<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: arwhatever</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arwhatever</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:35:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=arwhatever" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm happy making one-shot payments for most types of media.<p>But I want to start a new bittorrent tracker for individual movies or episodes for which the provider requires you to create a recurring subscription, to rip off such content unabashedly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:25:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362192</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362192</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362192</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Watched it. It reads interesting indeed. Makes me suspect that, at least during the Fitzcarraldo period, Herzog might’ve thought misery was valuable or even necessary to good filmmaking - misery in the form of stunts and geographic setting, and misery in the form of lead actor’s personality.<p>Best part of My Best Fiend was Herzog’s own thoughts (soliloquy?) on nature and the jungle itself. Those bits were some pure solid gold Herzog.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 20:02:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349208</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349208</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Werner Herzog in conversation with Paul Cronin (2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always enjoy hearing from him because he’s so unorthodox and I never have any idea the approach he’s going to take when giving an interview or answering a question.<p>And I always feel the need to point out that Grizzly Man was a truly good movie.  I’d heard about it for years and based on the premise expected to have a low brow appeal, something for dumb people to feel superior to someone. But no, it was a respectful and in-depth character study (with some downright poetic narration) and probably Herzog’s best movie.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 17:47:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338870</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338870</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48338870</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "The real cost of owning a home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Corporate apartments raise their rents in lockstep with the market, whereas at least some randos will leave it stable for some years in a row.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 18:08:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283454</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283454</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283454</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I might suggest that anyone who wants to make it concrete to go through the article<p><a href="https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types-making-illegal-states-unrepresentable/" rel="nofollow">https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/designing-with-types...</a><p>while visiting <a href="https://dotnetfiddle.net" rel="nofollow">https://dotnetfiddle.net</a> and typing the code samples in, experimenting with what manner of changes and additions to the code cause the compilation to fail, and considering how you would leverage those abilities in your everyday development work.<p>I think this would be even more powerful if you then come back and re-read some of the pro-Union comments in this very thread.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 01:17:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253356</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253356</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48253356</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "The Art of Money Getting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Knew a guy who owned an I.T. consultancy who was fond of (privately) saying, "This job wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the customers and the employees!"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 21:42:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251850</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48251850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used Claude Code to prepare my personal income tax return this year, and so far the IRS hasn’t come after me.<p>Had Claude generate yaml files for the input/source documents, then had it generate code to process the return into output yaml files.<p>Manually typed the results into the IRS Free File Forms website, and was pleased to see that it did some input validation.<p>Had it generate Code modules to match the IRS forms and schedules by name, keeping the nomenclature in code as close as possible to that in the official IRS instructions.<p>Spot checked a whole lot of it and found very, very little of it that needed correction.<p>Stored all of it in git so that I could monitor the diffs as it went along.<p>Maybe the neatest part was when I asked Claude why I wound up owing so much it gave me a list of reasons and dollar amounts in descending order.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 07:25:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219076</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That maneuver they were attempting looks WILD.  Would have been amazing to have pulled of.  Or, perhaps to have regularly pulled off until today.  I'm guessing that must be some sort of vectored thrust trickery.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2026 23:16:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174007</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174007</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48174007</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Quies foamies.  After wearing military issue 3M foamies around jet engines for years, I bought some of these Quies and were very surprised to discover that they could be made so comfortable, and also long lasting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 07:03:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105134</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105134</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105134</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "I built a Game Boy emulator in F#"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>F# is so elegant and terse for writing functional-style wrappers around OO code packages!  Unfortunately, you find yourself needing to write functional-style wrappers around OO code packages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 18:23:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978185</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978185</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978185</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>LinkedIn itself is far from great, but this seems like a good thread to share my LinkedIn tip of creating a job alert using a search query like<p>rust embedded NOT lensa NOT jobot NOT alignerr NOT mercor NOT “crossing hurdles”</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:17:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619614</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47619614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ramraj07 went on to clarify that they were advocating for putting the onus for cleanup back on mess generators.<p>They clearly were not advocating for flat out refusing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:32:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392706</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392706</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47392706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Devils advocate: what if a facial recognition system with a large enough database can always find an unrelated/innocent person that looks similar enough to convince the human?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:03:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361460</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361460</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47361460</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been screaming this too <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212237">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212237</a><p>It’s refreshing to see the same sentiment from so many other people independently here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:05:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271895</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271895</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Software Complexity Vs Experience, diagram:<p><a href="https://www.awesomesoftwareengineer.com/assets/resources/architecture/architetcure-simplicity-2.png" rel="nofollow">https://www.awesomesoftwareengineer.com/assets/resources/arc...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:23:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243845</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243845</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243845</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The “Firefighter Becomes Arsonist” Organizational Anti-Pattern</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:16:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243800</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47243800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Block Layoffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean really most companies have a backlog of feature ideas a mile long, and some tool comes along making your employees 40% more efficient, and the best thing you can think to do is the exact same thing at the exact same tempo but with fewer employees?<p>The CEO who thinks that way should be replaced due to incompetence, or at least due to lack of vision and imagination.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:06:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212237</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47212237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>For fun, ask your preferred LLM (or perhaps a google search would also work?) for specific questions that lifestyle polygraph interviewers typically ask to throw you off your rhythm or to establish a baseline for later questions.  No joke, it's an absolute riot.<p>More seriously, I'd be reluctant to take a polygraph-based job.  If the very concept is flaky and you fail out at the beginning, no big deal.  But I'm not sure I'd want to invest in a career in which something that flaky could on its own start creating career problems for you years or decades in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:59:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114605</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "Green lumber fallacy in software engineering (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't think current employment law allows, but as a software candidate I'd much rather assess the company/team fit on a trial basis as well. (Am neither a lawyer nor HR)<p>I wonder what some solutions might be?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:23:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114291</link><dc:creator>arwhatever</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47114291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arwhatever in "The political effects of X's feed algorithm"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I deleted my account after many years when X recently made the Chronological Feed setting ephemeral, defaulting back to the Algorithmic Feed each time the page is refreshed.<p>No away I'm going to let that level of outrage-baiting garbage even so much as flash before my eyes.</p>
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