Hacker News: confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=confidantlakeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 24 May 2026 23:26:22 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"]]>They are far too busy for that. They have pr people to say it for them.

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 16:44:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249113confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249113https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249113<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "How to convert between wealth and income tax"]]>I am shocked that you are shocked. Billionaires have always said or done anything they can to maximize their wealth.

]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 23:26:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242853confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242853https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48242853<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"]]>"Any decent immigration attorney who works with tech companies" is very different from an "experienced immigration lawyers with strong connections".

]]>Sun, 03 May 2026 23:59:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002941confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002941https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48002941<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"]]>Those are scams.

]]>Sun, 03 May 2026 02:40:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992792confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992792https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992792<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"]]>I tried paying my mortgage in pride, unfortunately the bank did not accept it.

]]>Sun, 03 May 2026 02:39:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992788confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992788https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992788<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"]]>Yup totally organic.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 22:33:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991270confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991270https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47991270<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"]]>Wow lots of astroturfing going on here.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 20:24:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990115confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990115https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47990115<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"]]>Ragebait. Haven't been contacted by a single recruiter in years. The only time is someone trying to sell me their shitty interview course/grad school program.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 19:52:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989850confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989850https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989850<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"]]>Seems unlikely since lawyers have a notoriously high un/underemployment rate. Unless we are using circular reason to define "decent" as anyone with unlimited demand.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 14:58:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986973confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986973<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA"]]>If the company is that large, I am sure they can figure it out.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 14:48:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986871confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986871https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47986871<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager"]]>It wasn't the owner that suggested it. It was some random blogplost that insisted the normal town well that everyone used was no good and you have to use his super special well instead. He points to an incident 6 months ago where someone got drunk and decided to jump into the well. The dude who jumped into the well didn't even say it was the well's fault.

I did read the article linked. I am remain unconvinced. Use effect for data fetching is not "risky", "fragile", and does not cause "subtle, hard to debug problems". This is baseless fear mongering. Claiming Tanstack is the "right" way is incredibly arrogant.

]]>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:43:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823599confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823599https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47823599<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager"]]>I have been drinking water for years. You are trying to tell me water is an antipattern and I should drink gatorade instead. No thanks.

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:48:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763890confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763890https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47763890<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"]]>Complete crap.

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:52:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759885confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759885https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759885<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"]]>"Opening" doesn't mean anything. An actual job where someone is working and is being paid a salary means something.

]]>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:34:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759764confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759764https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47759764<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager"]]>I am not convinced. Have been using this pattern for years without issue.

]]>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:36:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726757confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726757https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47726757<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager"]]>Is it? I have never had any issues doing it this way.

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:23:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701713confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701713https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47701713<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Show HN: Tired of logic in useEffect, I built a class-based React state manager"]]>Seems like a solution in search of a problem.

]]>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:37:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697942confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697942https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47697942<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Show HN: Learn Arabic with spaced repetition and comprehensible input"]]>Kind of crazy that it has Swahili but not Portuguese.

]]>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:26:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380812confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380812https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47380812<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"]]>And while they don't have language like we do, dogs can understand basic commands and they aren't even the smartest animals.

]]>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:10:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335123confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335123https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335123<![CDATA[New comment by confidantlake in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"]]>Seems dumb that we change the time to an offset rather than changing from 9 to 5 to 8 to 4.

]]>Tue, 03 Mar 2026 03:06:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47227468confidantlakehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47227468https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47227468