabotage I was seeing. This was a very lucrative contract and failure was not an option.

He pulled that manager and his team so far off they had a new office on the moon. They were pulling non-sense like submitting the pseudo code I white boarded as a commit.

Two weeks in and I’m still explaining to them the plan.

Despite the setback I pulled off a mammoth project and strategically moved in devs to areas where they could succeed. If they slowed me down they were given the boot.

Success sometimes just takes drive.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Why senior engineers let bad projects fail"

BikiniPrince — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:15:04 +0000

Reminds me of one of my managers who said, “Sometimes, you have to let people fail.” It does take a lot of energy to keep some people afloat. My hope has always been they learn to swim as it were, but sometimes it’s just effort better spent elsewhere.

I know one project did not have my involvement and couldn’t have succeeded without my knowledge. They were so bad they would work in questions casually to their actual work.

I started avoiding all of them when I found out management had been dumping on my team and praising theirs. It’s just such a slap in the face because they could not have done well and their implementation was horrible.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

BikiniPrince — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:18:05 +0000

I always tell people to find a meetup group and then you will run into people with similar interests. I’ve made some good friends that way.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

BikiniPrince — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:16:57 +0000

Repairing the QC 35 was not difficult. It’s just a shame it requires soldering on a new battery pack. Even the drivers are replaceable with that little tool. A few years ago I gave mine an affordable overhaul with a new battery and replaced the earmuffs. Right as rain now.

New comment by BikiniPrince in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

BikiniPrince — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:10:04 +0000

Thee noise cancellation was unmatched several years ago. I picked up mine because we were spending hours in the data center. Suddenly we could work and take calls in that hell. I still have those, but the AirPods have taken their place on flights. It’s just less to bring with me.