Hacker News: dixie_land

New comment by dixie_land in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

dixie_land — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:01:11 +0000

So? At least they're grinding, and we as a nation used to have that American grit. Now everyone just sits on their asses and cry "unfair" when someone willing to grind gets better opportunities.

New comment by dixie_land in "I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken"

dixie_land — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 16:08:46 +0000

Those who got PPUs have had many chances of tender offers already. Most of them are multi millionaires, on cash, not on paper

New comment by dixie_land in "US Treasuries Have Become Unappetizing for Foreign Central Banks and Governments"

dixie_land — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 16:59:26 +0000

The £ was backed by UK's (perceived) military might just as $ is by the States'.

The the war on Iran (and many years of war on terror) showed we have anything but

New comment by dixie_land in "The Collapse at Netflix Signals the End of Audience Capture"

dixie_land — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:52:24 +0000

Also what really annoys me as a viewer is that even on a good series that has already been renewed, the waiting between seasons has crept up from 1 year (already bad) to multiple years. Then when the new season finally comes out (in two parts!) I already lost most of the context and am not nearly as interested.

New comment by dixie_land in "Amazon without the knockoffs"

dixie_land — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:21:02 +0000

It's more than likely you're getting the first since Chinese factories simply make more of what the big brand has ordered and sell the rest to drop shippers

New comment by dixie_land in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

dixie_land — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:16:52 +0000

Fable got halted by US make it a moot point but none enterprise is happy about the forced (and unannounced) 30-day data rentention

New comment by dixie_land in "CrabTrap: An LLM-as-a-judge HTTP proxy to secure agents in production"

dixie_land — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:42:31 +0000

Installing a self signed cert system wide to do MITM? Sign me up!

New comment by dixie_land in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

dixie_land — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:04:43 +0000

Exactly, you can build 12nm but you can't quadruple the speed of light

New comment by dixie_land in "Starlink Mini as a failover"

dixie_land — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:44:11 +0000

As far as travel and hotel goes, another huge benefit is that the router enables devices without captive portal support, on a recent trip I can use: - Fi base station for my dogs trackers (huge for me) - FireTV stick (no need to trust hotel streaming apps will clear your credentials like they claim)

Also I can WireGuard back home automatically for select IP ranges (no need to configure WireGuard separately on many of my devices)

New comment by dixie_land in "Bucketsquatting is finally dead"

dixie_land — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:15:08 +0000

I named random Joe as the sole owner of "my" bank account and the bank wouldn't allow me to access "my" money!

New comment by dixie_land in "WA Income Tax – Real estate agent says 7 people listed homes this week"

dixie_land — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:51:17 +0000

> WA tax revenue is going to drop from this

That'd be their next excuse to extend the tax to all

New comment by dixie_land in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

dixie_land — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:31:23 +0000

When did blatantly unconstitutional laws become modest?

New comment by dixie_land in "How long do job postings stay open?"

dixie_land — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:00:34 +0000

SDE jobs are usually deliberately kept open to satisfy the H1B/PERM testing. Most big tech company does it so they can hire H1Bs and in turn do day 1 PERM sponsor as an incentive for H1B hires

New comment by dixie_land in "Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say"

dixie_land — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:22:42 +0000

Exactly they built one for the Chinese government. It's not if they have a back door it's who gets to use it

New comment by dixie_land in "Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say"

dixie_land — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 16:41:21 +0000

Was it ever?

New comment by dixie_land in "Software factories and the agentic moment"

dixie_land — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:31:16 +0000

This is an interesting point but if I may offer a different perspective:

Assuming 20 working days a month: that's 20k x 12 == 240k a year. So about a fresh grad's TC at FANG.

Now I've worked with many junior to mid-junior level SDEs and sadly 80% does not do a better job than Claude. (I've also worked with staff level SDEs who writes worse code than AI, but they offset that usually with domain knowledge and TL responsibilities)

I do see AI transform software engineering into even more of a pyramid with very few human on top.

New comment by dixie_land in "Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS"

dixie_land — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:07:06 +0000

Yup WSL feels closer to the Services for Unix which has been around since NT 4/5.

It was sad to see WSL2 taking the path of least resistance, that decision has always felt TPM driven ("we got unexpected success with WSL and people are asking for more, deliver xxx by Q4! No I don't care _how_ you do it!")

New comment by dixie_land in "6 Years Building Video Players. 9B Requests. Starting Over"

dixie_land — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:34:10 +0000

Great engineering work but as a user I don't get why we need these: I just want the OS native widget that allow me to play pause seek and maybe choose captions. Especially on iOS 99% of these web players behaves awkwardly when you tried to pinch to zoom to full screen (usually it zooms the whole webpage, iOS native player just works)

The main incentive to have these custom controls I see is anti adblocking

New comment by dixie_land in "TrustTunnel: AdGuard VPN protocol goes open-source"

dixie_land — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:16:07 +0000

Looks very similar to the HBONE protocol the istio folks created for ambient mesh: https://istio.io/latest/docs/ambient/architecture/hbone/

New comment by dixie_land in "Show HN: App to spoof GPS location on iOS without jailbreaking"

dixie_land — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:59:22 +0000

I find it interesting that iPhone doesn't do a sanity check of these WiFi/cell fingerprinting based results against the GPS receiver it actually has. I can understand how WiFi only device would not have such an option, but why not do it on iPhones if Apple is known to be against location spoofing?