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New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Show HN: Vanilla JavaScript refinery simulator built to explain job to my kids"

lfpeb8b45ez — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:16:04 +0000

This is great, but I really thought it was going to go from crude oil to refinement to data centers to LLM tokens to explain every software developer’s job!

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content"

lfpeb8b45ez — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 01:56:53 +0000

How about InfoWars?

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Show HN: Simple modenized .NET NuGet server reached RC"

lfpeb8b45ez — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:15:48 +0000

*modernized

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "All the books I won't read"

lfpeb8b45ez — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 03:19:02 +0000

I was really hoping this would be a list of books you had decided not to read, with short (ideally flippant) justifications. Followed, inevitably, by passionate and erudite rebuttals.

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "That's a Lot of YAML"

lfpeb8b45ez — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 20:39:41 +0000

I find the configuration complexity clock always valuable in framing conversations like this: https://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/05/configuration-comple...

Ask HN: What board game rule did you misunderstand that made the game better?

lfpeb8b45ez — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 21:48:09 +0000

With the recent discussion around how board game rules explanations are hard to digest, what are some examples of misunderstood rules that you preferred to the actual rule?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42300781

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Stanford creative writing program laying off lecturers"

lfpeb8b45ez — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 06:49:10 +0000

Tom Kealey, one of the lecturers quoted extensively in this article, is a fantastic teacher. I took a class with him toward the beginning of his time at Stanford, and I often find myself thinking about what I learned. Tom took us seriously, those shy and strange kids who were just waking up to our own interior lives. He read our fan fiction, our intriguing premise that went nowhere, our characters who were always bursting into tears portentously, and he helped us learn how to stop copying what we had read, and to begin to find a voice. The university statement says “However, we firmly believe that the changes advance the program’s pedagogical mission and provide promising writers with the resources to complete their books and obtain appointments at other colleges and universities.” I think that’s completely ridiculous. It will definitely do the second thing; how could it do the first? Promising writers preparing for publication have a great deal on their plate. Why would we expect them to excel in pedagogy because they write well?

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Asynchronous Programming in C#"

lfpeb8b45ez — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 22:51:13 +0000

My understanding is that the .NET team is working toward this with Interceptors: https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn/blob/main/docs/features/int...

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "The Tale of Daniel"

lfpeb8b45ez — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 03:31:55 +0000

Or Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, to use their less well known Hebrew names.

Recology Trash Service Still Disrupted 3 Months After Hack

lfpeb8b45ez — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 18:09:55 +0000

Article URL: https://komonews.com/news/local/residents-demand-answers-as-garbage-piles-up-at-capitol-hill-apartment-complex-trash-not-picked-up-seattle-public-utilities-cyber-attack-hack-rats-raccoons-problem-issues-spu-solid-waste-security-operations

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39484085

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Microsoft 'retires' Azure IoT Central in platform rethink"

lfpeb8b45ez — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 18:21:08 +0000

I’m not surprised by this: IoT Hub is the core infrastructure piece powering Azure IoT, and it’s not going anywhere per the article. IoT Central, which is being phased out, was a layer on top of IoT Hub and other components that always had a somewhat awkward position. By trying to offer prepackaged IoT solutions, a lot of the power features were harder to use, but the solutions weren’t really end-user ready. Given the IoT hype dying down this makes sense.

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "The C4 model for visualising software architecture (2017)"

lfpeb8b45ez — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 17:18:45 +0000

Yes, that’s exactly the convention that C4 specifies: add legends on every diagram and make sure things are labeled in a way that people can understand.

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Chili Oil Notes"

lfpeb8b45ez — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 01:41:24 +0000

There’s always this case from 2008: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232990/

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Hackers claim it only took a 10-minute phone call to shut down MGM Resorts"

lfpeb8b45ez — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 23:34:39 +0000

Really looking forward to hearing a thirty second clip from this call in a 2028 episode of Darknet Diaries.

“THESE are true stories from the dark side of the internet… I’m Jachary Sider.”

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Nuclear-Powered Icebreakers"

lfpeb8b45ez — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 07:32:23 +0000

“So, what’s your bomb shelter situation?”

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Google's Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Say"

lfpeb8b45ez — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:40:43 +0000

I think you mean:

Google's Rush to Win in AI Led to Ethical Lapses, Employees Do Not Say

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Steel Threads are a powerful but obscure software design approach"

lfpeb8b45ez — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 03:58:04 +0000

Where this approach really shines is in v1 of a complex project. If you have multiple teams combining to deploy edge compute pushing data to a cloud service and talking to multiple client experiences, then a steel thread approach can help maintain sanity while requirements and contracts are evolving.

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Beware of Book Blurbs"

lfpeb8b45ez — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 04:06:42 +0000

The Millions has done it again with a crackling, thrill-a-minute joyride that’s whip-smart and unexpectedly devastating.

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "‘I’d rather eat an actual burger’: plant-based meat’s sizzle fizzled in the US"

lfpeb8b45ez — Sat, 24 Sep 2022 21:49:49 +0000

Check out the carnivore diet.

New comment by lfpeb8b45ez in "Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?"

lfpeb8b45ez — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 01:13:23 +0000

This talk has some great ideas about testing areas that are considered untestable: https://youtu.be/5_IW7npQk9k