Hacker News: gusmd

New comment by gusmd in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

gusmd — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:07:38 +0000

And this is usually one of the defining traits of a senior engineer. They understand the tech and its limitations, and thus are able to look around corners, ask good questions, and, overall, provide quality product input.

New comment by gusmd in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)"

gusmd — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:07:18 +0000

Hey there -- are you the HM or an engineer on the team? I'm currently a Sr SDE at Amazon in SD, and would love to chat about this role.

New comment by gusmd in "Sign in as anyone: Bypassing SAML SSO authentication with parser differentials"

gusmd — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:20:56 +0000

One can use OIDC instead of SAML for SSO.

New comment by gusmd in "Grok 3 claims its system prompt includes censorship about Musk/Trump"

gusmd — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:32:14 +0000

I've always held dang in pretty high regard seeing his answers on controversial topics, and haven't seen what you said above.

Do you actually have to provide a reason for flagging a post? If so, I would love to see the reasoning behind flagging this one, and dang's reason for keeping it that way. But of course, this is a private website, so I'd understand, albeit disappointingly so, if this is buried.

New comment by gusmd in "Grok 3 claims its system prompt includes censorship about Musk/Trump"

gusmd — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:03:54 +0000

This is very relevant w.r.t. HN being LLM-related and to the current political climate. It is also easily verifiable as a few X/Grok links on this thread show. Why is it flagged?

New comment by gusmd in "Grok 3 claims its system prompt includes censorship about Musk/Trump"

gusmd — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:02:27 +0000

I wonder how that differs from the sibling post with the exact same prompt? https://x.com/i/grok/share/fov27TB0Zn9jH5ZYIV70nTqN2

Is there some entropy or randomness at play here? Or some sort of RAG? Even if it was RAG, the "reasoning" is very different and doesn't mention the clear censorship in the initial prompt that the one I linked mentions.

New comment by gusmd in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

gusmd — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:38:42 +0000

Property taxes work like that. People sometimes sell houses because they can't afford their property taxes when their assets increase in value substantially. Not saying I agree with that or not, but it is reality today.

New comment by gusmd in "Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release"

gusmd — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 21:50:07 +0000

They are taking the devices back for recycling.

New comment by gusmd in "How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket"

gusmd — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 01:35:08 +0000

Or, for read scenarios, putting a CloudFront distribution in front of the bucket!

Nike says employees must return to the office four days each week

gusmd — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 17:18:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2023/10/nike-says-employees-must-return-to-the-office-four-days-each-week.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38002210

Points: 11

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New comment by gusmd in "Building and operating a pretty big storage system called S3"

gusmd — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:38:12 +0000

You can get close with a Cognito Identity Pool that exchanges your user's keys for AWS credentials associated with an IAM role that has access to the resources you want to read/write on their behalf. Pretty standard pattern.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cognito/latest/developerguide/co...

edit: I think I misread your comment. I understood it as your app wanting to delegate access to a user's data to the client, but it seems like you want the user to delegate access to their own data to your app? Different use-cases.

New comment by gusmd in "DreamBerd is a perfect programming language"

gusmd — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 18:17:20 +0000

The best gem in all of it is this:

> You can make classes, but you can only ever make one instance of them. This shouldn't affect how most object-oriented programmers work.

This describes my experience with most OOP code very well.

New comment by gusmd in "Coltrane: A music theory library with a command-line interface"

gusmd — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 17:26:20 +0000

This is awesome! I've been using https://jguitar.com/ for quite some time, specially the scales portion of it. I'll give this a try!

New comment by gusmd in "Unapproved books now a felony in Manatee County schools"

gusmd — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:23:33 +0000

Most people in the world are sexually active before 18. Your teenage years are you prime years of curiosity. Now, yes, they shouldn't be engaging in sexual activities with older, more mature people. But there's zero problem in late teens just being teens and discovering themselves. The more information they have on how to do that safely, the better. This law (and your puritan line of thinking) does the exact opposite. Expect to see a rise in teenage STDs and pregnancy.

New comment by gusmd in "Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020)"

gusmd — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 01:38:11 +0000

It can only ever happen when the phone is first activated. So if you have already used the phone with another carrier's SIM card, you are good to go.

New comment by gusmd in "Google Fi bricked my iPhone 11 Pro Max (2020)"

gusmd — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 01:35:51 +0000

> I learned that Google Fi exclusively uses the T-Mobile network for iPhone customers, and activating a Google Fi SIM with an iPhone causes T-Mobile to lock the phone to the T-Mobile network (which is illegal, since the user hasn’t entered into any service agreement with T-Mobile).

This happened to me with an unlocked iPhone, bought at Best Buy, that I activated with a T-Mobile SIM card as well. Tried Apple support first, Apple couldn't care less. In the end T-Mobile themselves unlocked it after 2 full months of calling them almost daily and escalating, reaching out on social media, etc. This has nothing to do with Google Fi, and, if anything, I blame this on Apple for such a stupid fucking design that lets carriers unilaterally lock a brand new phone with no recourse.

New comment by gusmd in "Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Matrix flight search app"

gusmd — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 05:54:36 +0000

Maybe they are assuming that their engineers can output 25% more than Azure's and AWS'? :)

New comment by gusmd in "Ask HN: Why should I create QR code of this page?"

gusmd — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 22:03:17 +0000

I use it to copy links from my work Macbook to my Android phone.

New comment by gusmd in "Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features"

gusmd — Sat, 04 Sep 2021 17:30:56 +0000

Another ESL speaker here. To me they are pronounced exactly the same. The best way I can describe how I pronounce it to you is "loose" :)

New comment by gusmd in "The complexity that lives in the GUI"

gusmd — Sun, 14 Feb 2021 19:38:59 +0000

That's essentially declarative programming for GUIs, like, say, Flutter does. You have some state provider, and the GUI is fully re-rendered when it is notified of a state change. There's many different actual implementations of this paradigm, but that's it in a nutshell. I've been having lots of fun learning this, coming from a more traditional MVC pattern in Qt and the likes.

See this: https://flutter.dev/docs/get-started/flutter-for/declarative