Hacker News: blanched

New comment by blanched in "Mario Meets Pareto"

blanched — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:58:18 +0000

I get what you’re saying, but I wouldn’t say easy is the opposite of challenging. As a quick example, I would surely find a day job of manual labor harder and significantly less enjoyable than a day job of software engineering challenges.

(And please note that I do not mean to imply that there are no challenges in manual labor or that software engineering is more important.)

New comment by blanched in "The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet"

blanched — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:24:05 +0000

That makes sense to me. Thanks for explaining.

And I'm sorry to you and the parent poster for being needlessly snarky, I wasn't in a great mood when I wrote my original comment. I'll avoid bothered-posting in the future ;).

New comment by blanched in "The AI bubble is popping; we just don't know it yet"

blanched — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:31:34 +0000

Just because you can mad-lib something that makes sense at the surface doesn’t make it insightful.

How are plungers comparable to LLMs?

New comment by blanched in "Diátaxis"

blanched — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:01:24 +0000

Maybe I'm incorrectly parsing your comment, but what does a "founder centric pov" for documentation look like?

New comment by blanched in "NYC Apartment Aquaponics"

blanched — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:54:07 +0000

People seem to think you’re attacking the article. I read the article but know nothing about aquaponics otherwise, and I was wondering why we don’t see it used more. So I appreciate you sharing your knowledge on the subject.

New comment by blanched in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

blanched — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:16:09 +0000

"Sufficiently developed" seems like a cheap proof. There are still many non-technological problems above and below it.

For example, how do you ensure everyone on the road has a self-driving car? We've sufficiently developed electric cars, but they're not nearly the majority.

New comment by blanched in "Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting"

blanched — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:57:57 +0000

Are you making a joke? Not being snarky, I actually can't tell if it's a real suggestion or satirical.

New comment by blanched in "The state of open source AI"

blanched — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:35:30 +0000

The distance between DeepSeek and Claude is far, far less than the distance between Google Search and any of those.

New comment by blanched in "Xiaomi-Robotics-1"

blanched — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:02:58 +0000

The frustrating part is that these posts will never post any details about the business, despite the fact that it would immediately invalidate most criticism.

It seems to be a similar phenomenon to productivity "gurus" who write and evangelize polyphasic sleep and "grindset" and so on - when you ask what they're using these superpowers to actually accomplish, they're very quiet. Or it's "coming soon." Or "I'm not going to waste time explaining to someone who obviously doesn't ~believe~." It quickly becomes religious.

New comment by blanched in "The state of open source AI"

blanched — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:55:30 +0000

I don’t even know the names of any open source search engines, but the open source models perform decently on various benchmarks and in personal experience.

Was it ever even a claim that open source search engines were trying to outperform google, let alone kill it?

New comment by blanched in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

blanched — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:38:35 +0000

I get what you’re saying, but I think it’s fair to view it as equivalent to drinking a protein shake after a workout. You used the resources in a productive and healthy way, now you need to replenish them.

New comment by blanched in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

blanched — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:30:40 +0000

From what I can tell, the sad truth is that people think “he’s a billionaire / trillionaire, I want to be involved with that.”

It’s a variant of the people who pick “Jay-Z” in the meme question “would you rather have half a million dollars or lunch with Jay-Z?”

New comment by blanched in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

blanched — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:25:41 +0000

Personally my least favorite is the overuse of "quietly" (e.g. "No tricks. No marketing gimmicks. Just one company quietly outperforming the others"), and the one that makes the least sense to me is "that's the wedge."

I'm curious how these become so ingrained. Then the uncomfortable part is humans start repeating it more (a colleague said "belt-and-suspenders" during brainstorming the other day).

New comment by blanched in "Show HN: Learn by rebuilding Redis, Git, a database from scratch"

blanched — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:36:15 +0000

I think it's a little different because:

1. This person is asking us to use/try their product. Very different from a boss/subordinate relationship.

2. This is Hacker News, which has a certain tone and intention. I might text in lowercase and slang with my friends, but I try to write a little more thoughtfully here. This is just one person offering advice on presenting yourself when presenting a product. Not to mention that they politely hedged - "not a big deal", "I would recommend", "it comes across". The OP is free to disregard.

New comment by blanched in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

blanched — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:19:34 +0000

It’s not my area of expertise, but a friend in the field told me the fun fact originally.

Looking into it, it seems like smell has the most potential for genetic variance: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3990440/

That said, I can’t find any direct research comparing perceived senses. So they (and now I) might have oversimplified.

Thanks for the link, looks interesting!

New comment by blanched in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

blanched — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:09:45 +0000

I don’t really understand what you mean. How can you have a community without identity? Isn’t that just a category? i.e. “a person who uses rust” vs “a member of the rust community”. There’s nothing wrong with either one, but the latter tends to define the culture.

New comment by blanched in "Write code like a human will maintain it"

blanched — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:22:39 +0000

Pairs nicely with the fact that smell is the sense most likely to be experienced differently between two people :)

New comment by blanched in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

blanched — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:12:52 +0000

I think this is really insightful. Every "good and invisible" tool I thought of fit neatly into one of those two categories. Examples:

Powerful and specialized: automatic transmission, display/monitors

Simple and limited: syntax highlighting, deterministic autocomplete

The closest ones imo that bridge the gap: ssh, google search

New comment by blanched in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

blanched — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:15:25 +0000

Makes sense! My mistake for assuming it was the former definition, lesson learned.

Hopefully soon our industry will align on some standard terms. I feel like "AI-assisted", "agentic coding", "vibe coding", etc each have a few different meanings already.

New comment by blanched in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

blanched — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:12:06 +0000

I think programming is work, but I get your point :). And yes, of course - I'm mostly just curious how peoples roles at various companies are evolving as they hand off more and more to AI.