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New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "Air Purifiers as White Noise Machines"

CoffeeOnWrite — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:22:47 +0000

Is it safe to assume all particles are equally as likely to be filtered, or are there particles that HEPA will filter that a MERV-13 will never filter no matter the number of cycles?

I went to the 'existential hope' gala and left hungry

CoffeeOnWrite — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:54:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-went-to-the-existential-hope-gala-and-left-hungry/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50171761

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Zombie shooter game based in San Francisco sparks online controversy

CoffeeOnWrite — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:21:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/zombie-shooter-game-based-in-san-francisco-sparks-online-controversy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50122269

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "Salesforce Global Outage"

CoffeeOnWrite — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:58:59 +0000

I wouldn't say so, rather you need to balance recovery time and evidence preservation. A good incident manager will give the service owning team a chance or two to debug, but not let them fall into the trap of needing to understand the problem fully before attempt a clumsy potential fix. And of course will take into account the total business impact of the ongoing disruption and the known and unknown risks of the proposed clumsy fix (it could make things worse).

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in ".name Termination"

CoffeeOnWrite — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:21:21 +0000

The writing was on the wall when Pennsylvania switched their license plates from www.state.pa.us to visitpa.com

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "Lawmakers added $1 to car insurance policies. That money paid for Flock cameras"

CoffeeOnWrite — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 02:18:26 +0000

(a pole mounted camera for which a warrant had been obtained...)

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "Kagi added a setting for removing paywalled links from search results"

CoffeeOnWrite — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 15:13:20 +0000

My household is hooked on the AI Assistant. It’s heartwarming to be able to buy consumer software that just works.

If only Kagi had a Shopping feature, then it would be a complete solution for us.

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have"

CoffeeOnWrite — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:51:34 +0000

I would have liked the article to address more specifically what skills will be needed in the future and how engineers of all levels will learn them. Senior engineers in my circle feel their own brainrot, and at the same time feel like super wizards combining our deep software knowledge with the amazing AI dev tools. How will the AI native engineers learn the things, do they need to learn the things, what does anybody need to learn anyway? Let’s talk about it.

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

CoffeeOnWrite — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:41:22 +0000

It's quad cab only though, unlike the S10 or O.G. Ranger.

Sandboxes and Worktrees: My Secure Agentic AI Setup

CoffeeOnWrite — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:39:07 +0000

Article URL: https://mikemcquaid.com/sandboxed-agent-worktrees-my-coding-and-ai-setup-in-2026/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347727

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

CoffeeOnWrite — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:12:06 +0000

We should brace ourselves to find less and less satisfaction from the process as we become more comfortable embracing AI. At least, that's what the first chapter in the evolution of the AI-assisted software developer role has taught me.

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

CoffeeOnWrite — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:55:21 +0000

Author sounds like they are missing meaning in what they do. If they had a life mission, AI is just an aid in accomplishing that mission, and they wouldn't get sidetracked by all the unfulfilling projects (modulus the ADHD, that has its own bearing on the experience using AI, and is the most interesting part of this post to me).

Perhaps at a population scale AI inhibits people from finding fulfillment.

But on an anecdotal basis, "just go find something meaningful". For some of us that "hate the AI timeline", we are still finding purpose and fulfillment by applying AI toward our personal missions.

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

CoffeeOnWrite — Tue, 12 May 2026 02:48:53 +0000

> We’re flattening our organization because eight layers is too deep

Eight layers total

Compensation in AI Tokens?

CoffeeOnWrite — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:20:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=469693

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48085228

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

CoffeeOnWrite — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:39:36 +0000

Selection bias

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

CoffeeOnWrite — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:56:13 +0000

You're describing frontline management, not middle management. My 2 cents is that frontline management is the worst job in engineering, for the reasons you describe and more.

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

CoffeeOnWrite — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:56:38 +0000

Do y'all non-sharers not have equity in your companies?

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "Habitual coffee intake shapes the microbiome, modifies physiology and cognition"

CoffeeOnWrite — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:45:05 +0000

When work was chill I went to decaf for the morning espresso on weekdays, and enjoyed real coffee on weekends. I took glee in withholding energy from work that I redirected to my personal time.

Then when work picked up, I went back to regular coffee everyday.

I don’t think there’s a hole in my soul though. And caffeine degrades my personality a little bit (to my own judgment).

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

CoffeeOnWrite — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:12:37 +0000

IA makes the most sense in the spirit of preservation.

Etree (https://www.etree.org/ ) is the longest running torrent site for tapes. It looks like only about 5% of the hundred thousand torrents have any seeders at all. Not sure how reliable requesting a seed is. I’d expect long tail stuff to get “effectively lost”. Versus IA whose purpose and funding is preservation, in addition to sharing.

New comment by CoffeeOnWrite in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

CoffeeOnWrite — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:53:56 +0000

Indeed. I directly ask my reports to discover and surface conflicts, especially disagreements with me, and when they do I try to strongly reinforce the behavior by commending and rewarding them. Could anyone recommend additional resources on this topic?