Hacker News: Sheeny96

New comment by Sheeny96 in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

Sheeny96 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:29:47 +0000

What if I told you, there is an app on the market https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWwCK95X6go

New comment by Sheeny96 in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

Sheeny96 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:15:46 +0000

The problem with this is the reason LLMs are so good at writing Python/Java/JavaScript is that they've been trained on a metric ton of code in those languages, have seen the good the bad and the ugly and been tuned to the good. A new language would be training from scratch and if we're introducing new paradigms that are 'good for LLMs but bad for humans' means humans will struggle to write good code in it, making the training process harder. Even worse, say you get a year and 500 features into that repo and the LLM starts going rogue - who's gonna debug that?

New comment by Sheeny96 in "OracleGPT: Thought Experiment on an AI Powered Executive"

Sheeny96 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:27:16 +0000

Sounds like Helios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swbGrpfaaaM

The End of Software Engineering?

Sheeny96 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:23:45 +0000

Article URL: https://seanm.uk/blog/the-end-of-software-engineering

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46763485

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Sheeny96 in "If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)"

Sheeny96 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:25:00 +0000

I worked very hard for the first 5 or 6 years of my career - hit senior dev pretty quick, managed to double my pay moving into consultancy, and back on product dev in a smaller company nowadays.

Honestly? I don't feel a massive need to grow beyond where I am. I earn in the top 5% in my country. I live a comfortable and flexible life. I continue to learn like any dev with a passion for technology does - but i'm not constructing my life around an endless climb. If my role naturally transitions upwardly, great. If I stay where I am, steadily taking on more responsibility,that's also totally fine. The diminishing returns of chasing a CTO title or another arbritrarily large sum of money just doesn't seem worth it.

New comment by Sheeny96 in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

Sheeny96 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 12:23:12 +0000

I, as an experienced engineer, am not afraid of the power of AI to take my job. I'm afraid of midwits who think it can, that hold the purse strings.

New comment by Sheeny96 in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

Sheeny96 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 10:02:16 +0000

On 3 billion devices

New comment by Sheeny96 in "A security incident that may involve your Plex account information"

Sheeny96 — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:48:38 +0000

I run my Jellyfin on a Pi 5 8GB (with a bunch of other homelab stuff) and run an OSMC (Kodi + Jellyfin plugin) on a Pi 3b 2GB with absolutely no issue. OSMC automatically integrates with my TV remote, runs very low power and smooth. I never used any of the Plex stuff that wasn't my media, so I prefer it this way. Less bloat, more customisable.

New comment by Sheeny96 in "Show HN: Minesweeper game I built to be real-time Multiplayer"

Sheeny96 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:46:44 +0000

I met a dude at a Rust meetup a few months ago who was creating an infinite, multiplayer minesweeper game in Rust/WASM you might also find interesting! http://infinitesweeper.online

New comment by Sheeny96 in "No Hello"

Sheeny96 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:43:52 +0000

It definitely is cultural, but I've never viewed it from the perspective of getting straight to business being rude. A bit like in the UK, "weather chat" is a very standard point of conversation at the start of a meeting with people you aren't too familiar with, as a reflexive ice breaker.

For me personally, whilst I understand all the reasoning and logic behind it, it does ultimately come across as fake and unnecessary - everyone knows it's fake and unnecessary, but we ritualistically do it anyway, because the alternative is too jarring "we're here for work, lets do the work, and we're done"

New comment by Sheeny96 in "No Hello"

Sheeny96 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:38:38 +0000

This can be a cultural thing, at least in my experience. Particularly with Indian and African colleagues, it seems to be ubiquitous amongst them.

New comment by Sheeny96 in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

Sheeny96 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:38:23 +0000

If there were a recommendation algorithm plugin for Jellyfin (even if it just calls out to the API of some existing external web service), that might pull me over. Until that's the case, the recommendations will keep me on Spotify

New comment by Sheeny96 in "Heap-overflowing Llama.cpp to RCE"

Sheeny96 — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 14:07:06 +0000

10k words was the word count for my 3rd year undergraduate dissertation in the UK. Typically, this is tirelessly worked on over months. The quality of this far exceeds anything I produced during that time and anything I saw from my peers.

New comment by Sheeny96 in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

Sheeny96 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:03:50 +0000

What do you mean group series together? If you mean seasons of a show, yes it does. If you mean collections, it has them.

New comment by Sheeny96 in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

Sheeny96 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:02:07 +0000

I can run this via Kodi's jellyfin plugin, via OSMC on a raspberry pi, on my living room TV. It automatically uses my tv remote, and says in big letters "TV Shows" and "Movies". Anyone at my house can use it, with ease, even the absolute least technical.

New comment by Sheeny96 in "Ask HN: Alternative PR Viewer for Bitbucket PRs?"

Sheeny96 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:08:06 +0000

That'd be a very hard argument in a corporate environment, when we already pay for the Atlassian stack. Jira and Confluence are already so embedded, I've barked up that tree before, it wouldn't go anywhere for a long time even if there were glaring problems, nevermind one devs gripe about a suboptimal UX.

Self hosted costs a person, or more likely a team, plus the infra.

Ask HN: Alternative PR Viewer for Bitbucket PRs?

Sheeny96 — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 10:36:27 +0000

I find the UX for bitbucket pull requests an absolutely awful experience that massively slows down my ability to review code. Does anyone use any alternative tooling for branch reviews that they've had success with?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42916878

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by Sheeny96 in "Weight-loss drug found to shrink muscle in mice, human cells"

Sheeny96 — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:13:54 +0000

Whilst it is 95% calories in calories out, keto (not low carb, as low carb doesn't include high fat) can be good for muscle retention whilst in a defecit - as more foods that you consume naturally have higher protein (I utilise keto when looking to drop body fat, consuming a lot of slightly higher fat cuts of meat as a replacement for the carb calories, so chicken thighs instead of breast, 10% ground beef,etc). The higher fat content correlates to higher testosterone count, and higher protein means greater muscle retention.

New comment by Sheeny96 in "My Time Working at Stripe"

Sheeny96 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 22:05:30 +0000

You sorta answered your own question there - it's largely, if not wholly, about your childhood experience, what validated you etc. Gonna sound very projectionist and therapising here - but I'd say with a 70-80% probability that op (or the myriad software engineers with this trait) had someone of significance in their childhood that gave them praise when things were perfect, or when they knew something.

New comment by Sheeny96 in "Declaring 'Crisis,' South Korean Firms Tell Managers to Work 6 Days a Week"

Sheeny96 — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:09:23 +0000

And this is in a culture where busy work is rampant anyway. You can be sat in the office 12 hours a day doing nothing, so long as you are there and seen to be working.