Hacker News: merge_softwarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=merge_softwareHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:38:49 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by merge_software in "Is my blue your blue?"]]>This is really great. Love the chart at the end. Apparently I evaluate heavily toward thinking green is blue.

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:18:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929807merge_softwarehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929807https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47929807<![CDATA[New comment by merge_software in "Laws of Software Engineering"]]>> YAGNI (You Aren't Gonna Need It)

This one is listed as design, but it could just as easily count as architecture. Guessing a lot developers have worked on scaling with lambda functions or a complex IAC setup when a simple API running on a small VPS would have done the trick, at least until enough people are using the application for it to be considered profitable.

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