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New comment by dmurvihill in "Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)"

dmurvihill — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:48:07 +0000

Wow, good to know. Can you tell me what company you work for so I can make sure it's not part of my stack?

New comment by dmurvihill in "AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt"

dmurvihill — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:37:26 +0000

A 400k mortgage needs a new roof after 25 years. A data center needs its hardware completely replenished after 5 (or less).

New comment by dmurvihill in "What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph"

dmurvihill — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:07:33 +0000

Looks like StackOverflow was already declining by the time ChatGPT came out

New comment by dmurvihill in "Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail"

dmurvihill — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:07:16 +0000

Love that theatre

New comment by dmurvihill in "56,000 lines of DOOM, in a language I made up"

dmurvihill — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:44:34 +0000

Actually, the group in question have repeatedly and vocally asked others to speak up when they see nonsense like this.

New comment by dmurvihill in "Detecting LLM-Generated Texts with “Classical” Machine Learning"

dmurvihill — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:40:00 +0000

It depends on the application. Dissertation? Hell naw. Blog post? Absolutely, run it through that thing.

New comment by dmurvihill in "S&P Global has lowered Oracle’s creditworthiness from BBB to BBB-"

dmurvihill — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:27:20 +0000

I bet the author submitted "to BBB-, one above junk" and an ignorant editor turned the minus into an em dash

New comment by dmurvihill in "Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike"

dmurvihill — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 20:48:47 +0000

Very cool, thanks!

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

dmurvihill — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:01:32 +0000

ARR is best month times twelve, not revenue per year.

New comment by dmurvihill in "How to earn a billion dollars"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:48:08 +0000

The Uber drivers created that value and should get those billions, not Travis Kalanick.

New comment by dmurvihill in "How to earn a billion dollars"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:44:30 +0000

What's missing is that the billion-dollar value is based on the expectation of exploiting the employees/customers/environment to achieve profit in the future.

New comment by dmurvihill in "How to earn a billion dollars"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:43:24 +0000

Luckily, billionaires don't have to worry about that.

New comment by dmurvihill in "Extinction-Level Capitalism"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:33:02 +0000

That's why they're so keen to build out all these data centers; the massive capex is their only conceivable moat. Whether all those additional parameters actually make a competitive difference is still an open question.

New comment by dmurvihill in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:03:08 +0000

Collecting rent maps exactly to that definition.

New comment by dmurvihill in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:01:18 +0000

I don't mind ending the type of construction that's recently been occurring.

New comment by dmurvihill in "ReactOS (FOSS "Windows") achieves 3D-accelerated Half-Life on real hardware"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:25:34 +0000

The payload yes, the exploit hopefully not.

New comment by dmurvihill in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:23:33 +0000

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New comment by dmurvihill in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:22:06 +0000

I mean, it's no SF, but Minneapolis definitely has an affordability problem. Every major city does.

New comment by dmurvihill in "The redistribution of housing wealth caused by rent control (2023) [pdf]"

dmurvihill — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:19:31 +0000

Sure, when you kick out all the poor people, the city definitely does look richer.

New comment by dmurvihill in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

dmurvihill — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:04:29 +0000

This is a leadership failure. People who want to do a good job always get fired for taking too long.