Hacker News: ballon_monkey

New comment by ballon_monkey in "Looking Ahead to Postgres 19"

ballon_monkey — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:52:57 +0000

At some point you're going to have to accept content is AI generated. There's heaps of stuff you probably read daily you don't even realise is AI generated.

New comment by ballon_monkey in "We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky"

ballon_monkey — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:49:59 +0000

It is but they don't like being on a platform where people can disagree with them. They like their echo chamber.

New comment by ballon_monkey in "Looking Ahead to Postgres 19"

ballon_monkey — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:55:06 +0000

Materialized views in pg with any incremental updates has timing inconsistencies that SQL Server doesn't have.

New comment by ballon_monkey in "[dead]"

ballon_monkey — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:54:42 +0000

The problem is that people love to follow trends that make them look good. No one is talking about the 100s of 1000s of real genocide happening in the middle east or Africa. So they just don't care. They don't get brownie points for caring about what no one is talking about.

Equally they don't seem to care about Egypt or Jordan having big walls up against Gaza and West Bank and why these countries are not attacking Israel and not helping Palestinians.

New comment by ballon_monkey in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

ballon_monkey — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:18:14 +0000

"my company doesn't use it so no one uses it" - typical out of touch HN commenter.

New comment by ballon_monkey in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

ballon_monkey — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:37:53 +0000

How did grok 'fail' ? This is news to me.

New comment by ballon_monkey in "SubQ 1.1 Small"

ballon_monkey — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:59:03 +0000

Its funny that some people on HN think this whole thing is legit. The company is started by a bunch of no-bodies with 0 experience in AI in general let alone ML/Data.

Edit: Typical HN "I can downvote but I cannot dispute facts"

New comment by ballon_monkey in "Severe Latency Impacting All Slack Services"

ballon_monkey — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:09:30 +0000

This has been happening for an hour and they FINALLY updated their status. It's an outage, not an incident. The system is not usable by people.

New comment by ballon_monkey in "Ask HN: I am about to go from SWE to Product Manager, what is your day 1 advice?"

ballon_monkey — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:03:10 +0000

Might want to reconsider. PMs are not really needed. They exist for dysfunctional teams that cannot manage their workload. (PMs are not Product Owners)