<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: Cheezmeister</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Cheezmeister</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:55:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Cheezmeister" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I imagine it was a mitigation measure against botspam slopping it up in Snout's candidate pool.<p>Or maybe a typo, still, I'd have left the link unstated.<p>...Internet courtesy is weird these days :/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:23:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525002</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "Zero-native – Build native desktop apps with web UI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hypen [sic]. Not the punctuation :)<p><a href="https://hypen.space" rel="nofollow">https://hypen.space</a></p>
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<p>Have you heard the good gospel of Asahi?<p><a href="https://asahilinux.org/" rel="nofollow">https://asahilinux.org/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:08:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752218</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47752218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Had been**. Still low, but we aren't laughing anymore. <a href="https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-chart" rel="nofollow">https://www.macrotrends.net/2015/fed-funds-rate-historical-c...</a><p>Do high interest rates not, by definition, favor capital over labor?</p>
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<p>False.<p>The existential risk is in companies smoking the AI crackpipe that sama (begging your pardon) handed them, thinking it feels great and then projecting[1] that every investment will hit like the first, and continuing to buy the <EXPLETIVE> crack that they can't afford, and they investors can't afford, and their clients can't afford, their vendors can't afford, the grid can't afford, the planet can't afford, the American people can't afford, and sama[2] can't afford, _because it's <EXPLETIVE> crack_!<p>The wise will shut up and take the win on the slop com bubble.<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_dragon" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing_the_dragon</a><p>[2]: For those following along at home, sama is Sam Altman, he was a part of the Y Combinator community a while back: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sama">https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sama</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:46:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449595</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449595</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This.<p>The work/retirement dichotomy is such a weird and peculiar artifact of the 1950s US middle-class nuclear-family milieu.<p>That's gone.<p>For the rest of us, it's just...live your life, until you don't.<p>(viz. Below the fold: "Buffett remains as chair...")</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:32:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449475</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't know the guy, but by all indications he is even-keeled, low-stress, conscientious but come what may. Given his nationality and net-worth, I'd wager that Warren is a centenarian in waiting, unless and until he chooses to invest in the afterlife. Whichever comes first.<p>Respect.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2025 23:19:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449371</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46449371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you open to hire help on a contract basis?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Dec 2025 10:42:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172249</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For comparison: <a href="https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/around-us/calculator" rel="nofollow">https://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/radiation/around-us/calculator</a><p>In other news, a kitten named millicurie did a really adorable thing.<p>The only remarkable fact here is that the regulatory structure is strong enough that we commoners are entitled to hear about it. That's a Very Good Thing, and one I wish we enjoyed apropos, say, the corporate veil (looking at you, Chevron, Exxon, Shell, Aramco, Sinopec, Amazon, Oracle, AIPAC, United, The Trump Organization, X Corp, Paramount, Skydance, eMed Population Health, Inc., et. al.).<p>But the story here is a guy fell into some water, and is following SOP (which is also a Very Good Thing).<p>Please don't feed the clickbait.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:05:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710504</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710504</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710504</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I'm the Founder / Chief Chicken Tender<p>I just have one question... Which came first?</p>
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<p>I mean it's five basis points, it ain't nothin.<p>Put another way, if I could grease the right palms to shave commensurate minuscule savings off of the budget of ICE, it'd pay off my mortgage. Twentyfold.<p>Back to greenhouse gases, I'm no climatologist, but isn't it plausible the difference could, for instance, make or break one catastrophic wildfire across the western seaboard of North America?<p>Beware of statistic thinking in a stochastic world.</p>
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<p>Incidentally, <i>Fighting the Dopamine Goblin</i> is the title of my next EP.<p>For real though, the DG is the perfect personification. Don't overfeed it, it'll only get meaner.</p>
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<p>Streaming SIMD Extensions?<p>Server-sent events.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 15:44:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42602509</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42602509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42602509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If only there were some way to adjust for that difference when viewed on a different type of medium, such as a high-DPI LED-backlit liquid crystal display.<p>Unfortunately, the web wasn't designed that way, which is why every document that you read on a website instead of on paper is illegible.<p>It's a shame, really. :) /s</p>
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<p>Against which threats?<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42293962">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42293962</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2024 09:03:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42294420</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42294420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42294420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "Forced to upgrade"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fingerprint vs Face shines while (for instance) having a conversation and, because you have manners, want to maintain eye contact while pulling up a photo of that thing you are describing, or to make sure that's just a robocall and not your wife with an emergency.<p>It also shines first thing in the morning where your hair and eyes are so disheveled that even Siri didn't recognize you. Your thumb is probably still the same shape.</p>
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<p>> Because there’s no way a $50-100 coffee machine or printer is lasting a decade.<p>There absolutely is.<p>Viz. the no-name drip machine I picked up at Goodwill for $10 and is probably older than me. The heating element makes the water boil, and it trickles over the grounds and becomes my morning salvation.<p>Viz. the Brother laser printer ca. 2013 for $99 (in, admittedly, 2013 dollars). I had to replace the toner once, it was slightly annoying.<p>Neither of these items has an app.<p>Longevity ≈ Quality / Complexity
  where Quality ≠ Price</p>
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<p>In a world where rolling coal[1] is a thing that people do voluntarily, I submit that emissions enforcement (as it stands) is a failed experiment. It's time to rethink it from first principles.<p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Oct 2024 15:18:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41888308</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41888308</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41888308</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> HIPPO, highest paid person's opinion. It is often a deciding factor in what decisions and next steps a team takes<p>TIL.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippo_(disambiguation)#Other" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippo_(disambiguation)#Other</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 18:16:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41403205</link><dc:creator>Cheezmeister</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41403205</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41403205</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Cheezmeister in "Ask HN: Did you regret staying at a job for too long?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How did you find weathering the growing pains, as your first employer (presumably) went through startup adolescence? Did you remain IC or branch into people-management?<p>Sound advice, caveat that (for so many reasons) a shop that feels right and _stays that way_ is increasingly rare and precious.</p>
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