Hacker News: hawaiianbrah

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

hawaiianbrah — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:36:32 +0000

Yeah, I think most reputable places do require it, and there are restricted areas they won’t issue permits for without verifying insurance. It was required by our outfitter when we did the Annapurna circuit a few years ago.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Free stuff makes us irrational"

hawaiianbrah — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:11:16 +0000

Many ATMs in the US just spit out 20s, though there are some where you can specify your bills.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:21:22 +0000

I worked on GHES for a couple of years. Before that, it sounded like it was a sort of volunteer rotation, there wasn’t durable funding for a team when we joined. Mind boggling that the money maker of the company was staffed like that.

It is a complicated project. Thankfully their durable funding story has improved in recent years and they are staffing GHES up at levels they haven’t for at least 7 years. Hopefully it improves. I’m not there anymore, I was laid off last year.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Don't become an engineering manager"

hawaiianbrah — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:08:26 +0000

Terminal roles are definitely not a Facebook concept originally … Microsoft has had it for at least 20 years.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations"

hawaiianbrah — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:03:14 +0000

I see what you did there…

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

hawaiianbrah — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:58:01 +0000

Really? I disagree that verifying is as hard as doing the work yourself. It’s like P != NP.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "How we lost communication to entertainment"

hawaiianbrah — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 01:36:11 +0000

Meta has already introduced a dedicated app for exactly this: https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/meta-launches-vibes-a-shor...

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Microsoft denies rewriting Windows 11 in Rust using AI"

hawaiianbrah — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:47:41 +0000

The testing thing happened like, 10 years ago at this point.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "If you don't design your career, someone else will (2014)"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:58:35 +0000

I am also in my (late) 30s. I would definitely question myself if I were “constantly the person with the most technical skills in the room”. I of course think I’m smart, but I am rarely surrounded by people that I think I’m smarter than…

I agree work is just a means to an end of not starving, but I like learning and growing enough that if that were the case (most technical among my peers), I would start looking for another opportunity.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Cheap DIY solar fence design"

hawaiianbrah — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 11:17:16 +0000

Where are you sourcing materials? I was planning my own 11 kWh system with selfsolar.com at $1.50/watt but now think I’m going to buy a pallet of panels from a1solarstore.com at a fifth of the price. Still need to figure out the supports and draft the permit set.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Show HN: Baby's first international landline"

hawaiianbrah — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:34:52 +0000

This is so cool! Mine is too young but I was planning to hack on something similar when they’re of age. Thanks for the inspiration!

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:52:20 +0000

I’m on iOS and backup my photos to both iCloud and google photos

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance"

hawaiianbrah — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:41:32 +0000

I only know a couple people who have since canceled their private policies due to a fear the laws will be amended requiring periodic attestation. I’m still holding my policy, though I am eager to cancel it.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Financial lessons from my family's experience with long-term care insurance"

hawaiianbrah — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 21:40:23 +0000

Washington imposed a LTC tax where some percentage of your income is taxed and goes into a fund for LTC. At the time they implemented it, you could opt out by procuring private LTC insurance. Most tech people I know did, because it was cheaper than the tax imposed. We’re still waiting to see if it’s safe to cancel our private policies.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills"

hawaiianbrah — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 17:36:46 +0000

My last three jobs all did pair programming so we structured our interviews to be similar, and they’re still my favorite interviews I’ve conducted. Many candidates also praised the format, whether they were hired or not.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Why MIT switched from Scheme to Python (2009)"

hawaiianbrah — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:12:08 +0000

Thanks for the history. I was an undergrad at the time and remember having a choice between 6.001 and 6.01. I don’t think I formally switched into course 6 yet and by the time I did, 6.01 was the only option.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "MIT asks arXiv to withdraw preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery"

hawaiianbrah — Sat, 17 May 2025 04:36:34 +0000

> Worse, I'd like to create my own Instagram now, but cannot, because somebody else tried to use my email a decade ago and now all I get is a very very confused loop.

Why not use a different email address? Nothing about that would make it less your “own” Instagram account.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Microsoft Is Dead (2007)"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:26:06 +0000

My ~3000 person company (a subsidiary of Microsoft!) even uses Google workspace

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut"

hawaiianbrah — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:15:21 +0000

I used this card for a few months before usbank launched their smartly card, at which point I moved 100k from fidelity to a usbank IRA and now enjoy 4% cash back.

New comment by hawaiianbrah in "Introducing deep research"

hawaiianbrah — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 17:24:12 +0000

A net gain for everyone? Tell that to the artists its screwing over!