Hacker News: exac

New comment by exac in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

exac — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:28:14 +0000

At one startup I was in, Azure sales proactively reached out to the CEO on LinkedIn and then we were urged to swap off to it.

New comment by exac in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

exac — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:07:04 +0000

Could we not have used braille patterns? Start on a random one and you can just replace the character with the next one so it is possible for the user to see something was entered, but password length isn't given to someone looking over the user's shoulder?

⣾, ⣽, ⣻, ⢿, ⡿, ⣟, ⣯, ⣷

New comment by exac in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026"

exac — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:55:53 +0000

No they do not teach Scientific Realism in schools. We're taught the scientific method and then build upon that.

I can see how someone could misunderstand or forget what they're taught though.

New comment by exac in "Manjaro website off-line again due to lapsed certificate"

exac — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:35:46 +0000

Respectfully we have had Certbot for 11 years now.

New comment by exac in "Things Unix can do atomically (2010)"

exac — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:29:35 +0000

Sorry, there is zero chance I will ever deploy new code by changing a symlink to point to the new directory.

New comment by exac in "Show HN: Elo ranking for landing pages"

exac — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 05:30:46 +0000

How do you add a new page?

New comment by exac in "Command-line Tools can be 235x Faster than your Hadoop Cluster (2014)"

exac — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:13:46 +0000

This. It is resume-driven development. Especially at startups where the engineers aren't compensated well enough or don't believe the produce can succeed.

New comment by exac in "jQuery 4"

exac — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:11:41 +0000

As someone who doesn't use React, there is React Native (for iOS & Android), and React (and that can be server-rendered or client-rendered).

New comment by exac in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

exac — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 05:26:44 +0000

In my career I've seen startups "shut down" and lay off the NA team.

I've seen venture capital acquire startups for essentially nothing laying off the entire product team aside from one DevOps engineer to keep everything running. I've seen startups go public and have their shares plummet to zero before the rank-and-file employees could sell any shares (but of course the executives were able to cash out immediately). I've seen startups acquired for essentially nothing from the lead investor.

In none of these scenarios did any of the Engineers receive anything for their shares.

Yet every day people negotiate comp where shares are valued as anything more than funny money.

New comment by exac in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

exac — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 22:01:36 +0000

The only reason I paid my yearly JetBrains subscription this year was to keep my lower price locked-in. I've been using VS Code all year. I won't renew my JetBrains subscription that I've had since 2009. Sad.

New comment by exac in "Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop"

exac — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:51:54 +0000

I thought you would just use another computer in your house for the flows?

My development flow takes a lot of RAM (and yes I can run it minimally editing in the terminal with language servers turned off), so I wouldn't consider running the local LLM on the same computer.

New comment by exac in "Nine things I learned in ninety years"

exac — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:16:02 +0000

> Another old person thinking they figured out life

I didn't get this impression at all.

New comment by exac in "Introducing Stargate UK"

exac — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:16:22 +0000

It isn't "sovereign" if the parent organization is controlled by a foreign company.

New comment by exac in "Samsung taking market share from Apple in U.S. as foldable phones gain momentum"

exac — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:38:47 +0000

I know less than ten people with foldable phones, but without fail they all claim that the screen is durable, but I have yet to see any foldable phone without a cracked screen after a few years.

New comment by exac in "Type checking is a symptom, not a solution"

exac — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:27:52 +0000

> The standard answer is scale. “Small programs don’t need types,” the reasoning goes, “but large programs become unmaintainable without them.”

This is not accepted wisdom at all.

New comment by exac in "How I use Tailscale"

exac — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 08:11:36 +0000

All the dev servers I've used over the past 10 years come with warnings that they're not security hardened, so I'd be wary of using `tailscale funnel` even though it is awesome to share like that so easily.

New comment by exac in "Thomas Aquinas – The world is divine"

exac — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 00:40:07 +0000

This is no knee jerk reaction my friend, the author is capitalizing "he" when referring to the Christian god.

New comment by exac in "Thomas Aquinas – The world is divine"

exac — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 03:29:35 +0000

This is the type of religious propaganda that would appear in a worksheet for children in a Catholic school. It doesn't belong here. There are no arguments here, just the presupposition of some deity.

New comment by exac in "Why Engineers Hate Their Managers (and What to Do About It)"

exac — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 04:28:12 +0000

Anecdotal, but every Engineering Manager I've had for the past 10 years has had a calendar I could see. One EM had anonymous event names on their calendar, but I think it might have been the default setting in AD.

New comment by exac in "Meta announces Oakley smart glasses"

exac — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 01:58:24 +0000

A lot of people spend hours consuming auto-playing short-form video content. I would guess the majority of young people, in the West.