Hacker News: copperroof

New comment by copperroof in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

copperroof — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:30:58 +0000

Well this just created a lot of work for me. Everything’s turning to shit at an alarming rate.

New comment by copperroof in "Gmail AI gets more intrusive"

copperroof — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:08:06 +0000

No I have a few privacy plugins/adblock but they all work fine with YouTube normally. I tried disabling everything. All the standard debugging tests.

New comment by copperroof in "Gmail AI gets more intrusive"

copperroof — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:25:36 +0000

The most irritating thing for me now is that YouTube doesn’t work in my browser anymore. Clearly being a/b tested because sometimes it does, and sometimes it spews out thousands of console errors and doesn’t load anything.

New comment by copperroof in "The Tiny Teams Playbook"

copperroof — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:24:21 +0000

I use this kind of opinion as my idiot bat signal now. It’s so obviously untrue when someone starts spouting this nonsense you know they are a very feelings based decision maker.

New comment by copperroof in "Amazon's AWS CEO chides staff for slow product rollouts"

copperroof — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 23:21:06 +0000

lol. All the competent folks I knew left. They bled talent like crazy with return to office. Everyone figured that was the point of it… all that’s left of the groups I worked with there is morons and sycophants from top to bottom.

New comment by copperroof in "Pyrefly - A faster Python type checker written in Rust"

copperroof — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:00:09 +0000

When I last compared it to mypy a few months ago adding typechecking to an old project that had types but I had for some reason never actually run a typechecker on it:

* Was overwhelmingly slower than mypy

* Had a few hundred more false positives. I gather from reading their philosophy afterward that this was on purpose. Rigid dogma > doing the right thing in the circumstance in their opinion.

* Did not find any actual bugs, whereas mypy identified 3 errors that lead to fixing real issues AND had fewer false positives, due to its better understanding of python code.

* Comically overweight with its typescript dependency.

My first impression of it was of a very low quality, over engineered project prioritizing noise over signal. Looking forward to trying out the astral typechecker as well.

New comment by copperroof in "Qwen3: Think deeper, act faster"

copperroof — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:04:09 +0000

I’ve gotten 0 production usable python out of any LLM. Small script to do something trivial, sure. Anything I’m going to have to maintain or debug in the future, not even close. I think there is a _lot_ of terrible python code out there training LLMs, so being a more popular language is not helpful. This era is making transparent how low standards really are.

New comment by copperroof in "Quick Primer on MCP Using Ollama and LangChain"

copperroof — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 15:16:56 +0000

Yes, I read this post and was actually emotionally affected by a post about coding. I was surprised how sad I felt. I’ve been around for a long time but this truly feels like the best era if you like gluing trash to other trash and shipping it.

New comment by copperroof in "You might not need WebSockets"

copperroof — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 03:44:35 +0000

You only need to implement it yourself if you’ve catastrophically fucked up the concurrency model on the client or sever side and they can’t respond out of band of whatever you’re waiting on.

New comment by copperroof in "Making o1, o3, and Sonnet 3.7 hallucinate for everyone"

copperroof — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 20:22:16 +0000

Personally I’ve been finding that the more context I provide the more it hallucinates.

New comment by copperroof in "The Amazon Appstore for Android devices will be discontinued on August 20, 2025"

copperroof — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 19:00:33 +0000

That's a great analogy. I would add that since I left every single smart person in my extended network that worked there has left. As far as I can tell all my former teams are held together with jr devs and bubblegum.

New comment by copperroof in "OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now"

copperroof — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 20:17:44 +0000

I just want a hacker news no-LLM filter. The site has been almost unusable for a year now.

New comment by copperroof in "YouTube Premium Showing Ads"

copperroof — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 02:18:28 +0000

There’s no chance anyone at google will ever listen to a customer.

New comment by copperroof in "What do you visualize while programming?"

copperroof — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:05:46 +0000

Nothing.

New comment by copperroof in "Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval"

copperroof — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:09:54 +0000

I charge it when I shower.

New comment by copperroof in "In a leaked recording, AWS CEO tells most developers could stop coding soon"

copperroof — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 04:09:07 +0000

I’m so glad I left. The execs there are comically incompetent.

New comment by copperroof in "The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script"

copperroof — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 19:33:29 +0000

All this person has done is illustrate a sociopathic inability to understand other peoples’ experiences. Nothing they have said is remotely interesting and is an obvious no from my perspective. The only situation I’d even pick up a phone or answer the door is the neighbor. That would be a no thanks. The fact that they keep pushing and clearly think their juvenile worldview applies to everyone reinforces my original statement. It’s wild to me people can say these things with a straight face.

New comment by copperroof in "Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs"

copperroof — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:28:45 +0000

I know nothing whatsoever about readability but this almost makes me ill to read. Very unsettling.

New comment by copperroof in "The real "Wolf of Wall Street" sales script"

copperroof — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:33:37 +0000

It’s wild to me people can say things like this so confidently. I’ve said no to everything my entire life. I don’t care what you’re offering, I’m already seething with rage that I have to talk to you. If I want something I’ll look for it same rules as avoiding phishing.

New comment by copperroof in "Moments in Chromecast's history"

copperroof — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 16:50:57 +0000

This drives me nuts. When I first got the original fire tv it was fast and had no ads. I could easily recommend it. Now it’s stuffed to the brim with ads and is incredibly slow. When this one dies I’ll likely not buy a hardware device from Amazon ever again.