Hacker News: debt

HmmmAI – AI chatbot that only responds with "huh"

debt — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 20:41:53 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904959

Points: 1

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New comment by debt in "The case against caffeine"

debt — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 15:02:41 +0000

If you're going to drink decaf, be sure to drink decaf prepared via the Swiss water method. It has the least additives, healthiest option and tastes pretty good.

New comment by debt in "AI-enhanced development makes me more ambitious with my projects"

debt — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:58:42 +0000

It’s worth noting one important caveat: GPT-4 cannot do super complicated coding.

Don’t get me wrong; I use frequently when coding but it can’t handle the complex stuff; it’s insanely good at boilerplate and low-hanging fruit though.

Ask HN: Does every software project require a refactor?

debt — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:10:46 +0000

It seems every project I've ever been on required an eventual refactoring of the entire codebase. I'm wondering if that's the same for others.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34402052

Points: 11

# Comments: 12

New comment by debt in "On Leaving Facebook"

debt — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 02:41:39 +0000

Yes absolutely go work at Meta. The person in the post had worked there for ten years; they’re likely a millionaire.

It’s very challenging, but you should definitely get in and try it yourself. Move to the Bay if you haven’t done so yet, it will keep your motivation up.

New comment by debt in "My First Impressions of Web3"

debt — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 02:41:48 +0000

Just quickly from a technical perspective: web3 is like a useful wrapper around json-rpc which etherereum nodes use as a comms protocol.

You can just use whatever off the shell cli thing that supports json-rpc and talk directly to the mainnet.

Web3 is more of a concept that involves wrapping those complicated and cumbersome raw json-rpc calls(deploy a contract, compile a contract etc) into simple libraries. There’s literally a bazillion web3 libraries in many different programming languages. It simplifies talking to the ethereum mainnet.

I think they tackled it a little too high level in their post; missing the fact it’s really just a costly distributed state store you interact with via json-rpc with a shitty wrapper everyone basically calls web3.

New comment by debt in "Ask HN: How do you have fun without alcohol?"

debt — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 15:28:46 +0000

I quit drinking once for three years. Usually, your friends will ask you in the beginning to just have one drink or to just drink moderately. After about a year of no drinking, most of your closest friends and family will stop asking you entirely; even better is they'll answer other people that maybe don't know you as well aka "he doesn't drink".

After that, for fun, I basically would go to all the same places, bars, parties etc with the same friends and I'd just drink water; they'd be drinking booze. That's what I did for three years.

After about three years, I traveled abroad and I wanted to take in the full experience so I started drinking again.

Absolutely nothing wrong with wanting to stop drinking for a bit; it's a fun experiment.

New comment by debt in "Notes on ConstitutionDAO"

debt — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 05:52:46 +0000

The most fascinating part was that they raised $45mm in seven days from people from all over the world using really nothing but solidity contracts on the ethereum blockchain(no complicated PayPal integration, or Stripe etc., no web hooks or callbacks or AWS lambdas etc)

https://github.com/jbx-protocol/juice-contracts

New comment by debt in "Notes on ConstitutionDAO"

debt — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 05:48:16 +0000

They waived the fee.

New comment by debt in "Spy camera detection using smartphone time-of-flight sensors"

debt — Thu, 18 Nov 2021 18:15:55 +0000

320 x 240, is this the resolution of the depth data provided by the LiDAR sensor?

New comment by debt in "Apple’s new abuse prevention system: an antritust/competition point of view"

debt — Fri, 06 Aug 2021 21:38:57 +0000

It's no coincidence this system launched around the same time the whole NSO scandal broke. The NSO leak shows what government-sponsored exploit analysis against a large tech company may yield. I mean the NSO exploit could've worked the same but been a worm; it could've been absolutely devastating for Apple, imagine something like every phone infected. Something like that was possible with that exploit.

Apple has been a thorn in the side of the IC for a long while. IC probably saw an opportunity to gain a bit of leverage themselves via the whole NSO thing, and likely offered their cyber support in exchange of some support from Apple.

I mean c'mon they've been consistently pressed by IC for tooling like what they just launched; it's the least invasive thing(compared to something like a literal backdoor like that NSA_KEY that MS did for Windows) they can offer in exchange for some cybersecurity support from the gov.

idk if that's what's happened, but it's odd Apple would do this at all, and do it right around the time of the NSO thing.

New comment by debt in "The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday"

debt — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 18:32:35 +0000

People hate this because it’s not the all-in-one all-nighter over-the-weekend hacker stereotype I think we all want to be; rather it’s a slow movement towards success over a much much longer period of time.

New comment by debt in "Study finds 83% of software developers feel burnout"

debt — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 14:43:37 +0000

Stop using esoteric tools and trendy frameworks and use more robust solutions. That might prevent the burnout.

New comment by debt in "Link rot and content drift are endemic to the web"

debt — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 20:06:40 +0000

I always thought something like Ethereum could solve this type of thing; that is, if the content itself lived inside the blockchain. Obviously for larger formats that wouldn't work, but for many text based or lower resolution image formats, it wouldn't be too much overhead to just inject it all into the blockchain.

New comment by debt in "Ask HN: Feeling guilty for doing the bare minimum at work"

debt — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 16:21:03 +0000

Programmers are inherently incredibly underpaid relative to the immense value they bring to everything so if anything your working hours match what you're being paid. You may still be doing too much work.

Do not worry about it. It's not your job to worry about it.

If you want to work more, then get paid more.

New comment by debt in "Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5M in Ransom"

debt — Thu, 13 May 2021 16:17:52 +0000

The ransom payments are covered by insurance. It’s the insurance companies making the payments.

New comment by debt in "70TB of Parler users’ messages, videos, and posts leaked by security researchers"

debt — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:02:57 +0000

"a. pays popular users"

Source?

New comment by debt in "Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide"

debt — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 20:00:16 +0000

"no big deal"

A stolen laptop is usually not considered "no big deal" basically everywhere I worked.

New comment by debt in "FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test"

debt — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:19:04 +0000

He likely was using it incorrectly. The president also used it incorrectly; Abbott called him out for it.

Abbott's tests only work if you have symptoms, it's as simple as that.

If you're asymptomatic, the results will be 100% unreliable.

New comment by debt in "Show HN: Meli, a Netlify-like platform for deploying static sites"

debt — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 21:11:55 +0000

Genuinely curious, can someone clarify how these types of platforms(Netlify etc) are any different from something like an S3 bucket?

You can host a static website via an S3 bucket.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/WebsiteHosti...