Hacker News: aoshifo

New comment by aoshifo in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

aoshifo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:39:08 +0000

I'd say, you are looking at this from the angle of a nerd. For you Elon or Sam are not (primarily) nerds because you know nerdier nerds (what you called very high-profile nerds). But for the general public Elon and Sam are very much the definition of a nerd. They have never heard of any of the high-profile nerds you know.

And that's exactly the argument of the article IMO, that the famous nerds went from well-meaning eccentrics to evil greedy overlords.

New comment by aoshifo in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

aoshifo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:14:33 +0000

Of course old forums had score keeping, maybe not on upvote but number of posts, but still

New comment by aoshifo in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

aoshifo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:52:40 +0000

> Cursor has 1B in enterprise revenue.

That' all well and good and they had astounding growth rates but doesn't mean much. And 1B in ARR is not _that_ much in comparison. Also, reportedly they spend all their revenue and they have no control over the spend-side. The models they use will very likely get much more expensive. All the foundation model companies have a competing product. Cursor has the first mover advantage, but that will only help then so much. There have been plenty companies who grew fast, had huge revenue, but failed in the end, because they never got profitable. That's also in the cards for Cursor, if they don't fundamentally change their business model

New comment by aoshifo in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

aoshifo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:41:46 +0000

Could be I live in a bubble, but I don't use git because of GitHub or with GitHub that much. No doubt, GitHub is/was great for distributing software but I feel we'd still all be using git without GitHub

New comment by aoshifo in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

aoshifo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:38:32 +0000

Fair enough, but he created it and I don't know the names of the real maintainers (sorry). And I don't think these two are writing the code for GitButler tbh. Anyhow, main point still stands: git is used by millions with no venture capital funding.

New comment by aoshifo in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

aoshifo — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 08:01:32 +0000

Remind me, how much venture capital did Linus need to raise for building git?

New comment by aoshifo in "FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE"

aoshifo — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:57:22 +0000

The man killed was not an illegal or immigrant

New comment by aoshifo in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

aoshifo — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:47:20 +0000

I do think the HN and tech community is a more diverse group, than just the ultra libertarians, opportunists, and outright fascists. Maybe that's just my naive hope. In any case I would also like to know how US based techies think about this administration and the direction the country is heading in.

New comment by aoshifo in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

aoshifo — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:35:51 +0000

Source: trust me, bro

New comment by aoshifo in "Ask HN: Should a professional software dev know how many bits go in a byte?"

aoshifo — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 09:04:00 +0000

I was about to say "no", until I realized just how much I internalized this knowledge. In front-end you may be able to write decent applications without knowing that, but for CRUD apps it would say it is impossible to avoid.

I mean, it's something you will inevitably stumble upon. I'd say that even if you actively try to avoid learning how many bits go in a byte you will one day wake up screaming "Fuuuuuuck, I never wanted to know that there are 8 bits in a byte!!!!!" There, now you know, too!

New comment by aoshifo in "Ask HN: Software career at 38 after being a quant"

aoshifo — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 14:03:00 +0000

> You do not want a Jira job. It will burn you out.

Do you know the OP? Do you know what they want and like? I doubt it! While this might be true for you, I do enjoy working my "Jira job" at 38.

> If you were a real quant, you can probably use your CV to get something a lot better.

Who makes you the judge of what is better for this person?!

New comment by aoshifo in "Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?"

aoshifo — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 07:25:58 +0000

It might not need advertising, but there are soooooo many sales reps working to push it, so....

New comment by aoshifo in "Ask HN: Top Coursera Courses?"

aoshifo — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 09:30:09 +0000

For me, this was also the most interesting course. But I don't think you can still access it (I tried a couple of months ago to revisit it). But Scott Page also has a book out on the topic "The Model Thinker", which covers most of the course.

New comment by aoshifo in "Ask HN: What do you think about “The Social Dilemma”?"

aoshifo — Tue, 15 Sep 2020 06:28:06 +0000

Well, the difference is, that YT needs you to watch more to show you advertising to make money. Netflix just needs you to pay your subscription. That is a big difference, as far as the payoff of using psychological hacks goes. I believe, that if Netflix was ad-based it would be a hell of a lot more addictive.

New comment by aoshifo in "The World Wide Web Is Dead"

aoshifo — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 06:25:15 +0000

More like undead.