Hacker News: biglyburrito

New comment by biglyburrito in "Why is GitHub so bad at UI?"

biglyburrito — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:42:28 +0000

You have to give Microsoft credit where it's due: it's not just UI they're bad at. Branding, authentication/authorization, gaming, privacy... they're bad in many other ways besides UI.

New comment by biglyburrito in "America Is Now an Ally of Russia"

biglyburrito — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:32:17 +0000

Because the president isn't rogue. He was duly elected and aided/abetted by the GOP. It indicates a systemic failure, not an anomaly.

New comment by biglyburrito in "Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching"

biglyburrito — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 20:09:37 +0000

Java lacks a ton of quality-of-life features that are table stakes in other languages, including C# and Kotlin. Auto-properties, async, extension methods, nullable reference types, primitive types, string interpolation/templates -- Java is inferior to C# in every one of these areas.

New comment by biglyburrito in "Java sealed classes and exhaustive pattern matching"

biglyburrito — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:00:44 +0000

Java still inexplicably doesn't have first-class support for string interpolation/templates. They were slated to add it in Java 23, but they removed it from the preview and it hasn't been seen since.

https://www.happycoders.eu/java/string-templates/

New comment by biglyburrito in "Microsoft Surface Laptop Ultra 128GB Review"

biglyburrito — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 12:15:18 +0000

TLDR: It's $5900, so who cares?

New comment by biglyburrito in "Epic Games' new vibe-coded launcher is 46% faster than Steam"

biglyburrito — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:09:27 +0000

And I'm sure it still sucks compared to Steam.

New comment by biglyburrito in "Disney will stream Super Bowl this year"

biglyburrito — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 01:56:19 +0000

A lot of people watch it just for the ads!

New comment by biglyburrito in "Sneaker Raffles for Fans, Not Bots"

biglyburrito — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:47:33 +0000

A surprisingly interesting look at programmatically implementing a raffle system... not at all what I expected when I clicked the link.

New comment by biglyburrito in "A.I. Is Going Rogue. Who Should Be Held Responsible?"

biglyburrito — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:10:39 +0000

No. This is reassigning blame away from the companies, because it's AI.

New comment by biglyburrito in "A.I. Is Going Rogue. Who Should Be Held Responsible?"

biglyburrito — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:09:57 +0000

100% this. All it takes is holding AI companies financially responsible for the problems introduced by the products they create. You'd see them shape up pretty damned quick.

New comment by biglyburrito in "Elemental analysis demonstrates 'Donut Battery' is not lithium-ion or sodium"

biglyburrito — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 02:50:25 +0000

I'm still calling BS on this battery:

"But the report measured just two elements, on a cell Donut Lab took apart itself. And nine months after CES, there’s still no production vehicle running on the battery."

https://electrek.co/2026/09/23/donut-lab-intertek-lithium-te...

New comment by biglyburrito in "Could an iced coffee freeze you out of the job market?"

biglyburrito — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:12:48 +0000

"US recruiter Caitlin Wehniainen" is a moron. One of the first things I'm asked in many interviews immediately after I arrive is whether I'd like water or some coffee. Granted, most of the time I don't bring anything in with me because I simply don't want to risk spilling it. But judging somebody negatively for bringing their beverage of choice in with them is an indication that they don't really know how to recruit.

New comment by biglyburrito in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

biglyburrito — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 17:00:46 +0000

And she spells it out really well. But yeah.

New comment by biglyburrito in "CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American (2017)"

biglyburrito — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:11:46 +0000

It sounds delicious. I'll take two, please.

New comment by biglyburrito in "Two Git ignore files nobody told me about"

biglyburrito — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:17:33 +0000

I'd never heard of .git/info/exclude, core.excludesFile, or ~/.config/git/ignore before. Thanks for posting this!

New comment by biglyburrito in "Xbox continues its “reset” with dramatic restructuring"

biglyburrito — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:36:22 +0000

We'll know more after GTA 6 launches.

New comment by biglyburrito in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

biglyburrito — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:52:15 +0000

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779329

New comment by biglyburrito in "JevOps Engineer"

biglyburrito — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 01:13:10 +0000

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New comment by biglyburrito in "Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less"

biglyburrito — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:41:55 +0000

Never interrupt your enemy when they are busy making a mistake.

New comment by biglyburrito in "Are global stock markets heading for a crash?"

biglyburrito — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:20:55 +0000

I haven't heard that second one... that's great.