Hacker News: fuzzzerd

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Bring Your Agent to Teams"

fuzzzerd — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:15:34 +0000

Sounds nice. I've seen places that have essentially given up email in favor of teams for all communication.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

fuzzzerd — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:56:10 +0000

> "Can you accept that there can be a function named multiplyBy5 that does something else instead").

I think anyone that can understand a function can understand this, but one might not be happy accepting it's the case, and endeavor to change it.

I think it can be easy to lose sight of that distinction, and eagerness to fix it can be confused with not accepting it could be, but is also probably wrong.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Intelligent people are better judges of the intelligence of others"

fuzzzerd — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:31:41 +0000

Are there people that would legitimately argue point 1?

If you are only looking at the call site, sure that could be confusing, but if you are looking at the definition as provided in your post, surely anyone that is able understand the concept of a function can see the problem?

I'm not arguing they don't exist, sure they do, but I'm confused as to how you came up with it as a litmus test? Is it that common?

Surely we can agree in a real scenario renaming it (or fixing implementation to match name) is likely appropriate, but to completely miss the error?

Hope this comes across as curiousity, because I am curious about this one from your list in particular.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "FreeBSD risks losing relevance by ignoring AI tooling like Claude Code"

fuzzzerd — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:30:54 +0000

Agreed, but for some reason the majority of folks don't care about these externalities at all.

I see the externalities and the harm they are and may cause, and at the same time I find it increasingly difficult to avoid using LLMs as there is personal value to be extracted. Further, so many others are using LLMs to pump their productivity numbers (reality may differ and time will tell) its hard to keep up without using LLMs.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "LLMs can be exhausting"

fuzzzerd — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:53:19 +0000

That's an interesting metaphor. Maybe it's because it does match my own experience, but I definitely agree and see it playing out in my own usage.

Obviously the stakes are lower, I still review code before making a PR, but the exhaustion from getting there is similar.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Our Experience with I-Ready"

fuzzzerd — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:20:54 +0000

My child's school is the same, they use the diagnostic software. My question was more toward wondering if the diagnostic is as anemic as the learning version in terms of being adaptive.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Our Experience with I-Ready"

fuzzzerd — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:23:22 +0000

If the learning software isn't actually adaptive, is the testing software?

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Everything Changes, and Nothing Changes"

fuzzzerd — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:47:31 +0000

That maybe true, value is producing simple solutions as requirements get complex, but will companies realize and value this?

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Bus stop balancing is fast, cheap, and effective"

fuzzzerd — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:37:30 +0000

Chicago does have rules for timely show removal on sidewalks. In practice I have never heard of anyone receiving a fine even when the walk in front of a property remains uncleared for weeks on end. There is essentially little to no enforcement.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

fuzzzerd — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:43:15 +0000

While I think this is good advice, the fact that it's true feels backward to me. "We have a legal or contractual obligation to be less secure than we otherwise would be." Just seems silly.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

fuzzzerd — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:25:53 +0000

Could make the same argument for SQLite, the threshold is lower, but similarly you can pretty far with it. Then decide what's next, once you're out growing it.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed"

fuzzzerd — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:26:01 +0000

> AI+Competent Developer paid $300k TC > Competent Developer paid $400k TC >>> AI+Average Developer paid $30k TC >> Average Developer paid $40k TC >>>>> Average Developer paid $200k TC

Huh?

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Ask HN: Burned out from tech, what else is there?"

fuzzzerd — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:42:20 +0000

Thnks for sharing. Your process is something I have been trying to be more deliberate about, as I value and find happiness by some similar things and I appreciate how you describe it.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?"

fuzzzerd — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:38:05 +0000

As opposed to a child uploading a selfie of an adult on a new account.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

fuzzzerd — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 21:21:55 +0000

This term needs to catch on, this is the first I've seen it, bit it explains why so many prodict decisions are made and those who know better/different are just too small a minority to get any say.

We're dragged into this kicking and screaming and yet normies think we're the crazy ones.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

fuzzzerd — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:02:38 +0000

I hate that future so much, but I don't know what to do to avoid it. My sole choice to bank on pc and use it as a pc will not be considered by the product people making the choice to go smart phone app only.

I'm essentially along for the ride because the masses will gobble it up.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "On privacy and control"

fuzzzerd — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:48:36 +0000

> The Play Integrity shenanigans is mostly on app developers.

I completely agree, but as a user I'm the victim of the developers choice.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "What makes you senior"

fuzzzerd — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:52:15 +0000

This feature dated back to the .NET 1.1 days and was a " web site" project vs a "web app" project. It operated much like PBP, in the sense you could ftp raw code and it just worked, but it could also just blow up in your face because the whole site was never compiled in one go.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Blender 5.0"

fuzzzerd — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 04:07:42 +0000

Docs, sure but excel is still excel.

New comment by fuzzzerd in "Google is killing the open web, part 2"

fuzzzerd — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:51:13 +0000

I have done same thing with sitemap.xml.