Hacker News: JTbane

New comment by JTbane in "Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important"

JTbane — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:27:55 +0000

> quitting my fully vested tech job to fuck off and be a cook for a while

I am also fantasizing about this and am only holding off from doing it because of the social stigma (what idiot would quit a well paid full-time job). My biggest issue with the software industry is the feverish shiny-new-thing syndrome that AI is causing (and my current company is all in on this, with "Hyper-Velocity Engineering" panels). Maybe I don't want to move at light speed and would rather stop and smell the roses.

New comment by JTbane in "Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests"

JTbane — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:11:04 +0000

I would guess it is to avoid model lock-in.

New comment by JTbane in "Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week?"

JTbane — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:55:26 +0000

There are enough crappy win32 applications that you probably should restart Windows PCs nightly.

New comment by JTbane in "A US military exercise to launch a satellite on short notice"

JTbane — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:05:51 +0000

I hope I am not alone in thinking the military needs to be defunded in the USA. Nuclear weapons mean that there is zero strategic threat and any future wars will be regional. Drawdown of oversea bases is long overdue.

New comment by JTbane in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

JTbane — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:26:40 +0000

I would guess prevention of using Claude as a pentesting or hacking platform. This could mean that every script kiddie out there would be a massive risk.

New comment by JTbane in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

JTbane — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:39:07 +0000

I would hope that librarians vet those and exclude them before they hit the shelves :(.

New comment by JTbane in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

JTbane — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:47:55 +0000

I've starting going back to books, either at the library or e-books. Librarians are very good at telling you if nonfiction is biased, outdated, or incorrect.

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

JTbane — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:56:09 +0000

You don't need custom built anything, ChatGPT could generate corporate initiatives and PR statements all day and no one would notice.

New comment by JTbane in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

JTbane — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:30:54 +0000

They did use space tape (Kapton) and epoxy for that weird case with the hole drilled in the ISS.

New comment by JTbane in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

JTbane — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:23:06 +0000

I'm experiencing a similar thing- company pushes online lectures but don't even think about putting them on the sprint board.

New comment by JTbane in "I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline"

JTbane — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:01:59 +0000

brother I've thought about the tech to blue collar transition too. for me, I would choose plumbing or electrical, but it seems like 4 years of low apprentice wages are unavoidable.

New comment by JTbane in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

JTbane — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:23:19 +0000

For what they are worth, nuclear weapons are still preventing large-scale conflict between world powers.

New comment by JTbane in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

JTbane — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:41:39 +0000

I've started to go low-tech and ask noai.duckduckgo.com first, and then, gasp, go to the local library for some books on my hobbies.

New comment by JTbane in "The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients"

JTbane — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:04:01 +0000

The seed oil panic is quite possibly the dumbest health craze of the decade- I saw a chef saying beef tallow was healthy!

New comment by JTbane in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

JTbane — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:08:21 +0000

No AI company is addressing the elephant in the room that you need someone experienced constantly monitoring any agentic workflows. This means that the cost savings of agents are a myth.

My company actually did an internal study of agent usage for coding and found it only improved productivity by 10-20%, basically on the same level as good code templates or an autocomplete.

New comment by JTbane in "PS3 Emulator Devs Politely Ask That People Stop Flooding It with AI PRs"

JTbane — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:34:20 +0000

There is nothing wrong with forking, and one man's "better" version is another's bloat. Also, making a fork rather than a PR avoids burdening maintainers.

New comment by JTbane in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

JTbane — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:53:22 +0000

Honestly the de facto standard is to blame: at my dev job, we vacuum up all the packages we need and get the software deployed to production ASAP, then later go over the SBOM and make sure nothing looks sketchy. I'd imagine this is the default most places; an intensive approval process would slow down CI/CD too much.

New comment by JTbane in "Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect"

JTbane — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:11:24 +0000

In, fire 30% of the workforce, new logo, out.

You are now a fully trained management consultant. (Alan Johnson, Peep Show)

New comment by JTbane in "AI slop is killing online communities"

JTbane — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:54:38 +0000

Reddit is more or less dead to me, as the popular subs are botfests and the niche subs are empty. I'm lucky to get a single reply on gaming subs.

New comment by JTbane in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

JTbane — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:14:39 +0000

This makes me paranoid to buy a new car at this point. I would have to keep every single oil filter receipt and take a video of the DIY oil change.