<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: FridgeSeal</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=FridgeSeal</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 16:21:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=FridgeSeal" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "Googlebook"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can’t scold them for being contrarian and wrong, and back up your point using…other comments in the thread.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 22:01:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115183</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48115183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "Local AI needs to be the norm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The former has made a big deal about local inference and marketed that as an OS level feature.<p>You can also…turn it off.<p>Chrome silently elected people into it _and_ downloaded the model without asking because they decided that’s something they (chrome) fancied doing.<p>The difference should be pretty obvious.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 00:45:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089780</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089780</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48089780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "Appearing productive in the workplace"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you’re missing the sarcasm in their comment.<p>They’re saying that the emoji usage is telling them that very little effort was put into the PR and that they’ll treat it accordingly.</p>
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<p>Sure, but that’s not an S3 concern, because the vast majority of people use S3 as it is, without needing additional management machinery.<p>The solution is just to spin up the machinery you need for your solution, rather than making S3 cover all possible bases.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 01:02:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030869</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030869</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Again, provided you either had the skills.<p>Or you’re getting the model to do the polishing, thereby developing no skills of your own, and we’re back to the start.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 01:00:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030858</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030858</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48030858</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "Buckets and objects are not enough"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> logs, media, ML artifacts, raw dumps, etc., none of which fit into a table format.<p>You would be appalled at the kind of stuff I have seen teams stuff into parquet and iceberg tables.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:14:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007200</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007200</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007200</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "Buckets and objects are not enough"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I make the (glib) comment, because it’s a similar argument to the one that was popular a few years ago.<p>S3 is an object store. Treat it more like a KV store. As other comments have pointed out, the solution here is pick-your-favourite-metadata-store, be it Postgres, or what iceberg does, and other data on S3.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 11:10:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007160</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007160</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48007160</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "Agentic Coding Is a Trap"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> that will teach them something. If they care about getting better,<p>This pre-supposes the idea that the business is _willing_ to let that happen, which is increasingly unlikely. The current, widespread attitude amongst stakeholders is “who cares, get the model to fix it and move on”.<p>At least, when we wrote code by hand, needing to fix things by hand was a forcing function: one that now, from the business perspective, no longer exists.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 03:04:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004167</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004167</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48004167</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "Buckets and objects are not enough"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No but why doesn’t this object-storage-primitive accommodate all my specific requirements already?<p>They should also accommodate my need for all POSIX filesystem API’s included cheap-moves and renames!!!!!<p>/s</p>
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<p>So the follow up question, is why is a random website, allowed to try and load arbitrary files?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:17:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968963</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47968963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "LinkedIn is scanning browser extensions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LinkedIn is a cesspool, but it’s almost worthless to me without the recruiters.<p>They’re basically the only reason I’m there.</p>
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<p>Don’t sell yourself short!<p>You could achieve things yourself if you tried!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 01:30:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897810</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897810</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897810</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I worked at a place where they refused to run it _anywhere_ because a couple of people were insistent that it was “insecure”.</p>
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<p>If you say that too loud, the “but my brands unique UI supersedes your functional requirements” people will emerge, screeching, from the woodwork!<p>I can’t prove it, but I just know they’re the ones who live their lives one NPS score at a time, and must think that we operate our software, being thankful for every custom animation that they force us to sit through on their otherwise broken and unimportant software.</p>
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<p>It sounds silly, but apart from liking the sound, this is why I really like wheels with loud hubs.<p>I have a pair of Hunt wheels and they work fantastically, bonus points because they are “always on”, pedestrians are aware of them, but are never surprised.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:10:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690489</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690489</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47690489</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is the meaning of life, the universe, and everything?<p>> Thought for 7.5 million years</p>
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<p>I feel like you’re muddying 2 different arguments here. Or rather, 2 different positions.<p>You’re asserting that people who are tired of this line being wheeled out hold a position analogous to “what’s the big deal, nothing bad happens, just relax”. In reality, that’s only 1 position. The other position is “I understand fully, the consequences, but the relentless doomer language is tiring in the face of continuing-to-not-eventuate”.</p>
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<p>The issue people have isn’t some interpretation of scaling laws, it’s whether the planet’s ecology is goi g to be able to sustain this endeavour.<p>I shouldn’t have to say this out loud, but if the environment collapses, we will die, and no amount of “just a bit more scaling bro, just think of the gains” will matter.</p>
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<p>The solution is more teachers, smaller class sizes and not underpaying and abusing teachers to function as nanny’s also charged with raising your children.<p>This isn’t exactly a mystery problem, we’ve understood clearly how to educate humans well for quite a while. It’s just that doing it properly is “eXpEnSiVe” as if the alternative, isn’t quietly orders of magnitude worse, and more costly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:01:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655681</link><dc:creator>FridgeSeal</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655681</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47655681</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by FridgeSeal in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Microsoft Azure .NET Core Copilot 365 (classic) Professional Edition</p>
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