Hacker News: bigtechennui

New comment by bigtechennui in "Claude Fable 5"

bigtechennui — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:19:16 +0000

It’s offered broadly after, for more money. It’s subsidized as marketing

New comment by bigtechennui in "It is worth it to buy the fast CPU"

bigtechennui — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 17:49:01 +0000

Then the company would issue a desktop and a laptop, since they want engineers to be able to use computers in places other than their desk.

New comment by bigtechennui in "I Tested the AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered"

bigtechennui — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 16:34:48 +0000

Cool so, a bunch of data that shows:

1) elderly people 2) who regularly chat with an AI clone of their child 3) summaries of conversations

Definitely not a hugely attractive target for the worst kinds of scammers

New comment by bigtechennui in "Show HN: LinkedIn sucks, so I built a better one"

bigtechennui — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 13:00:02 +0000

Adding a field that AI can generate cheaply sounds like a way to INCREASE AI spam

New comment by bigtechennui in "FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan"

bigtechennui — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:44:11 +0000

One explanation is it gives Polymarket more rope to hang themselves with. Trading volume likely spiked in the lead up, and during, election night. Big numbers make for splashier headlines.

Another could be concern of doing anything visibly election related prior to the election, in case the winner didn’t like the action.

New comment by bigtechennui in "Tech Workers Deserve a Union: An Interview with Ethan Marcotte"

bigtechennui — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 12:56:59 +0000

So there’s a cap on the maximum value (always doing it on time), and a cap on the minimum value (never doing it).

The above poster takes the position that the ratio between the maximum value, and minimum employable value is less than 10.

New comment by bigtechennui in "SwiftData"

bigtechennui — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 21:58:40 +0000

Thinking of CoreData as simply providing the persistence layer is incorrect. It also provides the schema. CoreData’s object graph management and persistence are separate - you can use CoreData without persistence, but you can’t use it without a schema.

The annotations are for defining the CoreData schema – i.e. the necessary piece – rather than relying on a schema definition file as one would prior to SwiftData.

There are additional syntactic niceties for SwiftUI binding, but the annotations are very much an ORM.