Hacker News: corndoge

New comment by corndoge in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

corndoge — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 04:19:58 +0000

You are thinking of "game theory" and it's what happens when your coworkers don't give a shit. And all it takes is one, both because they can degrade product quality faster than you can gate it or fix it and because the performance assessment techniques are about 3 years behind the state of LLMs and if they play, you have to also or you'll get shit on from such a height you won't even know what hit you.

And once you start playing the game, then one day - it doesn't take long - you wake up and ask yourself if this is how you want to spend 8 hours of your life monday through friday. I think a lot of us are saying no but now need to figure out where our money is going to come from. I don't have the answers.

New comment by corndoge in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

corndoge — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:22:07 +0000

I am tired of reading this comment

New comment by corndoge in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

corndoge — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:19:09 +0000

This is ancient tech https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM

New comment by corndoge in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

corndoge — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:34:21 +0000

We need to incentivize more kids to get pavement design degrees to increase the supply

New comment by corndoge in "Now is the best time to be a duct tape engineer"

corndoge — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:50:35 +0000

I agree with this sentiment. So much of human discourse sort of assumes that people are consistent day to day, even hour to hour. It just ain't so!

New comment by corndoge in "The Ask"

corndoge — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:11:24 +0000

Seems like a good use of time

New comment by corndoge in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

corndoge — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:39:46 +0000

Thanks for writing this, I learned something

New comment by corndoge in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

corndoge — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:44:58 +0000

Nix solved it. Languages could choose to adopt Nix as their packaging system.

New comment by corndoge in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

corndoge — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:12:09 +0000

> Your customers don't care whether the failure was Google or Railway; they see your product.

Refreshing. So tired of businesses blaming their vendors. Oh it wasn't us spamming you text messages and emails, it was Shopify. Oh, our delivery guarantee said 2 days and it's been a week? That's not us, it's UPS.

I don't care. I didn't pay UPS or Shopify. I paid you.

New comment by corndoge in "Bear spray is exploding in the trash near Yellowstone National Park"

corndoge — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:54:19 +0000

Yes

New comment by corndoge in "Googlebook"

corndoge — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:16:33 +0000

> 1. Check responses. Internet connection required.

New comment by corndoge in "Mythical Man Month"

corndoge — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:05:38 +0000

Yep, the real strength of AI is less in replacing engineering skills, it's more in slashing all the time we spend not using those skills and doing low level research and data correlation tasks instead. Which isn't to say that those tasks aren't valuable in their own way, but in terms of raw output...

New comment by corndoge in "Komai: a fine Matrix chat app you can get to love"

corndoge — Fri, 08 May 2026 05:17:59 +0000

I love matrix-docker-ansible-deploy and use it for my homeservers.

I also bounced off this piece around halfway through when I realized it was mixed AI/human content. I can read AI output anytime I want. Show me your true self! :)

Thanks for your work. Appreciate you!

New comment by corndoge in "BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets"

corndoge — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:21:00 +0000

WSJ had a piece on just this recently.

https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/chinese-cars-byd-geely-u-...

New comment by corndoge in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

corndoge — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:06:17 +0000

Unfortunately it isn't a preview. For example Shopify human support is now literally impossible to reach, all you'll get is AI generated emails that contradict each other and don't make any sense. They also don't disclose that they are AI bots.

New comment by corndoge in "Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns"

corndoge — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:46:45 +0000

> I find it bewildering that every thread sharing some project has a comment like this.

Those of us who care that technology be accessible to as many people as possible, such as low vision users, find it relevant. You can ignore it if you wish.

New comment by corndoge in "Fields Medal Video: Maryna Viazovska (2022)"

corndoge — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:32:03 +0000

She proved it

New comment by corndoge in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

corndoge — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:07:15 +0000

Only you can decide that for yourself, I use both

New comment by corndoge in "The creative software industry has declared war on Adobe"

corndoge — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:47:06 +0000

Try DxO Photolab if you have a mac

New comment by corndoge in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

corndoge — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:28:55 +0000

Vax program is common knowledge, literally everyone knows about that, and it was an intelligence program not an execution campaign. Your conclusion is made up