Hacker News: coolThingsFirst

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Show HN: Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz?"

coolThingsFirst — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:45:08 +0000

Wait a minute Orca is a Dolphin?

Damn.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Microsoft and CMU Team Up to Train Early Career Software Engineers"

coolThingsFirst — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:45:33 +0000

how?

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust"

coolThingsFirst — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:31:53 +0000

Too much Math for not much of a result.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers"

coolThingsFirst — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:07:46 +0000

Now that you have learnt Software Engineering, hunting for a job is easy just make 10^10^10^10 job applications.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "More Powerful Than Ever, (can't find work)"

coolThingsFirst — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 05:08:59 +0000

Sad but true.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds"

coolThingsFirst — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 04:47:59 +0000

Yeah, interesting game. Some puzzles are hard. I am interested in the programming of it.

How are the crystals made translucent like that? They almost feel alive. Is this shaders or just assets?

The game looks top down, but is 2.5 dimensional. How is this made? Is it just the assets or something more complicated is done in terms of programming.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Show HN: How random are you?"

coolThingsFirst — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:24:22 +0000

Curious to know what model they use for speech recognition?

Not familiar with the sota if someone can chime in.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

coolThingsFirst — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:18:19 +0000

Nuts i thought Hetzner had the cheapest options.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Type Safe Generic Data Structures in C (2025)"

coolThingsFirst — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:18:17 +0000

STL is amazing and the people that designed it were very smart.

Problem is C++ has many features which I likely won't be able to understand in this lifetime. But using C-style C++ is nuts.

Just the extra of STL is basically the C that C should have been. It's a shame not to have a string type or use brittle macros.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:18:30 +0000

Well the clowns get a free pass from HN moderators so I guess it's ok

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"

coolThingsFirst — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 11:04:45 +0000

Odoo still shamelessly asking for passport pictures for a job application!

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The death of web development education"

coolThingsFirst — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 22:52:43 +0000

CS students, we wrote syntax on paper during exams. Same could be done.

By BS, i mean tsconfig files and caddy boilerplate.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "The death of web development education"

coolThingsFirst — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:49:16 +0000

LLMs made it easy to skip the BS. Once you know programmingh you don't need hours and hours of content. Just the mental model for and you're good to go.

If it weren't for the job losses I'd never want to go back to 2015 or so to go back and forth on SO questions and answers and spend days on a boilerplate issue.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"

coolThingsFirst — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:03:09 +0000

welcome to the "good times"

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 10:18:11 +0000

Good idea but hard to get initial users since everyone will be reluctant to share private info with new company.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "If we do not stop to help each other, what do we become?"

coolThingsFirst — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:44:21 +0000

SO people were one of the most stuck idiots I have ever seen. I found the opposite thing, for easy questions they'd upvote and answer very soon but for harder questions they'd downvote it because they didn't know the solution.

I'm very happy SO is done and dusted with.

Thing is Quora which was supposed to be a forum of people with real credentials also went down the drain because it succumbed to low quality questions and answers. I guess we need a LinkedIn like place where people with real credentials and experience can contribute to deep discussions. Discord won't cut it since it's not index-able.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models"

coolThingsFirst — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:40:12 +0000

Can you explain how 0 shot classifiers work how come it isn’t trained on my data how does it know when issue is urgent lets say?

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "Why didn't anybody tell me about Redis hash slots?"

coolThingsFirst — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:30:08 +0000

What do they use to make those visualizations?

I see them pretty frequently.

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

coolThingsFirst — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:45:25 +0000

What company is that, are you hiring remote?

New comment by coolThingsFirst in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

coolThingsFirst — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:07:59 +0000

What a load of BS, if your churn rate is so high that you always have to hire that's a sign of a terribly toxic workplace.