Hacker News: OnionBlender

New comment by OnionBlender in "Microsoft Drops Claude Code After Budget Overrun"

OnionBlender — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:20:57 +0000

I had thought about creating something like that for finding comments for articles. For a given article, display links to comments for HN, lobsters, reddit, etc. However, I feel I already waste too much time reading comments. I shouldn't make it easier and more tempting.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Microsoft AI CEO forecasts human-level AI in 18 months"

OnionBlender — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:02:44 +0000

Why link to twitter post about a Fortune article? Just link to the article.

https://fortune.com/article/why-microsoft-ai-chief-mustafa-s...

New comment by OnionBlender in "Ask HN: Is anyone seriously considering a career change?"

OnionBlender — Wed, 06 May 2026 17:01:07 +0000

Go back to school for what though?

I'm 43 and I've been thinking I might just retire if I get laid off and can't find something new. I'm frugal and have enough saved up that I could make it work if I leave my high cost of living area.

I'm not worried about engineering jobs being eliminated. I'm more worried that companies are going to expect insane velocity because of these tools and I'm not going to be able to keep up in part because I care about quality. At my company, the people that use AI to generate the most code seem to get the most recognition.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Zed 1.0"

OnionBlender — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:39:40 +0000

I found it funny when an American customer support person I was talking to over the phone had no idea what "zed" meant. I was reciting some code and they asked, "what is zed"? I said, "uh, the last letter of the alphabet".

New comment by OnionBlender in "There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains"

OnionBlender — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:24:19 +0000

How are they measuring it? My boss gave me a hard time because I wasn't using enough of my token budget. How do they know what percentage of your pull request was AI written?

New comment by OnionBlender in ""The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge""

OnionBlender — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:47:21 +0000

I'm forced to use Copilot at work. I can't resize the font size and there is usually a delay when typing in it for the first time. In Outlook, it often opens the side panel on its own.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Swift 6.3"

OnionBlender — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:51:33 +0000

It is a markdown thing. It removes the "copy" button from the code block when the markdown is rendered. Search for "nocopy" on this page.

https://docs.instruqt.com/tracks/challenges/using-markdown-e...

New comment by OnionBlender in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

OnionBlender — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:48:25 +0000

When I worked at BlackBerry, it pissed me off when CEO John Chen sent out an email telling employees that they need to be fully focused on their BlackBerry job. Meanwhile, he was on the board of directors of Disney and Wells Fargo while BlackBerry was failing badly.

New comment by OnionBlender in "WA income tax clears House after 24-hour debate"

OnionBlender — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:15:40 +0000

To where?

New comment by OnionBlender in "We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole"

OnionBlender — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:05:18 +0000

The Android filesystem APIs are a perfect example of this. The old answers no longer work because Google keeps restricting what apps can do. If you're lucky, someone might post a comment or a new (non-accepted) answer.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Engineers: Stop trying to win other people's game"

OnionBlender — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:56:20 +0000

I assume they thought the person on top of the mountain is a man instead of the same woman with her hair tied back.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Why we built Lightpanda in Zig"

OnionBlender — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:49:58 +0000

What are some famous examples?

New comment by OnionBlender in "The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work"

OnionBlender — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:22:27 +0000

The model assumes the day begins with focus time. My day always starts with me recovering from the stress of my commute.

New comment by OnionBlender in "The Math of Why You Can't Focus at Work"

OnionBlender — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:48:46 +0000

What is Astro? What did you use to make those graphs?

New comment by OnionBlender in "Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change"

OnionBlender — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 21:48:48 +0000

I've tried many Linux distros and Manjaro is the only one that completely fail to install.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Show HN: A better Hacker News front end"

OnionBlender — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:59:20 +0000

Agreed. I like being able to quickly see what is new since the last I visited so that I'm not re-reading the same headlines.

New comment by OnionBlender in "Ask HN: Can't get hired – what's next?"

OnionBlender — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 03:29:46 +0000

Which career did you switch to?

New comment by OnionBlender in "Microsoft lets bosses spot teams that are dodging Copilot"

OnionBlender — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:43:22 +0000

I've found it detrimental to quality because people at my workplace are now submitting code changes in languages they don't really understand (like in multithreaded C++ code). The time they saved is taken from my time having to explain all the problems with their code.

New comment by OnionBlender in "OpenGL: Mesh shaders in the current year"

OnionBlender — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:00:07 +0000

EXT is a Khronos naming convention. It means it is a generic extension, intended to be implemented across implementations.

https://wikis.khronos.org/opengl/OpenGL_Extension#Extension_...

New comment by OnionBlender in "Gifted children are special needs children"

OnionBlender — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:21:03 +0000

My brother was identified as "gifted" and I was identified as having a "learning disability". He got pulled out of class to work with other gifted kids on special projects (like computer programming in the 90s). I got pulled out of science class to be taught remedial grammar and receive one-on-one help with math. This made me feel like I was dumber than the other kids and that I had to study hard to compensate. Meanwhile, my brother had everyone telling him how smart and gifted he is.

We both went to university, but he barely got accepted and nearly dropped out. I think I did a lot better at university because I was already accustomed to needing to study.

Many years later I learned that there have been studies about this "praise for effort versus praise for intelligence" dynamic.