Hacker News: nand_gate

New comment by nand_gate in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

nand_gate — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:36:39 +0000

Been tempting to spin up a competitor but the business/compliance side seems nightmarish whilst the actual tech aspects are trivial on modern hardware.

New comment by nand_gate in "Darklang Goes Open Source"

nand_gate — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:26:49 +0000

Must be nice making SF rates out in Algeria!

New comment by nand_gate in "Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why"

nand_gate — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:36:09 +0000

What's the relationship between NGI and Nix? Vaguely remember another HNer suggested some sort of conflict of interest there re: funds.

New comment by nand_gate in "Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why"

nand_gate — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:31:20 +0000

Was anything valuable actually built? Thought those 'projects' were just subsidy...

Europe could easily have its own stack but I'm not sure taxpayer money would ever reach the right people to make it happen.

New comment by nand_gate in "Typing 118 WPM broke my brain in the right ways"

nand_gate — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 21:04:35 +0000

WASD is my home row, still 120-140.

I lowkey judge any developer who is noticable slow at typing as I can't imagine they're using a computer effectively at such a pace given how much keyboard hitting needs to occur during regular use alone.

Not that it's a high bar but I'm surprised more companies don't test wpm when hiring over rote crap like LC.

New comment by nand_gate in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

nand_gate — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:54:34 +0000

I'm biased but my money's on the end result of AI being fewer engineers per team but also teams as a concept becoming obsolete.

Why keep legacy structures, with luxuries like POs or PMs if AI becomes powerful as you say - it'll just be 'one man startups' for better or worse.

Any empire-building VP should probably fear the wishful AI future they're praying for!

New comment by nand_gate in "Cloudlflare builds OAuth with Claude and publishes all the prompts"

nand_gate — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:43:39 +0000

In this scenario who would be buying this product that offers 'zero economic value compared to AI because AI gets so good and so cheap'.

New comment by nand_gate in "If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued"

nand_gate — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:28:45 +0000

My experiences track this, being lazy and clever is a cheat code in many ways.

New comment by nand_gate in "I think it's time to give Nix a chance"

nand_gate — Mon, 26 May 2025 17:04:28 +0000

That's a shame, is there any funding transparency? Wasn't aware they were EU funded — thought they were independent!

New comment by nand_gate in "Open Source Society University – Path to a free self-taught education in CS"

nand_gate — Mon, 26 May 2025 10:59:04 +0000

No Discord, please.

Plenty of FOSS alternatives exist.

New comment by nand_gate in "Accelerating Docker Builds by Halving EC2 Boot Time"

nand_gate — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:59:10 +0000

(You wouldn't)

Patting themselves on the back for 'fixing' a self-created problem... EC2 is the wrong abstraction for this use case imo

New comment by nand_gate in "European Investment Bank to inject €70B in European tech"

nand_gate — Mon, 19 May 2025 18:26:36 +0000

Feature, not a bug.

New comment by nand_gate in "Ground control to Major Trial"

nand_gate — Fri, 16 May 2025 21:37:40 +0000

No, I don't follow legacy hypervisors but fair enough perhaps my initial impression was off-base... still you can appreciate the irony of complaining about Rocket Company getting free stuff :/

New comment by nand_gate in "Ground control to Major Trial"

nand_gate — Fri, 16 May 2025 20:11:38 +0000

We're not going to waste days chasing them when we could waste days writing a blog post to advertise our product.

Genius marketing, I guess Rocket Company is supposed to be exploiting the OSS community, but who built Xen ;)

Before you soapbox on the 'open source moral contract' consider repaying the OSS works you gladly derived.

New comment by nand_gate in "Vircadia, a Bun and PostgreSQL-powered reactivity layer for games"

nand_gate — Thu, 15 May 2025 06:26:43 +0000

My guess is money laundering, given that the product is pretty vapourware-y (as a game dev in a past life: Vircadia looks more like 'how a web dev thinks multiplayer games work' aka basically unusable in a serious title).

New comment by nand_gate in "The great displacement is already well underway?"

nand_gate — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:45:09 +0000

I've seen worse but honestly you may be overshooting: agency work, education, and seven years of 'independent consultant' reads like you just coasted after the initial few years... for 20YOE I see limited leadership or tech skills.

New comment by nand_gate in "Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong?"

nand_gate — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:27:08 +0000

Isn't being run by a bank just a roundabout way to be run by the gov't?

Your root of trust for said bank id is gov't documents, right?

New comment by nand_gate in "Y Combinator says Google is a monopolist, no comment about its OpenAI ties"

nand_gate — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:15:26 +0000

Isn't YC well positioned to disrupt Google's monopoly? They just need to pause funding AI slop and focus on quality again, even if it means doubling the standard deal to get the necessary talent interested.

New comment by nand_gate in "UK rolls out passkeys across Gov.uk services"

nand_gate — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:23:30 +0000

Ugly indeed, hopefully a successor that is actually open can emerge.

New comment by nand_gate in "Microservices are a tax your startup probably can't afford"

nand_gate — Thu, 08 May 2025 18:18:02 +0000

Consider that game programmers are generally more skilled than enterprise devs due to tougher domain constraints and role scarcity.