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New comment by fnimick in "Why developers using AI are working longer hours"

fnimick — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:30:42 +0000

> It's possible to use tools responsibly and effectively. It's also possible to encourage and mentor employees to do that.

It's not in the company's interest to stop employees from overworking. Having people overwork for the same pay under pressure is the desired outcome, actually.

New comment by fnimick in "The whole thing was a scam"

fnimick — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 23:56:04 +0000

I'm more upset about the large group of people in the startup industry, possibly even a majority, who would be totally happy about countries slipping into fascism if they made a little more money along the way.

Who cares about ethics and morality? Those aren't profitable!

New comment by fnimick in "UEFI Bindings for JavaScript"

fnimick — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:19:37 +0000

Who needs to garbage collect? Just leak memory until the system dies! That strategy seems to be good enough for claude code, anyway.

New comment by fnimick in "UEFI Bindings for JavaScript"

fnimick — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:00:50 +0000

Oh hey, we've reached the "Metal" stage! https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

New comment by fnimick in "Turn any website into a live, structured data feed"

fnimick — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:21:43 +0000

Legal? probably. Ethical? Absolutely not.

New comment by fnimick in "Doing gigabit Ethernet over my British phone wires"

fnimick — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:30:41 +0000

While I used to agree with you, based on the most recent polling, Gen X and Gen Z are both farther right than Boomers are these days. So we're fucked long term too.

New comment by fnimick in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

fnimick — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:22:28 +0000

> A particular interaction I had comes to mind. A user here boldly and openly proclaimed he discriminated in interviews against people that look different from him, or that are neurodivergent. Actual illegal behaviour that will get you sued in many countries. I reacted strongly and my post got flagged and I received a comment from the moderation team.

This is the "moderate discourse" problem, where you can express horrendous opinions as long as you are polite, and anyone who reacts emotionally gets criticized instead. You are required to engage these arguments in a detached, logical way as though they have equal intellectual merit, while they advocate for your suffering. This is also why places that enforce moderate discourse tend to become populated with polite fascists.

New comment by fnimick in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

fnimick — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:04:55 +0000

I'm not sure saying "I don't care if we do fascism as long as it makes me money" is any more morally defensible.

New comment by fnimick in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

fnimick — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:04:20 +0000

> Silicon Valley was full of founders who genuinely wanted to use technology to make the world a better place

No, it wasn't, it was full of people who said they wanted to use technology to make the world a better place because saying you would use technology to make the world a better place was viewed as the path to investment and success.

Now, as soon as feigned empathy is no longer required for $$$, the mask comes off. It was never about anything other than profit.

New comment by fnimick in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

fnimick — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:46:50 +0000

Exactly. Declaring that there must be no discussion when confronted with situations in which one party is doing harm to others, is an implicit endorsement of the harms being perpetuated.

New comment by fnimick in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

fnimick — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 15:44:39 +0000

It's a privilege that many people working in tech have, who then create and populate forums where discussion of that privilege is considered political and therefore forbidden.

New comment by fnimick in "Jonathan Blow has spent the past decade designing 1,400 puzzles"

fnimick — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:36:25 +0000

It's a "biological fact" that women are less interested in technology?

New comment by fnimick in "Ask HN: How do you get comfortable with shipping code you haven't reviewed?"

fnimick — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:34:16 +0000

Are there public examples of "good instruction" and an iteration process? I have tried and have not been very successful at getting Claude Code to generate correct code for medium sized projects or features.

Ask HN: How do you get comfortable with shipping code you haven't reviewed?

fnimick — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:01:37 +0000

This is the advice I've gotten on how to adapt to AI driven development at breakneck speed - to the point of having AI tooling write and ship projects in languages the 'operator' doesn't even know. How do you get confidence in a workflow where e.g. a team of agents does development, another team of agents does code review and testing, and then it is shipped without a human ever verifying the implementation?

I hear stories of startup devs deploying 10-30k+ lines of code per day and that a single dev should now be able to build complete products that would ordinarily take engineer-years in under a month. Is this realistic? How do you learn to operate like this?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46275376

Points: 7

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New comment by fnimick in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

fnimick — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:47:06 +0000

Why can't "low end OEMs" release security updates?

New comment by fnimick in "AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions"

fnimick — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 20:31:35 +0000

While true, we really should be treating every single piece of external code as though it's malicious.

New comment by fnimick in "AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics"

fnimick — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 21:23:58 +0000

There's a lot of non-engineering people who are very happy to see someone else get unemployed by automation for a change. The people who formerly were automating others out of a job are getting a taste of their own medicine.

New comment by fnimick in "OpenICE: Open-Source US Immigration Detention Dashboard"

fnimick — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:47:45 +0000

That would be accurate, if those immigrants could access benefits in order to be a drain on the government. They can't.

New comment by fnimick in "Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost"

fnimick — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:49:43 +0000

You're hardly safe on operating system platforms either. Look at the long history of Apple sherlocking independent vendors.

New comment by fnimick in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

fnimick — Sat, 24 May 2025 12:52:10 +0000

"nobody wants to go there anymore, it's too crowded"