Hacker News: elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=elcapithanosHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 02 May 2026 09:07:28 +0000<![CDATA[Code Is Still a Liability]]>Article URL: https://vnturing.github.io/blog/posts/code-is-still-a-liability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311388

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]]>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:36:54 +0000https://vnturing.github.io/blog/posts/code-is-still-a-liability/elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311388https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311388<![CDATA[New comment by elcapithanos in "The AI Coding Velocity Trap"]]>What about first mover advantage though? Some people believe it's all about being first to market then let others have to convince people to switch to their products. I also think velocity won't matter. But I don't think the companies pushing their employees to use AI are thinking of anything other than "others are using AI and moving fast therefore we need to keep up".

]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:13:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252356elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252356https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47252356<![CDATA[The AI Coding Velocity Trap]]>Article URL: https://vnturing.github.io/blog/posts/the-velocity-trap/

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]]>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:07:43 +0000https://vnturing.github.io/blog/posts/the-velocity-trap/elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249545https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249545<![CDATA[AI as a Gold Rush]]>Article URL: https://www.tawandamunongo.dev/notes/#gaslit-industry

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]]>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 16:30:07 +0000https://www.tawandamunongo.dev/notes/#gaslit-industryelcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782203https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46782203<![CDATA[New comment by elcapithanos in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"]]>My favourite by far was Adam Becker's More Everything Forever.

Special mention also goes to Taming Silicon Valley by Gary Marcus.

]]>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 13:31:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391806elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391806https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46391806<![CDATA[New comment by elcapithanos in "Cloudflare was down"]]>Shortest damn outage ever

]]>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:19:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158778elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158778https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158778<![CDATA[New comment by elcapithanos in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"]]>I've seen this post on every who's hiring for the last 6 months. Are they even hiring? Applied twice and got no response

]]>Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:20:17 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121418elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121418https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121418<![CDATA[Understanding Why AGI Still Feels Distant]]>Article URL: https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/12/machines-dont-think/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110219

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]]>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:30:39 +0000https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/12/machines-dont-think/elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110219https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46110219<![CDATA[New comment by elcapithanos in "Gemini 3"]]>> AI overviews now have 2 billion users every month

More like 2 billion hostages

]]>Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:17:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976123elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976123https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45976123<![CDATA[New comment by elcapithanos in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"]]>I'm genuinely curious how much of the web depends on cloudflare and AWS. This centralisation sucks though

]]>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:21:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966405elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966405https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45966405<![CDATA[Modern Hiring Punishes Curious Developers]]>Article URL: https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/11/punishing-curious-developers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955349

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]]>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:47:52 +0000https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/11/punishing-curious-developers/elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955349https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955349<![CDATA[Ask HN: Is everyone only hiring senior developers? And is it because of AI?]]>Having gone through the who's hiring posts over the last few months, I've noticed a concerning trend. Everyone seems to only want "senior" developers.

Of course, I'm not sure how far true that is in practice and how many of those companies may compromise when they can't find anyone who meets their high standards, but it does strike me as odd how the industry seems to be on the verge of just shutting the door to anyone who doesn't meet the standard of a "senior" developer. I've even seen a few jobs reposted for 2 or 3 months straight, which makes me feel like they can't find candidates (or maybe they're not really hiring).

But this is all just anecdotal anyways, has anyone else noticed a similar trend? Is it in any way related to AI? Maybe companies don't trust developers coming into the industry in the last 3 years because they may have relied heavily on LLMs?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854755

Points: 9

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]]>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 07:05:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854755elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854755https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45854755<![CDATA[The Myth of AI-Powered Sisyphus]]>Article URL: https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/11/ai-powered-sisyphus/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848003

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]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2025 16:22:06 +0000https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/11/ai-powered-sisyphus/elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848003https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45848003<![CDATA[AI and the Devaluation of Effort]]>Article URL: https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/10/ai-and-the-devaluation-of-effort

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695731

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]]>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:38:41 +0000https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/10/ai-and-the-devaluation-of-effortelcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695731https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45695731<![CDATA[New comment by elcapithanos in "AI is making us work more"]]>I did not anticipate this much traffic, working on restoring it right now

]]>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:55:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657340elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657340https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45657340<![CDATA[AI is making us work more]]>Article URL: https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/10/ai-work-more

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656916

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]]>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:19:51 +0000https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/10/ai-work-moreelcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656916https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45656916<![CDATA[New comment by elcapithanos in "Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend"]]>A few bad updates borked my Linux install and cost me hours of potential work and left me with a deep fear of installing updates. No idea what I'd do if I had a car that needs updates

]]>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 18:11:32 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571557elcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571557https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45571557<![CDATA[Why Your Simple Password Is a Mathematical Catastrophe]]>Article URL: https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/10/passwords-information-theory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45527180

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]]>Thu, 09 Oct 2025 13:07:50 +0000https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/10/passwords-information-theoryelcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45527180https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45527180<![CDATA[I Almost Built a Database in Go (and Why I Migrated to Laravel)]]>Article URL: https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/09/almost-built-a-database

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45313014

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]]>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:59:59 +0000https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/09/almost-built-a-databaseelcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45313014https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45313014<![CDATA[The AI Hype Is Designed to Exploit Your Insecurity]]>Article URL: https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/05/ai-hype-insecurity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44019442

Points: 8

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]]>Sun, 18 May 2025 06:35:53 +0000https://tawandamunongo.dev/posts/2025/05/ai-hype-insecurityelcapithanoshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44019442https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44019442