Hacker News: Hydraulix989

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "FAANG Simulator"

Hydraulix989 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:40:57 +0000

I've found that when I was making $85k I was just as miserable as when I was making $200k+ at FAANG, just without the money. The corporate politics and shittiness of being an employee were the exact same. At least, I was living in a VHCOL city.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)"

Hydraulix989 — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:52:04 +0000

Skinny person with OSA here and three corrective jaw surgeries from world-expert sleep surgeons. You won't believe how many GPs told me to my face that it was impossible for me to have sleep apnea because I'm thin. Then the sleep study results came in with 30 AHI (severe range).

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

Hydraulix989 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:10:10 +0000

LLMs are considered Turing complete.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?"

Hydraulix989 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:04:48 +0000

You have to build / earn your influence. People listen to you after you have a reputation of being "right" enough times, and by being likeable. Abusing hierarchy isn't it.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"

Hydraulix989 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:25:46 +0000

Vanilla Arch would fail in the same way with this package. Not sure I follow.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"

Hydraulix989 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 12:36:22 +0000

What are examples of packages that fail with linking errors? What are the errors?

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "Bull markets make you feel smarter than you are"

Hydraulix989 — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:59:07 +0000

Index funds and small investments in things that are still early that you believe in / care about are the way to go.

Day trading and dabbling in $GME, shitcoins, post-2023 NVIDIA, individual stocks, etc. are all bubbles.

Day trading is a scam. Trading firms are more than well-positioned to eat retail's lunch, every single time.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK"

Hydraulix989 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:19:32 +0000

But perhaps the first well-executed?

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "QUIC and the end of TCP sockets"

Hydraulix989 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:00:04 +0000

Finally some sense in this thread.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "QUIC and the end of TCP sockets"

Hydraulix989 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 02:59:18 +0000

It's an eight byte penalty for things needed for QUIC anyways.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "QUIC and the end of TCP sockets"

Hydraulix989 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:03:52 +0000

Not sure I follow. QUIC is just UDP with an extra header in the opaque payload. To a firewall, it looks just like UDP.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music"

Hydraulix989 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 15:29:35 +0000

That argument is tantamount to saying that the EDM genre has stagnated since the 90s after your above listed musical instruments were released.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta"

Hydraulix989 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:29:51 +0000

I will give you the benefit of the doubt and interpret your comment as not specifically accusatory towards Carmack:

Report someone to HR who deserves to be reported to HR, not someone who gave genuine good-faith (and in this case, correct) technical feedback that unfortunately got in the way of someone else's promo packet / empire building.

There are certainly good reasons to report someone to HR. This is not one of them. Only toxic workplaces tolerate such pettiness. And ultimately, XROS was canned by Boz anyways.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta"

Hydraulix989 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:41:19 +0000

You don't report someone like Carmack to HR, it will only backfire and make your ignorance even more visible.

Also, I am not surprised he was reported -- typical underhanded political hustling commonplace at Meta.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "The share of Americans having regular sex keeps dropping"

Hydraulix989 — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 17:15:37 +0000

I mean, we all know the birth rate is dropping already?

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi"

Hydraulix989 — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 01:25:41 +0000

I saw the title, and this is everything I have ever hoped for.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "Blender is Native on Windows 11 on Arm"

Hydraulix989 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 20:06:47 +0000

And Linux ARM, I would expect?

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "Are Diamonds Even a Luxury Anymore? De Beers Reckons with Price Plunge"

Hydraulix989 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:57:35 +0000

Given the vanity of jewelry and the dark past around diamonds of geopolitical bloodshed and slavery, I am very glad to see this happening.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "TheForger's Win32 API Tutorial"

Hydraulix989 — Wed, 14 May 2025 02:09:17 +0000

A textbook example of poor API design.

New comment by Hydraulix989 in "In kids, EEG monitoring of consciousness safely reduces anesthetic use"

Hydraulix989 — Sun, 04 May 2025 19:01:52 +0000

An example is that thin people cannot possibly have sleep apnea, it only affects overweight people. Overly-confident Dunning-Kruger doctors adamantly declared this as "truth" to me enough times that it stalled me getting properly treated at least a decade.