Hacker News: brodouevencode

New comment by brodouevencode in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

brodouevencode — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:40:44 +0000

> Palantir was founded—with initial venture capital investment from the CIA

This was obvious from the start. Not sure why people "are starting to wonder", which I don't believe either.

New comment by brodouevencode in "Technical, cognitive, and intent debt"

brodouevencode — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:52:56 +0000

> ...to develop the powerful abstractions that then allow us to do much more, much more easily. Of course, the implicit wink here is that it takes a lot of work to be lazy

This lines up with YAGNI, but most people believe the opposite, often using YAGNI to justify NOT building the necessary abstractions.

New comment by brodouevencode in "Luigi-Inspired Arsonist Threatened "Our Way of Life," Feds Say"

brodouevencode — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:26:50 +0000

"Luigi-Inspired" is the new dogwhistle?

New comment by brodouevencode in "Why are Philadelphians attacking Uber Eats delivery robots"

brodouevencode — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:24:00 +0000

Philidelphians burn down their own city whenever their NFL team wins or loses a Superbowl, so this shouldn't be surprising.

New comment by brodouevencode in "United States Code (federal laws) in Git"

brodouevencode — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:37:30 +0000

fair

New comment by brodouevencode in "United States Code (federal laws) in Git"

brodouevencode — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:19:43 +0000

hot take: this is how legislation should work

open comments, accepting pull requests, use AI tooling to weed out the ragebait and trolling for things that might actually be useful

New comment by brodouevencode in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

brodouevencode — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:58:14 +0000

Yet earnings estimates remain solid.

New comment by brodouevencode in "Disney Reportedly Considering Epic Games and Fortnite Purchase"

brodouevencode — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:36:43 +0000

Great idea - M&A your way out of bad execution

New comment by brodouevencode in "Moooooonitoring the Cow.txt Herd"

brodouevencode — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:10:07 +0000

http://www.textfiles.com/art/cow.txt

New comment by brodouevencode in "Treat Interfaces as Organizational Treaties"

brodouevencode — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:03:19 +0000

"Act as if someone else smarter than you is going to look at your code" - best advice I've ever gotten

New comment by brodouevencode in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

brodouevencode — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:56:26 +0000

You're right.

But society where the basis has a liberal perspective, individual sovereignty is held in the highest regard, private property is protected, and the nuclear family is the underpinning of it, I'm okay with. Judeo-Christian societies have this, and maybe aside from Sikhs and some Buddhist sects I don't know of any other religion that does this.

New comment by brodouevencode in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

brodouevencode — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:50:43 +0000

Is there an HN version of slash-dotted?

New comment by brodouevencode in "Show HN: I built an interactive globe for verified combat events"

brodouevencode — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:46:52 +0000

Ukraine seems like the obvious big miss.

Ask HN: Does AI make your product better?

brodouevencode — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:59:01 +0000

There's a bullish AI perspective that pushes deshittification, in which the product is _better_ because of the speed and quality that AI can (theoretically) provide. Are you seeing this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338124

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by brodouevencode in "Modern wealth is a parlour game played by the well fed"

brodouevencode — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:52:13 +0000

Feels like the author is having some sort of existential crisis.

New comment by brodouevencode in "Show HN: I built an interactive globe for verified combat events"

brodouevencode — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:44:10 +0000

Seems like there are a lot of events missing

New comment by brodouevencode in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

brodouevencode — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:13:20 +0000

Only there would have never been an Enlightenment without Catholic rigor.

New comment by brodouevencode in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

brodouevencode — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:09:44 +0000

This statement is based on a surface level (if that) understanding of Christianity. Machiavelli and Dostoevsky aside, whose criticisms are somewhat deeper but still misguided, there are many thinkers who question the existence of God but acknowledge the benefits of a God-centered society.

New comment by brodouevencode in "Payphone Go"

brodouevencode — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:53:51 +0000

more Silicon Valley/California xenophilia?

New comment by brodouevencode in "The Hunt for Dark Breakfast"

brodouevencode — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:35:46 +0000

You can tell a non-US-southerner wrote this because there's not a biscuit to be had here.

WHERE ARE THE BISCUITS???