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New comment by d4mi3n in "DND and Studio X seek to join United Wizards of the Coast"

d4mi3n — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:53:03 +0000

People were asking about these folks when MTG Arena organized — here they are. Best of luck to them in seeking union recognition and exercising their right to bargain.

DND and Studio X seek to join United Wizards of the Coast

d4mi3n — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:43:57 +0000

Article URL: https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-studiox-join-uwotc-cwa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49984557

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by d4mi3n in "A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos"

d4mi3n — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:52:19 +0000

What I’m seeing is more developers pushing more code of dubious quality without the ability to respond to feedback on said code.

You can have the best security review in the world, but if the author of the code is not equipped to understand the feedback it ends up being a moot point.

The challenge to me seems less technical and more cultural: how do we keep ourselves intellectually honest and engaged when we now spend the majority of our time orchestrating agents and outsourcing the design and thought processes?

New comment by d4mi3n in "Dolly Parton has died"

d4mi3n — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:20:27 +0000

End of an era. She was a very active philanthropist and will be dearly missed for all the good she brought to the world.

Dolly Parton has passed away

d4mi3n — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:19:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/dolly-parton-country-legend-dead-2026-08

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49438312

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by d4mi3n in "Teaching my kid to code with a modern MUD"

d4mi3n — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:36:37 +0000

Can we contribute to the dialog rather than bash someone’s thoughts on it?

As a start, why do you disagree and how would you further this discussion?

New comment by d4mi3n in "Is it all just vapourware?"

d4mi3n — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:49:30 +0000

I find this to be an incredibly myopic viewpoint. Software engineering is not defined by a single tool or technology, but rather how we design, implement, and maintain processes of value we want to automate or scale.

LLMs will certainly be an aide, but assuming adoption of them is required across a whole _field_ ignores whole classes of problems, domains, and constraints the production of software covers.

Rather, we should be wary of allowing our skills and hard-earned knowledge to atrophy by over reliance on new technology that is far from perfect, reliable, or even universally available. These tools more than any before suffer from the junk-in-junk-out problem and I’d much rather work with someone who knows their fundamentals than someone who knows their way around a the LLM of the month.

New comment by d4mi3n in "Show HN: tale.fyi, we deserve a home for fiction"

d4mi3n — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:24:38 +0000

I think the dissonance you’re running into here is that places like Reddit are not monolithic. Saying Reddit, basically a very large collection of user submitted writing, is _entirely_ non-fiction is not correct and ignores years of short stories, web serials, fanfiction, role playing, story telling, and all manner of creative fictional writing. I’d wager to say the bulk of such work on the internet exists under the Reddit umbrella, or is at a minimum cross-posted there.

New comment by d4mi3n in "United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB"

d4mi3n — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:00:33 +0000

I knew the publishing and game industry weren’t known for good treatment of their labor, but WOTC had a fair reputation in that regard. This has apparently degraded prior to my joining the company and has continued to do so. A big motivator for organizing for many was the steady erosion of pay, benefits, and the lauded perks despite a workload that has and continues to grow tremendously.

New comment by d4mi3n in "United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB"

d4mi3n — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:42:59 +0000

Worked in tech for a long time before I got to WOTC. Went through a lot of layoffs and short term executive decisions that invariably leave anyone without preferred stock out to dry. Wish I had a union then. Glad to have one now.

Edit: Words are my own. I am not a rep of WOTC or Hasbro.

United Wizards of the Coast recognized by NLRB

d4mi3n — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:57:32 +0000

Article URL: https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/2026-06-23-we-have-a-union

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652028

Points: 113

# Comments: 67

New comment by d4mi3n in "Can we have the day off?"

d4mi3n — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:31:45 +0000

Unless one choses to bargain. Perhaps collectively.

New comment by d4mi3n in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

d4mi3n — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:35:59 +0000

This is actually a pretty interesting observation as GMail, when it first came out, was just as clunky as all the other webmail clients. At the time, everyone was used to Yahoo!, MSN, etc. and Google was the odd one out with their webmail client.

This changed when they were the first folks out there to get a dynamic interface in the browser (some of you may fondly or not so fondly remember the days of DHTML, XMLHTTPRequest, and the like). Fast forward 10 or 15 years and now GMail is the standard by which everything else is measured.

I'm sure there are some things that are objectively better, but a surprising amount of preference comes from familiarity.

New comment by d4mi3n in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

d4mi3n — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 14:10:39 +0000

It shows up in API responses when you look up your own user.

United Wizards of the Coast

d4mi3n — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:34:30 +0000

Article URL: https://unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/announcing-united-wizards-coast-cwa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925425

Points: 234

# Comments: 218

New comment by d4mi3n in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

d4mi3n — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:42:45 +0000

There’s important history and connotation behind pronatalist narratives—particularly with eugenics, xenophobia, and gender (in)equality.

Vogue did a decent overview of this[1] and history is littered with all kinds of examples if you go looking.

1. https://www.vogue.com/article/dark-history-of-the-far-rights...

New comment by d4mi3n in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

d4mi3n — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:11:46 +0000

Humans have a tendency to ascribe intelligence to how well spoken a person or thing is—hence all the personification of LLMs.

New comment by d4mi3n in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

d4mi3n — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:14:10 +0000

Probably a diversification play and a play to see out bigger contracts. If you've worked in the FEDRamp space, you may be aware that Wiz (last a checked, a year or so ago) is one of the few and possibly ownly player certified to operate in FedRAMP Medium/High deployments operating with the technology it does (eBPF instrumentation).

New comment by d4mi3n in "We are building data breach machines and nobody cares"

d4mi3n — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:22:45 +0000

There is a reason for hoarding data: it’s an asset on the balance sheet. So long as it is legal to liquidate data for cash, there will be incentives to collect and keep it.

New comment by d4mi3n in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

d4mi3n — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:08:56 +0000

Well, in the case of a company trying to market to you, it literally _is_ their business. It makes them money.

The problem is that we have markets where we: - Incentivize organizations to pursue profits at the expense of everything else, which includes social good and civic rights - Rarely hold bad actors accountable (and almost never in a timely manner)

Which means, given enough time, we're always going to trend to whatever makes the most money. Targeted advertising makes money, and will continue to do so unless or until we collectively decide to make it a greater risk to profits than it is today.