Hacker News: gboss

New comment by gboss in "Claude Opus 4.8"

gboss — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:35:38 +0000

It's facing left but looking right...

New comment by gboss in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

gboss — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:45:44 +0000

For what it’s worth, I always leave the door I exited out of open while removing luggage from the trunk. It’s just safer. Edit: from any uber or lyft

New comment by gboss in "Waymo Safety Impact"

gboss — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:10:15 +0000

I don’t use Waymo’s because they are really slow. At least for me. I get they’re safer. What’s new is everyone I know is complaining how expensive they are. Why are they so expensive? Is it because they are trying to make a profit on the total cost of ownership of a vehicle? They’re electric so it’s not gas. Uber and Lyft definitely outsource the cost odd maintenance onto the contractor.

New comment by gboss in "Pink noise reduces REM sleep and may harm sleep quality"

gboss — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:38:03 +0000

The way I’m understanding it is that it’s more that if there’s a real population of people like his wife, that is only 5 percent of the actual population or even higher, for example, it may not be caught by such a small sample size.

New comment by gboss in "Raccoons break into liquor stores, scale skyscrapers and pick locks"

gboss — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:14:54 +0000

Not a raccoon on meth? https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/04/how-to-lo...

Remember enjoying reading this silly piece

New comment by gboss in "Are we repeating the telecoms crash with AI datacenters?"

gboss — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:47:18 +0000

Where are you moving to?

New comment by gboss in "Garry Tan claims Zoho will be out of business due to vibe coding"

gboss — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 14:53:13 +0000

I agree that Zoho is more intuitive than Zendesk and 10-20x cheaper, but that’s a really low bar. However, when we evaluated Zoho this past spring to replace our b2c 60-100 seat month Zendesk contract, we found Zoho to be really disjointed where every app was configured and looked different. The pricing and lack of contract was great but it seemed like different things were tacked together like how an agent would have to have two tabs open to take calls through their telephony app and answer chats through their B2B oriented messaging app. When our new contract for Customer Service expires I’ll check them out again but I think they need to standardize and simplify the look and feel of there apps and merge some if they want to move up market. For small businesses with a shoestring budget they’re a no brainier though!

New comment by gboss in "After my dad died, we found the love letters"

gboss — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 23:44:38 +0000

It kind of does. They’re dead.

New comment by gboss in "AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is"

gboss — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:12:22 +0000

I’ve had two experiences with off-shoring. The first time my former CTO brought in a near shore firm and they worked independently on a large project. There was no knowledge transfer or collaboration with the on shore devs. They built what was asked, it was over engineered and much was built of little value. We still have the software they wrote but it is a liability. The second time, I’m now in the CTO position, instead of having the nearshore people silo’d we work integrated. Everyone is on the same team, code reviews, pull requests, all mutually understood. It’s so much better. It all starts from the top and if you don’t have vision you’re doomed to fail.

New comment by gboss in "What do we do if SETI is successful?"

gboss — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 02:40:55 +0000

I haven’t read these books but it’s not unreasonable that this author or any other author could have reason to not be forthright about what their book is about

New comment by gboss in "Find SF parking cops"

gboss — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:36:53 +0000

It makes sense. It was ridiculous that they were originally proposing ticketing people without there being signage that it was illegal to park there. They need to just paint the curbs.

New comment by gboss in "The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst"

gboss — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 17:01:19 +0000

It kind of did, Facebook, YouTube, Google, were all enabled by the massive internet cable infrastructure investment laid in the 90s.

New comment by gboss in "A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes"

gboss — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:21:58 +0000

Theaters still exist you should go back. I go two or three times a month. If your kid is 4 or older they’ll have a great time. It’s good and healthy to get out of the house!

New comment by gboss in "Job Listing Site Highlighting H-1B Positions So Americans Can Apply"

gboss — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:55:37 +0000

I guess you’re proposing eliminating the h1b program to raise wages. That would maybe work but our companies would theoretically be less competitive globally. If we’re going to allow immigration based on professional skills then these people should be fast tracked to having the same employment rights as natives otherwise it creates a subclass of workers that depress wages because those that belong to that group will be too risk adverse to ask for more money knowing that they’ll likely have to leave the country if they get let go.

New comment by gboss in "Job Listing Site Highlighting H-1B Positions So Americans Can Apply"

gboss — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 21:09:44 +0000

Better for everyone because the talented H1B employee is no longer shackled to their employer and can leave demanding a higher wage and raising wages for everyone.

New comment by gboss in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

gboss — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:09:14 +0000

It’s also what’s called a high prestige low pay career which is by definition exclusionary of poor and middle income people, so the news makers are further and further detached from regular people.

https://economistwritingeveryday.com/2022/02/07/the-dangers-...

New comment by gboss in "The anti-abundance critique on housing is wrong"

gboss — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 05:24:36 +0000

This is not the problem. We should not castigate people who want to build homes and earn a rightful profit from that endeavor. The problem is the undemocratic process that is the town hearing. It is unreasonable to expect working families and young adults to attend week day, day time hearings to state their position on the construction of new homes or anything else for that matter. The atrocities of urban renewal by Robert Moses and his followers in the 50s and 60s which wrecked many urban and black urban communities, many of which still haven’t recovered, led us into this mess. The antidote was that all movements towards progress must be debated by citizens (mostly seniors as they are the only ones with the luxury of time) in a hearing format. The citizens able to participate are most likely not going to live long enough to see the results of their positions anyways. It’s a disaster.

New comment by gboss in "Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)"

gboss — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 22:54:22 +0000

What we do is enforce that everyone keeps one ticket in JIRA as in progress and use a timekeeping add on. The tickets role up to epics and initiatives. I review each top level initiative and epic with finance and they deem it capitalizable or not. Then we add a haircut. It’s really not that much work. We have an hour meeting monthly to work it out but I make sure to exclude my mainline engineers. They don’t need that

New comment by gboss in "Time for a Change: The long, contentious history of time shifts"

gboss — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:30:48 +0000

I also prefer the time change system we have. I recognize there are obvious draw backs, but echoing a sibling comment about London. I’m confident if we stopped changing clocks annually, we’d resume the practice in a few years. It is just better to have more afternoon sun in the summer it makes being active with friends and family much easier. If we didn’t change to standard time in the winter, kids would be going to school in pitch black night in most of the country.

New comment by gboss in "AI is killing some companies, yet others are thriving – let's look at the data"

gboss — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 02:19:54 +0000

This is no joke. Run an e-commerce site and have been generally skeptical of WAFs but had to sign up for a bot mitigation service because it became out of control two years ago. These bots were even executing JavaScript and loading third party scripts which caused additional fees from these vendors. We went with Datadome and are pretty happy with it but I wish I didn’t need to!