Hacker News: hcfman

New comment by hcfman in "A Python Interpreter Written in Python"

hcfman — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:42:08 +0000

Just wondering why you stopped there? Why not a python interpreter for a python interpreter for python ?

New comment by hcfman in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

hcfman — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:38:18 +0000

The way the author defined water fall makes it sound pretty good to me.

Put your hand up if you are ever programming with poor specs?

Put your hand up if you have a better idea of what really was wanted after the first cut?

And what I really dislike is those that try to design a Swiss Army knife from day one when they haven’t a clue. Jump immediately into over complexity.

New comment by hcfman in "LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer"

hcfman — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:37:46 +0000

I hate the way they just started saying you have a new message when you really don't. Now I'm going to miss when I really have new messages for a while because I'm not going to go to that site anymore when they say that.

And not letting you read your messages when on your mobile phone unless you use their app is particularly mean. Considering again where they are sending all the information they scrape.

New comment by hcfman in "FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers"

hcfman — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:56:01 +0000

Ah, I see it now. It's a menu option. Never noticed :-)

New comment by hcfman in "FFmpeg-over-IP – Connect to remote FFmpeg servers"

hcfman — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:54:37 +0000

Show HN? What is that? :-)

I've been reading hacker news for ages, but somehow I missed that there was some convention relating to showing technology on hacker news.

New comment by hcfman in "How far back in time can you understand English?"

hcfman — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:20:20 +0000

Oh man. You really gotta love the unusual special interests of people.

Super work!

New comment by hcfman in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

hcfman — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:16:09 +0000

Better still. Stay at home and wash the car by hand.

New comment by hcfman in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

hcfman — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:15:12 +0000

Leave the car at home and walk through the automat.

New comment by hcfman in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

hcfman — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 08:12:09 +0000

Push it is the only responsible action.

New comment by hcfman in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"

hcfman — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:50:08 +0000

Nena, you are a messenger from god!

https://youtu.be/Fpu5a0Bl8eY?si=vpSXWV5-pUOIjvac

And when there are exactly 99 comments on this subject.

Someone please make this into a meme.

New comment by hcfman in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

hcfman — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 20:20:28 +0000

The revolution will not be televised.

New comment by hcfman in "I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing"

hcfman — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 08:09:40 +0000

That's a different role. It's made up of different words. Just like "Architect of solutions", yet another mystery role :-)

So long as he moves up a grade and is happy, everybody wins.

New comment by hcfman in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

hcfman — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:14:17 +0000

So if that is the case. The guys that stays as engineers because they valued doing the real work that now suddenly ASML values, but didn't get the promotion have been screwed for years right? Without any real chance of getting this corrected.

New comment by hcfman in "Training a trillion parameter model to be funny"

hcfman — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 08:00:24 +0000

I loved them!

New comment by hcfman in "Teaching my neighbor to keep the volume down"

hcfman — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 07:57:43 +0000

So he never tried turning on the TV at full volume when his neighbor was sleeping? Maybe he left out mentioning that part. Seems kinda obvious.

New comment by hcfman in "Norway EV Push Nears 100 Percent: What's Next?"

hcfman — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:41:05 +0000

This is great, so long as the country cares more about becoming electric than tax income. I can assure you that in the Netherlands this is not the case.

New comment by hcfman in "Prism"

hcfman — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 09:09:06 +0000

Yeah, to be fair I would be hesitant to have anything to do with any program called prism as well. Hard to imagine that no one brought this up when they were thinking of a name.

New comment by hcfman in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

hcfman — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 10:12:49 +0000

So are you saying that there are not new positions open for engineers that were actually doing engineering and that instead some managers that were not doing engineering will now suddenly have to pick up the thread again and start doing engineer?

That would be disappointing for engineers that were actually doing engineering, as yet again their grade increases would be taken by management types.

New comment by hcfman in "France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s"

hcfman — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:32:24 +0000

Despot governments are also harmful for teen mental health but we don't see those being banned.

New comment by hcfman in "France passes bill to ban social media use by under-15s"

hcfman — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:29:43 +0000

Yes, the more government intervention the better. history has shown that government intervention always works out well.