Hacker News: lispisok

New comment by lispisok in "Airlines Can't Charge You for What You Wear"

lispisok — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:35:17 +0000

Cant recall ever being weighed as a passenger and in this day and age you have passengers who are 120 lbs and 300 lbs yet you get penalized if your suitcase is 1 lbs over the limit.

New comment by lispisok in "US Is Starting to See Heavy Job Losses in Roles Exposed to AI"

lispisok — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:03:33 +0000

I think the goal is to replace workers who cost $10,000/mo with an AI agent that costs $8,000/mo

New comment by lispisok in "Coursera and Udemy are now one company"

lispisok — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:40:32 +0000

Nobody cares how much learning you did but how hard it was to get into the university you got your piece of paper from. Coding bootcamps eventually figured this out so they started to have selective admissions. Universities like Harvard have rampant grade inflation and you have to try to fail out of yet still have prestige due to selective admissions.

New comment by lispisok in "Why TUIs are back"

lispisok — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:23:02 +0000

My cynical take why TUIs are back is because people operating in the terminal became a signal that you were competent and once people figured that out everybody started doing it. The reason people were operating in the terminal is lost of them but hey it makes you look like a 1337 hacker. It's the same thing with side projects of past decades. People who had side projects cared about the craft for more than a paycheck and tended to be more competent. Then every person just trying to land a job suddenly had "side projects". Gotta have those green squares on github.

New comment by lispisok in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

lispisok — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:06:23 +0000

>I genuinely challenge someone spending $5-$10k a month to demonstrate how that turns into $50-$100k in value

At a lot of businesses $5-10k/mo of AI spend doesnt even translate into $5-10k/mo value. Churning out code was rarely the business value bottleneck. It was convenient for everybody else to blame developers not writing code fast enough for their failures. Now they have no excuse but I doubt will own up.

New comment by lispisok in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

lispisok — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:24:43 +0000

Grade inflation and schools passing kids who should fail to game metrics and keep collecting student loans is a problem. I wouldnt consider hiring anybody from my alma mater who didnt score a sandard deviation or higher on the tests.

New comment by lispisok in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

lispisok — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:11:07 +0000

They dont want to build the next git they want to build the next Github. It will have one of those licenses where you can use it but not offer a managed service like the Elastic License

New comment by lispisok in "Functional programming accelerates agentic feature development"

lispisok — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:43:29 +0000

This article is just describing Clojure. The SUPER principals are describing the native natural way of writing Clojure, no category theory needed.

New comment by lispisok in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

lispisok — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:53:24 +0000

I want access to the LLM xcode uses for swift auto completions

New comment by lispisok in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

lispisok — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:02:35 +0000

When Colorado passed the wage disclosure law and Digital Ocean decided not to hire in Colorado anymore despite being founded in Colorado is when I decided to never use them. I dont care if they eventually started hiring people in Colorado again.

New comment by lispisok in "Rust is just a tool"

lispisok — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:21:43 +0000

Rust is cool but there is way too much dogma around its memory safety and static typing in general being a panacea. Most errors are not type errors. Two days after Cloudfare's little Rust hiccup that took the internet down for a day I saw people posting about Rust "if it compiles it runs".

New comment by lispisok in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

lispisok — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:15:06 +0000

When skiddies use other people's scripts to pop some outdated wordpress install they are absolutely are responsible for their actions. Same applies here.

New comment by lispisok in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

lispisok — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:10:13 +0000

My experience with flat structure is the most stubborn opinionated people end up making all the decisions because they dont budge and get to escape all responsibility for bad calls. Better to have a designated lead.

New comment by lispisok in "Oxide raises $200M Series C"

lispisok — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:05:23 +0000

Excessive amounts of interviews is more likely they were not enthusiastic about him but didnt have anybody else better and were stringing him along until they found somebody else.

New comment by lispisok in "Prism"

lispisok — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:49:42 +0000

Way too much work having AI generate slop which gets dumped on a human reviewer to deal with. Maybe switch some of that effort into making better review tools.

New comment by lispisok in "Introduction to PostgreSQL Indexes"

lispisok — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:20:35 +0000

If you have timeseries data TimescaleDB has this with continuous aggregates

New comment by lispisok in "RevisionDojo, a YC startup, is running astroturfing campaigns targeting kids?"

lispisok — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:13:38 +0000

HN is so prime to sockpuppet on because of its fairly low comment rate but high concentration of users who can make technology decisions at companies.

New comment by lispisok in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

lispisok — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:16:09 +0000

More evidence for my theory that the only reason Uber et al are able to exist is because they have an infinite supply of suckers signing up as drivers. Any McJob pays better now.

New comment by lispisok in "An Interactive Guide to the Fourier Transform"

lispisok — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:52:29 +0000

>Unless we're now ranking scientific discoveries based on whether or not they get a post every weekend on HN.

Glad I'm not the only one who noticed there is a weekly (or more) post on what Fourier transform is.

New comment by lispisok in "Scala 3 slowed us down?"

lispisok — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:16:43 +0000

I tried getting into Scala several times and kept going back to Clojure. Unless you are into type system minigames Clojure has many of the things Scala advertises but without the dumptruck of Scala overhead and complexity. Another commenter briefly touched on this but it's a language made by academics for academics to play with language design. It was a little weird it blew up in industry for a while.