Hacker News: kridsdale1

New comment by kridsdale1 in "Show HN: Claude Code rewritten as a bash script"

kridsdale1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:50:36 +0000

Waiting for Rust.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "Iran threatens Nvidia, Apple and other 18 tech companies"

kridsdale1 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:45:13 +0000

I guess this is supposed to be funny but I wouldn’t take that chance.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "Parrots pack twice as many neurons as primate brains of the same mass"

kridsdale1 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:44:23 +0000

I’m not sure if you used “Classic Google” or not, but I put the quoted quote in to Google AI Mode (disclaimer; I am one of its developers) and got a full description of the story with links to online hostings of the full text in under 1 second. Not the same URL as your result, and I don’t know the IP validity of the hosting result pages I got, though.

I recalled (once I was reminded of the author) that I read this originally in one of his Anthologies. I strongly recommend to everyone who likes reading and thinking to buy both of his books!

New comment by kridsdale1 in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

kridsdale1 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:12:26 +0000

I mean, isn’t that “the scientific method”?

New comment by kridsdale1 in "The Brand Age"

kridsdale1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:38:57 +0000

We can say all the same things about cars, but nobody thinks it’s odd that there’s a status culture about cars worth more than $75,000.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "The Brand Age"

kridsdale1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:34:57 +0000

Anyone with $(80,00-250,000) (which is a lot of you) can buy a Nautilus today[1].

This status-through-martyrdom ritual to get it from retail at MSRP is utterly bizarre.

[1] https://www.chrono24.com/patekphilippe/nautilus--mod106.htm

New comment by kridsdale1 in "The Brand Age"

kridsdale1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:30:50 +0000

Watches were understated in the 70s and turned more to gold in the 80s and a super proliferation of diversity in the 90s. 90s also had machismo Schwarzenegger sized cases for steroid men.

2000s brought Hiphop bling culture to them which embraced maximalism with size further increasing and 85 diamonds and rubies being something worthy of showing.

2010s austerity led to a retreat all the way to 1940s style trench and dress watches, cases back to 38mm.

Post Covid, boldness is having a comeback. See the newest Planet Ocean. We are seeing bling and ostentatious gold again on celebrities this year.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "The Brand Age"

kridsdale1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:27:54 +0000

Gotta do something with those RSUs.

I asked Claude to psychoanalyze why I got obsessed with them and it said I’m likely striving for something tangible that appeals to my engineer mindset that isn’t now obsolete in the age of AI. It’s my career’s existentialism.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "The Brand Age"

kridsdale1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:26:04 +0000

They were. The Acquired podcast on Rolex really opened my eyes to this whole world. They defined the playbook in the 1930s that Apple repeated in the 80s and especially 2000s.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "The Brand Age"

kridsdale1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:24:25 +0000

I entered this cult last year. It’s been super fun to spot and infer from a distance, as you say, these hidden signals that men have chosen to spend $20,000 to $120,000 on.

G-Shock says “I do things that are so dangerous and so off the grid your Rolex or Apple Ultra would shatter and die”. And it’s true, out of my whole collection, that’s the one that will still be within a ms of true time 25 years after the power goes out after the nukes go off.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "The Brand Age"

kridsdale1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:21:07 +0000

(I look over to the Coca-Cola Classic on my table that I picked because my taste buds prefer the classic brand)

New comment by kridsdale1 in "Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

kridsdale1 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:50:30 +0000

“You can’t put a price on safety”

New comment by kridsdale1 in "Show HN: A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI"

kridsdale1 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:24:11 +0000

I enjoy this one as it helps keep me mostly on task while goofing off.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "I found a useful Git one liner buried in leaked CIA developer docs"

kridsdale1 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:53:54 +0000

At Meta, when this mass push for the rename happened across the industry, a few people spent nearly the full year just shepherding the renaming of master to main, and white box/black box to allowlist/blocklist.

This let them claim huge diff counts and major contributions to DEI and get promos.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "How virtual textures work"

kridsdale1 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:23:48 +0000

Like Vulcans and Data.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "Young adults report lower life satisfaction in Sweden"

kridsdale1 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:10:32 +0000

They didn’t passively exist during it. They implemented it. They are culpable.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

kridsdale1 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:54:11 +0000

You’re seeing perspectives of the distributed system from inside the system.

I’m building multi server multi agent products and they do apparently perceive (anthropomorphizing I know) their connected servers as other people.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal"

kridsdale1 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:49:56 +0000

Why do you say that? Iranian engineers are incredibly talented.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "What “The Best” Looks Like"

kridsdale1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:06:18 +0000

In my opinion as a hiring person at FAANG for almost 20 years, what’s described here has always been the goal. Lots of people work at FAANG who don’t meet this bar because a need to fill seats exceeded the need to hold the line / bar on quality. So tenure pedigree doesn’t say much.

But this candidate profile is the best anywhere. It’s also a bit like writing an article and saying “you shouldn’t try to buy shares in the most well known tickers, try to buy things that are undervalued but will be great in the future”. Yeah, but also duh.

New comment by kridsdale1 in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

kridsdale1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:55:32 +0000

To a describe a thing people had been doing since LLMs became available.