Hacker News: hn_go_brrrrr

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped"

hn_go_brrrrr — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:20:08 +0000

Timeline pressure seems to me the most likely one, and that looks no worse than saving money.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

hn_go_brrrrr — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:43:58 +0000

By putting them in cages. Pretty difficult to offer a competing product if you're in a cage.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

hn_go_brrrrr — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:51:12 +0000

How many years ago did they start construction on these projects? How many years before that did they greenlight the project? I'm quite skeptical the timelines are short enough to line up with the AI boom.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks"

hn_go_brrrrr — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:33:12 +0000

I would like a refund on all public services I don't use. My house didn't burn down yesterday -- where's my fire department refund check?

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Google breaks promise to provide 10 years of updates to Chromebooks"

hn_go_brrrrr — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:30:32 +0000

Tell me you've never worked at Google without telling me you've never worked at Google.

There are a lot of complaints you can legitimately levy, but "Google doesn't have enough of a compliance org to ensure eng behaves." is not one of them.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "When the Debugger Lies"

hn_go_brrrrr — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 16:45:15 +0000

I don't think your C++ comment is true, otherwise you wouldn't be allowed to OR together C enums. I think the restriction is on values wider than the underlying type, where the underlying type is always wide enough to support any representable bit pattern.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce""

hn_go_brrrrr — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:08:14 +0000

2006...would that have been Mondrian?

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Software engineering is about managing complexity"

hn_go_brrrrr — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:14:52 +0000

This is my favorite part of software engineering. It's not just a set of rules you can apply to get the right answer. You need to use your judgement to make a context-appropriate decision.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Explain it to me like I'm ten"

hn_go_brrrrr — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 20:32:50 +0000

Pram is common in British English. I'm guessing you learned US English, which doesn't use it.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

hn_go_brrrrr — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:28:45 +0000

This is literally the case, and it's not just with products that get shipped externally.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

hn_go_brrrrr — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:01:40 +0000

I think that's obvious. He doesn't know anyone who has, and thinks the whole thing is a waste of time.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention"

hn_go_brrrrr — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 15:46:28 +0000

Canada's GDP per capita is low, not its GDP.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

hn_go_brrrrr — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:25:24 +0000

I didn't read it about the manipulation either, but neither did I read it as a criticism of the returns.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

hn_go_brrrrr — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:46:37 +0000

Don't worry, some do.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

hn_go_brrrrr — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 02:46:27 +0000

So, Apple until the M chips?

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

hn_go_brrrrr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:36:07 +0000

I'll agree with some of the brightest minds, but some Googlers I worked with were mediocre at best.

Also, I don't really understand what your catchy phrase means. Google's management is being malicious by not forcing their employees to not be lazy?

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

hn_go_brrrrr — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:25:37 +0000

I guess if I were in school today, I would be accused of using AI on my homework, as I did very well on all of my projects and bombed my tests. My professors all recognized my hard work and gave me good grades, but I feel like that wouldn't go the same way today.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

hn_go_brrrrr — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:15:10 +0000

This is incompetence, not malice. YT devs would skip testing on Chrome if they could get away with it, but are forced to.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

hn_go_brrrrr — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:12:20 +0000

No, it really doesn't. You're reacting super defensively throughout this entire thread. It's a really bad look.

New comment by hn_go_brrrrr in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

hn_go_brrrrr — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:55:07 +0000

It's on Amazon to consider the second-order effects of their actions. They may in some cases be killing the golden goose.