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New comment by Volundr in "Why You Should Expect an AI Crash"

Volundr — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 02:45:21 +0000

> This is not a dot com bubble. This is a paradigm shift for people who know how to leverage an LLM effectively

The Internet and personal computing was also a paradigm shift. Paradigm shift and bubble are not mutually exclusive.

New comment by Volundr in "Why You Should Expect an AI Crash"

Volundr — Fri, 13 Nov 2026 02:37:38 +0000

The dotcom bubble didn't burst because the web was pointless and doomed, it burst because it was massively overvalued.

AI being a transformative technology and AI companies being massively over leveraged betting on returns they can never realize are not mutually exclusive scenarios.

New comment by Volundr in "My gym forced a social media down my throat. So I reverse-engineered its app"

Volundr — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 02:11:01 +0000

Eh? How so?

New comment by Volundr in "I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence"

Volundr — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 22:26:34 +0000

Fastmail is great, my one downside being that it charges per-account (to be clear, you can have unlimited aliases on that account), so if you want multiple accounts, e.x. for homelab stuff, your paying full price for each.

I also use purelymail for the above reason, and while it's barebones I've been quite happy with it.

Hmg_nemesis, Root for Gen5W Hyundai/Kia

Volundr — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:19:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/xwtk/hmg_nemesis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50260674

Points: 1

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New comment by Volundr in "US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect"

Volundr — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 18:46:09 +0000

Most states require that a dentist own the practice so PE essentially splits the business in 2 where a dentist (maybe the original owner, maybe a new dentist brought in by the PE) own hiring any dentists and the patient records, while an MSO owns the building, all other staff, contracts and cash flow rights. So sure on paper a dentist "owns" the practice, but in reality the PE firm owns everything that makes it a business and exerts a ton of control.

But sure, keep imagining PE is pumping money into the industry to buy nothing.

New comment by Volundr in "US inequality is getting worse in ways you might not expect"

Volundr — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:30:16 +0000

No.

New comment by Volundr in "Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab"

Volundr — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:24:50 +0000

I was responsible for administering a self hosted GitLab instance for a medium sized company and our backups never required downtime. The built in backup command doesn't require downtime but also isn't a consistent point in time snapshot (specifically because the instance keeps running while the backup is being taken). If they've decided they need one for some reason, stopping GitLab is certainly the easiest way, but not the only way of accomplishing that goal, but that'll be true of any self-hosted forge, including GitHub.

New comment by Volundr in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

Volundr — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:35:37 +0000

I seem to recall some apps refusing to run if developer mode is enabled. A workaround that means I can no longer use the apps I use every day isn't much of a workaround.

New comment by Volundr in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

Volundr — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:34:14 +0000

Why do I need a remote cron job to install an app on my phone?

New comment by Volundr in "I can't believe PowerShell is good"

Volundr — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:42:12 +0000

I have Pacman, mise, and nix on mine

If that's a problem or not is a matter of perspective.

New comment by Volundr in "Tesla Roadster"

Volundr — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:59:46 +0000

I don't doubt it's got an electric system in it. I doubt it's got a battery sized for anything beyond that demo, a sufficiently rigid frame for road use, a reasonable steering and suspension system, etc.

My general assumption is that anything and everything that wasn't necessary for that demo was removed to trim enough weight to make the demo possible.

New comment by Volundr in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

Volundr — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:00:39 +0000

Am I looking at the right thing?

https://github.com/emdash-cms/emdash

> EmDash depends on Dynamic Workers to run secure sandboxed plugins. Dynamic Workers are currently only available on paid accounts. Upgrade your account (starting at $5/mo) or comment out the worker_loaders block of your wrangler.jsonc configuration file to disable plugins.

Seems like a pretty poor replacement for WordPress, which will run on pretty much whatever random system happens to be within eyesight.

New comment by Volundr in "Grep beats LSP? Why coding agents ignore your fancier tools"

Volundr — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:11:08 +0000

But how else am I supposed to collect their salary?

New comment by Volundr in "Just bury your trash: What if everything we know about recycling is wrong?"

Volundr — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:41:53 +0000

My mug only had to be transported to my house once. With disposable cups that's a recurring expense. Unless you have a dilithium powered replicator.

New comment by Volundr in "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex"

Volundr — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:58:50 +0000

I'm not sure I agree with the extremely easy to verify part. How do you validate that your new test suite covers the exact same edge cases as your old?

But yes, LLMs are great at tests. I'm not doubting that an LLM migrated some legacy tests, or that it was a task taking a long time. I am doubting the way it was presented in the article, that this was taking a full team of engineers dedicated to nothing but this, 5 years to accomplish (and presumably already spent 4 million working on this, since the total estimate was 6 million, and they've been at it for 4 year).

I think some PR flack got ahold of the fact that an LLM wrapped up migrating some legacy tests that a team had been slowly chipping away at for 4 years, between their normal feature work, and were on track to finish in 5, then wrote it up like it was that teams entire focus instead of a piece of tech debt.

That makes far more sense to me than spending millions for a team of engineers dedicated to nothing but rewriting an existing test suite.

New comment by Volundr in "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex"

Volundr — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:48:30 +0000

The comment I was replying to said

> But you _can_ verify if you had bothered

I think pointing out I can't is indeed fair.

New comment by Volundr in "Asana cleared 5 years of engineering work in 2 weeks with Codex"

Volundr — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:52:39 +0000

This doesn't "verify" anything. I can't see the code before, I can't see the code after. I can't verify they do the same thing. It won't be updated if there's a long churn of issues and breakage coming from this work plaguing the team for years. The only thing it verifies is that Asana did indeed make the claim, which I don't think anyone was doubting.

> Back in 2022, we set out to migrate Asana's frontend test suite off Enzyme, our aging testing library, and onto React Testing Library (RTL).

Your telling me they had a full team of engineers at Asana, doing nothing but rewriting tests for 4 years until AI came along and did the last year in a couple days? I'm extremely doubtful. I don't doubt for a minute they were one-track to take 5 years, but not because it was 5 years of engineering effort for humans.

Far more likely they finally cleared up some tech debt they had been plugging at off and on for 4 years, then a PR flack got ahold of it and it became a breathless "AI did 5 years of work in a couple days".

New comment by Volundr in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

Volundr — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:42:59 +0000

> This is only true if you consider those who write corporate press releases and post on LinkedIn to be real people.

You make a fair point. Objection withdrawn your honor.

New comment by Volundr in "Fairphone is now officially available in the United States"

Volundr — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:13:35 +0000

This is something that frustrates me a lot when I see people jumping on a piece of writing as AI generated, these AI-isms didn't show up in a vacuum. Yes, AI commonly overuses some patterns, but it got those patterns from it's training data because real people wrote (and continue to write) that way. A few matching sentences here or there is not the smoking gun people make it out to be.