Hacker News: mrbombastic

New comment by mrbombastic in "Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale"

mrbombastic — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:37:33 +0000

If we taxed him a little more i might be able to afford a tiny violin to play to mourn his unfair treatment

New comment by mrbombastic in "US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans"

mrbombastic — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:34:21 +0000

for starters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement but if you have no knowledge of American history not sure a hn thread is right place to start

New comment by mrbombastic in "AI promised less work. I've never worked more"

mrbombastic — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 15:58:31 +0000

there is a 3rd option and it involves us organizing and actually exerting some of our power as the critical dependency in basically all of the modern economy.

New comment by mrbombastic in "The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI"

mrbombastic — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 12:39:21 +0000

In my experience reliability and simplicity have decreased, LOC for every feature is at least 2x what it was, more incidents than ever before. What kills me is if we just applied llm programming to the old ways of doing things and got our minor speedup but refined our approach, got ai to catch things we normally wouldn’t, did the extra refactor we normally wouldn’t we could increase reliability and simplicity. But management wants the velocity more than those things.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Apple broke an essential presentation feature of iPads"

mrbombastic — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:09:30 +0000

also stupidly updated and mission control and window management is so crazy buggy, adopting your embargo from now on if I can keep my sanity

New comment by mrbombastic in "Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?"

mrbombastic — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:06:42 +0000

as someone using AI, it is mania, leadership has decided it is so and software is getting worse. we could have just accepted our 20% bump and been happy, fixed bugs, made things better quality, nope, ship half assed features at 2x speed, pretend claude is infallible and will solve all our problems, brand reputation? user research? pixel perfect designs? what are you a dinosaur?

New comment by mrbombastic in "Tesla Roadster"

mrbombastic — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:41:51 +0000

So you don’t dispute this reporting, don’t dispute that this was Musk’s idea, which implies he lied about it immediately afterwards.

And just so i am clear on your philosophy there is no guilt that rides whatsoever with presenting this capability to the leader of the free world who then goes and does exactly what you suggested resulting in many people dying while a nation fights for its life.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Tesla Roadster"

mrbombastic — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:11:42 +0000

that was 2 days ago, this came out today: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/10/16/musk-appro...

New comment by mrbombastic in "Tesla Roadster"

mrbombastic — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:36:04 +0000

Reporting literally just came out that throttling starlink for ukraine was his idea…but sure he is just a helpless innocent billionaire with no control whatsoever

New comment by mrbombastic in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

mrbombastic — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:24:16 +0000

I feel like this was always true to an extent, now product and design are just more tolerant of it because leadership is cracking a whip over their heads because things are supposed to be much faster “because ai” so things like pixel perfect hand offs, adhering to existing design system, making sure you are aligned with the brand, copy is reviewed with marketing go out the window. Now everything is shipping in hackathon mode with an eng driving decisions they really should not be.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

mrbombastic — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:45:44 +0000

people have been saying "it's been a minute" to mean a long time since at least the 90s in NY

New comment by mrbombastic in "Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations"

mrbombastic — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 16:49:12 +0000

this is so cool :) thinking about some remixes already with maritime traffic and tides

New comment by mrbombastic in "Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin"

mrbombastic — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:07:27 +0000

Seems a lot like the meme of the new designers pushing a redesign to justify their existence.

To be less dismissive it seems an industry wide problem that big splashy projects get rewarded while the silent “Snow Leopard” mind numbingly obvious just up your quality and fix bugs and UX issues work goes unnoticed.

New comment by mrbombastic in "Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route"

mrbombastic — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:32:29 +0000

I don’t see a single comment I would describe as celebrating this

New comment by mrbombastic in "An overview of how our family is prepared"

mrbombastic — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:18:41 +0000

Fun to watch, not fun to live is what i believe the parent is referring to.

New comment by mrbombastic in "An overview of how our family is prepared"

mrbombastic — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:17:03 +0000

“The other is to make sure you have a good insurance company” such a thing exists?

New comment by mrbombastic in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

mrbombastic — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 23:05:21 +0000

moderate corporate democrats are repeatedly getting trounced in elections and the DSA crew are starting to win so citation definitely needed

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.