Hacker News: biscuits1

New comment by biscuits1 in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

biscuits1 — Sat, 30 May 2026 22:14:41 +0000

"Go get one."

Yes, and its price law all the way down to the metal, hasn't it always been?

I think this article is stating the obvious. In software, it has always been a requirement to learn the domain, and then capitalize on that in any way the software can be written (by hand, as a tech lead, or managing others, or lately, using ai).

New comment by biscuits1 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

biscuits1 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:31:14 +0000

Thanks for the laugh.

Now back to prompting, telling my all-knowing to create new slop, good sir.

New comment by biscuits1 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

biscuits1 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:59:01 +0000

"Is this what the pinnacle of human is? Lazy and greedy?"

Selfishness, too. But if I follow the logic, and citations are added, how would one enforce a copyright claim if the creator is amorphous and all-knowing?

Dad Was at the Hard Hat Riot

biscuits1 — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:58:57 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@solidi/dad-was-at-the-hard-hat-riot-f84339b08fb2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48061371

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Structured Procrastination

biscuits1 — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.structuredprocrastination.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48055387

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by biscuits1 in "Printing Blogs"

biscuits1 — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:49:34 +0000

And if you do a good enough job, contact the blog's author. Maybe they would see the intrinsic value, but mainly question how weird it is to receive such an offer.

New comment by biscuits1 in "Printing Blogs"

biscuits1 — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:47:48 +0000

Probably cheaper to set up and print a proof from KDP per blog. Would have to do the math on this, mainly the basic formatting is the labor (or automating it with AI now, not too bad). Proofs do not require a review per-say, but likely falls outside the user agreement since you dont own the content.

Access to kdp and time to do this varies.

New comment by biscuits1 in "Knitting bullshit"

biscuits1 — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:03:14 +0000

"The growth of AI feels . . . like losing a limb"

Indeed. Figuratively, generatively, and of course, generationally.

Before Barbie: Mattel Engineering Company, Guided Missiles, and the Cold War

biscuits1 — Sun, 03 May 2026 04:04:32 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@solidi/before-barbie-mattel-engineering-company-guided-missiles-and-the-cold-war-cdccfc05d192

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993231

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by biscuits1 in "Laws of Software Engineering"

biscuits1 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:05:29 +0000

And so, it is written:

https://dev.to/solidi/claudes-law-1da7

New comment by biscuits1 in "Scores decline again for 13-year-old students in reading and mathematics (2023)"

biscuits1 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:35:38 +0000

I grepped for "covid" and "COVID-19" on all presented text. 1 result found.

". . . did you ever attend school from home or somewhere else outside of school because of the COVID-19 outbreak?"

Can someone else confirm?

Not enough investigation there. Of course, the trend was already going down, but the new slope is obvious.

Prediction in next three years will be same or greater - technology, ai, screentime.

New comment by biscuits1 in "Laws of Software Engineering"

biscuits1 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:51:18 +0000

Today, I was presented with Claude's decision to include numerous goto statements in a new implementation. I thought deeply about their manual removal; years of software laws went against what I saw. But then, I realized it wouldn't matter anymore.

Then I committed the code and let the second AI review it. It too had no problem with goto's.

Claude's Law: The code that is written by the agent is the most correct way to write it.

The TOMY Spinjas

biscuits1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:47:12 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@solidi/the-tomy-spinjas-978a183a5eb3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47415156

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by biscuits1 in "Tony Hoare has died"

biscuits1 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:11:47 +0000

There was an article posted here a few weeks ago titled "Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity."

I've been thinking about it a lot, and now, in turn, the memory of Mr. Hoare.

New comment by biscuits1 in "Vitamin D reduces incidence and duration of colds in those with low levels"

biscuits1 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:04:24 +0000

"Exercise" not found in the shared text.

I'm sure people who supplement or have good D levels also take care of themselves, generally - because they know D is one of the supplements that make a difference both somatic and psychological.

And thus do better with flu/cold.

New comment by biscuits1 in "Software Rot"

biscuits1 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 14:43:27 +0000

". . . whose specifications are static and solid." Well, thats the problem with software. There isn't agreement of such specifications. We aren't working with wood, nails nor forming a sill footing on bedrock.

The TOMY Screwball Scramble

biscuits1 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 11:56:21 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@solidi/the-tomy-screwball-scramble-9f4eab3681da

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43067358

Points: 20

# Comments: 10

New comment by biscuits1 in "I tasted Honda's spicy rodent-repelling tape and I will do it again (2021)"

biscuits1 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:39:03 +0000

If I could upvote this article twice, I would.

New comment by biscuits1 in "Reverse engineering my #1 Hacker News article"

biscuits1 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:00:29 +0000

Surprised this hasn't been taken down by the admins.

New comment by biscuits1 in "Writing as Transformation"

biscuits1 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 13:06:57 +0000

". . . 'art' is about appropriation. Among its tenets, postmodernism suggests that no work of art or text is anything other than a reassembly of citations; thus, if all art is citations, all art is fair game to be cited."

- An author on a popular product who is questioning copyright.