Hacker News: epsylon

New comment by epsylon in "AI is making junior devs useless"

epsylon — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:05:35 +0000

> Junior devs have always been useless. You used to give them tasks that take them a week or two even though a senior engineer could do it in a couple hours, not because you wanted them to contribute, but because you wanted them to learn to contribute.

I don't know, I've known kids who can run circles around a lot of seniors, whether it's knowledge, coding chops or just intuition. The reason a newcomer takes a week to complete a task that requires two hours is because the senior has already learn all the ins and outs of the crappy software lifetime processes (usually dealing with half broken build / code review / ticket systems)

New comment by epsylon in "The Waymo World Model"

epsylon — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:11:57 +0000

Public transportation is the backbone of a functioning economy. It doesn't need to be fully paid by riders precisely because the rest of society benefits from it multiple times over.

New comment by epsylon in "The Waymo World Model"

epsylon — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 13:07:50 +0000

Most of the world's population lives in places where trains and public transit works far better than cars. Density doesn't move around, people do.

New comment by epsylon in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

epsylon — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:00:27 +0000

many services that require SMS 2FA outright won't work on VOIP providers

New comment by epsylon in "Tell HN: Wise froze $40k+ in funds for 10 days and counting"

epsylon — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:38:56 +0000

the transfer fee isn't the main appeal of Wise, the currency exchange rate is. I've never seen a bank that offered anywhere near close as theirs.

New comment by epsylon in "Epic Games Sale of Bandcamp Has Left the Artist-Friendly Music Platform in Limbo"

epsylon — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 17:37:19 +0000

> Honest question, what does Bandcamp provide?

Actual money going to the actual people who make the music you listen to on spotify.

New comment by epsylon in "The Way the Senate Melted Down over Crypto Is Revealing"

epsylon — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 04:51:34 +0000

The killer app of cryptocurrency is tax evasion

New comment by epsylon in "“Setting the record straight on Freenode” [pdf]"

epsylon — Sat, 22 May 2021 15:07:52 +0000

Classic Faustian bargain. Offer people money, obtain control in exchange.

New comment by epsylon in "AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology"

epsylon — Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:49:53 +0000

I'm pretty sure that this took more than 1 junior engineer-month.

New comment by epsylon in "Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism"

epsylon — Mon, 06 Jul 2020 03:11:47 +0000

I love that you're being downvoted for saying something so utterly non-controversial. It's almost as if the fact that there were large matriarchal societies inhabiting America for centuries (arguably millenia) before the first European man set foot on the continent has never been taught to the average HN reader..

New comment by epsylon in "Apple Plans to Announce Move to Its Own Mac Chips at WWDC"

epsylon — Wed, 10 Jun 2020 14:59:38 +0000

"at the launch"

mac os at large has a quality problem. I have gotten more kernel panics on my personal and work laptops in the last 6 months than I have on my windows machines in the past 5 years.

New comment by epsylon in "France, Spain, and Italy’s English skills are on the decline: study"

epsylon — Fri, 06 Dec 2019 02:23:16 +0000

> I think that the main reason for that is that they have their own French speaking view of the planet in which they happily live.

Americans also live in their own universe. And so do many others...

Seedship

epsylon — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 17:12:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.johnayliff.com/games/seedship/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16086184

Points: 2

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New comment by epsylon in "Hypnotized by Hyperloop"

epsylon — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 21:06:36 +0000

China has better rail infrastructure than the US, and is much bigger as well.

New comment by epsylon in "1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders"

epsylon — Wed, 24 May 2017 09:09:14 +0000

"Why did you FedEx your SSD to the destination? Do you have something to hide? You're gonna have to follow us."

New comment by epsylon in "Windows 10 Enterprise ignores various privacy settings"

epsylon — Mon, 22 May 2017 09:02:57 +0000

Only if your time is worthless.

New comment by epsylon in "Unix Is Not an Acceptable Unix (2015)"

epsylon — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 16:30:27 +0000

> I find PowerShell a delight to script in, but terribly cumbersome to use interactively.

That's because you can't be both! The shell wants to be both an API and a user interface, and these are two goals that are fundamentally at odds. An API should be structured, strongly-typed, unforgiving; a UI should be discoverable, intuitive and unconstrained by the needs for automation or programmability. Programmers are stuck in the idea that a command-line shell running in a terminal emulator (emulating hardware from the 70's) is the pinnacle of interaction design, which is extremely sad.

Can you spot the vulnerability?

epsylon — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:16:21 +0000

Article URL: https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2017/01/28/can-you-spot-the-vulnerability/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13985867

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Collectly

epsylon — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 20:39:47 +0000

Article URL: https://collectly.co/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13980460

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by epsylon in "Facts about migration and crime in Sweden"

epsylon — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:20:44 +0000

Yep, that guy totally seems like a reasonable and unbiased POV: https://twitter.com/ArgBlatteTalar/status/831600862866898954