Hacker News: beastman82

New comment by beastman82 in "AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers"

beastman82 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:39:17 +0000

gotta love a site that hijacks your back button and makes you hit it 3 times.

New comment by beastman82 in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

beastman82 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:09:20 +0000

Buy an Nvidia shield and never look back

New comment by beastman82 in "A Eulogy for Vim"

beastman82 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:34:53 +0000

Perhaps an argument against LLMs should acknowledge its awesome power could be harnessed for good, if only nominally

New comment by beastman82 in "You are not your job"

beastman82 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:08:23 +0000

I want to thank everyone who hates work, is mentally checked out of their jobs and quiet quitting etc.

It makes it much easier for me to distinguish myself as a hard worker who cares about the business being successful. It also helps me keep my job during layoffs because I can assure you the managers have noticed.

When you are old and have lots of formative experiences that are not work-based, we can shake hands and mutually appreciate each other's motives and respective outcomes.

New comment by beastman82 in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

beastman82 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:49:47 +0000

The assumption here is that the people who maintain something in a painstaking manner did not intend people to take it and do whatever they want with it in accordance with its license?

New comment by beastman82 in "PC processors entered the Gigahertz era today in the year 2000 with AMD's Athlon"

beastman82 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:39:14 +0000

Agree 100%. the compute was always bottlenecked by insanely high i/o latency. SSDs opened up fast computers like no processor ever did.

New comment by beastman82 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

beastman82 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:19:05 +0000

the good news is that nuclear power is coming soon

New comment by beastman82 in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

beastman82 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:10:53 +0000

I think that's a very good plan FWIW. I'm going to consider cabinetry which I predict will be a semi-retirement in terms of income

New comment by beastman82 in "Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers"

beastman82 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:35:54 +0000

Ugly is subjective. I'd happily accept these terms

New comment by beastman82 in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

beastman82 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 22:45:47 +0000

Unions too

New comment by beastman82 in "Parse, Don't Validate (2019)"

beastman82 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:54:45 +0000

> staunch static typing proponents are often middle or junior engineeers

While we're sharing anecdotal data, I've experienced the opposite.

The older, more experienced fellows love static types and the new ones barely understand what they're missing in javascript and python.

New comment by beastman82 in "Oregon raised spending by 80%, math scores dropped"

beastman82 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:21:23 +0000

Reminder that correlation!= causation

New comment by beastman82 in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

beastman82 — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 15:53:24 +0000

I have had two for 10 years and have no complaints whatsoever

New comment by beastman82 in "The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala"

beastman82 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:52:08 +0000

Probably because it's an amazing language for people who know what they're doing

New comment by beastman82 in "Thirty Years of the Square Kilometre Array"

beastman82 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:57:51 +0000

> The image (above) shows long radio-emitting filaments up to 150 light–years long unspooling from the heart of the galaxy. These structures, whose origin remains unknown, were first observed in 1984, but the new image revealed 10 times more than had ever been seen before.

I don't understand how this isn't the biggest news in astronomy. Gigantic filaments of energy passing through the milky way

New comment by beastman82 in "The $14 Burrito: Why San Francisco Inflation Feels Higher Than 2.5%"

beastman82 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:35:24 +0000

Inflation is a good thing?

New comment by beastman82 in "Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?"

beastman82 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:41:29 +0000

My medium size company has a dozen infosec engineers and this anecdote resonates so intensely.

New comment by beastman82 in "Boston's subway system replacing 1890s-era wooden catenary system"

beastman82 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:12:38 +0000

It's deafening

New comment by beastman82 in "School cell phone bans and student achievement"

beastman82 — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:00:58 +0000

In other words, correlation does not imply causation

New comment by beastman82 in "DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]"

beastman82 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:20:33 +0000

Then you should short the market