Hacker News: ams92

New comment by ams92 in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

ams92 — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:33:21 +0000

I think this is more due to the fact that the Iranian currency has completely collapsed.

New comment by ams92 in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

ams92 — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:49:27 +0000

What a shock, company whose share price is in the shitter lays people off and blames AI.

New comment by ams92 in "A High-Level View of TLA+"

ams92 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 14:24:10 +0000

I’m wondering the same. I’ve read multiple articles about formal methods and how they’ve been used to find obscure bugs in distributed systems, but usually they just show a proof and talk about formal methods without concrete examples.

New comment by ams92 in "Some men tend to jump straight to innuendoes: dating app users on why they quit"

ams92 — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 19:00:37 +0000

The problem with dating apps is they turn to shit when it’s time for the platform to monetize.

New comment by ams92 in "Older Americans Are About to Lose a Lot of Weight"

ams92 — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 00:13:05 +0000

People aren’t eating the right foods and not exercising enough. The cause is very simple, the solution is not. It’s hard to get millions of people to make lifestyle changes and that’s even assuming they have access to healthier food in the first place.

New comment by ams92 in "Some of us like "interdiff" code review"

ams92 — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:23:21 +0000

Most of the complaints here could be solved by having smaller pull requests and then squashing commits when it’s time to merge.

New comment by ams92 in "Xbox console sales continue to crater with 42% revenue drop"

ams92 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 18:59:36 +0000

Historically, console makers have taken a loss on consoles they sell and they primarily make money on the games themselves. I wonder how much Microsoft actually cares about console sales.

New comment by ams92 in "California DMV puts 42M car titles on blockchain to fight fraud"

ams92 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:14:18 +0000

Yeah and 42M records is not prohibitively large.

New comment by ams92 in "Canada became a car theft capital of the world"

ams92 — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 14:49:39 +0000

This is nearly identical to the massive issues with retail and car theft that we have in San Francisco.

The uber liberals will say “oh they’re just trying to feed their families” while there are endless low skilled jobs (since the pandemic) available that pay $20+ an hour.

The reality is that current policing and prosecution rules/prosecution practices make being a retail thief more convenient than getting a job. Nothing is going to change until the punishment becomes a deterrent again.

New comment by ams92 in "Locked out of 14 year old YouTube channel because tied to Hotmail.com email"

ams92 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:54:20 +0000

For many people SMS or emails with tokens are already pushing their technological capabilities. Might even go as far to say most people.

New comment by ams92 in "How to test without mocking"

ams92 — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 15:29:18 +0000

With containerization it’s very quick to spin up test dependencies as well as part of your CICD. Why mock calls to a datastore when it’s super easy to spin up an ephemeral postgresql instance to test on?

New comment by ams92 in "Seattle tumbles to No. 20 in global ranking of startup ecosystems"

ams92 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 21:56:03 +0000

Seattle became a tech city because of Microsoft and Amazon, period. If they didn’t decide to have their HQ there, we probably wouldn’t consider it a tech city.

New comment by ams92 in "Google Podcasts is gone – and so is my faith in Google"

ams92 — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 16:44:22 +0000

Each engineer gets paid something around 200k-500k all in depending on seniority. I doubt just 1 team worked on this product given the bureaucracy of big tech companies like google. So why shell out millions of dollars in salary per year when the product isn’t making money?

New comment by ams92 in "40% of Lawyers Are Women. 7% Are Black. America's Workforce in Charts"

ams92 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 15:49:15 +0000

It’s all just a distraction from what should be a class war. It’s easier to keep the masses in line when they’re all squabbling about gender and race.

New comment by ams92 in "Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse"

ams92 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:41:08 +0000

Yep, we haven’t been allowed to hire anyone new on my team in a year. Definitely no headcount for junior engineers. With the cost of licenses for SaaS apps for a single developer my company would rather hire one senior engineer versus 2 juniors.

New comment by ams92 in "Show HN: Ladder, open source alternative to 12ft.io and 1ft.io"

ams92 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:02:56 +0000

I’ve rarely found it to be able to skip a paywall, I gave up after trying a few times.

New comment by ams92 in "Cleaning Up Dead Bodies in AWS IAM"

ams92 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:45:46 +0000

Managing IAM is a pain in the ass on AWS. I can’t speak to how much this product actually helps with that, but I would assume that that’s the problem they’re trying to solve.

New comment by ams92 in "Amazon acquires Fig"

ams92 — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:41:31 +0000

You join a startup in hopes of it getting acquired or going public some day. Fig was never going to go public so if I worked there I’d be happy about the acquisition assuming that I wasn’t stiffed on my stock options when joining.

New comment by ams92 in "Phone.wtf"

ams92 — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 21:44:34 +0000

> Is this a really problem?

No it is not for a normal well adjusted person.

New comment by ams92 in "A small number of companies are colluding to cheat H1B visa lottery, US says"

ams92 — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:25:44 +0000

They need to update the minimum salary for H1B. There is no reason to bring in a QA engineer making 50k per year who tolerates poor working conditions due to lack of better options. I think that 100k would make more sense, and it arguably should be higher if the country wants to keep fulfilling the original goals of H1B.