Hacker News: leovander

New comment by leovander in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

leovander — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:10:40 +0000

Not to downplay your experience, but from your prior students' comments, they aren't wrong to question your industry credentials? You had maybe less than two years of "gaming" industry experience 14 years ago before going into academics?

Seems like you found an opportunity that you really wanted to pursue, but unfortunately at the same time sort of became a stat of those that can't do, teach.

I had plenty of professors along the way that touted their credentials, but they were so stale in what they were teaching. I know I know, a Computer Science degree doesn't match industry expectations, but so many professors definitely did not keep up with what was going on outside of their bubble.

New comment by leovander in "Rotten Dot Com"

leovander — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:32:02 +0000

Similarly, pain olympics.

New comment by leovander in "Waymo Safety Impact"

leovander — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:26:08 +0000

Make sure to never be in a hurry to get anywhere because you might then get stuck behind a fleet of them going exactly the speed limit, grid locking you in.

New comment by leovander in "Show HN: I Made Loom for Mobile"

leovander — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:46:15 +0000

That was a sleek demo, good job! Only thing that I could nitpick is if you polished your floating toolbars to look a bit more Apple-y, this feels like something Apple is going to be sending you an acquihire for.

New comment by leovander in "How I block all online ads"

leovander — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 04:44:54 +0000

Look into Sponsor Block as well.

New comment by leovander in "Zed is our office"

leovander — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 03:44:40 +0000

Not sure, I was only answering in regards as to what Slack shared rooms brings to the table for companies in the form of letting Project Managers/Account Managers have direct line of contact with clients.

Code wise I guess you can could be working with any agency or contractors and you could collab on PR reviews? No idea to be honest.

New comment by leovander in "Zed is our office"

leovander — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:03:15 +0000

Your company has a user pool, you sign a BAA or start working with a partner company that has their user pool. Instead of creating slack accounts in both you can share external slack rooms that only people that are invited in/from their respective orgs can join without having to co-mingle employee user pools.

New comment by leovander in "Recovering videos from my Sony camera that I stupidly deleted"

leovander — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 20:09:00 +0000

I had never seen Jeff's posts pop up on HN prior to this year and only learned of him via YouTube r/homelab content. Scrolling through the hn search his domain has had plenty of posts over the years, but his content has now become stickier and/or the audience has changed?

New comment by leovander in "I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack"

leovander — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:56:04 +0000

If you organize your folders correctly, you could probably have that dropbox folder synced with one of those services. The maintenance isn't too bad once its up and running, probably more hurdles (proxies, etc) if you are accessing outside the home. If you are the only user, you can use tailscale to access your hosted apps when out of the home.

New comment by leovander in "EHRs: The hidden distraction in your doctor's office"

leovander — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:27:15 +0000

> we were literally trying to help cure cancer lol

Project Ronin?

New comment by leovander in "My Self-Hosting Setup"

leovander — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 03:58:32 +0000

Not sure if it happens to most, but I have looped back around to not wanting to play sysadmin at home. Most of the stuff I have running I haven't updated in a awhile, luckily since I own it and it's all internal I don't need to worry about anyone taking away my locally hosted apps. Thank the IT gods for docker compose, and tools like portainer to minimize the amount of fuddling around I have to do.

New comment by leovander in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

leovander — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 15:32:34 +0000

A handful of comments already alluded to it, but maybe YC startups aren’t as smart as they think they are when they are looking for their founding engineers. Especially when it’s just the two founders looking for find their early engineers and the one holding the mba is the one leading/hiring. East to dupe these folks early on?

New comment by leovander in "Grammarly acquires Superhuman"

leovander — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 14:47:48 +0000

I miss waiting in that large invite queue until you were finally let in, what felt like the first inbox zero proponents and possibly(?) introducing the swiping rows with different actions depending how much you swiped.

New comment by leovander in "Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial"

leovander — Mon, 26 May 2025 17:51:13 +0000

Surgically implanted under the collar bone.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cdrh_docs/pdf13/P130008d.pdf

New comment by leovander in "Building my own solar power system"

leovander — Wed, 21 May 2025 06:50:06 +0000

I feel like they overpaid maybe because they got direct to consumer rates for the gear. If you would have went through a full on solar installer that solar system would have come out to less than $15k, throw in having to get the subpanel and a reroof you would maybe be looking at $30k all in. (Not including the batteries, but by the time he got to the batteries I feel like his budget was way overboard even going the non-microinverter route).

Make sure you are buying and not leasing from the company, have that all rolled into a single loan and then you claim the tax credits to help pay for the reroof.

To add to this, they take care of getting the certified roofers, the city permits for both the roof and solar and handle the PTO for you, which from what you called out is even more costs.

New comment by leovander in "Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings"

leovander — Sun, 11 May 2025 01:11:26 +0000

Extreme amount of training? More like once a year online HIPAA test that everyone blows through with the occasional CISO phishing campaigns that at least one person fails.

New comment by leovander in "CLion Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use"

leovander — Wed, 07 May 2025 15:44:09 +0000

They do have those options out of the box. I immediately switch them over to the VSCode bindings when on a new work machine.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/configuring-keyboard-and...

New comment by leovander in "Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI"

leovander — Mon, 05 May 2025 17:21:08 +0000

Don't read too much into what I am saying. I am not even talking about the AI piece.

I download a torrent with movie that I didn't pay for. If I don't allow to seed it, then I don't get in trouble. If I let it seed either during the download process or after, I'd get a DMCA notice if that torrent/magnet link was getting tracked.

I don't need a hypothetical book, that is just how it works if I were to download illegally obtained documents/media.

As technical as people are in this thread, easy to tell when folks didn't have their parents wondering why they were getting scary letters from the ISP.

New comment by leovander in "Judge said Meta illegally used books to build its AI"

leovander — Mon, 05 May 2025 16:25:18 +0000

> have been bankrupted for doing exactly this.

Only if they seeded the data and some other entity downloaded it, i.e. they hosted the data. In a previous article I believe it was called out that Meta was being a leecher (not seeding back what they downloaded).

It's the hosting that gets you, not the act of downloading it.

New comment by leovander in "I won't be vibe coding anymore: a noob's perspective"

leovander — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:16:06 +0000

https://youtu.be/IACHfKmZMr8?si=kiTOU7NpoQEwC6kj&t=45