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New comment by dustingetz in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

dustingetz — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 10:20:35 +0000

try this for a UI

New comment by dustingetz in "Ask HN: Are junior devs getting worse?"

dustingetz — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:43:31 +0000

hiring criteria is not uniform, it varies widely across all companies. Keyword driven hiring + contrived interviews that are disconnected from the actual work being performed (but easy to evaluate - this is substitution bias) has damaged engineering culture everywhere. The easy money period of 2018-2022 exacerbated these trends by removing accountability and causing rushed, loose hiring.

New comment by dustingetz in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

dustingetz — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 01:04:14 +0000

how do you know there is such thing as good code foundations, and how do you know you have it? this is an argument from ego

New comment by dustingetz in "The Evolution of the Interface(2000)"

dustingetz — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 16:32:12 +0000

(2000)

New comment by dustingetz in "Skip is now free and open source"

dustingetz — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 10:54:57 +0000

Jetbrains

New comment by dustingetz in "Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?"

dustingetz — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:14:21 +0000

real answer - have generational wealth, attach the documents to your trust. This should last either until your nation’s currency collapses or the trust value does.

New comment by dustingetz in "Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?"

dustingetz — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 12:05:54 +0000

the question is more about making the content readable by his progeny. Otherwise, encode into bitcoin ledger, done.

New comment by dustingetz in "Ask HN: How to make my website exist for 100 years?"

dustingetz — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:24:49 +0000

20 years - google doc with backups in your email and wherever your taxes and medical stuff is, and printed copy with your home records

40 years - print and bind the google doc in 20 years, store it with their stuff when they leave the house.

60 years - publish the book buy a bunch of copies and distribute

100 years - it needs to be a very good book

New comment by dustingetz in "AI is a business model stress test"

dustingetz — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 00:13:45 +0000

backend devs needing to be fullstack but consider frontend to be beneath them

New comment by dustingetz in "Ask HN: What's it like working at early-stage YC startups?"

dustingetz — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 11:12:05 +0000

join after the A if you care about money. Join before the A if you are uniquely mission aligned or technology aligned, e.g. it’s 2016 and you want to work in VR, and aren’t optimizing for money right now. Early stage is fun and you’ll learn a lot and that’s about it.

New comment by dustingetz in "CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)"

dustingetz — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:15:02 +0000

skill issue

New comment by dustingetz in "Ask HN: MIT grad, junior dev layoffs – watching my daughter lose faith in merit"

dustingetz — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 15:59:40 +0000

Timing imo. I think the tech labor market bottom is in the past, venture capital is flowing again, companies that over hired have corrected it, interest rates are on their way back down, and a bunch of huge IPOs are lining up for 2026 - Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX, Databricks, Canva, Discord - which is going to inject a bunch of liquidity into tech capital markets. And the jury is still out on AI, very much at the top of a hype cycle, CEOs and boards have prematurely declared to their customers and the world that AI is working (because saying that makes their stock price go up) but the enterprise outcomes don't seem to be there.

My advice to your daughter: to try to make software into a fun hobby, watch a ton of coding youtube, AI and youtube are tearing down hurdles to learning, make a twitter, talk about your hobby, farm those likes. What were her favorite courses at MIT? it's true that software is increasingly competitive and yet the barriers to becoming competitive are ever lower (FOR those in a supportive environment who can make space to take advantage)

Cats-effect: I/O Integrated Runtime Concept

dustingetz — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:10:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/typelevel/cats-effect/discussions/3070

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46379812

Points: 1

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New comment by dustingetz in "Show HN: Orbit a systems level programming language that compiles .sh to LLVM"

dustingetz — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:18:49 +0000

ai trash read commit log

Paying $3 for a Dollar: The Rational Irrationality of Venture Capital

dustingetz — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:19:46 +0000

Article URL: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S7nazV5nKmYYkzxhmf3G-Ftb3DPAjV5Migokw3u8BsQ/edit?tab=t.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46320187

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

The Rise of Parasitic AI

dustingetz — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:55:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6ZnznCaTcbGYsCmqu/the-rise-of-parasitic-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46191234

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dustingetz in "Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas"

dustingetz — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:49:22 +0000

Dear MS please use AI to autocomplete my billing address correctly when I fill out web forms, thanks

Why We Built ExoQuery

dustingetz — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 23:10:15 +0000

Article URL: https://exoquery.com/blog/why-we-built-exoquery/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46141587

Points: 1

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New comment by dustingetz in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

dustingetz — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:55:16 +0000

i don’t get it either - bun being the foundation of tons of AI tools is like a best possible outcome, what were they hoping for when they raised the money? Or is this just an admission of “hey, that was silly, we need to land this however we can”? Or do they share major investors and the therefore this is just a consolidation? (Edit: indeed, KP did indeed invest $100M in Anthropic this year. I’m also confused - article states Bun raised 26M but the KP seed round was 7, did they do the A too but unannounced? Notably, the seed was summer 2022 and chatgpt was Nov 30, so the world is different, did the hypothesis change?)

New comment by dustingetz in "A trillion dollars (potentially) wasted on gen-AI"

dustingetz — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:55:06 +0000

companies are already wasting majority fractions of their engineering labor spend on coordination costs and fake work, through that lens i have trouble making an argument that any of this matters. Which is why they are able to do it. I’m reminded of an old essay arguing that the reason Google spends so lavishly is because if they only spent what they needed, they would appear so extraordinarily profitable that the government would intervene.