Hacker News: aobdev

New comment by aobdev in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

aobdev — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:28:33 +0000

Airlines have kept tabs on Bluetooth and WiFi hotspots as early as the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 incidents (2016)

New comment by aobdev in "Apple approves driver that lets Nvidia eGPUs work with Arm Macs"

aobdev — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:54:25 +0000

I can’t tell if you’re making a joke about the current state of AI and GPUs or refuting the purpose of this driver

New comment by aobdev in "A decade of Docker containers"

aobdev — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:41:16 +0000

Wasn’t this the same argument for .jar files?

New comment by aobdev in "MacBook Neo"

aobdev — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:29:00 +0000

I really don’t see how you came to that conclusion—that Mac was overpriced and underpowered, and only had the single usb-c port. Neo has better battery life, a better display, a more capable processor, and a much lower price (9 years later no less).

New comment by aobdev in "Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR"

aobdev — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:23:24 +0000

I've been very pleased with my ViewSonic VP2488-4K. A little steep for $550, but if you spend any significant time in front of the screen I think it's very much worth it. I'm planning to buy a second one.

New comment by aobdev in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

aobdev — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:47:13 +0000

But isn’t this what the article is saying? Even with AI you’re still not going to build your own payroll/ERP/CRM.

New comment by aobdev in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

aobdev — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:42:28 +0000

I believe that. Companies will build cheap tools today while competitors are spinning up to undercut ADP, Salesforce, and SAP. But what happens tomorrow? There are plenty of examples in IT today where the reasonable option is to outsource in 90% of cases: don’t roll your own auth, don’t host your own email server, don’t build your own data center. I don’t see how AI can change that, when the people who build specialized software also have access to AI.

Another great example is open source. I think PostgreSQL being free and usable by everyone is a more economic outcome than every Fortune 500 company building their own database engine. Payroll, ERP, and CRM fall into the same category of being commodity software in a lot of cases.

New comment by aobdev in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

aobdev — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:30:30 +0000

I don’t doubt it but that doesn’t negate the fact that Slack as a company exists and makes money by selling software. My question is this: AI makes it cheaper to build software, but ADP, SAP, and Salesforce also have access to AI and could make cheaper versions of their products. How does AI change the build vs buy trade off in a way that eliminates economies of scale? My opinion and that of the article is that it doesn’t.

New comment by aobdev in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

aobdev — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:51:17 +0000

Why does AI make it cheaper to build internal but not cheaper for SaaS competitors to pop up? Everyone has access to the same tools.

New comment by aobdev in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

aobdev — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:49:49 +0000

That’s a fine example, but my question then is why does Slack exist? Surely Fortune 500 companies are smart enough to realize that building a slack clone is cheaper, yet they don’t do that.

So now consider AI, perhaps the cost of building has decreased from 100k to 10k. What stops a Slack competitor from also building the product for 10k and reselling it at 10% of the cost of Slack? My point is that I don’t see how AI has changed the value prop.

New comment by aobdev in "A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong"

aobdev — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:07:49 +0000

Thought exercise for those in disagreement: why would every company use AI to build their own payroll/ERP/CRM, when just a handful of companies could use AI to build those offerings better?

This is largely how things work now; AI may lower the cost and increase margins, but the economics of build vs buy seem the same.

New comment by aobdev in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

aobdev — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:42:13 +0000

Check the article, AI interpreted the phrase “continuously merged” as “continvoucly morged”

New comment by aobdev in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

aobdev — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:36:20 +0000

The analogy should be obvious--a model refusing to perform an unethical action is the lock against others.

New comment by aobdev in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

aobdev — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:23:08 +0000

If that's what they're referring to, then my question is why does that need to end?

New comment by aobdev in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

aobdev — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 16:03:51 +0000

I understand selling the Teensy line is out of your control, but what does “support” mean exactly in this context? Will related materials stay on your site?

I really hope this doesn’t lead to “boycott” of Teensy per se. I completely sympathize with tensions running high but please reconsider for the good of the community.

New comment by aobdev in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

aobdev — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:58:05 +0000

It’s not just carrying their products. They are the exclusive producer of Teensy boards and are distributing them to many resellers but not to Adafruit.

New comment by aobdev in "Apple Creator Studio"

aobdev — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:40:04 +0000

From the subheading: “plus new AI features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers”

New comment by aobdev in "Apple Creator Studio"

aobdev — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:17:48 +0000

From the subheading: “plus new AI features and premium content in Keynote, Pages, and Numbers”

New comment by aobdev in "Ruby 4.0.0"

aobdev — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:31:43 +0000

Have you worked on different types of Python projects? (Not in different codebases, different types of codebases)

I don’t have any specific complaints about Python syntax because I can force it to get the job done…but homogeneous, it is not.

New comment by aobdev in "Guideline has been acquired by Gusto"

aobdev — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 03:20:26 +0000

Sorry but you don't get to claim capital gains on retirement distributions, they are entirely taxed as ordinary income. If your tax rate later will be 40%, you get the exact same result: 3000-1200=1800.

If your tax rate will be lower in retirement, favor pre-tax contributions. If higher, favor after-tax. The trick is knowing what tax rates will be years (decades?) from now.