Hacker News: Plasmoid

New comment by Plasmoid in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

Plasmoid — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:18:16 +0000

It's an effect of "once burned twice shy". Every time there was a "bad" hire they had to change things. People add to the list but no one ever wants to advocate for a lighter process since they might be blamed for it.

New comment by Plasmoid in "What Capital Never Told You About Rent"

Plasmoid — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:42:58 +0000

That theory was based on the idea there was a fixed amount of wealth in the world and it was impossible to create more.

Meta wanted to reduce teams by 60% because of AI

Plasmoid — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:18:25 +0000

Article URL: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-meta-wanted-to-reduce-teams

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49553438

Points: 14

# Comments: 5

New comment by Plasmoid in "Uber is laying off 10% of staff"

Plasmoid — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:01:22 +0000

The least cynical take I've heard about RTO is that most managers are deeply under-trained to the point of being mostly incompetent. So forcing people into the office lets them do performative performance monitoring and project management. This makes their job "easier" in that they didn't know how to do it correctly in the first place.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT"

Plasmoid — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:01:04 +0000

It's already won. Over 50% of Internet users are on ipv6.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Judge rules Trump administration’s blacklisting of Anthropic was illegal"

Plasmoid — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:57:57 +0000

The core issue is that it went beyond just not picking a vendor. They labeled anthropic as a supply chain risk. This banned the use of their software for the whole government (and contractors IIRC).

New comment by Plasmoid in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

Plasmoid — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:35:32 +0000

Healthcare.gov was a national scandal due to poor performance related to bad requirements gathering.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work"

Plasmoid — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:29:58 +0000

My ask for these is always the same. I just want to see how this union would work, specifically.

Don't compare it to other unions or say it could be like X. Just write a few hundred words on what it would actually be like.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

Plasmoid — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 15:53:28 +0000

It's because LLMs are entropy generators. That's not a bad thing for what people are doing.

But to prevent model collapse you need a way to pump down the entropy. Much like in thermo, it's an expensive and slow process.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes"

Plasmoid — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:55:16 +0000

The author, Derek Lowe, also writes the hilarious Things I won't work with series (https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...)

New comment by Plasmoid in "Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data"

Plasmoid — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:56:13 +0000

Many people also don't know that Vienna was isolated and divided for nearly 50 years during the cold war. A significant amount of the available housing is due to Vienna having a bad economy for almost a century.

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline

Plasmoid — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:06:09 +0000

Article URL: https://malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey-to-the-microwave-alternate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882196

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Plasmoid in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

Plasmoid — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 22:38:56 +0000

Let's encrypt is great but if you operate any kind of scale you can quickly hit their rate limit. AWS only recently started allowing you to pull the certificate out of ACM.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

Plasmoid — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:56:53 +0000

That might take a while. We need to bog down the HSR first.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Rent collections are down in New York"

Plasmoid — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:56:07 +0000

Tampering with smoke detectors

New comment by Plasmoid in "Rent collections are down in New York"

Plasmoid — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 04:48:18 +0000

Do you actually know what Vienna did? Because the overwhelming number of people who reference the city basically just repeat a few dubious talking point about restricting rent.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Renting a sewing machine from the library"

Plasmoid — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:40:11 +0000

My local library has been running a tool lender library for quite a while. It's quite popular as it rents out both manual and electric tools. This is great when you need an extension ladder but don't want to own an extension ladder.

New comment by Plasmoid in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

Plasmoid — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:29:39 +0000

> if they let you walk out maybe they really can't

Toyota's have such a backlog of orders that they're marking cars up above MSRP

New comment by Plasmoid in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

Plasmoid — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:49:26 +0000

> conflict free stability is super impressive by that standard.

Not much happened between 1861 and 1865?

New comment by Plasmoid in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control [pdf]"

Plasmoid — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:15:56 +0000

What happens is that economics shift from a renewable model to an extractive model.

Farms are renewable so farmers maintain them over centuries. Mines are extractive so they get pumped and dumped.

What landlords do in these situations is try to extract as much money as possible before the enterprise collapses, either literally or figuratively. New housing doesn't come online quickly so both quality and quantity fall.