Hacker News: kleinsch

New comment by kleinsch in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

kleinsch — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:15:22 +0000

Today’s landfills are already used for natural gas generation.

New comment by kleinsch in "“CEO said a thing” journalism"

kleinsch — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:49:37 +0000

Closely related to “people are upset about a thing” articles which just regurgitate quotes from random people on social media.

New comment by kleinsch in "My article on why AI is great (or terrible) or how to use it"

kleinsch — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:08:11 +0000

AI lets you pick the parts you want to focus on and streamline the parts you don't. I get zero joy out of wrestling build tools or figuring out deploy scripts to get what I've built out onto a server. In the past side projects would stall out because the few hours per week I had would get consumed by all of the side stuff. Now I take care of that using AI and focus on the parts I want to write.

New comment by kleinsch in "Unifi Travel Router"

kleinsch — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 02:19:00 +0000

Huge plus one. Useful to bridge hotel wifi so all my devices connect automatically, also useful as an ad-hoc router that fits into my travel pack.

New comment by kleinsch in "Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union"

kleinsch — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:53:31 +0000

NFL players have unique skills, are highly valued, and are represented by a union. Same with most other major sports.

New comment by kleinsch in "Project Amplify: Powered footwear for running and walking"

kleinsch — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:01:54 +0000

It’s not about distance, it’s about burst. It sucks to go on a ride where you fall behind or have to all-out every time there’s a hill or you need to accelerate after a stoplight. May only need 50-100w, but makes it so people can keep up with the group and have a fun time.

New comment by kleinsch in "Largest Mass Resignation in US History as 100k Federal Workers Quit"

kleinsch — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:56:28 +0000

That's their entire strategy. Shrink government causing government to become ineffective, which provides evidence that government should shrink even more.

New comment by kleinsch in "My thoughts on renting versus buying"

kleinsch — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:47:39 +0000

Home prices have dramatically exceeded inflation for a long time, so you're getting advice from people who reaped huge appreciation gains. Now housing prices are hitting affordability limits, interest rates are less appealing, so it's unclear if the future will look like the past.

New comment by kleinsch in "Serverless Horrors"

kleinsch — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 14:33:15 +0000

Freezing a card doesn’t mean the debt is erased. They can still take you to collections.

New comment by kleinsch in "How to stop feeling lost in tech: the wafflehouse method"

kleinsch — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:41:39 +0000

This is sidestepping that the market for CS degrees has gone from new grads making more than median income to some of the highest unemployment among college grads. I hope this is temporary, but the problem right now isn't focus or goal setting. It's that the entry rung to the ladder ceased to exist.

New comment by kleinsch in "Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents"

kleinsch — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 01:35:57 +0000

Disagree with logic that most will sell. Many people will incur high tax bills (if the property appreciated) or transaction costs to move. People who bought in the 2010s have mortgage rates that don’t exist anymore. Many had a reason to live in the area to begin with.

- Many will rebuild to move back

- Some will sell their lots to investors

- Some will rebuild using insurance money to flip upon completion

New comment by kleinsch in "PR process killing morale and productivity"

kleinsch — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 19:45:10 +0000

I’m a huge fan of https://github.com/VirtusLab/git-machete

New comment by kleinsch in "In Praise of Print: Reading Is Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse"

kleinsch — Thu, 28 Nov 2024 18:42:53 +0000

You’re commenting on an article about reading, which is also a solitary passive consumption activity. I suspect you’re not trying to make the point that reading books destroys relationships and self construction, so this seems like a roundabout way of saying that your favored passive consumption activity is better than what other people choose.

New comment by kleinsch in "The importance of local development"

kleinsch — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 12:57:54 +0000

He said this in 2022 when it was definitely not possible to run FB on a laptop either.

New comment by kleinsch in "Meta pays the price for storing passwords in plaintext"

kleinsch — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 03:42:51 +0000

Author of this article learned a lot about password hashing, missed the detail that this was in logs, not the database. Usually you try to avoid logging passwords, you don’t hash them in logs.

New comment by kleinsch in "Ask HN: Do we need to pay billions in fees to Stripe, Block, PayPal and Visa/MC?"

kleinsch — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 19:25:23 +0000

You leave your credit card on the table at a coffee shop. A thief takes it and goes to the grocery store. You’re going to do a chargeback.

New comment by kleinsch in "Unusual Whales Subversive Democratic Trading ETF"

kleinsch — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 14:19:30 +0000

The story sounds appealing (members of congress know more than you do, so invest like they do) but this is just bait for retail investors. Expense ratio of 0.75% is crazy for a fund that holds 400+ stocks. Disclosure info on congressional portfolios is delayed 30 days, so you're missing out on cases they're trading on time sensitive information.

New comment by kleinsch in "Which country consumes the most coffee?"

kleinsch — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 12:38:56 +0000

The math is silly, these numbers are made up. Says the average American drinks 28K cups and spends $120K in their lifetime. That’s 1.5 cups daily at $4/cup for 50 years.

New comment by kleinsch in "Tritone Substitutions"

kleinsch — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 02:00:21 +0000

There’s a bunch of theory that goes into understanding why a tritone sub works for a Dom7 for the 5 chord, but it’s not something you think about when you’re using it. You learn how it sounds and you start using it instinctively.

Other people can probably figure out better analogies, but I’d say it’s something like the difference reading an article about generics or monads vs actually using them every day. To an outsider these seem like a ton to think about, but when you use them every day they’re just part of your toolbox.

New comment by kleinsch in "Software engineers are not (and should not be) technicians"

kleinsch — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 13:12:07 +0000

This take makes sense in the context of the specific example, but falls apart for most other software engineering. You can't automate away defining business logic, but in many cases you can deliver it predictably.