Hacker News: ctrlkctrlshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ctrlkctrlsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 27 May 2026 19:05:33 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ctrlkctrls in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"]]>The world seems to be fragmenting, into those that see the value in the latest from Google, and those that resist changes like this. I search for how much oil does my take" and get the exact answer in a single sentence, or I suppose I could click the links and wade through all the validation for choosing and how often one should change the oil, and which brand of oil that blog is pushing etc etc.

I love Google's AI answers and their AI Mode tab. DDG is just Bing or a search vendor proxy, so I've never understood the fascination. At least Perplexity is different to Google. DDG seeing a 28% increase is like Google saying they saw a drop of 0.0000000001% in traffic.

HN crowd forget that the world isn't like us, they didn't grow up with Yahoo and Alta Vista, with Excite etc etc. Our SOP is to resist all change, anytime Apple brings out a new version it'll be the end of Apple according to HN - Apple - the biggest company in the world - what do they know about UI, "Liquid Glass sucks!" :) :)

We're a community in danger of pushing out those new to the tech world, recent graduates will be made to feel unwelcome if we continue to trash everything that the biggest companies in the world do, like we always know better. I implore the community to be more positive about the future, about the technologies that will take us into that future.

]]>Wed, 27 May 2026 17:31:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297560ctrlkctrlshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297560https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48297560<![CDATA[New comment by ctrlkctrls in "The worst job interview I ever had"]]>The "in" operator is not unusual or trivia, it's something people who code in python use all the time! Python does have a function (or more accurately a method), it's called __contains__ and it's invoked by "in". I would expect a python developer to be able to comment on whether python uses a fastsearch algorithm or not, they should be able to comment on BM and H algorithms.

Maybe this was a very junior position, but I'm with the interviewer here. Using regex would be very questionable - and a solid case of 1171.

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