Hacker News: mrbombastic

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.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

mrbombastic — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:05:26 +0000

hey now, they should be grateful they get enough tokens for their appointments with ClaudeMD for their statistically below par data labeling performance, we could reduce the allowance if we keep hearing that kind of talk. We have been very generous with portions at the automatic canteen as well, that energy could be better allocated to the maintenance bots in the server farm.

New comment by mrbombastic in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

mrbombastic — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:58:29 +0000

just this week i pushed back on some requirements in a very detailed product spec I was implementing to speed up time to ship. The pm had no idea what I was talking about because the requirements were invented by an LLM. This is not a bad PM, discipline doesn't scale.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Native all the way, until you need text"

mrbombastic — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:33:05 +0000

a bit of a roundabout way to answer this, but i think most native devs are okay with a self contained app element using webkit, that is what it is there for and generally stuff like rendering html, markdown, a one off static page, it is just a view from UI perspective. When things get more interactive, have a navigation hierarchy, animations etc are when things start to diverge from native feel and performance and you have gone too far.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

mrbombastic — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:52:58 +0000

Just make it a semi-hidden multistep option like browsers when you visit a site with a bad cert, just annoying to leave what you are doing go to system settings and fiddle.

New comment by mrbombastic in "I want to live like Costco people"

mrbombastic — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:03:02 +0000

Ruta Maya is quite good as well, probably not as big of a coffee snob as the author though.

New comment by mrbombastic in "I want to live like Costco people"

mrbombastic — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:59:40 +0000

Are you sure you wanna live like costco people?

https://youtu.be/ainyK6fXku0

(I love the Shatner version, sorry!)

New comment by mrbombastic in "Bankruptcies increase 11.9 percent"

mrbombastic — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:19:23 +0000

Relevant snl skit: https://youtu.be/wXZNuwY_5-U

New comment by mrbombastic in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

mrbombastic — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:27:59 +0000

I use this all the time dropping files from old android device to mac, thanks devs!

New comment by mrbombastic in "Meta to cut 10% of jobs"

mrbombastic — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:21:30 +0000

What do i have to be to get Fridays too?

New comment by mrbombastic in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

mrbombastic — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:27:37 +0000

It makes perfect sense if you think things cannot improve indefinitely

New comment by mrbombastic in "Claude Design"

mrbombastic — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 09:57:22 +0000

Finally a product for me!

New comment by mrbombastic in "Claude Opus 4.7"

mrbombastic — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:06:20 +0000

productivity going right back down again, ah well they weren't going to pay us more anyway

New comment by mrbombastic in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

mrbombastic — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:48:02 +0000

Calling Yosemite bog standard beauty in California is a pretty wild statement. California definitely punching above its weight for natural beauty and Yosemite is overcrowded but the valley is still one of the more breathtaking places in the world IMO.

New comment by mrbombastic in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

mrbombastic — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:38:17 +0000

You often find expat communities have the exact opposite viewpoint as those that remain, part of the reason they are expats. See cuban expats, nicaraguan expats, not to say they are wrong but they are not a monolith representing all of a civilization. Presumably those standing around the bridges don’t want them bombed.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

mrbombastic — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:12:16 +0000

these economic incentives for good code would also apply to code before llms no? And we have had plenty of shit code that stayed shit for a long time. I find this idea that economic incentives will necessarily drive the outcomes you desire to be akin to a religious belief for some people.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

mrbombastic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:32:11 +0000

Yes of course we are all brainwashed by the famously democrat controlled media at _the Wall Street Journal_ which is owned by prominent leftist Rupert Murdoch. bro you are being robbed in broad daylight.