Hacker News: byronsharman

New comment by byronsharman in "sshole"

byronsharman — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 15:49:13 +0000

Thank you for explaining it with proper capitalization. I understood your explanation much better than the author's.

New comment by byronsharman in "Neoengineers"

byronsharman — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:31:59 +0000

Yes, my employer might lay me off or not treat me well. I don't understand why that means I shouldn't still try to get better at software engineering. Isn't that the whole point of the post, that software engineering is a type of craftsmanship intrinsically worthy of honing?

New comment by byronsharman in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

byronsharman — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:34:06 +0000

HN is kind of the go-to platform. We also have a Discord server where we hang out and talk about stuff that may or may not be software-related. I know some of us are interested in getting accounts on lobste.rs, but we need to find someone to refer us. I keep forgetting to ask one of my professors.

New comment by byronsharman in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

byronsharman — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:42:58 +0000

I'm an undergrad student in computer science and I come here regularly. Many of my friends do the same. Of course, that can't be extrapolated to students globally, but students who love what they do are not extinct!

New comment by byronsharman in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

byronsharman — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:14:07 +0000

I agree that it should be left as a double hyphen, but an en dash is far more appropriate considering the decades-long precedent set by LaTeX (and continued by Typst).