Hacker News: fourseventy

New comment by fourseventy in "Field measurements of neighborhood-scale air temperature impacts of data centers"

fourseventy — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:55:59 +0000

You are posting on a website that is hosted in a data center right now. You use data centers at your job to send email, share documents, run software. When you go home and watch netflix, that video is streamed to you from a data center. All of the internet, your phone, and modern digital entertainment and life is run through data centers. My guess is that you don't seriously want to turn all of that off because 'reasons'.

New comment by fourseventy in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

fourseventy — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:45:50 +0000

Github is owned by Microsoft, its not like its some boostrapped startup who has a closet of servers that are melting.

New comment by fourseventy in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

fourseventy — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:23:44 +0000

Opus 5 is so wordy, it doesn't feel any better than 4.8 at coding (at least not for what I use it for), I hopped over to Grok4.6 after the announcement the other day and its been pretty good so far. It also is very fast.

New comment by fourseventy in "Grok 4.6"

fourseventy — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:20:38 +0000

the "no moat" stuff is dumb. There are only like 4 companies in the world that have cutting edge LLMs so there is definitely a moat.

New comment by fourseventy in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

fourseventy — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:18:04 +0000

Its all drones and one F-15, its not like dozens of F-22s or F-35 are being shot out of the sky

New comment by fourseventy in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

fourseventy — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:33:33 +0000

If you own a $20,000 car and I steal it, is your loss not $20k? (excluding depreciation etc)

New comment by fourseventy in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

fourseventy — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:49:02 +0000

Lets prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping the assembly that is generated by our compilers...

New comment by fourseventy in "Superlogical"

fourseventy — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:24:30 +0000

People are only allowed to take funding from investors whose politics align with yours?

New comment by fourseventy in "Claude Opus 5"

fourseventy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:14:33 +0000

A counterexample proves that the conjecture is false, not sure what you are talking about. And we can play word games all day about what counts as a "new brilliant scientific idea" but the fact is that no human had been able to solve it.

New comment by fourseventy in "So, you want to make a game engine (2023)"

fourseventy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:37:40 +0000

Speak for yourself dude. I programmed a game engine in Java in 2011 right after I graduated college, and it powers a game that I launched on Steam in 2015. https://github.com/FourSeventy/sylver_engine

New comment by fourseventy in "Did they ghost you?"

fourseventy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:28:34 +0000

I was recently interviewing candidates for a senior software engineer in Boston. I did about 20 interviews and only got 1 follow up/thank you email. I didn't send rejection emails to candidates that didn't send a follow up.

New comment by fourseventy in "Claude Opus 5"

fourseventy — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:11:57 +0000

Like two days ago Claude solved a century old math conjecture

New comment by fourseventy in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

fourseventy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:25:32 +0000

1.) The c-suite is like 6 people, reducing their salary isn't going to make much of a dent.

2.) The c-suite are compensated at market rate the same as anyone else. If the CTO at Patreon is making 400k/yr you can't just cut his salary to 200k, he will leave and take a job somewhere else.

New comment by fourseventy in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

fourseventy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:13:47 +0000

Well if the company goes out of business because its not making enough profit then all product launches will cease.

New comment by fourseventy in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

fourseventy — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:41:27 +0000

I watched this dudes youtube channel where he makes music for years before I ever knew he was the CEO of pateron. It was a bit of a wtf moment when I found out.

New comment by fourseventy in "C++20 Improved the For-Loop Syntax"

fourseventy — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:31:01 +0000

Just what C++ needs, more bloat lol.

New comment by fourseventy in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

fourseventy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:40:46 +0000

Are you serious? If I told you to your face "you are shitty at your job" you don't see that as a personal attack?

New comment by fourseventy in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

fourseventy — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:31:59 +0000

So is this guy going to dress down any project that decides to move off of Zig? If Mitchell Hashimoto decides to move Ghostty off of Zig to C or Rust will we get a scathing blog post about that too?

New comment by fourseventy in "Resetting Xbox"

fourseventy — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:55:54 +0000

Tell me you know nothing about business without telling me you know nothing about business.

New comment by fourseventy in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2026)"

fourseventy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:28:05 +0000

ThoughtMetric | Senior Software Engineer | Location: Boston, MA | ONSITE

ThoughtMetric is a bootstrapped B2B SaaS startup building a marketing attribution platform for e-commerce. We help SMB and mid-market brands understand how their marketing performs and make data-driven decisions to scale revenue.

We're hiring a full-stack software engineer to help build out our attribution platform. You'll work directly with our CEO to build the data pipelines, attribution models, integrations, and user interfaces that turn raw marketing data into decisions our customers can act on. You'll own user-facing features end-to-end, data models, application logic, API endpoints, and UI, shipping an intuitive, high-quality product.

Apply: https://thoughtmetric.io/careers/senior-software-engineer

Feel free to reach out to me if interested mike@thoughtmetric.io