Hacker News: koolba

New comment by koolba in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

koolba — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:34:24 +0000

My complaint is not with the approval numbers. Those go back and forth.

It’s with referring to half of the country as morons. If that’s the starting point for a debate it’s not likely to be a sincere one.

New comment by koolba in "Credit Card Rewards Became a $9.2B Wealth Transfer"

koolba — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:31:14 +0000

Spending money on don’t have with no financial repercussions is known as the elusive “infinity money hack”. Which clearly does not exist.

Of course there’s going to be a a cost to spending beyond your means.

New comment by koolba in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

koolba — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 13:02:09 +0000

> It’s the people that are the problem. These policies and politics will outcast Trump because middle Anerica and The South are filled with morons.

What a sad and tired take. Trump won both the electoral and popular vote. Discounting the opinions of over half the country as morons is exactly the type of behavior that got him elected.

New comment by koolba in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

koolba — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:37:44 +0000

No deal is a bad deal. Just for an indefinite term.

New comment by koolba in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

koolba — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:28:48 +0000

> Need an end table that is lacking?

End table? That’s a server rack: https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/List_of_IkeaRacks

New comment by koolba in "Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk"

koolba — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:19:09 +0000

People who add sugar to coffee miss out on the sweetness of everything else by contrast.

The bitterness itself is enjoyable, but the natural sweetness of everyday foods is also magnified.

New comment by koolba in "AI is a bubble, just like dot-com"

koolba — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:59:32 +0000

Everybody was already lazy. Now they have a means of demonstrating it.

New comment by koolba in "Twenty Years of Pandoc"

koolba — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:58:48 +0000

Pandoc is awesome. My fav usage is configuring git to use it to normalize binary docs to markdown (like a .docx) so they can be diffed. Works amazing for redlining contacts.

New comment by koolba in "When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work"

koolba — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:07:24 +0000

> A good goal as a developer is a high commit message to change ratio. The more lines of code that you change, the more comments explaining why you’re changing the code. More message and less code changes per commit is generally a good idea.

No! Blanket statements like this is how you end up with 40 pages of slop AI comments in PRs that nobody reads.

Comments should be terse and meaningful. They should document surprising behavior or choices. The less comments you have, the more meaningful each one becomes because your time and eyeballs are limited as well.

New comment by koolba in "Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga"

koolba — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:58:03 +0000

Why couldn’t he have used the same laptop many years after its release?

New comment by koolba in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

koolba — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:08:37 +0000

The open source version of this has existed for decades as well.

There’s the doers that actually enjoy the craft, want to share what they’ve done, and contribute to things they genuinely find intellectually stimulating.

And for each of those true believers there’s many more fly by night wannabes that think it’s some kind of shortcut to social validation.

New comment by koolba in "Pgtestdb's template cloning approach to testing is fast"

koolba — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:08:35 +0000

Turning off synchronous_commit gets you most of the way without ever worrying about data corruption if something crashes mid way through.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/wal-async-commit.htm...

New comment by koolba in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"

koolba — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:24:31 +0000

When I have a truly difficult prompt, I give it to the laziest model.

New comment by koolba in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

koolba — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:49:13 +0000

All of this boils down to an extra underscore in his username. It’s the type of thing I’d hope our LLM-powered future solves for the common man.

Catching typos like that would be load bearing for someone armed only with a public defender.

New comment by koolba in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

koolba — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:45:13 +0000

Be funnier if you even write “do not enter 123456”.

New comment by koolba in "Japan legend Miura, 59, scores first goal since 2022"

koolba — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:32:18 +0000

Damn straight. 99% of these types of plays is being willing to run in before there’s a set up. Big up to a 59 year old that is still willing to do so.

One can only hope his own knees up that well at that age.

New comment by koolba in "Git rebase -I is not that scary"

koolba — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:50:49 +0000

That “-I” really needs to be lowercase.

New comment by koolba in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

koolba — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:07:26 +0000

> It’s a Herculean task, though.

I believe it’s spelled Sisyphean.

New comment by koolba in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

koolba — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 02:31:28 +0000

Kill a man you’re a murderer. Kill a thousand, you’re a conqueror.

New comment by koolba in "I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs"

koolba — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 22:06:58 +0000

And for most of those commands add a dash dash so that nothing with a dash prefix turns into options.