Hacker News: SCUSKU

New comment by SCUSKU in "The Los Angeles Aqueduct Is Wild"

SCUSKU — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:54:14 +0000

Anecdotally, my friend's grandma was an almond farmer. As they drove past a river in the Central Valley, she exclaimed "Why is there water in that river?! Those could be watering my almond trees!"

New comment by SCUSKU in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

SCUSKU — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:10:29 +0000

I think you can just click anywhere within it and click and drag it

New comment by SCUSKU in "Ask HN: What are your best purchases under $100?"

SCUSKU — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:24:11 +0000

How itchy do those get?

New comment by SCUSKU in "Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative"

SCUSKU — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 20:05:40 +0000

A bit of feedback, the readme gifs are a little too fast, it's hard to tell what exactly is happening.

New comment by SCUSKU in "The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia"

SCUSKU — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 18:06:04 +0000

Plus US dollars just have that smell to them. I wouldn't mind though if we rotated out some of the faces on the bills, e.g. Andrew Jackson

New comment by SCUSKU in "Taking money off the table"

SCUSKU — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:57:15 +0000

Would you apply that similarly to RSUs at a public company as well? i.e. always sell your stock grant and diversify regardless of the company?

New comment by SCUSKU in "Doomsday scoreboard"

SCUSKU — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:44:49 +0000

Yeah I was fully expecting this site to be making fun of all the wacko conspiracies about armageddon, such that it would make me feel better. But instead, the "Limit to Growth" summary seems entirely plausible.

New comment by SCUSKU in "Do not accept terms and conditions"

SCUSKU — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:03:20 +0000

Have they tried MongoDB?

New comment by SCUSKU in "Don't avoid workplace politics"

SCUSKU — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:01:15 +0000

A good clickbait title though, I probably wouldn't have clicked otherwise...

New comment by SCUSKU in "When the job search becomes impossible"

SCUSKU — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:29:54 +0000

I was laid off in Aug 2022, found a new role in March 2023, then found another role in March 2024. So basically 2 roles in 2.5 years. It's fairly common in the bay area, especially since I'm in the startup space.

New comment by SCUSKU in "When the job search becomes impossible"

SCUSKU — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:18:25 +0000

Read through your comment history and it sounds gnarly. I hope you find something soon. I was unemployed for 6 months in 2022-2023 and it was horrible. I guess I learned something from it, but I hated it. That said, I became employed after applying to a role by emailing the CTO after they posted on the monthly Who's Hiring thread. I've had 2 jobs from HN since.

HN has been huge for my career personally, so I made this site to help make it easier to find stuff that's good for you: https://hnresumetojobs.com/

Sincerely wishing you the best of luck.

New comment by SCUSKU in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

SCUSKU — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:39:53 +0000

True that SVP benefits from not serving a rural area, but we also need to consider again that PGE is a for-profit organization that in 2024 posted $2.5B in profits, which were distributed to shareholders[1]. If PGE were owned by the state with no such fiduciary duty, this money could instead be used to lower rates and/or invest in infrastructure.

[1] - https://www.zacks.com/stock/quote/PCG/income-statement?icid=...

New comment by SCUSKU in "EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy"

SCUSKU — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:18:09 +0000

The reason PGE is so expensive is because it's a privately owned monopoly with a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder returns. Additionally, the urban areas of California are subsidizing the fire prone rural areas of the state.

The "fake costs" are not primarily from regulation as much as it is from the need to squeeze profit. For comparison, look at Silicon Valley Power which is owned and operated by the city of Santa Clara. SVP charges $0.175/kwh vs PGE $0.425/kwh. [1]

[1] - https://www.siliconvalleypower.com/residents/rates-and-fees

New comment by SCUSKU in "The rise of async AI programming"

SCUSKU — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 17:03:44 +0000

Same! I was hoping this would have some insights into pitfalls or the like with javascript promises or python async, but alas no such luck.

New comment by SCUSKU in "US reportedly forcing TSMC to buy 49% stake in Intel to secure tariff relief"

SCUSKU — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 00:11:57 +0000

What you're describing is an Orwellian dystopia, where a boot forces you to think a certain way. We live in a Huxleyan dystopia where there is so much so much to distract you that you become submissive.

New comment by SCUSKU in "Deep Agents"

SCUSKU — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:12:58 +0000

Hacker hacks on project and gets posted to Hacker News. Commenter on Hacker News: No thanks, no hacking please.

New comment by SCUSKU in "How to increase your surface area for luck"

SCUSKU — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:23:53 +0000

HN was probably the last place I'd expected to see a romance novella, but that makes it all the more intriguing. I hope OP asks the daughter out.

New comment by SCUSKU in "Show HN: Shouldiuse.dev – Software dependency health checker"

SCUSKU — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 21:21:20 +0000

Tried a public repo but it asked for a personal access token? No thanks. Otherwise great idea, but why should I give a personal access token for something that's publicly available, it really does not inspire confidence.

New comment by SCUSKU in "A Spiral Structure in the Inner Oort Cloud"

SCUSKU — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 23:46:38 +0000

Here's the PDF: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbf9b/...

New comment by SCUSKU in "Show HN: Job board aggregator for best paying remote SWE jobs in the U.S."

SCUSKU — Mon, 19 May 2025 06:02:03 +0000

Personally I have checked 3/4 boxes here, and actively working on a job board currently for fun...

At least for a job board, it feels like it is useful, and also ultimately not that complex a piece of software. Which is nice for doing some light coding as opposed to things I usually deal with at work.