<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: kermatt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kermatt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 08:02:33 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=kermatt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Casio Moflin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI Tribbles. What could go wrong?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:56:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104963</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104963</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49104963</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Superfile: A fancy, modern terminal file manager"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Project has been around longer than typical AI initiated ones: <a href="https://github.com/yorukot/superfile/graphs/code-frequency" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/yorukot/superfile/graphs/code-frequency</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:47:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908633</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "AI chatbots are coming for white-collar job interviews"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have experience two of these AI "interviews". The absolute dumbest interviews of my career, with the exception of a recruiter sending me to a C++ config manager role when I was a DBA with zero C++ experience.
 They follow a script worse than a call center drone, can't clarify their own questions, and respond to hallucinated questions.
For now, they are an immediate candidate side rejection from me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:04:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854145</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48854145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Real jail time for corporate officers.<p>Currently there is no downside for sociopathic behavior. Employment contracts guarantee they earn if the stock does well. If not they get a golden parachute on the way out.<p>If those that ran the company were actually responsible for what the company does, then this shit would not happen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:50:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838418</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48838418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Resetting Xbox"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The layoffs will continue until morale improves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:10:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811157</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You should not.<p>Jobs are ephemeral, as companies consider employees to be replaceable / expendable cogs in the machine.<p>Keeping expectations equal makes sure all parties benefit. Companies base their decisions on revenue and cost, employees should as well.<p>Any past illusions that loyalty to a company has personal beneift are long since dispelled.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:57:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778625</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778625</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778625</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Drivel.<p>This clickbait reads like a long and twisted version of the old boomer adage "Just walk in there with a firm handshake and ask for a job".
 Yes the job market has changed, just like it has for every generation, but plenty of candidates are adapting, but there's only so much an individual can do against the odds.
If the employment statistics are so fucking great, why is this board and others filled with stories from people of all ranges of age experience spending months and hundreds of connection attempts with zero effect.<p>The author needs to upskill learn and how to write like a professional, or pay for a better LLM. The lack of proper capitalization and sentence structure would make him unemployable with any company or hiring manager I've ever worked with. Including myself when I was a hiring manager.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 23:43:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522600</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48522600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://duckdb.org/docs/lts/sql/dialect/friendly_sql" rel="nofollow">https://duckdb.org/docs/lts/sql/dialect/friendly_sql</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:03:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505848</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505848</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48505848</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Show HN: Diffcat – a TUI for delightful Git diffs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is really nice. I have tried, but not quite configured tig to do exactly what this does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:38:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498791</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Companies do not have moralities. They have revenue targets.<p>Any statement to the idea of a moral compass is just a form of marketing when the politics of the day align with it.<p>The best we can to is have independent moralities, while balancing that with the need to eat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:07:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498580</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498580</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48498580</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Introduction – Rust for Python Programmers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Because Astral is now owned by a profit driven org, and that often becomes problematic.<p>Also because Pip ain't perfect, but it is stable in a sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:39:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426054</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48426054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not quite as simple as learning it once. SQL evolves like other languages, across vendor implementations.<p>The ClickHouse and DuckDB dialects for example extend the language with analytic options not found in ANSI SQL, nor T-SQL, Pl/PgSQL, etc. DuckDB QoL enhancements are greatly missed when not available.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:44:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398564</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398564</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48398564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Sergey Brin told Google staff that working 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot' (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>His investment in time is guaranteed to pay off for him, and the investment in time of the people who work for him is guaranteed to pay off for him.<p>The rest of us have no guarantees, and have learned the trade-offs are less and less likely to be worthwhile.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 21:03:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349722</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48349722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My org has a monthly team plan, and because I don't use what I would call unsupervised agents, I rarely come close to exceeding limits. I guess I am one of those "chat only users" that so many articles limit my output. A split terminal with Vim on the left snd Claude on the right has been a great combination. Neanderthalic AI.<p>Personally I'd consider efficient and economical use of AI to be a key skill for a good developer. Using AI for everything at full throttle would appear to be a crutch. I wonder if this will eventually become a hiring criteria for companies without unlimited budgets (most of them).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 16:28:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347029</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347029</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347029</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Project Feather – Faster local mode Spark]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1Nphejrf_vh4YRECn0JPgKClqxDS_lB6wufZFJQxyY98/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1Nphejrf_vh4YRECn0JPgKClqxDS_lB6wufZFJQxyY98/edit</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330822">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330822</a></p>
<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 23:47:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1Nphejrf_vh4YRECn0JPgKClqxDS_lB6wufZFJQxyY98/edit</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330822</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330822</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Migrating from Go to Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Share some examples?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 16:56:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269004</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269004</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48269004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What would people here _not_ use DeepSeek for?<p>Obviously business IP for non-China based companies should be treated carefully, but for personal projects where would the cost savings not be worth a risk?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 15:50:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268246</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Of Course They Booed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The mistake is university choosing commencement speakers that are completely out of touch with what students about to enter the workforce need. Unless of course the university itself is choosing speakers based on their contribution to the university bottom line.<p>Big tech executives, no matter what their previous accomplishments were, eventually become sales people. Their job, as they see it, is to push a narrative that benefits the businesses or industries their wealth is tied too.<p>Students don't want to hear what billionaires want. They want to hear what will enable them to survive in a newly chaotic job market that seems ever more weighted against job seekers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 16:41:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258788</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Python 1.0.0 is out (1994)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Tired of decyphering the Perl code you wrote last week?<p>This is what brought me to Python (1.5)<p>Working on Windows servers, using the ActiveState Perl Development Kit satisfied the need for a better scripting environment than batch files, but I was a poor Perl programmer, it just never stuck.<p>Python solved the problem of "What the heck was I trying to do?" when looking at my own 6 month old code. It is still my primary language today.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 22:32:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252249</link><dc:creator>kermatt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252249</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48252249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by kermatt in "Vivaldi 8.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What is the advantage of building a browser engine from scratch?<p>Same reason some of us choose Linux over Windows.</p>
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