Hacker News: candiddevmike

New comment by candiddevmike in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

candiddevmike — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:22:56 +0000

Biggest thing hurting folks is RTO. Unless you live in a large metro, tech jobs are slim/none.

New comment by candiddevmike in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

candiddevmike — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:22:03 +0000

That has been undone now, though.

New comment by candiddevmike in "The Brand Age"

candiddevmike — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:46:05 +0000

More and more I realize I am completely obvlious to all of the class signaling happening here. I couldn't imagine spending that much on anything, let alone a watch. And I certainly wouldn't think someone wearing that did, either.

I feel bad for the folks who pick up on stuff like this, that must be a heavy weight to bear constantly comparing yourself to other people.

New comment by candiddevmike in "Amazon bugging out for anyone else?"

candiddevmike — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:39:56 +0000

Everything is out of stock for me. Also seeing weirdness where I can't see product details unless I add it to my cart.

New comment by candiddevmike in "Google Safe Browsing missed 84% of confirmed phishing sites"

candiddevmike — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:51:17 +0000

I'm getting some kind of chrome security warning when using zscaler now. Discussing all of this with non-techies, I think folks are overwhelmed by all of the security warnings they get and have stopped paying attention to them.

So what's the point of doing all of this if there isn't some kind of corresponding education on responsible computer use? There needs to be some personal responsibility here, you can't protect people against everything.

New comment by candiddevmike in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

candiddevmike — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:41:53 +0000

Yea, I'm done hearing "the wheels of justice turn slowly..." bullshit. People have had their lives ruined, far quicker, for far less.

New comment by candiddevmike in "Google Workspace CLI"

candiddevmike — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:38:53 +0000

Colocating data and discounts. Cross cloud transfers are painful, and Google has a ton of on-cloud easy button integrations with Gemini and their data products.

New comment by candiddevmike in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

candiddevmike — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:35:45 +0000

There are direct ties from the administration to companies offering hedges against tariffs. There was absolutely an evil plan, IMO.

New comment by candiddevmike in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

candiddevmike — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:21:26 +0000

It's COVID PPP all over again... Expect more asset inflation.

New comment by candiddevmike in "Google Workspace CLI"

candiddevmike — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:45:39 +0000

I mean, they are? GCP usage/revenue is growing faster than AWS and Azure. Mostly driven by Gemini pushing folks onto the platform and them deciding "why not move everything else too".

New comment by candiddevmike in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

candiddevmike — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:54:47 +0000

The "time to market" folks finally have everything they could hope for, let's see all of that business value they claim is being missed due to pesky things like security, quality, and scalability checks.

New comment by candiddevmike in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

candiddevmike — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:45:54 +0000

> and it wasn't long ago before LLMs couldn't do math

They still can't do math.

New comment by candiddevmike in "Apple AI servers unused in warehouses due to low Apple Intelligence usage"

candiddevmike — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:45:19 +0000

How do you do on-device inference while preserving battery life?

New comment by candiddevmike in "Why Go Can't Try"

candiddevmike — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:35:05 +0000

> every type must have a default/zero value in Go

Hot take, maybe, but this is one of the few "mistakes" I see with Go. It makes adding QoL things like you mentioned difficult, requires shoehorning pointers to allow for an unset condition, some types don't have a safe default/zero value like maps, and makes comparisons (especially generic) overly complex.

New comment by candiddevmike in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

candiddevmike — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:48:26 +0000

AMP lives on, mostly as AMP for Email and used by things like Google Workspace for performing actions within an email body (allow listed javascript basically).

New comment by candiddevmike in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

candiddevmike — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:37:17 +0000

But we have OpenAPI at home

New comment by candiddevmike in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

candiddevmike — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:05:38 +0000

A brave new world for fraud and returns.

Also I just recently noticed Chrome now has a Klarna/BNPL thing as a built in payments option that I never asked for...

New comment by candiddevmike in "This system can go fuck itself and burn in hell"

candiddevmike — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:11:18 +0000

The irony of living in poverty and then owning a house that you list on Airbnb "for extra income". And deluding yourself into the key to financial success is being a bag holder for rich people, yikes.

This guy sounds like another "everything sucks but I got mine and everyone else should figure out how to get theirs". I get the struggle but I didn't really see him demonstrate empathy for others in his situation.

New comment by candiddevmike in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

candiddevmike — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:52:51 +0000

> They just need to put all of the engineers on HN out of work.

I think you've crossed the line from being an AI maxi to just rage baiting. This comment is a pointless anecdote at best, please take your ridiculous FOMO takes elsewhere.

New comment by candiddevmike in "BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything"

candiddevmike — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:12:34 +0000

I hate the nanny state behavior of docker build and not being allowed to modify files/data outside of the build container and cache, like having a NFS mount for sharing data in the build or copying files out of the build.

Let me have side effects, I'm a consenting adult and understand the consequences!!!