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New comment by lazystar in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

lazystar — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:47:07 +0000

I don't see the point in comparing photos of snow coverage in feb 2026 to the same area in march 2026. March is a spring month, of course snow coverage will be worse. Itd be more shocking if the snow coverage increased. they should show march 2026 vs. march 2025/2024/2023 etc.

New comment by lazystar in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

lazystar — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:25:24 +0000

aye, fair assessment.

funny story, figured out the root cause behind 3 years of brain fog just a few hours after i left this comment. it wasnt long covid; turns out my eyes were so swollen from screentime, that they were cutting off blood flow to my prefrontal cortex. started using a portable eye massage device, and poof - back to normal. just have to clean up the mistakes i made while i was sleep deprived and caveman like.

New comment by lazystar in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

lazystar — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:25:00 +0000

aye, totally correct.

New comment by lazystar in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

lazystar — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:53:41 +0000

my team is anti-AI. my code review requests are ignored, or are treated more strictly than others. it feels coordinated - i will have to push back the launch date of my project as a result.

another teammate added a length check to an input field, and his request was merged near instantly, even though it had zero unit testing. this team is incredibly cooked in the long term, i just need to ensure that i survive the short term somehow.

New comment by lazystar in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

lazystar — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:42:04 +0000

games are global - NFL is solely american.

New comment by lazystar in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

lazystar — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 04:32:00 +0000

> Or, do you tell it the basic functionality you want, test it out, then add feature after feature that you want, sometimes dropping them and sometimes adding new ones that you thought of as your worked

the problem with this is long term maintainability. it works - and the engineer understands how it works - but a) the AI does not prioritize cleanup/organization/naming, and b) there's a blind spot/boiling frog type of phenomenon that can prevent the engineer from spotting the growing problem. the codebase becomes recognizable only to them. the engineer sees all features working, all bugs fixed, 90% test coverage, and submits it for a PR.

the engineer tasked with reviewing the PR will treat it as slop.

New comment by lazystar in "Agents that run while I sleep"

lazystar — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 09:44:02 +0000

> How's that not criminal

Well, a) it's a hobby, and b) this is still a free country/free society.

New comment by lazystar in "Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues"

lazystar — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:50:33 +0000

at the top there's Neil Pert, then a huge gap, then anyone else.

New comment by lazystar in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

lazystar — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:53:42 +0000

i think theres a paradox here. intelligence needs a judge - if nothing verifies that the optimal outcome was chosen, it's too easy for the intelligence to fall into biased decisions

New comment by lazystar in "AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human"

lazystar — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:37:19 +0000

its turtle bots all the way down

New comment by lazystar in "AWS won't discuss my bill, suspended my account, took $1,600, still no human"

lazystar — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:36:31 +0000

silly AWS, google already went through this infinite loop of bot support. learn from their mistakes.

New comment by lazystar in "Unprecedented 'Jobless Boom' Tests Limits of US Economic Expansion"

lazystar — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:48:54 +0000

> I doubt we will see most of these impacts for 10 to 20 years

Have you been to Seattle lately?

New comment by lazystar in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

lazystar — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:29:44 +0000

emacs + adhd. the squiggly lines and autocomplete stuff were more distracting than linter/compile errors. rock and a hard place, and ai solved it.

New comment by lazystar in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

lazystar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 23:44:01 +0000

emacs-nox for 8 years :-)

New comment by lazystar in "Breaking the spell of vibe coding"

lazystar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 22:45:16 +0000

i used to lose hours each day to typos, linting issues, bracket-instead-of-curly-bracket, 'was it the first parameter or the second parameter', looking up accumulator/anonymous function callback syntax AGAIN...

idk what ya'll are doing with AI, and i dont really care. i can finally - fiiinally - stay focused on the problem im trying to solve for more than 5 minutes.

New comment by lazystar in "You can't trust the internet anymore"

lazystar — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:19:58 +0000

I've been miserable over the last few weeks after coming to that same conclusion. Its so bad that i doubt the people that were pulling the strings can even tell whats going on anymore.

New comment by lazystar in "Nobody knows how the whole system works"

lazystar — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:36:28 +0000

> Granted one person can't know/do everything,

watch me try, at least.

> but large companies in particular seem allergic to granting you any visibility whatsoever. It's particularly annoying

If the blind spot is directly causing customer pain, find metrics that demonstrate the impact. If it ends up driving away your customers, then your company is securing itself to death.

New comment by lazystar in "macOS No Longer Ships with Emacs"

lazystar — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 20:32:39 +0000

reminds me of a funny anecdote from my first job in the tech industry. all of the team's VM's had VIM installed, but no emacs. when I asked a teammate if we could add emacs to the bsse image, he responded "It already has an OS, we don't need another one."

New comment by lazystar in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

lazystar — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:07:18 +0000

so they kept you aroumd then, eh? sounds like someone in HR with half a brain actually looked at the cost per ticket. those type of escalation tickets are ~3x more costly to resolve than non escalations. sounds like the total $$ per day of your tickets was higher than all your teammates.

New comment by lazystar in "HTTP Cats"

lazystar — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 05:37:17 +0000

i still don't understand 409 errors. saw one for the first time a few weeks ago