Hacker News: gnz11

New comment by gnz11 in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

gnz11 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:18:54 +0000

You can add Pre-K education to that list. It's on par in terms of costs with sending your kids to college.

New comment by gnz11 in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

gnz11 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:22:13 +0000

Your standard of living eschews patience and waiting?

New comment by gnz11 in "Mini retirements: like a sabbatical, but much smaller"

gnz11 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:05:19 +0000

The blogger is Swiss from the looks of it.

New comment by gnz11 in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

gnz11 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:05:50 +0000

Forget corporate owned malls, what US towns need are actual downtowns. When I first came to the US I was shocked at either the lack of a downtown or if there was one, it was mostly run down and abandoned. Sometimes the "downtown" was just an intersection of strip malls. I suppose the oddball zoning rules in the US don’t help but so many "towns" in the US are just blobs of buildings and not actual towns.

New comment by gnz11 in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

gnz11 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:59:11 +0000

> they realized quality didn't matter as much as emotions and outrage and validating peoples own beliefs.

No, that’s not a new phenomenon. Tabloids and political rags filled that market well before the Internet. News organizations aren’t static entities, they come in a wide variety of flavors.

New comment by gnz11 in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

gnz11 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 11:49:19 +0000

Yes, that’s also a problem too.

New comment by gnz11 in "Some more things about Django I've been enjoying"

gnz11 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:31:25 +0000

Better yet, put gunicorn behind nginx, make sure all static assets are served by nginx, add appropriate Cache Control headers. Furthermore understand and use Django’s page caching.

New comment by gnz11 in "Show HN: I mapped every US golf course"

gnz11 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:58:51 +0000

Irrigation isn’t the only concern but also the loads of herbicides and pesticides that get dumped on them.

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: Why isn't Google indexing information about the AT Protocol?"

gnz11 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 11:36:50 +0000

No, they want you to search multiple times to show you more ads.

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

gnz11 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 11:00:14 +0000

> Stay in touch until they do need you and say : you were right. That's the day you charge them a dear price for the service.

That assumes OP will still be in business if that day even happens. Odds are that cheap AI access will be around for longer than freelancers can remain solvent.

New comment by gnz11 in "In praise of memcached"

gnz11 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:49:03 +0000

Agreed. Memcache is great until you get into the business of having to configure slabs. Most people just reach for redis at that point.

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?"

gnz11 — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:31:22 +0000

Brother, you voluntarily worked overtime without compensation because you "loved it" and thought you were already highly compensated. All this means is that your company took advantage of free labor and you missed out on being paid for your work. Whatever your compensation levels are, giving free labor to your employer is a foolish game. 60+ hours a week for years, come on...those projects are absolutely mismanaged if the work can’t be done without that much overtime.

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?"

gnz11 — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:43:38 +0000

So which industry was changed dramatically by your team working 60+ hours a week for years? If you we’re compensated for overtime you can thank unions for that, if you worked voluntarily overtime you were by definition taken advantage of.

> As for disposable code slingers? That’s been true for the last 30+ years.

The last 30 years saw massive growth in SWE salaries. That doesn’t happen if SWEs are disposable.

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: How much AI is in your writing?"

gnz11 — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:58:16 +0000

Yes because using "clankermaxxing" in your writing is totally not soulless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb--BiQogQ8

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: Are there any serious efforts to organize tech labor now?"

gnz11 — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:23:20 +0000

Working 60+ hours a week for years is nothing to brag about. It just means your projects were mismanaged, done poorly and you were absolutely taken advantage of. You also mentioned in another comment that you are disposable if you are "slinging code" 40+ hours a week.

New comment by gnz11 in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

gnz11 — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:53:13 +0000

> I think however that all that is needed to bridge the gap is some very simple feedback from an expert at the right time.

I don't think it's as simple as that. What will most likely happen is that the vibe coders will quickly eat up your time asking for validation and feedback if you are not careful. You are also now implicitly contributing to their project, which if it goes south, could come back to bite you. If the vibe coders are pushing code in the org, then they should become part of the formal review process like any other junior programmer.

They should also be forced to do daily stand-ups, sit in meetings and explain their code like the rest of us.

New comment by gnz11 in "Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability"

gnz11 — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:44:21 +0000

Governments can certainly regulate imports.

New comment by gnz11 in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

gnz11 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:03:18 +0000

Perhaps US companies should invest more in their employees then? Advancement, promotions beyond %1-3% COLAs, career paths, etc would go along way to keep employees interested in seeing their employers succeed instead of jumping ship every couple of years. The would require some effort from the C-suite however and since they jump ship every few years as well, I don't see that changing anytime soon.

New comment by gnz11 in "Why Not Venus?"

gnz11 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:12:24 +0000

I’ve read a lot of hot takes on HN, but Carl Sagan harming society is on a whole new level.

New comment by gnz11 in "Ask HN: What skills are future proof in an AI driven job market?"

gnz11 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:04:02 +0000

Job cuts no, but your next nurse might just be a "gig nurse" that bid the lowest for the job. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/healthcare-n...