Hacker News: dystopiandevel

New comment by dystopiandevel in "Denmark Requires Oral Defenses for Students' Written Work to Counter AI Cheating"

dystopiandevel — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:48:45 +0000

This is a great strategy. It is something I do in code reviews as a senior developer. There has been observed longer code reviews for seniors and this kind of approach keeps it manageable.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models"

dystopiandevel — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:05:35 +0000

Medullary sponge kidney

New comment by dystopiandevel in "Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models"

dystopiandevel — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 01:02:32 +0000

It's okay, I thought it was a drug cartel

New comment by dystopiandevel in "Reducing Dependabot Noise"

dystopiandevel — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 07:00:54 +0000

Congratulations, well deserved. 100x impact.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "Reducing Dependabot Noise"

dystopiandevel — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:57:41 +0000

My favorite was

If it has been mass maintained by some random person in Nebraska since 2003, that is battle-tested infrastructure.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "STFU"

dystopiandevel — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:20:33 +0000

Be assertive and transparent and then use the app. Otherwise you are just being passive aggressive.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "STFU"

dystopiandevel — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 03:18:36 +0000

Two words

Flipper Zero

New comment by dystopiandevel in "STFU"

dystopiandevel — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:12:49 +0000

I can appreciate the reasons you have for wanting it. The only problem is when it affects my hiking experience. It annoys the crap out of me to hear it coming loudly from down the path when I just want to listen to nature.

Like the other commenter posted, you can use open earbuds, which I use as well for the same reasons.

As far as wild cats go, they are already pretty good at knowing you are there already without a speaker. Where I live there are many mountain lions and bobcats but I have never seen one close up, same in the California Sierra. In terms of bears, if they aren't black bears then yeah although it depends on where you are hiking. If it's in the backcountry, please pause it when I come by.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "Lessons from 14 years at Google"

dystopiandevel — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:26:37 +0000

How's that? VLC, GIMP, Ubuntu search and settings. Terrible. Great products, awedul UX.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

dystopiandevel — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:43:00 +0000

I certainly didn't. Along with the oil is more distraction from the Epstein files. Call me jaded but he has done this several times as a distraction.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

dystopiandevel — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:41:13 +0000

It is early in the news but I also read about the US working on directly having the nation transition. Gives me bad vibes as someone who lived through the invasion of Iraq. TBH, I am not very knowledgeable but I assume there's less sectarianism and lack of infrastructure so it is a different situation. Although with all things Trump, it's his execution and competency following through after the immediate ready decision.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "US Government demands access to European police databases and biometrics [video]"

dystopiandevel — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:58:11 +0000

Don't be rude. Provide a thoughtful response.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "Ask HN: What tech job would let me get away with the least real work possible?"

dystopiandevel — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:56:12 +0000

This is not my experience whatsoever and someone who works 50+ weeks for big tech. Especially with decreased value for the human element in favor of AI there are now more demands than ever. Engineers have become much more expendable.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

dystopiandevel — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:23:30 +0000

Agricultural jobs accounted for more than 80% of the preindustrial workforce. Granted you still needed people to maintain the jobs and some roles weren't entirely replaced or replaceable. I wonder how the two compare. I will say that AI has the opportunity to affect many lines of work which makes it scary for many.

New comment by dystopiandevel in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

dystopiandevel — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 00:22:57 +0000

Also having explicit error handling is useful because it makes transparent the possibility of not getting the value (which is common in pure functional languages). With that said I have a Go project outside of work and it is very verbose. I decided to use it for performance as a new version of the project that mostly used bash scripts and was getting away too cryptic. The logic is easier to follow and more robust in the business domain but way more lines of code.