Hacker News: officialchicken

New comment by officialchicken in "Removing React.js from the codebase and adapting Htmx for UI interactivity (2023)"

officialchicken — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:28:23 +0000

Being a curmudgeon is not good engineering leadership. "Seeing everything" is just old people being wistful, not actually contributing or doing in the now. I deployed (via ftp) my first site before Netscape so I do understand where you're coming. There isn't at present a valid or detailed criticism of why X won't Y based on all of that supposed XP - so why mention it? Educate us - why will it fail? Is it because you never mastered CDN's or the exact opposite? It certainly doesn't lead any credibility the assertion that A will become Z because they look similar or embrace similar ethos.

New comment by officialchicken in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

officialchicken — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:08:41 +0000

What does this have to do with startups?

New comment by officialchicken in "Clinical failure rates over the decades: yikes"

officialchicken — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 10:13:37 +0000

> I had to look what "clinical failure rate" means

That should have been the end if the comment; the follow-up by demonstrating such expertise just has me laughing.

New comment by officialchicken in "Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI"

officialchicken — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 14:38:39 +0000

Are you the person paying for the hallucinations, or do you just like the free high?

New comment by officialchicken in "Patreon laying off 20% of staff"

officialchicken — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:37:02 +0000

Bottom line: How do these layoffs increase the successful outcome of product launches on the platform in any way?

New comment by officialchicken in "Tangleflow: Converts GitHub Actions workflows to tangled workflows and back"

officialchicken — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:07:33 +0000

Knots? Spindle? Bobbin?

And they say skeuomorphism is dead.

New comment by officialchicken in "Nothing works and everyone is euphoric"

officialchicken — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:21:34 +0000

If your product MSRP goes up 10x because of a single OPEX line-item, the failure isn't the product, it's the business leaders.

New comment by officialchicken in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

officialchicken — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:50:11 +0000

Why jump to complex technical and policy solutions when an Open Weights AI champion trophy, in solid gold, is being requested by the Commander in Thief?

New comment by officialchicken in "Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important"

officialchicken — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:18:31 +0000

> I am prone to a sort of grandstanding that can elicit such responses, which I believe to actually

That's HN being HN.

New comment by officialchicken in "America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD"

officialchicken — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:07:16 +0000

After all of that, you still seem to be familiar with the concept of "fairness". And yet you feel you shouldn't try anything because you don't have the perfect universal answer... are you sure you're posting on the correct forum?

New comment by officialchicken in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"

officialchicken — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:45:58 +0000

Compulsion to respond to random posts

New comment by officialchicken in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

officialchicken — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:23:34 +0000

"Internet" enabled devices, or "railroads" - for example.

New comment by officialchicken in "YC CEO says he ships 37K LoC AI code per day. A developer looked under the hood"

officialchicken — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 09:35:43 +0000

... and engineers don't have to consider this a good look coming from the head of YC. These are rookie mistakes - generated by both the human and AI model in a collaborative process. It's also the kind of mistake most of us aren't willing to make b/c we don't have the capital to sweep it under the rug if it goes pear-shaped.

New comment by officialchicken in "OpenUI: Open Standard for Generative UI"

officialchicken — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:44:48 +0000

Sure the term has been enshittified - but this is MIT licensed. I think that helps rebuild the integrity of the phrase "Open Source".

New comment by officialchicken in "Spanish government 'quietly bans use of Palantir' in critical state systems"

officialchicken — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:36:17 +0000

> unmodifiable blockchain

Ahhh, this old trope. Fork it - trivial to do when you have consensus.

New comment by officialchicken in "My favorite keyboards"

officialchicken — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:20:37 +0000

How many other 40+ year old keyboard models do people still regularly use today? The Model-M reputation earned more than a click.

New comment by officialchicken in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

officialchicken — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:00:31 +0000

> You can either be resourceful and find a way or find a whole bunch of excuses.

How about addressing this false dichotomy with the likelihood that someone who is new or interested in a tech isn't willing to drop thousands of dollars on used hardware for a whim or learning exercise.

New comment by officialchicken in "Qwen-Robot Suite: A Foundation Model Suite for Physical World Intelligence"

officialchicken — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:59:52 +0000

> This is bananas to me. Theres been successful entries to snow plow competitions for ages.

Why do you hate subscriptions? What if you get a summertime snow storm?

New comment by officialchicken in "I'm Eric Ries, author of "The Lean Startup" and new book "Incorruptible" – AMA"

officialchicken — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:22:49 +0000

How are corruption and enshittification related?

New comment by officialchicken in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

officialchicken — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:06:11 +0000

"Legally required" ... gotcha, script writing on Melania Movie 3 has begun in exchange for a national security letter requiring Amazon to both keep the data and not exclude it from training.