Hacker News: EricRiese

New comment by EricRiese in "Claude.ai is unavailable"

EricRiese — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:46:41 +0000

April is the cruelest month

New comment by EricRiese in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

EricRiese — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:02:36 +0000

It's so ironic. I've had several Thinkpads over the years and I've repaired or upgraded every one of them, from RAM, SSDs, an upgraded screen, and a new fan/heatsink assembly. I have a first generation Framework 13 and I've yet to upgrade it. And by now this new Pro model has an upgrade for every component. If it weren't for crazy prices, I'd just buy a whole new laptop.

At least I have the option of that CoolerMaster case. But maybe it'd be best to just sell the whole thing.

New comment by EricRiese in "NASA Force"

EricRiese — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:09:16 +0000

It's the government. They care more about creating objective standards so they can't be sued for bias than they do about hiring the best people.

New comment by EricRiese in "NASA Force"

EricRiese — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:31:05 +0000

The entirety of the government doesn't turn over every 4 years, especially at a technical org like NASA. You're still going to be working at NASA with a team of NASA people. Plus if they're hiring you know your team in particular won't be a target of layoffs.

New comment by EricRiese in "NASA Force"

EricRiese — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:27:28 +0000

It's the same hiring process for regular government jobs with references to standard pay scales. So I don't think so.

New comment by EricRiese in "NASA Force"

EricRiese — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:02:35 +0000

I answered honestly that I didn't and it didn't block my submission.

I have the specific Computer Science/Engineering degree they spell out in length in one question (30 credit hours CS, 16 credit hours math/calculus/stats) so I feel like that gives me a chance on top of the narrow window.

Glad I skipped ahead on the optional essay section. YOLO.

New comment by EricRiese in "NASA Force"

EricRiese — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:52:37 +0000

Experience necessary. From Assessment 1, which you only get to after spending $16 ordering your college transcript...

> I have 1 year of directly related specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal service that included: Performing program/project management of space, aeronautical flight systems or experimental aircraft/aircraft systems that involve planning, researching, designing, developing, testing and evaluating, or completing cost analyses; Analyzing, designing, or operating space flight systems, aeronautical flight systems, experimental aircraft/aircraft systems, or structures operating throughout the earth's atmosphere; Developing requirements and integrating aerospace or flight/ground systems (e.g., payloads, hardware/software, scientific instruments, communication equipment, cargo, or any other specialized equipment).

New comment by EricRiese in "Spring Boot Done Right: Lessons from a 400-Module Codebase"

EricRiese — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:16:40 +0000

I wonder how many of these rules can be enforced with static analysis and ArchUnit.

New comment by EricRiese in "Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry"

EricRiese — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:38:31 +0000

I tried to order a tablet from OnePlus. It's impossible to create an account on oneplus.com with Firefox.

New comment by EricRiese in "Java is fast, code might not be"

EricRiese — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:13:57 +0000

This is a Spring specific gripe and I know this blog post doesn't assume Spring, but I hate seeing `new ObjectMapper()`. Spring Boot auto configures an ObjectMapper for you and you probably want the customization it gives you, including `java.time` handling and classpath scanning. I've wrestled with so many bugs caused by not using the `ObjectMapper` bean.

New comment by EricRiese in "The Lobster Programming Language"

EricRiese — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:04:07 +0000

A more concise language is more efficient for an LLM to produce and easier for a human to verify.

I don't think LLMs have solved the problem of wanting code that's concise and also performant.

New comment by EricRiese in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

EricRiese — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:44:24 +0000

Much more complicated than necessary. I just use

git branch | xargs git branch -d

Don't quote me, that's off the top of my head.

It won't delete unmerged branches by default. The line with the marker for the current branch throws an error but it does no harm. And I just run it with `develop` checked out. If I delete develop by accident I can recreate it from origin/develop.

Sometimes I intentionally delete develop if my develop branch is far behind the feature branch I'm on. If I don't and I have to switch to a really old develop and pull before merging in my feature branch, it creates unnecessary churn on my files and makes my IDE waste time trying to build the obsolete stuff. And depending how obsolete it is and what files have changed, it can be disruptive to the IDE.

New comment by EricRiese in "LiftKit – UI where "everything derives from the golden ratio""

EricRiese — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:51:23 +0000

Looks like the work of modern Pythagoreans

New comment by EricRiese in "White House launches direct-to-consumer drug site TrumpRx"

EricRiese — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:11:57 +0000

This is the guy that promised 1000% discounts on drugs.

New comment by EricRiese in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2026)"

EricRiese — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:16:52 +0000

Location: Greater Philadelphia, PA, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Java, Spring Boot, SQL, Scala, Clojure, TypeScript, Linux, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ

Resume: https://ericrie.se/resume.pdf

Email: see resume

Senior Backend Engineer. 13 years of experience. Excited to work in any interesting programming languages. Keen to step up to a role with leadership and mentorship responsibilities.

New comment by EricRiese in "Elon Musk's X down for users"

EricRiese — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:02:05 +0000

"Well we brought it back up, but for some reason it's full of racist vitriol and CSAM now."

"Oh, no, it was like that before."

New comment by EricRiese in "Betterment Hacked by Crypto Scam"

EricRiese — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:56:21 +0000

I just got this Betterment app notification

Betterment Hacked by Crypto Scam

EricRiese — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:56:21 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/ericrie.se/post/3mbzlov44sc23

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46560598

Points: 31

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New comment by EricRiese in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"

EricRiese — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:44:01 +0000

Lambdas weren't simple to shoehorn into Java. But most of the recent changes have been implemented as well or better, or as well as you could imagine while maintaining backwards compatibility and Java-ness.

Records/sealed interfaces (ADTs) are quite clean.

Text Blocks are better in Java IMO. The margin junk in Scala is silly.

New comment by EricRiese in "“Stop Designing Languages. Write Libraries Instead” (2016)"

EricRiese — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:30:58 +0000

Clojure's core.logic is based on minikanren, so that fits the bill.