Hacker News: BruSwainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BruSwainHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:38:13 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by BruSwain in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"]]>This is definitely a take.

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:35:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574700BruSwainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574700https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48574700<![CDATA[New comment by BruSwain in "Ego, empathy, and humility at work"]]>I thought there was a name for this(cant find it), but its not just devs, its most people with a deep technical expertise.

I remember watching a youtube video about this, where they used Neil deGrasse Tyson as a case study. Showing cases of him confidently saying wrong things in fields he's not very knowledgeable in.

]]>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:22:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035773BruSwainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035773https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035773<![CDATA[New comment by BruSwain in "Building the largest known Kubernetes cluster"]]>I think k8s has a learning curve, absolutely, and there are absolutely cases where it can be unnecessary overhead. But I actually think those cases are pretty small. If you're running multiple apps, k8s is valuable. There is initial investment in learning the system, but its v-extensible, flexible, & portable. (Yes, every hyperscaler's implementation of k8s has its own nuance in certain places, but the core concept of k8s translates very well)

]]>Mon, 24 Nov 2025 16:11:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035630BruSwainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035630https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46035630<![CDATA[New comment by BruSwain in "Starcloud can’t put a data centre in space at $8.2M in one Starship"]]>If you are out of the magnetosphere, wouldn't your data be subject to way more cosmic ray interference, to the point that its actually a consideration?

]]>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 04:23:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393689BruSwainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393689https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44393689