<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cdkmoose</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cdkmoose</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 11:10:40 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cdkmoose" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And very hard to re-assemble after you have done that.  They are not in the book binding business.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:48:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388028</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388028</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49388028</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "AI makes programming differently difficult"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the problem will be that there was only so much we could do wrong while we were learning 15+ years ago and our mentors had a reasonable scope to watch around us as we learned.  People learning now can get a coding agent to build the entire system for them and it is much harder for the mentor to review that work.<p>My concern is how much damage could be done by someone learning 15+ years ago vs someone learning now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:26:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996987</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996987</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48996987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I must have missed the press release when Two Sigma open-sourced their algorithmic trading models so that the rest of us could make the best stock investments for our retirements. /s</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:16:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936567</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936567</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48936567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If they don't contribute equally, why should they be paid equally, especially when the individuals desire to be paid per their contribution.  Some rest on their years and degree while others go above and beyond to deliver a difference.  The union doesn't allow the employer to recognize that.<p>I think there are jobs where those distinctions don't matter as much, but creative jobs and other areas where the ability of an employee to deliver quality is very personal don't seem to work well with unions in my view.<p>I would have loved to pay that teacher more because he did so much more and had a huge positive influence on his students, but the union would never have allowed that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:48:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48676086</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48676086</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48676086</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Wikipedia Workers to Seek Union Recognition"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unions tend to use otherwise arbitrary criteria to determine a members value.  Not all people with the same number of years of experience, the same job title or the same degree provide equal value to the company.<p>As a school board member, I had to deal with the situation of a nationally recognized(awarded) teacher who got paid the same as every other teacher with the same degree and years in district.  When asked why we wouldn't pay him what he is worth, the answer was simple, your union won't let us.  Not every job type/environment make sense to have a union.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:39:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675070</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675070</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48675070</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "A Eulogy for Vim"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think apps like this are the real risk.  Who is going to get in trouble because vim* has a bug from AI generated code?  Errors in your accounting software can get you into audit/compliance trouble.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 21:15:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523371</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523371</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47523371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Map of all the buildings in the world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looking around my home area, I found HS football bleachers showing up as buildings and an outdoor basketball court showing up as a building.  Looking at the coloring of those features on Google maps, I can see how the mistakes might have been made.  But still feels like it needs tuning.<p>To be fair, I checked my boyhood home in very rural Maine and it was correct for the size and shape of the multiple farm buildings.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2025 17:28:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220601</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46220601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Micron Announces Exit from Crucial Consumer Business"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I live in Central NJ, which is pretty densely populated and surrounded by tech firms.  The nearest MicroCenter to me is 35 miles away in Brooklyn.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:58:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163941</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163941</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163941</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Apple iPhone Air Review"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think Apple would be better served by re-introducing a line of smaller phones.  Whether it is for physical or functional reasons, not everybody wants to outdo the size of the previous model.  Bigger isn't always better.  People with smaller hands, young teens or smaller stature adults, would love an appropriate sized phone.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:45:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278241</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45278241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "The MiniPC Revolution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have repurposed retired laptops for my tech lab at home.  They no longer keep up with the current software bloat for wife and kids usage, but make reasonable linux servers.  Currently serving up 3 databases on one, kafka and networking on another and services/applications on a third.  They take up very little space under my desk.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016178</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45016178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Square Theory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Also,
My friend accidentally drank a bottle of invisible ink... 
she's at the hospital now, waiting to be seen.<p>"Waiting to be seen" having slightly different meaning with respect to hospitals and invisible ink.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 17:46:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44109128</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44109128</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44109128</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Fewer people want to work in the U.S."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's a big pet peeve of mine, although to be fair I've seen much worse than this one.  It can make the deltas look more meaningful than they actually are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 21:18:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977848</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43977848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "My new deadline: 20 years to give away virtually all my wealth"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right up until those below average HR people break the law or allow managers to break the law and the company gets in trouble and no scientists or other R&D people want to work there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 17:09:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975212</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43975212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "How the US defense secretary circumvents official DoD communications equipment"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would hope that when it comes to OpSec, SecDef, DoD, NSA, etc, don't act "Just like any human would."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 19:04:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43862009</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43862009</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43862009</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Hunt for Red October 1990 (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Love this movie, it turned me into an avid reader of Clancy.<p>At the time of this movie, I was working as a software engineer for a defense contractor building combat control systems for submarines.  When it was released, the company took the entire department, including former Navy submarine officers now project/program managers to a private viewing.  There were definitely groans when some things on the sub were inaccurate, but given the level of hands-on knowledge and expertise in the audience, it was very well received.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2025 16:34:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645586</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645586</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43645586</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This begs the question, how many of the newer generation of developers/engineers "know what a well architected piece of code is supposed to look like"?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:14:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569141</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43569141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Red Hat and Microsoft Bringing RHEL to WSL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I also think there is a chunk of the audience that would like to develop on the same distro they would be deploying to.  There is a fair amount of RHEL in production environments.  Larger operations may be running Windows for business purposes and being able to work with WSL/RHEL on the same (or upgraded for developers) machine makes some business sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:53:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186856</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42186856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Retrieval Augmented Generation for New Orleans City Council Transparency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect people in the US have amore positive feeling about their plumber than the state of government/politics in the country</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 19:35:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38871238</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38871238</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38871238</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Retrieval Augmented Generation for New Orleans City Council Transparency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Perhaps it's more apathy.  Outside of hot-button issues, it feels like many people don't care to pay attention to their local government</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2024 22:35:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38860788</link><dc:creator>cdkmoose</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38860788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38860788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cdkmoose in "Never Event"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Depends n your definition of dangerous objects.  For example, sheets?</p>
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