Hacker News: bibabaloo

New comment by bibabaloo in "Padel Chess – tactical simulator for padel"

bibabaloo — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:11:14 +0000

Having played both there's a lot of overlap in the social side. You can find games with randoms or join social match plays with little friction. From what I've heard, it's not that easy with other racket sports like tennis.

I agree the skill gap is wider in padel, which can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on who you want to play with.

New comment by bibabaloo in "I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me"

bibabaloo — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:49:14 +0000

Asking that question just signals that you don't obey social cues.

Most hiring managers won't like this, as they don't want to be responsible for hiring someone volatile like this.

I think the only place you could get away with this is if you're interviewing with a C-Suite member who has nobody to answer to.

New comment by bibabaloo in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

bibabaloo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:13:55 +0000

Are LLMs actually decent at this sort of data crunching though? I thought at best they could write a script to help.

New comment by bibabaloo in "Claude Code is being dumbed down?"

bibabaloo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 05:50:06 +0000

Yes I don't understand why Claude code needs to be a terminal app.

It doesn't compose with any other command line program and the terminal interface is limiting.

I'm surprised nobody has yet made a coding assistant that runs in the browser or as a standalone app. At this point it doesn't really need to integrate with my text editor or IDE.

New comment by bibabaloo in "What makes you senior"

bibabaloo — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 03:18:44 +0000

I think you’re being a little pedantic here. Even if we assume "senior" is an arbitrary title, the article is still a useful description for how to be effective as an experienced engineer. The title is the least interesting part of it.

New comment by bibabaloo in "A competitor crippled a $23.5M bootcamp by becoming a Reddit moderator"

bibabaloo — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 10:10:58 +0000

The problem is that the alternative is usually only sites created only to chase affiliate revenue. At least on Reddit, there’s a _chance_ I’m reading something from someone genuinely sharing their opinion.

New comment by bibabaloo in "Magic Lantern Is Back"

bibabaloo — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 09:08:23 +0000

Uh, sure, maybe in a professional setting where you’re getting paid. But this was unpaid volunteer work. If, as a community, we start enforcing professional grade standards on people who are just contributing their free time to give us neat toys and tools, I kinda worry it makes the whole thing the whole thing less fun or sustainable. And if that happens, we probably stop getting these free toys altogether.

New comment by bibabaloo in "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work"

bibabaloo — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 01:42:14 +0000

> I just think it's ironic that this advice is useless to junior engineers but unneeded by senior engineers.

That's a good way of putting it. The advice essentially boils down to "do the right thing, don't do the wrong thing". Which is good (if common sense) advice, but doesn't practically really help with making decisions.

New comment by bibabaloo in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

bibabaloo — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:21:10 +0000

Why take photos at all if you can just imagine them?

New comment by bibabaloo in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

bibabaloo — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:29:29 +0000

Because they have an interest in the ongoing work of archiving of new things I guess

New comment by bibabaloo in "Vibechart"

bibabaloo — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 08:34:26 +0000

But how could have they used ChatGPT-5 if they were working on the blog post announcing it?

New comment by bibabaloo in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

bibabaloo — Sun, 25 May 2025 22:37:10 +0000

I feel, generally, with an aging population + rising unemployment due to AI, we'll reach a crunch point that puts governments under immense pressure to increase taxes (probably on megacorps & the wealthy) more in order to fund welfare. The most optimistic, utopian, solution would be UBI and an artisan economy, but I think we all know that capitalism isn't kind enough for that to play out so we'll probably end up with something much more dystopian.

New comment by bibabaloo in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

bibabaloo — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:48:44 +0000

Planes have just as much spaghetti code as anything else, the only difference is that it's extremely well tested (functionally) and verified spaghetti code.

New comment by bibabaloo in "Yocto, RockPi and SBOMs: Building modern embedded Linux images"

bibabaloo — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 00:50:31 +0000

I agree. I don't understand how people prefer buildroot. Buildroot feels like an adhoc system of glued together Makefiles, whereas yocto actually feels like it was built for purpose.

New comment by bibabaloo in "SP1: A performant, 100% open-source, contributor-friendly zkVM"

bibabaloo — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 21:55:11 +0000

You don't _have_ to, I think the parent poster is just giving an example of how this can be used.

The "Zero Knowledge" part is that you can tell me "for this particular program code, I know an input that gives an output of 'foobar'" and I can be convinced that you're telling me the truth without seeing what that input actually is.

New comment by bibabaloo in "Egoless Engineering"

bibabaloo — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 22:17:29 +0000

I feel this so much. I feel like most of my job is playing politics to make sure people are happy and let them feel like they're adding value. Rather than shipping things to users to improve the product. It's honestly so depressing. Strongly considering going back to work at a small startup, to avoid having to work with these layers of middlemen that really add little to no value.

New comment by bibabaloo in "Region-specific Machines pricing"

bibabaloo — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 11:51:01 +0000

Looks like they've quietly (?) deprecated the hobby plan too. Getting 3 instances a month for free was probably too good to be true forever..

New comment by bibabaloo in "Ask HN: What are your Favorite Things?"

bibabaloo — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 11:38:50 +0000

What'd you find restrictive about the Kindle out of interest? I quite like mine for reading, but admittedly I don't do anything very advanced with it

New comment by bibabaloo in "How to boss without being bossy"

bibabaloo — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 07:22:33 +0000

The subtext here is probably that the asking person doesn't _want_ to be commanding, much less making checklists. :)

New comment by bibabaloo in "Ask HN: Why can't I get interviews or offers anymore?"

bibabaloo — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 10:30:52 +0000

> I know developers like to put their head in sand and pretend to the contrary, but credentials do matter. Things like security or cloud certifications and security clearances

Interesting, I've interviewed with and for a number of tech companies and it's never come up. What companies are you seeing who are interested in certs?