Hacker News: boombapoom

New comment by boombapoom in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

boombapoom — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:56:20 +0000

unless if everyone comes together to poison the data set

New comment by boombapoom in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

boombapoom — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:53:49 +0000

if only requiring employers to post the salary for a job could fix this

New comment by boombapoom in "Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?"

boombapoom — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:25:01 +0000

on point 5, that person may be highly experienced, but its important to know that this highly experienced person must be a good fit for your company size. Often times we assume that hiring an L8 at faang is perfect for a startup and thats usually not the case: they know how to play the big company game, not how to take you from 15 to 100 employees.

New comment by boombapoom in "Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?"

boombapoom — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:21:41 +0000

dns

New comment by boombapoom in "Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul"

boombapoom — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:17:56 +0000

I'm just kinda hoping that AI farming robots make food affordable again

New comment by boombapoom in "Toward automated verification of unreviewed AI-generated code"

boombapoom — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:00:35 +0000

production ready "fizz buzz" code. lol. I can't even continue typing this response.

New comment by boombapoom in "Agentic Engineering Anti Patterns"

boombapoom — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:05:41 +0000

am I dumb or does this article just have one anti-pattern making it not plural

New comment by boombapoom in "Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team?"

boombapoom — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:50:13 +0000

but nano banana is so much fun!

New comment by boombapoom in "Stardew Valley at 10: The pixel art farm game that became an unlikely phenomenon"

boombapoom — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:32:14 +0000

ugh I thought this was a new verison drop!

New comment by boombapoom in "Writing code is cheap now"

boombapoom — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:42:19 +0000

producing clean, well tested code takes a day

after AI producing clean, well tested code takes a day (of reviewing, reprompting, and testing)

New comment by boombapoom in "Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot"

boombapoom — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:55:32 +0000

i wish passkeys could replace passwords, not suppliment them

New comment by boombapoom in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

boombapoom — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:47:14 +0000

we respect your privacy, except for when we dump it into a publicly shared LLM

New comment by boombapoom in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)"

boombapoom — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:51:29 +0000

the engineering at this place is top notch

New comment by boombapoom in "House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias"

boombapoom — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:22:09 +0000

agreed- I'd rather those ideals remain true

New comment by boombapoom in "House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias"

boombapoom — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:02:58 +0000

good thing wikipedia allows its entire database to be downloaded..... go ahead and change it to your will, we will have the data for a few years later....

New comment by boombapoom in "Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024)"

boombapoom — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:14:08 +0000

I'm seeing an uptick in RoR gigs within the past week

New comment by boombapoom in "AI Is Slowing Down Tracker"

boombapoom — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:24:33 +0000

ironic this was built with replit

New comment by boombapoom in "Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero"

boombapoom — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:54:08 +0000

thats not totally true. If you are smart about how you vibe code, you source control the instruction set.... which is the core context of your project

New comment by boombapoom in "Ask HN: Have any successful startups been made by 'vibe coding'?"

boombapoom — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 15:33:15 +0000

idk there was that one dating app that got hacked...

New comment by boombapoom in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

boombapoom — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:18:40 +0000

fuck those guys, annas archive is one of the last good things about the internet.