Hacker News: kbar13

New comment by kbar13 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

kbar13 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:54:03 +0000

we've seen that most of the people who are only in it for the money don't actually bring much value to the company. a lot of middling software engineers are actually a liability. unlike operational work, engineering needs to have a higher bar than just a beating heart and hands

New comment by kbar13 in "Meta to cut 10% of jobs"

kbar13 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:49:56 +0000

why do we feel that way? it's becoming more and more likely that developments in AI lead to a K graph in experience / value - senior / self sufficient workers will be significantly more valuable than ever.

unless you mean that the quality of domestic workers is declining, which i'd agree in most things (tho for some things like software i think still has a chance)

New comment by kbar13 in ""Disregard That" Attacks"

kbar13 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:40:43 +0000

engines are designed to behave in very predictable ways. LLMs are not there yet

New comment by kbar13 in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

kbar13 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:37:51 +0000

that’s a bit pendantic, there exists such a thing as suburbs. even some rural communities are perfectly reasonable in terms of municipal infrastructure. but we are specifically talking about houses that are miles and miles from the next house that is then miles and miles away etc

New comment by kbar13 in "OrangePi 6 Plus Review"

kbar13 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:29:11 +0000

i use the rpi zero 2 for the IO pins

4b / 5 for the camera stuff.

i don’t think using these boards for just compute makes a lot of sense unless it’s for toy stuff like an ssh shell or pihole

New comment by kbar13 in "Claude Code gets native LSP support"

kbar13 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:38:50 +0000

i'm not sure i agree with the assessment that claude code has been moving slowly... but it is cool that opencode has had this for a while. will def check it out

New comment by kbar13 in "The future of Terraform CDK"

kbar13 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 20:32:20 +0000

we're using cdk since 100% of our stuff is in aws but will soon need to hook up some external resources like cloudflare. looked at tfcdk a while back but didn't think it was a good idea (glad). still trying to figure out a good way forward and hoping it's not to rip the bandaid and migrate everything to terraform / pulumi

New comment by kbar13 in "Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month"

kbar13 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:48:22 +0000

seems like this is par for course for hustler “founders” nowadays to say half truths to seem groundbreaking to get attention

New comment by kbar13 in "AI World Clocks"

kbar13 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 20:48:58 +0000

i noticed the second hand is off tho. gemini has the most accurate one.

New comment by kbar13 in "AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B"

kbar13 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 17:53:27 +0000

holy smokes this is worse for consumers and employees than being bought by PE

New comment by kbar13 in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

kbar13 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:35:16 +0000

LMFAOOOOOO insufferable

New comment by kbar13 in "HP SitePrint"

kbar13 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 20:51:56 +0000

yes but a built house is a lifelong thing. multiple decades. a few months here is not worth decades of pain

New comment by kbar13 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

kbar13 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:19:54 +0000

the correct answer for those companies is "we have it on the roadmap but for right now accept the risk"

New comment by kbar13 in "Claude Skills"

kbar13 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:21:14 +0000

i’m letting the smarter folks figure all this out and just picking the tools i like every now and then. i like just using claude code with vscode and still doing some things manually

New comment by kbar13 in "Qualcomm to acquire Arduino"

kbar13 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:56:12 +0000

agree. when arduino ide first came out it was great (for the times). and to be fair at that time vscode was not a thing. but it's a big ? why arduino did not just go all in on vscode once it was clear where the market leader in IDE was headed

New comment by kbar13 in "Apps SDK"

kbar13 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:16:16 +0000

product roadmap was also ai generated

New comment by kbar13 in "Ask HN: How do you choose languages for building applications?"

kbar13 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:02:05 +0000

this is why i've loved golang since i've started using it 10ish years ago. stdlib is small, but the foundation is strong, and api changes are few and far between. it's nice to work in a language where i don't need to reach for 5 million libraries to do everything, and if i come back to it in a year or so i dont need to learn a new package manager, testing framework like with python / js

New comment by kbar13 in "Boring work needs tension"

kbar13 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:12:24 +0000

who's working at a boring job nowadays as a software dev? everywhere i see devs are wearing like 10 hats bc we have the combination of being capable yet still at the bottom of the totem pole.

New comment by kbar13 in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

kbar13 — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:56:43 +0000

from outside looking in i think this is a move i would support if i were in amazon leadership. let the other players pay for the AI movement, pick up the fruits of their labor a couple of years down the line. i dont think amazon's main play is AI anyways, if anything it's to facilitate AI with their complementary platforms in AWS

New comment by kbar13 in "California teens are ditching office jobs – and making $100K before they turn 21"

kbar13 — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 09:14:26 +0000

your eyes

tho i guess staring at a screen for 90% of your day is probably also bad for the eyes