Hacker News: NDizzle

New comment by NDizzle in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

NDizzle — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:27:03 +0000

Removing their fake job postings is low on the priority list. Same with the other companies and their fake job postings...

New comment by NDizzle in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

NDizzle — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:24:29 +0000

I had the same thing happen. Twice, actually - after the non-competes expired for the first acquisition, of course I accepted a position working for the same guy at the next company. Another successful exit there. These were small time, meat and potatoes type startup companies. Nothing fancy. The one thing I did post about here on HN, which I think was one 1) ahead of its time, 2) lacked investor connections, 3) we went with Oakland instead of SF DID flame out spectacularly. My part was the money from the first acquisition plus about 40% of my savings. Ah well. Gotta try it a few times. (still looking for the next opportunity)

New comment by NDizzle in "Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth"

NDizzle — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:56:17 +0000

*Deloitte CYPRESS falsified documents... After Arthur Anderson went down for global issues, Deloitte split into country based things so when Deloitte Cypress has an issue they can hand wave away it being an issue regarding Deloitte in that country only.

It somewhat operates that way, too. Back when the little company I was at was acquired by Deloitte USA - I was exposed to some of the IT workings. Deloitte Canada did things their way, USA did things their way... no knowledge sharing, combined efforts, learnings/failings passing between the "different companies". Worst of both worlds. For tax and risk reasons.

New comment by NDizzle in "Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

NDizzle — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:11:06 +0000

Mine is in a blue case. My last case was black. Only when my cases wear out do I remember that my phone is actually white.

New comment by NDizzle in "Lotus Notes and the dangers of starting from scratch"

NDizzle — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:54:43 +0000

I joined a company using Notes back in '00. Performed the 4 to 5 upgrade, skipped 6 and went to 7.

We had our "email blast" code in the founder of the companies mail database. When we launched new features or had various announcements, you would log on to Mark's email database and run those features in the drop down. Of course there were various permissions in check that only certain people could do (or view) certain things in the database, but that's where it ended up...

I always thought the data/design replication was cool as well. I had to bake in what I called "relational fields" into the documents to be able to perform some standard relational database type of work, but it was really easy to work with overall. Maybe too easy - as one person mentioned in the thread, there were hundreds of little custom apps built by anyone/everyone in the company, because it was just that easy.

New comment by NDizzle in "'You Can See Everything' Review: Nathan Fielder's Doc About Elizabeth Holmes"

NDizzle — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 15:49:02 +0000

Words will never be a human, for what it's worth. May as well delete that code path, as it'll never be reached.

New comment by NDizzle in "Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study"

NDizzle — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:18:27 +0000

This is my favorite soap, by far, for what it’s worth. The peppermint one, in fact. ALL ONE!

New comment by NDizzle in "Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver to Windows"

NDizzle — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 15:34:45 +0000

From what I can tell, gaming with an nvidia card on Linux is still rough. Is that incorrect?

New comment by NDizzle in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"

NDizzle — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:13:38 +0000

Man, everyone is demonstrably bad - until they aren't. Some things, like being CEO, are much more rare in the "try, try, try again" space, but it does seem to work like most things. My son was a terrible, demonstrably bad hitter for ~2 years. Then, all of a sudden, he was not, nor will he ever be again.

New comment by NDizzle in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

NDizzle — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:11:01 +0000

The company I work for is about 15mm into what is effectively a rewrite. Just a lone data point…

New comment by NDizzle in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"

NDizzle — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 18:08:15 +0000

Leadership asks us if we have friends who are skilled looking for a change. We do. We hire those people. They do great work. They then get laid off 8 months later. Leadership then asks (the few we have…) skilled people in India if they have friends who are skilled looking for a change. They say to find the job postings for the laid off people to use verbatim for the India roles.

New comment by NDizzle in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"

NDizzle — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:07:54 +0000

Maybe we should start a support group.

New comment by NDizzle in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"

NDizzle — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:06:20 +0000

I think about quitting every single day. I have too many little responsibilities running around the house in order to pull it off. Layoffs impacting us big time. Brain drain. Off shoring. 7,000 line PRs. 12 hour shift coverage. Project count tripling. Not sure how long I’ll make it before I have heart issues and become one of those late 40s guys who keels over and is forgotten by the company in 6 weeks. Stressful.

New comment by NDizzle in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"

NDizzle — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:55:01 +0000

There are schools. For example, in Bentonville AR I know the head butcher instructor at Brightwater. https://brightwater.nwacc.edu/

New comment by NDizzle in "GTA 6 will cost $80"

NDizzle — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:10:55 +0000

I think this is a reasonable compromise. Let's face it - they could have made this a $100 game (or even more) and many people would have bought it. I would have bought it. I'm not sure if it needs to go to Neo-Geo game costs ($200+?) but Rockstar has earned enough of my trust to buy in.

That said, I think I've bought GTA5 two or three times for various platforms over the years. I doubt we'll see GTA6 on sale for years.

As they say in the automotive industry, buy once, cry once. (Pay more for the known good thing, rather than buying the cheap third party things... I'm looking at you, $30 clockspringexperts.com that I have replaced 3 times in the past 4 years... instead of buying the $300 toyota part once)

New comment by NDizzle in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

NDizzle — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:55:54 +0000

$200 oil change?! I pay $85 for a 5.7L V8 with a 7.5 quart capacity. Who is paying $200???

New comment by NDizzle in "Ferrari shares fall after launch of first EV as Jony Ive design proves divisive"

NDizzle — Tue, 26 May 2026 18:00:14 +0000

While there are some interesting design choices for things like the lights and wheels (across all Hyundai models, IMHO) the Hyundai EV9 is a pretty normal looking SUV.

New comment by NDizzle in "Men Who Stare at Walls"

NDizzle — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:20:23 +0000

The same video showed up on my feed last week. I didn't try wall staring, but I did try a day (last Tuesday) with only a single screen active for the entire work day. I was extremely productive that day... but, and I know this is bad, I don't want set expectations too high. So here I type to you on a screen / device that should be turned off.

New comment by NDizzle in "Music for Programming"

NDizzle — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:25:44 +0000

Everyone is linking the stuff they use, so I will add as well. I like the ambient/electronic as well, but this one might be new/exciting for some of you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnk_b_7trII

This is an extended edition of "it might just be a one shot deal" from the waka/jawaka album by Frank Zappa. The extended part is the pedal steel played by Sneaky Pete Kleinow.

If you have never heard any Zappa stuff and this is interesting to you, listen to waka jawaka itself if you like instrumentals. If you want something more commercial, listen to the Apostrophe/Overnite Sensation album. If you want more odd, listen to the Bongo Fury album, featuring Captain Beefheart. Happy exploring.

New comment by NDizzle in "Show HN: Moongate – Ultima Online server emulator in .NET 10 with Lua scripting"

NDizzle — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:10:46 +0000

Really. I wonder if there are any historical videos about it. I have stories, but they are mostly exploit stories…