Hacker News: mrbombastic

New comment by mrbombastic in "Felony Bench"

mrbombastic — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 19:36:54 +0000

your perspective on today’s America is there is _too much_ accountability for big companies?

New comment by mrbombastic in "Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking"

mrbombastic — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 11:40:20 +0000

"The Corner" is also a great read by him.

New comment by mrbombastic in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering"

mrbombastic — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:18:20 +0000

this is a more reasonable argument IMO, but i would still disagree that that means only the top level pros stay for a few reasons (although it might happen / is already happening in the short term):

- if it is true that AI enhances our abilities it just means the goal posts move of what was expected for each level

- the complexity ceiling will rise for the level a superstar or a company is capable of maintaining, meaning there will still be stratified complexities for the mid levels of old to handle, it might just be higher than before

- counter intuitively but time and again increased software creation more often than not increases demand for more software rather than decreases

if the world decides it has no more problems to solve with software, then we are in trouble. i don't think that is happening anytime soon.

New comment by mrbombastic in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mrbombastic — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:14:30 +0000

Because the companies everyone claims are now obsolete are making a lot of money still doing the supposedly obsolete things?

New comment by mrbombastic in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mrbombastic — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:36:17 +0000

because this comment is responding to: "I think the field is basically over as a long term career unless you are truly exceptional. It will become very easy to build most software"

photoshop, paypal, and many more companies etc. have software of vast complexity that cannot be reproduced or maintained today solely with llms, ipso facto you still need software developers or some similar role to build and maintain the complexity of _yesterday_

some guy shipping an iOS app to zero users doesn't change that. although i think it is good we can have more bespoke software.

New comment by mrbombastic in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

mrbombastic — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:53:25 +0000

color me skeptical that the CEO or anyone non-technical is ever going to prompt their way out of a major incident when all the AI chickens come home to roost.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Show HN: Write.md – A free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS"

mrbombastic — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:09:15 +0000

small bit of feedback, "Rice it until it feels like yours." is pretty jargon heavy for a landing page, i don't think all that many people outside linux/tech use that term, why not "customize"?

New comment by mrbombastic in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

mrbombastic — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:58:41 +0000

A chef in a michelin restaurant, unless he/she is the sole employee (very rare) is likely in charge of a team of line cooks and while they may get some time and place to experiment you better believe it will not be when preparing the chefs carefully curated menu and recipes for paying customers who have been on a reservation waitlist for months. Bob decided to cook the broccoli with a blowtorch and substituted some ingredients in table 9s dinner. There is a fire in the kitchen and the NYT food critic is going into anaphylactic shock but Bob at least feels like an artist so we will let it slide.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

mrbombastic — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 15:51:30 +0000

the claim we are arguing here is not that “linters never make mistakes” it is that “linters are generally beneficial and avoid mostly useless debates we previously spent an inordinate amount of time on” Most linters have an escape hatch for exactly this which is usually a one line disable comment

New comment by mrbombastic in "Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59"

mrbombastic — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:46:01 +0000

I also never have these conversations at work…because every repo uses a linter and the engineers are mature enough to recognize most of these debates as bikeshedding. Every once in a while someone will suggest turning on or enabling a new custom rule with some justification and there is a brief discussion and it is enabled or not. Outside of work in a consulting gig I didn’t have a linter in the codebase and the owner brought on a new engineer, he wrote if else statements all on one line no matter how long they were and removed spaces everywhere because he thought shorter code was better. He balked hard at any feedback about code style and I was told I couldn’t enforce code style or install a linter. I think you will surprised how much you care if someone with a truly weird style starts putting it in your codebase, I always told myself I didn’t before this. After more dumb waste of time clashes like that I quit the project. Now even personal projects get a linter :).

New comment by mrbombastic in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

mrbombastic — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:20:48 +0000

everything has tradeoffs, on the one hand you are right you have one less dependency, on the other hand the maintenance of said dependency is now on you. many times app store connect has changed some api and fixing our release process was a matter of updating fastlane because the community had already dealt with it, that's on you if you have a bespoke delivery solution.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Building and shipping Mac and iOS apps without opening Xcode"

mrbombastic — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:02:40 +0000

This is cool but also makes me worried about the tendency with llms for all of us to make bespoke solutions rather than building a better community tool or extending an existing tool to solve the problem. fastlane exists to solve exactly this problem in the mobile space.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

mrbombastic — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:23:36 +0000

Was driving in Lapland with a car like this, snow and ice everywhere on the road except in 2 narrow strips of pavement previous drivers had driven over, naturally it was not always in the exact area of lane that lane assist wanted me and I felt it was actively trying to kill me. Was able to disable but turned back on every time you stopped and started engine and I am forgetful.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Vite+ Beta"

mrbombastic — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:23:46 +0000

You are signing up for another hellscape of unmaintainable slop. Enable package cooldowns and only whitelist internal packages and you are better off than 90%

New comment by mrbombastic in "Mark Zuckerberg directed Meta to create a prediction markets app"

mrbombastic — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:46:25 +0000

not to mention rage posting dozens of time a day doesn't scream contentedness

New comment by mrbombastic in "Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them"

mrbombastic — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:49:07 +0000

Presumably if they want ai regulation they want evenly applied regulation across the industry, not just for them.

New comment by mrbombastic in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

mrbombastic — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:19:13 +0000

Jira is fine and devs just grow to hate issue trackers because they hate that part of the job. Watch for another one to come and go when people get sick of linear.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

mrbombastic — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:17:02 +0000

I was a fan of Robinhood's mission of democratizing finance and prioritizing UX for casual traders. They seem to jump on every hype train though, crypto, prediction markets, now agentic trading, whether it is ethical or not or good for their customers or not, and it seems like the distance between "democratizing finance" and "finding new suckers" is closing. Disappointing but not surprising.

New comment by mrbombastic in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

mrbombastic — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:07:10 +0000

Not sure i understand. Sure it doesn’t require it but Apple doesn’t trust you to handle it because you’ll probably drain the battery or spam the user or whatever, that is Apple MO, putting themselves in the middle so they can control the experience.

The single persistent connection is just to receive pushes, there is still some daemon controlled by apple in charged of dispatching to correct app.

New comment by mrbombastic in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

mrbombastic — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:45:39 +0000

yeah this is what author hints at with "Push as a battery problem". Apps are limited by default in what they can do in the background due to this, so most apps are in a suspended state not making network calls when you are not using them. To avoid the app having to keep running this stuff is delegated to OS which tells the app, "hey I have a push for you wake up and handle it!" You can send pushes locally but because of the background limitation it is not practical for unpredictable events like messages coming in.