Hacker News: judahmeek

New comment by judahmeek in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

judahmeek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:19:55 +0000

Time to ship, change failure, rework rates, mean time to resolve, code complexity, code churn, average age of dependencies - there's a ton of reliable metrics for technical debt, but they have to actually be looked at to do any good.

The problem is that technical debt is a more complex concept & thus requires more metrics to properly measure than a simple concept like velocity.

New comment by judahmeek in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

judahmeek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:08:23 +0000

Something is missing in the common test suite if this can occur, right?

New comment by judahmeek in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

judahmeek — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:16:29 +0000

The term you're looking for is "homesteader"

New comment by judahmeek in "What 81,000 people want from AI"

judahmeek — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:06:33 +0000

> If Average Joe were to delegate most of their life decisions to the chatbot, it'd probably turn out better, or in the worst case, more informed.

Even if true, no one is ever going to do that because of Dunning Kruger, so it's still not magically solving problems.

New comment by judahmeek in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

judahmeek — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 04:07:34 +0000

Everything returns to dust eventually.

Your contributions are part of what helped humanity to get to where it is now.

New comment by judahmeek in "North Korean's 100k fake IT workers net $500M a year for Kim"

judahmeek — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:54:38 +0000

I wrote a blog post of my experience playing double agent: https://judahmeek.com/p/my-first-day-as-a-technical-intervie...

New comment by judahmeek in "2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March"

judahmeek — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:04:00 +0000

I'd like to learn more about your current contracting process.

It sounds like you could use an apprentice to help handle things as a backup plan.

New comment by judahmeek in "AI didn't simplify software engineering: It just made bad engineering easier"

judahmeek — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:14:47 +0000

I think there will also be a lot of work in how to modularize month long projects into plugin sized pieces.

New comment by judahmeek in "Ask HN: Looking for a job after layoff and burnout. What should I focus on"

judahmeek — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 23:05:28 +0000

Pypy is looking for contributors. There was a recent HN post about it.

New comment by judahmeek in "No right to relicense this project"

judahmeek — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:51:12 +0000

Implementation is only one of the costs shared through open-source projects.

There are others, such as security vulnerability detection, support, & general maintenance.

New comment by judahmeek in "Sam Altman asks if government can nationalize artificial general intelligence"

judahmeek — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:01:04 +0000

That would just mean that ideas are worthless, which in turn makes judgement & execution extremely valuable.

New comment by judahmeek in "Someone needs to go to jail"

judahmeek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:11:56 +0000

In the age of LLMs, separating money from speech on the internet (where the most desired sociodemographics live) is literally impossible.

You restrict ads, they just create more bots or even pay actual people to express certain opinions.

New comment by judahmeek in "Someone needs to go to jail"

judahmeek — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:24:42 +0000

But where's the line between political contribution & opinionated news article about a political candidate?

New comment by judahmeek in "Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?"

judahmeek — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:40:26 +0000

OP, you're on the right track.

The question you need to ask yourself is "What's the end game?"

What happens when users' feeds are full of users that they already know?

You think they'll be satisfied with that?

New comment by judahmeek in "Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?"

judahmeek — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:18:04 +0000

Echo chambers exist no matter what & "who says what" is an essential aspect of determining transferrable credibility.

Without transferrable credibility, any ratings system simply becomes a question of which side spams the most.

New comment by judahmeek in "Ask HN: How do we solve the bot flooding problem without destroying anonymity?"

judahmeek — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:12:21 +0000

So... use advanced pattern matching to determine human patterns & reject outliers?

Interaction timing is like rate limiting, but more granular

Navigation flow is a basically requiring bots to use a headless browser instead of API's

What does session consistency mean in this context? Restricting to a limited number of interests & activity times?

New comment by judahmeek in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

judahmeek — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:52:52 +0000

No, I mean that even the Saudi's & the UAE are funding secular groups that are fighting Islamist groups because Saudi & UAE both believe that Islamist groups are too dangerous: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-growing-rift-betw...

New comment by judahmeek in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

judahmeek — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:26:05 +0000

That's oversimplifying.

Iranian regime-allied forces were a big part of why Iraq was such a quagmire.

The balance of power in the Middle East is shifting from the Sunni~Shia schism that it once was.

Most of the remaining powers are willing to actually engage in diplomacy with Israel & prefer secular groups to Islamist groups.

There's still personality conflicts, such as the one growing between the heads of Saudi Arabia & the UAE, but the general trend seems to be very promising.

New comment by judahmeek in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

judahmeek — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:56:23 +0000

They didn't celebrate the last time Israel & the U.S. attacked them & they aren't celebrating now.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/01/trump-kham...

Successful regime change requires a far more significant investment in soft power than America & Israel's current right-wing leadership would even conceive of.

New comment by judahmeek in "Show HN: I built a site where you hire yourself instead of applying for jobs"

judahmeek — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:29:48 +0000

Regarding the smart people sending dozens of applications, they should consider signing up for a reverse job board, such as https://applytome.ai/

If they have any questions about it, they can ask its founder: https://www.linkedin.com/in/noahhelfend/