<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: BowBun</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BowBun</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:05:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=BowBun" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Upcoming breaking changes for NPM v12"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>yes, since 2020</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:13:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468504</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48468504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Of the 4 series A-B startups I've helped grow, none have measured and made decisions on cloud spend based on measurement. The only time this came up is when bills got too large and spend needed to be controlled. You're right that it may be a difference of environment (USA here)</p>
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<p>Look at cloud spend - how many of your employers have measured the ROI of using cloud vs. self-hosting? At a certain point these things just become the cost of doing business I suppose.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:59:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431638</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431638</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431638</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The choice is not so binary, as anyone seriously discussing this topic should immediately recognize. There are indeed ways for foreigners to participate in local politics in many countries, here is some data if you're interested in learning - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizen_suffrage" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizen_suffrage</a><p>My country does in fact provide this right to foreign residents who live a certain amount of time in the country. Even if it didn't, it would not be a hypocritical position to state something is bad. Do you think I wrote the laws? Hardly seems like a good-faith argument or even a sound one!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 21:12:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286039</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286039</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286039</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We did not meet continuous residency requirements for 10-15 years due to travel for my dad's work. Afterwards, it took me nearly 5 years to meet that requirement due to the fact that I lived and graduated abroad for highschool. I tried around COVID, was denied based on truthfully admitting I had smoked some weed in the previous 5 years while I lived in Colorado. That reset my clock for another five years. I constantly wrestle with whether I even want to be associated with this country for the rest of my life. I'm prideful and a high earner, there's only so much I'll accept before moving my family and assets somewhere else.<p>Hope that provides some color. To all the fans of the current immigration policies - you are throwing out the baby with the bathwater.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:18:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262338</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GC holder of 25 years with citizen parents. I agree with you and I stress about this daily. It's always been a shitty deal though - we are taxed with no representation in government.</p>
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<p>what the..? This sounds like Facebook mumbo jumbo. Free speech has nothing to do with your state of freedom (i.e. being a 'free being'). Being 'free' also literally means choosing on what to spend your energy. Complete nonsense!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 23:07:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252495</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252495</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've seen this a million times, but aren't the Amazon and Apple ones kinda the same, just differently shaped?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 23:57:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216004</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48216004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Does it matter?<p>It sure does, readers should be informed of who says what. The speaker and their history is part of full communication, not just the words.</p>
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<p>Founded by engineers writing code every day. Today, led by suits who don't. It's the most acute with developer tools like Gitlab.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 03:40:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103942</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48103942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Broadband/fiber internet accessible to all residents of the USA, anyone? Always love reading about how the telcos took that tax money, hemmed and hawed, and ended up never fully delivering what they agreed to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 20:46:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100436</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100436</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Plex's price hikes prove I was right to switch to Jellyfin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I switched to Jellyfin and also don't regret it. I agree the quality is lower, BUT that sacrifice in this case was worth it given Plex's shitty track record. If any of y'all are interested in helping the Jellyfin project, that would be dope!</p>
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<p>Totally agreed, I've been 'got' in interviews before. Now I ask follow-ups with specifics. If you were an IC, you should know libraries/architectures that were used. If you were in leadership, you should be able to tell me the story leading up to a project, about the parties involved, and the outcomes.<p>It takes time to do properly, though. And most of the time I just don't care about evaluating someone's capabilities like that.</p>
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<p>Just wanna say, I appreciate you going through the effort. Please share your story as it progresses!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 17:22:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085864</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085864</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085864</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For about 5% of Silicon Valley, reaching these new 'heights' of civilization is the goal. For the rest, including a bunch of folks in these threads, their primary motivator is building generational wealth for their family, humanity be damned. I'll just keep nodding my head at these HN discussions while pushing down the thoughts that a majority of this crowd is complicit (myself included). Every day, I grow more confident in my choice the eschew my legacy and leave y'all to it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 22:27:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078885</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "I caught the car"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When I meet fellow devs, I ask what projects they've shipped. Roles are near-meaningless across companies and convey 0 information about what their work involves in my experience. I appreciate that OP learned something about the job through this article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 21:59:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078672</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48078672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Last week, we discovered our 'AI-native' marketing VP put his team's entire documentation hub on a public Github Pages site for an entire week. This included prospect lists, meetings, marketing metrics like CaC/lead times, funnel metrics, etc. He did not solicit feedback from engineering and violated multiple points in our AI policy. Of course there will be no repercussions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 14:57:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075492</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075492</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48075492</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Much like Windows threads with people experience strange bugs without knowing any of their workloads and tools, it's impossible to say. We've got a team of 30 using it full time, and as a member of end leadership I would be hearing if it was constantly missing expectations. It did take iterations to get here, as with everything.<p>Some of the usual suspects when people are getting bad results:
* Overbloated claude.md, it should not contain everything, it should be a table of contents pointing to other files
* Max effort - why? Overthinking on simpler tasks results in degraded quality, much like in humans. 
* You speak of your single session but with agents reviewing other agent outputs. Without knowing your goal and your prompt, and what the agents had access to, my first inclination is that the initial request was vague, a bunch of unnecessary info was returned, and your review step caught that extra jank.<p>I'm not gonna bother making the joke you allude to, but every single employee I've worked with in person has had glaring holes in their setups which, once solved, dramatically reduced stuff like what you're talking about.</p>
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<p>Managing risk is a negotiation across parties, not just ponying up the cash. Personnel completes steps that are still physical requirements, usually by law. I think those are two things Anthropic isn't going to want to get into anytime soon.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 19:50:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040839</link><dc:creator>BowBun</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040839</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040839</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by BowBun in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The heavy users of Claude at my job disagree (me included), our work gets shipped and the quality has increased by all metrics. Are you talking about enterprise or consumer Claude subscriptions? I think they're serving drastic different quality depending on how much $ you fork up.</p>
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