Hacker News: lewdev

New comment by lewdev in ""Not Medically Necessary": Helping America's Health Insurers Deny Coverage"

lewdev — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:56:22 +0000

If insurance companies are for profit then they are incentivized to deny coverage. This fucking sucks.

New comment by lewdev in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

lewdev — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:17:47 +0000

"regulate guns" does not equate to "gun free."

New comment by lewdev in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

lewdev — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:59:29 +0000

Is it fair to say that they can just compete in the men's division?

New comment by lewdev in "Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud"

lewdev — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:51:35 +0000

There was a case where someone's finger prints matched someone who was later found to have an alibi and not be there.

So even finger prints are unreliable.

New comment by lewdev in "Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI face recognition error links her to fraud"

lewdev — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 01:49:14 +0000

How was she saved by her bank records when they already arrested her like she was proven to have done it? How little evidence do cops need to go arrest a woman 1,200 miles away and fuck up her life? And then not even apologize for it? That's fucked up.

New comment by lewdev in "Why Do They Want to Get Rid of Software Engineers?"

lewdev — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 22:06:06 +0000

Yup, that's why stock prices increase in value when companies announce massive layoffs because they know their operating costs got much lower.

And software engineers and IT staff are notoriously expensive, so hearing about a way to get rid of them would excite any investor.

New comment by lewdev in "Why Do They Want to Get Rid of Software Engineers?"

lewdev — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:18:36 +0000

This tweet succinctly encompasses my thoughts on AI coding:

"thank god programming is solved, I hated writing code...

anyway, off to issue statements to a computer in a way it can interpret"

https://x.com/iamdevloper/status/2021883924595593300

New comment by lewdev in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

lewdev — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:46:54 +0000

> It will make very little difference in the end.

I feel like there will be a difference between a handful of large corporations owning a majority of properties vs thousands of dentists and software engineers. Are you saying that all of these property owners are also soulless profit-optimizers?

I remember watching some video of tenants being priced out of their rental apartments so when they tried to contact the property owner, they found layers upon layers of managers and companies. It just seems better when there are more thousands of owners than just a handful of corporations.

New comment by lewdev in "Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes"

lewdev — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:21:58 +0000

Regardless of the pay, I just can't imagine people really being excited to drive all day alone. I hate driving and I do it as little as possible. People like to be around other people when they work too.

New comment by lewdev in "Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes"

lewdev — Fri, 02 May 2025 19:14:18 +0000

This reminds me of how ATMs created more banking jobs because people started to use the bank more along with ATMs. ATMs handled the simple transactions and tellers dealt with the more complex tasks.

We'll see. There will be a loss of little industries that depended on truckers though, like truck stops and inns.

I also hope that this results in more jobs that are fulfilling.

New comment by lewdev in "IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs"

lewdev — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 03:19:08 +0000

AI is causing the unemployment or big tech is still downsizing after the influx of hiring done during and after the pandemic?

New comment by lewdev in "Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data"

lewdev — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 00:18:46 +0000

It's okay when large corporations download cars. But when you do it, you'll be in trouble.

New comment by lewdev in "CEO of AI Music Company Says People Don't Like Making Music"

lewdev — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 22:06:00 +0000

People who use AI to make music don't like making music.

New comment by lewdev in "Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion"

lewdev — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 20:00:21 +0000

He lead a mob of his audience to threaten families that just had a child in their family murdered based on lies. There's no price on how horrible that is. Argue all you want, it went through a long process to get to that number so good luck with that.

New comment by lewdev in "Google turns Android into a desktop OS in 5 steps"

lewdev — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 22:08:20 +0000

Project Linda looks pretty cool and relatively practical since it lets you keep everything in one device. I have a PC, laptop, and mobile phone. This might bring it my devices to two.

Phones are getting so powerful that it seems like the logical next step.

New comment by lewdev in "Ask HN: What is it with this hate and disdain for interns/junior engineers?"

lewdev — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 04:29:34 +0000

I can imagine that training only leads to bearing fruit in other companies if the junior/intern decides to leave.

New comment by lewdev in "Ask HN: Did you personal website help you get hired? Tell about it"

lewdev — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:20:36 +0000

What blogging platform did you use?

That's an amazing story! I feel motivated to start blogging myself.

New comment by lewdev in "Amazon employees: 'I'd rather go back to school than work in an office again'"

lewdev — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:23:59 +0000

It's 100% a scheme to do mass layoffs without having to pay severance.

WFH is so awesome and everybody loves it. Take that away and you know people will leave on their own.

New comment by lewdev in "First water car is already a reality: 1000km of autonomy and the end of gasoline"

lewdev — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 02:38:49 +0000

Can you use any kind of water? Or filtered and treated special water? The article says that we can use the "most abundant substance on earth", which would be the case if we can use sea water straight from the ocean. If it is the case, that'd be amazing.

This sounds too good to be true so what's the catch? I'm all for advances towards being independent of oil, but I don't see the draw back here. What's holding this back from mass production and adoption?

New comment by lewdev in "A Jenga tower about to collapse: Software erosion is happening all around us"

lewdev — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 09:55:51 +0000

This article is capitalizing on the Crowdstrike incident. It was costly but a mistake. As a software engineer, I just know that's all it is. I don't think there is a upward trend of these mistakes because they are always trying to be careful and sometimes they also get careless. Some additional processes might be added to avoid it, but years later it may happen again somewhere else in another company. I don't think it's because of "software erosion." And the recovery was a costly day or two but it was fixed and we all went back to normal.