Hacker News: biggc

New comment by biggc in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

biggc — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 21:58:17 +0000

Turning off what labels?

New comment by biggc in "Epidurals are a miracle technology"

biggc — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:07:27 +0000

Suffering is not a virtue

New comment by biggc in "Indoor Wi-Fi Roaming with OpenWRT"

biggc — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:50:56 +0000

I had a hell of a time getting WiFi roaming to work in my house between Omada APs in a low-interference suburban neighborhood.

Any combination of 802.11r and k/v seemed to just cause my phone's connection to drop for minutes at a time when moving around the house.

I wish I could remember my exact solution for you, I believe I just turned off 802.11r and k/v, set channel selection to automatic, and undid any manual or automatic power tuning.

New comment by biggc in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

biggc — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:33:23 +0000

What generated this comment?

New comment by biggc in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

biggc — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 03:36:43 +0000

Thin sounds a lot like making a change yourself.

New comment by biggc in "4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program"

biggc — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:24:48 +0000

2021, not 2020

New comment by biggc in "The Private Equity Wager: Heads We Win, Tails You Lose"

biggc — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 04:55:24 +0000

> this company is basically a roundabout-welldressed shylock

Are we really still casually using the term “Shylock” today?

New comment by biggc in "A 'Trump Card Visa' Is Already Showing Up in Immigration Forms"

biggc — Wed, 07 May 2025 23:34:12 +0000

Why would anyone buy this over participating in an EB-5 investor visa project?

New comment by biggc in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"

biggc — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:48:16 +0000

You’re stretching here.

Companies hire private physical security all the time. Why is digital security different?

New comment by biggc in "US deploys AI to revoke visas of foreign nationals supporting Hamas: Report"

biggc — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 09:09:12 +0000

You can say “murder” here. This isn’t TikTok

New comment by biggc in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

biggc — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:09:05 +0000

Naive question: what prevents Apple from pushing a malicious software update that automatically disables ADP to UK users?

Zuckerberg says Meta will lay off more 'low-performers'

biggc — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:56:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/14/24343562/meta-lay-offs-low-performers-zuckerberg-memo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42702016

Points: 2

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New comment by biggc in "Unit tests as documentation"

biggc — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 04:55:09 +0000

Table tests can enable useful test naming without a bunch of clunky named test functions. I use them most often in Go but I’m sure other languages have support

https://go.dev/wiki/TableDrivenTests

New comment by biggc in "Athletes and musicians pursue virtuosity in fundamental skills"

biggc — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 00:17:39 +0000

Does a single university with a good reputation graduate 5,000 new CS majors per year? Or is that number just for the sake of example?

New comment by biggc in "Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch"

biggc — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:14:27 +0000

How big can these capacitors be? Does replacing it require any safety precautions besides turning off the power?

New comment by biggc in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

biggc — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:12:34 +0000

What? Has anyone published an RCA that confirms this? Is this how the data was ex filtrated from Snowflake? Or did ATT’s Snowflake credentials leak?

New comment by biggc in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

biggc — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 20:08:22 +0000

ATT could be using Snowflake for internal analytics

New comment by biggc in "I tried to finish a dead man's novel"

biggc — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 17:45:03 +0000

The article’s author’s domain seems to have been hijacked and redirects to a malicious site.

New comment by biggc in ""FB internal Thrift over HTTP" removed my phone – how is this possible? (2022)"

biggc — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 21:51:38 +0000

Does Facebook use Apache Thrift internally? That’s the only thing I can think of

New comment by biggc in "U.S. opens UnitedHealth antitrust probe"

biggc — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:23:23 +0000

On paper this seems similar to how Kaiser operates. AFAIK Kaiser is generally well-liked by its members, why is UHC so terrible?

I guess UHC doesn't own the hospitals?