Hacker News: goatking

New comment by goatking in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

goatking — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:46:44 +0000

I looked at the demonstration video and closed it after a couple of minutes. I don't see how this tool will replace git.

Well, I think it won't

New comment by goatking in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

goatking — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:53:24 +0000

Not OP, but: "acceptable", that's the problem. Also I dislike Google more than Apple.

New comment by goatking in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

goatking — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:10:43 +0000

Well, you put a lot of trust in the individuals in this case. A disgruntled employee can just let the bad guys in on purpose, saying "Yes they belong here".

New comment by goatking in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

goatking — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:55:13 +0000

Agreed, but you can put EC2 on that list as well

New comment by goatking in "TurboTax’s 20-year fight to stop Americans from filing taxes for free (2019)"

goatking — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 17:53:17 +0000

Wealthsimple Tax is free too, and pretty good for simple use cases.

New comment by goatking in "Show HN: CLAVIER-36 – A programming environment for generative music"

goatking — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:28:58 +0000

This project is really cool, love it!

How would someone start learning and implementing something like this? Like, I don't even know what keyword to put into Google.

Are there any articles, blog posts, etc. that you used while researching?

New comment by goatking in "Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices"

goatking — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 19:48:59 +0000

This is simply not true. I've just checked

New comment by goatking in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)"

goatking — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:14:47 +0000

This is pretty cool! I am also interested in game engine programming, but I am in the very beginning of the journey.

Do you have any recommendation on voxel engine learning materials (e.g. books, courses, etc)

New comment by goatking in "Images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87"

goatking — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:01:10 +0000

Wouldn't that ray destroy any life on any nearby planet?

New comment by goatking in ""Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers""

goatking — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:00:39 +0000

How did you build your own data center? Is it in your house, or renting a place somewhere? How much did it cost?

I would be curious about any details you can share.

New comment by goatking in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

goatking — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 17:40:44 +0000

How can I, a regular software engineer, learn about quantum computing without having to learn quantum theory?

> Worth spending a little time doing some long tail strategizing I’d say

any tips for starters?

New comment by goatking in "Ask HN: I don't want to be a Software Engineer any more. What else could I do?"

goatking — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 14:25:20 +0000

I'm in similar shoes as OP, want to do something else. I think I'm burned out, and don't have the way to fix it (e.g. taking a year long sabbatical)

I was looking into a lot of these things you mention here, problem is the "golden handcuff" from software engineering. I could only start doing anything new by taking a HUGE pay cut for many years, and I simply can't do that in my current life situation.

Let me know if you have a solution to that :D

New comment by goatking in "Ask HN: Junior dev and I don't want to compete in this job market. Any advice?"

goatking — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 20:50:24 +0000

My 2 problems with these jobs are that first, they 99% not remote, and second, the pay is half of what I get in the "tech" field.

New comment by goatking in "Ask HN: Is it possible to make FAANG salaries without working there?"

goatking — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:29:31 +0000

Canadian SWE here, who works for half the money that my US colleagues get (same team, same project...): you are not alone.

New comment by goatking in "Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet"

goatking — Thu, 23 May 2024 22:36:37 +0000

Why PDF first? Isn't reading Ebooks (in ebook format) the main use case for such devices?

New comment by goatking in "OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show"

goatking — Thu, 23 May 2024 14:51:08 +0000

> and they chose one that started with the same rare consonant cluster as this actress

Okay so we can't use voices that are similar to actress voices, and we can't use names that starts with the same "rare consonant cluster" as actress names.

This is getting ridiculous

New comment by goatking in "Defcon: Preventing overload with graceful feature degradation (2023)"

goatking — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 00:52:00 +0000

found the meta employee

New comment by goatking in "Etsy is laying off 11% of its staff"

goatking — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:16:54 +0000

Aren't they just killing competition? Maybe it's worth the 1bill in the long term (for them, not for the customers)

New comment by goatking in "Cities Skylines 2 runs with 20fps on an Nvidia RTX4090"

goatking — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 18:58:49 +0000

There is a HUGE difference between 30fps and 60fps games. Very noticable. I got used to 60fps so much, that I don't even touch 30fps anymore.

It's true that your eyes(or brain?) can get used to the 30fps after some time. But if you compare them side by side...

New comment by goatking in ""We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you can send us a doodle""

goatking — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 17:52:46 +0000

The first thing I thought when I saw the title was this. Very predictable