Hacker News: dragonelite

New comment by dragonelite in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

dragonelite — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:04:48 +0000

Yeah pretty since the start of the conflict there was talk of companies could use Chinese yuan to get an pass through. It also makes more sense they would use the Chinese yuan the West can track or block those transactions.

Not only that the Chinese Yuan is probably more interesting given they can buy more things with it from China things like consumer tech/products, chemicals and rare earths for weapon systems etc.

New comment by dragonelite in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

dragonelite — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:58:26 +0000

There a whole industry called on chain analysis that do this sort of work.

New comment by dragonelite in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

dragonelite — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:49:53 +0000

The FT trying to push markets and capital again? If they do everyone can just track their bitcoin transactions..

New comment by dragonelite in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

dragonelite — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:18:32 +0000

Queue in the "First time" meme.

New comment by dragonelite in "AI has suddenly become more useful to open-source developers"

dragonelite — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:11:14 +0000

Let me guess the big tech cheque finally cleared?

New comment by dragonelite in "China is mass-producing hypersonic missiles for $99,000"

dragonelite — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:55:37 +0000

Well to this day China is getting Iranian energy. This naval blockade is a relic of a past long gone. When you have eyes in the sky and pin point accurate missiles. The US can't even block or free the straight of Hormuz.

Also China is friendly with Russia they have land border so they can build pipelines.

New comment by dragonelite in "Iran launched unsuccessful attack on UK's Diego Garcia"

dragonelite — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:19:57 +0000

It's a message toward the west don't think you're safe further away. Iran is pushing the west out of west Asia. Time will tell what USIS and EU will do to combat this.

New comment by dragonelite in "Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content"

dragonelite — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:56:19 +0000

I saw this message spread like a wild fire in the osint sphere 2 week ago.

Already told me war with Iran is going bad. Hell to the point that even John "we need to attack Iran now" Bolton couldn't get it hard anymore at the thought of attacking Iran.

New comment by dragonelite in "Kotlin creator's new language: talk to LLMs in specs, not English"

dragonelite — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:53:42 +0000

Somewhere Dijkstra is laughing his ass off.

New comment by dragonelite in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

dragonelite — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:59:33 +0000

Expect a shitload of AI powered code review products the next 18 months.

New comment by dragonelite in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

dragonelite — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:57:59 +0000

Accelerate a person speed toward being burned out..

New comment by dragonelite in "Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?"

dragonelite — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:24:26 +0000

You're just feeling what the rest of non western world has felt for centuries. Welcome to the club.

New comment by dragonelite in "Zig – io_uring and Grand Central Dispatch std.Io implementations landed"

dragonelite — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 12:42:09 +0000

People do under estimate how nice it is that the language ref or framework/tool documentation is all on one web page i can easily pdf print it and push it to my ipad for reading.

New comment by dragonelite in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

dragonelite — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:27:40 +0000

From my observations, its more the friends that never left rural village we grew up in that have children. My urban friends don't really have children maybe because urban life i stressed but you also have so much stuff to do so maybe kids isn't really a thing one think about, it's more about building up a network.

New comment by dragonelite in "The US is flirting with its first-ever population decline"

dragonelite — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:51:35 +0000

I personally think we over urbanised. If i look at my friends circle, most of the urban ones are childless and the rural ones have 2~4 kids.

Super anecdotal and totally non scientific observation.

New comment by dragonelite in "China's Data Center Boom: A View from Zhangjiakou (2025)"

dragonelite — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:47:54 +0000

Pretty much, they aren't going to trust each other that an incoming missile is not armed with a nuclear payload.

New comment by dragonelite in "The silent death of good code"

dragonelite — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:38:03 +0000

You do know that in a business environment proof of concept is more a proof of production. Shit doesn't get rewritten when it can at this very moment start generating revenue and profits.

New comment by dragonelite in "We mourn our craft"

dragonelite — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:07:16 +0000

Them using excavator and trucks etc to move dirt. Is the same as us using a compiler to compile code into an executable.

LLM would be if the digging and hauling of the dirt happened without any people involved except the planning of logistics.

New comment by dragonelite in "I write games in C (yes, C) (2016)"

dragonelite — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 20:00:49 +0000

In my mind using a simpler language should be less painful given there is less to argue about given syntax and versions etc. Take c# for example you have multiple ways to do the same sort of things.

New comment by dragonelite in "We mourn our craft"

dragonelite — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 19:56:19 +0000

Same here i'm a decade plus in this field, writing code was by far the number 1 and the discussion surrounding system design was a far second. Take away the coding i don't think i will make it to retirement being a code/llm PR auditor for work. So i'am already planning on exiting the field in the next decade.