Hacker News: greekrich92

New comment by greekrich92 in "Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28"

greekrich92 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:29:11 +0000

Great write-up. Java is getting so good. The improvements over the last decade have been unbelievable. The negativity here is bizarre. Just a reflex I suppose.

New comment by greekrich92 in "The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)"

greekrich92 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:48:34 +0000

On desktop does flutter have native access to the machine it's running on? Can it talk to printers for example?

New comment by greekrich92 in "Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026"

greekrich92 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:47:31 +0000

Solar and progress on better batteries is a more consequential and useful technological revolution than AI. Should be a huge story, but there's not enough money to be made via speculation so it's not.

New comment by greekrich92 in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

greekrich92 — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:09:02 +0000

Managers, like police and prosecutors, are enforcers for the capitalist class. This is why they are not part of the working class. Managers do the job of squeezing surplus value from workers, rather than producing real Value themselves. Relationship to capital determines class.

New comment by greekrich92 in "The Ask"

greekrich92 — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:48:53 +0000

The nouning of verbs is a very annoying type of corpo speak

New comment by greekrich92 in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

greekrich92 — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:04:47 +0000

Individual contributor i.e., non-management

New comment by greekrich92 in "The smelly baby problem"

greekrich92 — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:31:33 +0000

Great read. Being an engineer in the mid 20th century must have been fun and satisfying.

We pay for a diaper service. The price is comparable to disposables. The population density where I live helps with the price I'm sure.

New comment by greekrich92 in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

greekrich92 — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:15:18 +0000

Ok great let's get rid of non-renewable powered AI _and_ stop eating animals.

New comment by greekrich92 in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

greekrich92 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:37:08 +0000

Security vulnerabilities for one obvious example

New comment by greekrich92 in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

greekrich92 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 23:40:28 +0000

Oh well when you put it that way, I guess it's good that kids are dying of measles again.

New comment by greekrich92 in "Tesla Is Sitting on a Record 50k Unsold EVs"

greekrich92 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:44:17 +0000

Damn it's really an infringement on our rights that they cracked down on people yelling "fire" in a crowded theater

New comment by greekrich92 in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

greekrich92 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:53:16 +0000

Point being that things of high quality that are enriching sometimes require an investment

New comment by greekrich92 in "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise (2021)"

greekrich92 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:15:57 +0000

Moby Dick is too hard to read. They should make it shorter with a limited vocabulary.

New comment by greekrich92 in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

greekrich92 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:42:42 +0000

Mountainhead was a documentary.

"Bureaucracy" isn't blocking new and better treatments, privatized healthcare and research is.

New comment by greekrich92 in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

greekrich92 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:11:13 +0000

Also a great rec

New comment by greekrich92 in "An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close"

greekrich92 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:10:45 +0000

Maybe that describes the people who hired her but I think she thought she was going to succeed in ratings and business. She is internet-brained and has no self awareness.

New comment by greekrich92 in "An Aural Companion for Decades, CBS News Radio Crackles to a Close"

greekrich92 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:12:22 +0000

Bari Weiss. Not a smart person.

New comment by greekrich92 in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

greekrich92 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:15:54 +0000

Read cat's cradle to understand the comment

New comment by greekrich92 in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

greekrich92 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:13:19 +0000

The West Bank is governed by the PLO, not Hamas, so it sounds like your concern is that you just don't wish to hear about it because it's an inconvenience.

New comment by greekrich92 in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

greekrich92 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:40:51 +0000

If OP finds this compelling, please consider a Quaker church to avoid the dogmatic and political baggage.

Or perhaps a Unitarian church or Buddhist temple.