Hacker News: fermentation

New comment by fermentation in "SpaceX files to go public"

fermentation — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:44:42 +0000

This is absolutely vile. The xAi merger made no sense and this is forcing working class people into purchasing risky assets from a known scammer.

New comment by fermentation in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

fermentation — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:40:21 +0000

This is claude writing code for itself. It talks like this to itself when you ask it to make prompts.

New comment by fermentation in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

fermentation — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:39:09 +0000

Seriously, this just seems to reward poor behavior on Anthropic's part.

New comment by fermentation in "Day 1 of ARC-AGI-3"

fermentation — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 05:43:41 +0000

Right, fair, but look at the prompt. For the purpose of testing general intelligence, this seems kind of pointless.

New comment by fermentation in "Windows native app development is a mess"

fermentation — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:36:41 +0000

Except this requires you to own a business for 3+ years, which makes it a non-starter for indie apps.

New comment by fermentation in "Windows native app development is a mess"

fermentation — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:41:15 +0000

The Windows code signing experience has prevented me from shipping apps that otherwise run perfectly fine on the platform. It is a nightmare and I cannot believe it wasn't called out in the "We want to fix Windows" blog post.

Just do exactly what Apple does. Charge me $100 directly from you and let me build an .exe that I can distribute on my website.

New comment by fermentation in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

fermentation — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:59:00 +0000

There's really no need to be "early" for something like this. I've seen coworkers who've never used agentic coding pick it up and know everything that need to in ~2 days. The people who really dive in and are running orchestrated agents overnight are in general not building much of real value.

New comment by fermentation in "Meta Horizon Worlds on Meta Quest is being discontinued"

fermentation — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:35:07 +0000

They rebuilt half of their company around this thing and countless people saw promotions all around.

New comment by fermentation in "Meta’s renewed commitment to jemalloc"

fermentation — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:33:13 +0000

Seems like they’d want to wait to commit until after the layoffs, right?

New comment by fermentation in "Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation"

fermentation — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:00:49 +0000

Couldn’t their excellent model and coding experience generate another excellent coding CLI tool?

New comment by fermentation in "Eat Real Food"

fermentation — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 07:34:16 +0000

While I despise this administration, as a celiac I’m very hopeful for any cultural shift away from grains. People truly do not realize how often they will reach for some processed bread for nearly every single meal.

New comment by fermentation in "Meta exposé author faces $50k fine per breach of non-disparagement agreement"

fermentation — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:45:00 +0000

Do you think we'd be reading the story if it were on some random blog?

Actually, WE might. But my mom wouldn't.

New comment by fermentation in "How do I get into the game industry"

fermentation — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 20:05:37 +0000

Grinding leetcode and learning art seem at odds here. If you're a dev grinding leetcode, you'd likely be working in AAA where your time would be wasted making assets.

New comment by fermentation in "Instapaper Rakuten Kobo Integration"

fermentation — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 15:23:19 +0000

Between the two I honestly did not expect Instapaper surviving longer

New comment by fermentation in "Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth"

fermentation — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 00:28:22 +0000

I often see job postings here looking for "top <1% engineer talent" paying $100k and <1% equity and I wonder who is actually applying.

New comment by fermentation in "Grok 4 Heavy Protects it's System prompt"

fermentation — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 18:05:35 +0000

> You are over-indexing on an employee pushing a change to the prompt that they thought would help without asking anyone at the company for confirmation.

If it is that easy to slip fascist beliefs into critical infrastructure, then why would you want to protect against a public defense mechanism to identify this? These people clearly do not deserve the benefit of the doubt and we should recognize this before relying on these tools in any capacity.

New comment by fermentation in "LeetCode for System Design"

fermentation — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 05:52:29 +0000

How will this not simply encourage hiring managers to include more and more ridiculous system design questions? Prior to the popularity of leetcode, it wasn’t expected to solve a leetcode hard

New comment by fermentation in "Jemalloc Postmortem"

fermentation — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 05:33:35 +0000

A job is a job

New comment by fermentation in "Gemini-2.5-pro-preview-06-05"

fermentation — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 21:01:50 +0000

Is there a reason not to just use the API through openrouter or something?

New comment by fermentation in "A South Korean grand master on the art of the perfect soy sauce"

fermentation — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:35:57 +0000

Once I had to switch to tamari due to a celiac diagnosis, I found it was one of the few things that actually tastes better without gluten. I think most of the world would enjoy soy sauce made without wheat more if they tried it.

Also, most soy sauce in Japan absolutely has wheat unfortunately.