Hacker News: dmuso

New comment by dmuso in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

dmuso — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:05:53 +0000

Probably in a similar way to how they go after IP/copyright currently. One method they use is to push for law changes in free trade agreements. US would use whatever leverage they have to get other countries on board and locked in to US providers.

New comment by dmuso in "System76 on Age Verification Laws"

dmuso — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:22:16 +0000

Parenting rule still applies

New comment by dmuso in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"

dmuso — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:51:20 +0000

This looks cool, I’m going to try it out. Does this mean the code tool can detect the use of t.Skip and immediately ask for a refactor without my input? Because that would save me a lot of pain!

New comment by dmuso in "Etcd alternative for Kubernetes that stores data in S3"

dmuso — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 06:01:51 +0000

How does performance look when using S3 as the backend data store?

New comment by dmuso in "The Pain That Is GitHub Actions"

dmuso — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:44:19 +0000

It’s been a while since I used it but I do remember that it doesn’t do a clean checkout and you can’t force it to. It leaves artifacts on the agent that can interfere with subsequent builds. I assume they do it for speed but it can affect reliability of builds

New comment by dmuso in "The Pain That Is GitHub Actions"

dmuso — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 20:56:22 +0000

Try doing a clean git clone in TeamCity. Nope, not even with the plugins that claim “clean clone” capability. You should be confident that CI can build/run/test an app with a clean starting point. If the CI forces a cached state on an agent that you can’t clear… TeamCity just does it wrong.

New comment by dmuso in "VW Group Collects Vehicle Movement Data"

dmuso — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:41:49 +0000

My car was made in 1998. Used cars are probably the best option for the time being.

Surely hackers have figured out how to block radios in the new cars?

New comment by dmuso in "Engineering for Slow Internet"

dmuso — Fri, 31 May 2024 23:30:28 +0000

Can you point me to a decently complex front end app, written by a small team, that is well written? I’ve seen one, Linear, but I’m interested to see more

New comment by dmuso in "How many EV charging stations does the US need to replace gas stations?"

dmuso — Tue, 28 May 2024 08:15:39 +0000

Access to a driveway means that the first hurdle to own an EV is probably owning a suitable home. EVs will be a less practical option for future generations unless we can fix this broken financial system and inflated assets.

New comment by dmuso in "Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control"

dmuso — Sat, 24 Feb 2024 04:24:53 +0000

The tech you use to get code to production is so broad, asking these kinds of questions is at best a random chance of successfully hiring a good engineer. You may as well flip a coin.

A better approach is to ask a candidate something specific about their experience. Even if someone mentions “git expert” on their resume, the question is not what you proposed but instead asking about their experience and digging in from where they go. An engineer you’re interviewing may have fixed a bug in “git push” but not know anything about how “pull” or “rebase” works.

New comment by dmuso in "YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin"

dmuso — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 21:53:31 +0000

I would happily pay for YouTube if they didn’t ban and demonetize creators who I would pay to watch.

New comment by dmuso in "Ask HN: Tips for Solopreneur?"

dmuso — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:47:43 +0000

Yeah this happened to me and it killed my business. I didn’t have enough time to expand the business and I didn’t charge the first customer enough to scale it up with employees.

It was really the stress that killed it. Being in that situation was not fun and I ended up burning out and telling my big customer to go jump. They threatened to sue me and I was done so I just said “give it your best shot”. Nothing came of the threat in the end. The experience has left a lot of scars and after 15 years not all of them have healed.

New comment by dmuso in "Maybe the problem is that Harvard exists"

dmuso — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 05:25:19 +0000

I’ve hired 100+ people with around a 97% hit rate on hiring great employees and great engineers. I don’t look at whether they have a degree or not, I don’t care what school they went to. In my experience it provides no indication of whether they’re good or not.

New comment by dmuso in "Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter"

dmuso — Fri, 12 May 2023 21:35:50 +0000

Just add a bunch of political terms into your word block list. It helps make Twitter much more enjoyable.

New comment by dmuso in "YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers"

dmuso — Thu, 11 May 2023 20:40:32 +0000

I would pay if they stopped censoring creators.

New comment by dmuso in "How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?"

dmuso — Sat, 06 May 2023 22:55:16 +0000

How do you deal with “talking to the void” at the beginning? I speak publicly fairly regular and I get a lot of energy from people in the crowd. I’ve done some YouTube and converted that to podcast format. I can’t seem to get motivated to do it as I can’t see/interact with people. People I know in my niche community will tell me they watched my video or listened to the podcast, I think “oh that’s nice I guess” and I go back home to stare at a camera and I can’t seem to connect making a video with audience interaction. Is this a thing? How do you think I could deal with it?

New comment by dmuso in "Launch HN: Second (YC W23) – AI bots that add features to web apps"

dmuso — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 20:43:21 +0000

It would be great if you could support Phoenix primarily and Rails. Any plans to go full stack not just JS UIs? Seems limiting if there’s no backend AI help.

New comment by dmuso in "Linear.app"

dmuso — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 04:27:22 +0000

How did you get it to be so fast, the performance of the app and snappy mess of the UI is outstanding!

New comment by dmuso in "Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks"

dmuso — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 23:41:11 +0000

Hey Lee, is there anything comprehensive you can point me to to diagnose performance problems in a next.js app? We have one and it’s brutally slow and I can’t seem to figure out the issue.

New comment by dmuso in "How ‘Weird Al’ eclipsed most stars he parodied"

dmuso — Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:46:30 +0000

It uses auto-tune quite heavily, so who really knows how good he can really sing.