Hacker News: SCUSKU

New comment by SCUSKU in "DeCloudflare"

SCUSKU — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 23:27:26 +0000

I would love if there was some content here besides vague posting about Cloudflare bad. Like why? There truly is no thesis to convince me right now.

Also love the irony of getting an HN hug of death w/o Cloudflare

New comment by SCUSKU in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

SCUSKU — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:32:32 +0000

I finally ran Astra on a dashboard feature today, and while I was vibing it looked great, but then when it came time to actually read the code I was appalled because it was the worst looking code I had seen from an LLM since like last November. I mean it was just the definition of slop, not re-using anything, super terse with mega-ternaries, re-writing functions that should be using standard library packages, etc, etc. I think for coding I'm gunna stick with the 5.6 series of models, or maybe try out Anthropic again...

New comment by SCUSKU in "Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird"

SCUSKU — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 22:55:21 +0000

I've heard of orbs but what is it actually?

New comment by SCUSKU in "RSI Simulator"

SCUSKU — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:11:00 +0000

I was expecting some intense clicking game that would give me carpal tunnel lol

New comment by SCUSKU in "The Git history command deserves more attention"

SCUSKU — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:45:39 +0000

These graphics are great. Makes for a skimmable high signal article, nice work!

New comment by SCUSKU in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

SCUSKU — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:52:56 +0000

My girlfriend works at Broadcom doing chip design, and based on what she's told me they JUST got claude code like 3 weeks ago, so I really doubt this means anything beyond them vibe coding some scripts or something...

New comment by SCUSKU in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

SCUSKU — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:39:11 +0000

I have this problem too. The only thing that has 10x'd is my boss's expectations and the number of draft PRs I have open...

New comment by SCUSKU in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

SCUSKU — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:17:08 +0000

Aged like milk for sure.

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=...