Hacker News: geitir

New comment by geitir in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

geitir — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:51:11 +0000

Speaking personally, the move to unreal engine 5 ruined the feel of the game. Somehow it had a very unique and polished gameplay loop that was as addicting as CS and the unreal 5 launch changed it, at least for the hardware I was running

New comment by geitir in "Believe the Checkbook"

geitir — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 07:26:52 +0000

When you have that hair raising “am I crazy why are people touting ai” feeling, it’s good to look at their profile. Oftentimes they’re caught up in some ai play. Also it’s good to remember yc has heavy investment in gen ai so this site is heavily biased

New comment by geitir in "Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app"

geitir — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:26:43 +0000

Would love to see a git repo

New comment by geitir in "One year after switching from Java to Go"

geitir — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 07:36:01 +0000

Also https://github.com/uber-go/fx

New comment by geitir in "Upgrading Uber's MySQL Fleet"

geitir — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 15:21:45 +0000

Yes

New comment by geitir in "Starlink will now be free in Brazil since remote hospitals, schools use it: Musk"

geitir — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 04:41:22 +0000

This thread has been shadow banned

New comment by geitir in "TIL: Versions of UUID and when to use them"

geitir — Sun, 25 Aug 2024 21:25:00 +0000

Git uses SHA and then dynamically set the number of characters to use based on repository size. You could do something like this.

New comment by geitir in "Microsoft says EU to blame for the worst IT outage"

geitir — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 18:42:28 +0000

You can’t “fix issues” if the software is running at the kernel level

New comment by geitir in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

geitir — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 14:26:20 +0000

Amazing idea

New comment by geitir in "Google will start showing AI-powered search results for users who didn't opt-in"

geitir — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:18:30 +0000

At least google will still walk back on things when they truly suck. Recent example is where they replaced the default Shopping, Images, Videos tabs when you search for something with autogenerated suggestions. It was awful. But, even though it took them a few months, that entire change seems to be reverted.

New comment by geitir in "Raising Children on the Eve of AI"

geitir — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 07:44:19 +0000

There is worth in the spiritual sense in that all living things are worthy and all of man are created as equals.

There is worth in a sociological sense in that a disabled person may be a positive contributor to the society in one way, but because of their disability cannot be in another. Similarly a niche artist is a positive contributor in their niche, where an unpopular artist indicates they may be considered less of a contributor than others.

In the sociological sense I would argue yes it is possible to compare “worth”.

New comment by geitir in "Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024.Why is that?"

geitir — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:25:48 +0000

https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/capital_markets/ycfaq#/i...

New comment by geitir in "New GitHub Copilot research finds 'downward pressure on code quality'"

geitir — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:21:22 +0000

No opinion on SOLID with regard to your comment. But DRY is foundational to any code because it forces you to find the right abstraction.

New comment by geitir in "Nearly 25,000 tech workers were laid off in the first weeks of 2024.Why is that?"

geitir — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 02:07:23 +0000

Yeah definitely herd mentality and not fears of recession leading indicators

New comment by geitir in "OpenAI board in discussions with Sam Altman to return as CEO"

geitir — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 23:51:15 +0000

Conspiracy time: Is it possible this was all orchestrated? He was fired, causing mistrust in the governance structure, which is part of the remaining open source portion of “open” ai. Then he gets rehired with significant governance changes, thus removing any last vestiges of real power of the open source portion of the company.

Lol

New comment by geitir in "NilAway: Practical nil panic detection for Go"

geitir — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 23:17:34 +0000

Well it is in Go, so has to be verbose

New comment by geitir in ".NET 8"

geitir — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:30:04 +0000

Wow that’s a lot of busy work

New comment by geitir in "Dietary restriction of isoleucine increases healthspan and lifespan in mice"

geitir — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 00:36:25 +0000

Is this an ai summarization?

New comment by geitir in "U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better than expected"

geitir — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 15:18:44 +0000

Must be where you live

New comment by geitir in "U.S. GDP grew at a 4.9% annual pace in the third quarter, better than expected"

geitir — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:52:27 +0000

The health food bowl I like to get for lunch was $11 and is now $15

A chipotle burrito with carne asada steak and guac is now $17

Amy’s frozen pizza was $6.99 and is now $10 (don’t buy it any more, I’ll be dammed if I spend 10 bucks on frozen pizza)