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New comment by noident in "Don't just paste the AI at me"

noident — Sat, 23 May 2026 01:20:18 +0000

If I told my coworker that his or her "brain is a gizmo" and to "not reproduce" I would expect to be frog marched out the door a few minutes later.

New comment by noident in "OpenBSD 7.9"

noident — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:35:45 +0000

Once you have workloads that can't tolerate a power cut + running fsck for a potentially long time, a battery backup becomes an excellent investment. I bought a UPS on eBay for cheap and my home server hasn't gone down since.

I Don't Vibe Code

noident — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:39:01 +0000

Article URL: https://jacobharr.is/personal/i-dont-vibe-code

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976811

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

The Analog Charms of New York's Intercoms

noident — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:48:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/05/01/realestate/nyc-intercoms-analog.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47974781

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by noident in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

noident — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:53:26 +0000

No, it's because authentic writing on HN has been drowned out in an ocean of slop, in such quantities that calling it out is becoming an exercise in futility

New comment by noident in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

noident — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:10:19 +0000

What can stacked PRs do that a series of well-organized commits in a single branch can't?

New comment by noident in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

noident — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:47:26 +0000

If only there were some way to logically break up large pull requests into smaller pieces... Some way of creating a checkpoint with a diff including your changes, and some kind of message explaining the context behind the change... some way to "commit" a change to the record of the repository...

New comment by noident in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

noident — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:16:56 +0000

Policies like these are widespread in most companies with >1000 employees

New comment by noident in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"

noident — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:53:25 +0000

Probably 90% of my coworkers in a US tech company are on a work visa. Now that there is pressure on the H1B program, my company is investing in a permanent engineering team in India. Whether this will pay off for them in the long term is a matter of debate, but it seems like the near-term future of the US engineering team is in serious doubt.

You can't just "dismantle H1B" and expect it not to backfire.

New comment by noident in "What being ripped off taught me"

noident — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:43:36 +0000

How many of those people have experience with augmented reality? Probably not that many.

$35k seems pretty low for this job. Hindsight is 20/20 of course.

New comment by noident in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

noident — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:56:49 +0000

No W. No X. No Y. Just Z.

In fact, the whole article is filled with slopisms, just with the em dashes swapped for regular dashes and some improper spacing around ellipses to make you think a human wrote it.

New comment by noident in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

noident — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:17:07 +0000

The LLMisms in the "thinkpad" section caused me to close the tab

New comment by noident in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

noident — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:52:32 +0000

Shift-left was a disaster? A large number of my day to day problems at work could be described as failing to shift-left even in the face of overwhelmingly obvious benefits

New comment by noident in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

noident — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:06:25 +0000

I clicked the article thinking it was about GitLab. Much of the criticism held true for GitLab anyway, particularly the insanely slow feedback loops these CI/CD systems create.

New comment by noident in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

noident — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:12:11 +0000

That's a very unusual and narrow exception involving "foregone conclusion doctrine", an important fact missed by Ars Technica but elaborated on by AP: https://apnews.com/general-news-49da3a1e71f74e1c98012611aedc...

New comment by noident in "Show HN: A simulator for engineers transitioning from IC to management"

noident — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:26:53 +0000

It's often better to say nothing at all rather than to reply with an LLM generated response.

New comment by noident in "Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API"

noident — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:53:06 +0000

Somewhere along the line the AI bros stopped separating training and testing sets. It's great for impressing the villagers

New comment by noident in "Deliberate Internet Shutdowns"

noident — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 04:20:31 +0000

Ted has some interesting ideas but I personally would not accept any life advice from him

New comment by noident in "Building a Transparent Keyserver"

noident — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:54:50 +0000

Filippo Valsorda discusses his server for storing age keys

Building a Transparent Keyserver

noident — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:54:50 +0000

Article URL: https://words.filippo.io/keyserver-tlog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46326506

Points: 80

# Comments: 26