Hacker News: ChiperSoft

New comment by ChiperSoft in "When Did White-Collar Work Start to Look So Bleak?"

ChiperSoft — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:55:18 +0000

You mean the 80s?

New comment by ChiperSoft in "The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic"

ChiperSoft — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:39:32 +0000

Every time I read about this I find myself asking what the little people are doing, and articles never answer it.

New comment by ChiperSoft in "Does MSG Make Food Taste Better? [video]"

ChiperSoft — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:27:22 +0000

Might as well ask "Does bacon make candy taste better?"

It depends on what you're putting it in!

New comment by ChiperSoft in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

ChiperSoft — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:54:04 +0000

Alternatively, you could try to keep HP from killing the TouchPad

New comment by ChiperSoft in "How do you design a $30k electric pickup? Inside Ford's skunkworks"

ChiperSoft — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:35:37 +0000

They did before consumer safety regulations went into affect

New comment by ChiperSoft in "CEOs who think AI replaces their employees are just bad CEOs"

ChiperSoft — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:09:24 +0000

> it's quite difficult to become a CEO

It literally just requires filing an LLC or Corporation. There are several SaaS companies that will do it for you.

New comment by ChiperSoft in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

ChiperSoft — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:07:24 +0000

Perhaps its because a good chunk of us looked at wtf is going on in tech right now and said "nah, I think I'll go be a farmer now."

New comment by ChiperSoft in "Donut Lab's 'solid-state' battery exposed as regular li-ion in investigation"

ChiperSoft — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:49:44 +0000

Did they think nobody would notice? At some point somebody was bound to rip on open, or at least stick it in a CT scanner

New comment by ChiperSoft in "Show HN: Performative-UI – a react component library of design tropes"

ChiperSoft — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:01:18 +0000

Oh wow, it uses normal css, how delightful! https://github.com/vorpus/performativeUI/blob/main/src/style...

New comment by ChiperSoft in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

ChiperSoft — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:58:00 +0000

COMET was so far ahead of its time. Sierra Online used it for their webchat in 1995 and it was absolutely the best webchat out there for years

New comment by ChiperSoft in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

ChiperSoft — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:57:58 +0000

Nothing says "I care about the earth" like a giant sheet of plastic.

New comment by ChiperSoft in "DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List"

ChiperSoft — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:15:08 +0000

That does explain why Jehovah's Witnesses would be on here. They won multiple court cases to be excluded from military services.

New comment by ChiperSoft in "[dead]"

ChiperSoft — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:23:57 +0000

Thank you! I closed the page when it scrolljacked

New comment by ChiperSoft in "The Stochastically K Shaped Job Market"

ChiperSoft — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:14:54 +0000

Is this satire? It feels like they just threw a bunch of buzzwords into a blender with no regard to what they mean

New comment by ChiperSoft in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

ChiperSoft — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:29:56 +0000

We had a company hackathon in the fall of 2023. One of the teams did a project where the pulled a bunch of expense data out of the DB, shoved it into a prompt, and asked ChatGPT to summarize the expenses and give recommendations. They then treated the output as if it were factual, without validating any of the results, and talked about turning it into a customer product.

That was my oh shit moment. As in "oh shit, they think this random text generator can reason and think."

That was pretty much the writing on the wall for me.

New comment by ChiperSoft in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

ChiperSoft — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:50:22 +0000

You're right, apparently this was a much more recent thing and california only. I just knew neither of my kids were taught them, so I assumed it happened longer ago.

https://www.thewellnews.com/opinions/california-removes-memo...

New comment by ChiperSoft in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

ChiperSoft — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:08:26 +0000

You expect teachers to work 12 hour days on top of being paid garbage?

New comment by ChiperSoft in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

ChiperSoft — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:55:40 +0000

> I don't think most kids are curious about the multiplication tables

Which is exactly why they stopped teaching them in US curriculum under No Child Left Behind.

New comment by ChiperSoft in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

ChiperSoft — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:52:51 +0000

Yeah, I actually had to learn it three times because it didn't stick until I was actually using it daily.

New comment by ChiperSoft in "Show HN: Lint Your Markdown with ESLint"

ChiperSoft — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:10:56 +0000

Can this be used in combination with MDX? It'd be swell if I could lint the js/jsx code in my mdx files as well.