Hacker News: cisrockandroll

New comment by cisrockandroll in "Our $445M Series D"

cisrockandroll — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:42:30 +0000

How is oxide trendy and IBM systems z/i are seen as archaic? Isnt that essentially what they sell “cloud” on prem? Seriously wondering what are the major differences in market, is it just that Oxide is targeting modern software stacks?

New comment by cisrockandroll in "A 32-year-old bug walks into a Telnet server"

cisrockandroll — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:00:03 +0000

The entire infrastructure of the world relies on free open source software written 30 years ago.

And then all governments and corporations demand immediate support as if they have paid Tier 3 SLA with the unpaid maintainers lol.

New comment by cisrockandroll in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

cisrockandroll — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 18:48:38 +0000

Maybe Im just poor

New comment by cisrockandroll in "Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band"

cisrockandroll — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:47:42 +0000

Kinesis is a legendary keyboard brand.

New comment by cisrockandroll in "Corporate America is getting hooked on open-source AI"

cisrockandroll — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:50:35 +0000

Just use OpenRouter

New comment by cisrockandroll in "IBM Bob"

cisrockandroll — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:57:20 +0000

Is this just a harness or using a proprietary model in the background? Anthropic and OpenAI are already very well trained in IBM system i and z knowledge. Unless Bob is somehow improving the integration to these midrange and mainframe systems I literally dont see any benefit to using Bob. IBM will just kill this proprietary tech in 5 years as they are currently doing with RDi or forget about updating it like SEU.

New comment by cisrockandroll in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

cisrockandroll — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 17:41:17 +0000

When I am not sure what direction I want to go in next, and so I try multiple versions from the same starting point.

New comment by cisrockandroll in "The creator of Jujutsu has joined ERSC"

cisrockandroll — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:18:20 +0000

Badass!!! Congrats. I love JJ’s mental model. Its so much less opionated and lets me do what I want. Want to make 5 versions of the same commit? Easy. Need to push out a change asap without having to pre create a branch, stash your changes, yadayada. Jj just adapts.

Once you start thinking in jj it becomes frustrating having think back to use GitHub as a code repo.

New comment by cisrockandroll in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

cisrockandroll — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 21:33:21 +0000

I would love to hear more about Costco's engineering culture. The fact they are still running/modernizing/supporting AS400 infrastructure and RPGLE applications is remarkable. I have to imagine that they have a unique devops model internally to keep that alive; especially facing a dwindling talent market.

New comment by cisrockandroll in "A retrospective of my time on the internet"

cisrockandroll — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:18:33 +0000

Needing a QR code to order food is a signal

New comment by cisrockandroll in "Lore – Give your coding agent the decisions your team made"

cisrockandroll — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:17:14 +0000

Bad timing either way epic games release

New comment by cisrockandroll in "Qualcomm to Acquire Modular"

cisrockandroll — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 13:54:48 +0000

RIP Modular

New comment by cisrockandroll in "My 1992 view of the problems of computer programming in 1992"

cisrockandroll — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:18:37 +0000

30 years later do you think we got better or worse.

New comment by cisrockandroll in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

cisrockandroll — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:46:58 +0000

Oh yeah the Chinese Empire is not imperial… Dynasty Shymnasty!

New comment by cisrockandroll in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

cisrockandroll — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:19:38 +0000

https://apnews.com/article/bernie-sanders-ai-public-ownershi...

New comment by cisrockandroll in "Supporting the BEAM community with free CI/CD security audits"

cisrockandroll — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:49:08 +0000

Congratulations

New comment by cisrockandroll in "Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?"

cisrockandroll — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:36:29 +0000

Cloud migrations

New comment by cisrockandroll in "Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?"

cisrockandroll — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 04:15:07 +0000

RPG

New comment by cisrockandroll in "The mistake of yearning for the 'friendly' online world of 20 years ago"

cisrockandroll — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 06:00:14 +0000

In 2006-2007 someone walked me through step by atep how to assemble a computer in a newegg.com chatroom with the parts I had already purchased. That person changed my life. Thanks human.

New comment by cisrockandroll in "American Airlines is boarding flights again after nationwide groundstop"

cisrockandroll — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 14:32:26 +0000

Serious question: Dont software changes with companies dealing with human lives have to go through a rigorous lab testing environment? And then maybe a beta group?