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New comment by ok123456 in "Software Engineering fundamentals matter more"

ok123456 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 20:18:02 +0000

I thought the whole software engineering profession was built on making more "IKEA-like" programs. Design patterns and general reusability are the pre-cut, pressed particle board, screws, and Allen-tool sets.

New comment by ok123456 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering"

ok123456 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:48:36 +0000

At different times in recent history, you could have also said:

> Hell is working on other people's NoSQL code.

> Hell is working on other people's Python slop code.

> Hell is working on other people's enterprise Java code.

> Hell is working on other people's Windows Forms/GUI Builder code.

To quote Jean-Paul Sartre: Hell is other people.

New comment by ok123456 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

ok123456 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:42:15 +0000

To everyone complaining about "slop" and "+20000 PRs," what kind of systematic quality assurance, test plans, and tech debt reductions were you doing before the "LLMpocalypse?"

Were you only relying on the difficulty of producing "working" from replacement skill/rate "software engineers" and their level of disinterest being the only real circuit breaker?

New comment by ok123456 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

ok123456 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:34:05 +0000

People just need to add/subtract an input box and update the tax rates. They don't need an ontology of taxes and goods.

New comment by ok123456 in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

ok123456 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:22:53 +0000

You didn't need "Firehose" level to write a simple bot that polled realDonaldTrump every minute or so.

New comment by ok123456 in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

ok123456 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:39:25 +0000

How is it interstate commerce if both the banks and the customer have a physical nexus in New York? The fact that it's bookmaking with an app in New York still makes it bookmaking in New York.

New comment by ok123456 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering"

ok123456 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:36:43 +0000

Oracle banned AI code from a public project they maintain and backport/share with a commercial product because they're a very litigious company, anticipating future legal cases.

New comment by ok123456 in "CFTC declares market emergency, orders Kalshi to continue to operate in New York"

ok123456 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 01:35:28 +0000

Can't New York go after payment processors and stop anyone from paying them money or people cashing out?

New comment by ok123456 in "More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts"

ok123456 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:48:13 +0000

The API was free then

New comment by ok123456 in "Celebrating 45 Years of Kermit with the First New C-Kermit Release in 15 Years"

ok123456 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:26:08 +0000

Yeah. It's pretty unprofessional.

New comment by ok123456 in "Ask HN: Any tips for a college freshman enrolled in computer science?"

ok123456 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 16:49:07 +0000

I started college right after the .com crash. Everyone who treated their education as a simple wealth maximization optimization went into other majors. The number of incoming CS majors was approximately quartered. (Software? That is all going to be outsourced!)

By the time I graduated, computers were cool again.

Predicting the job market is like predicting the stock market. You don't necessarily know where things are going to end up, and simply being reactionary will lead to sub-optimal outcomes.

Learn things that are hard to do, or you wouldn't finish if you weren't coerced with a final grade.

One positive in the current environment is that people who actually know computer science won't be forced to toil endlessly on what are essentially CRUD systems, and can move on to solve second- and third-order problems where their actual computer science skills can pay off. We can stop reinventing (slower and slower) webpages and 3270 terminals.

New comment by ok123456 in "Codeberg Divides"

ok123456 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:56:59 +0000

So are they going to have "AI" police this? Heuristics about check-in size and scope are still AI, albeit "classical AI."

New comment by ok123456 in "Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time"

ok123456 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:30:10 +0000

Closer to 95% if you count Teams.

New comment by ok123456 in "Microsoft Comic Chat is now open source"

ok123456 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:49:24 +0000

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/237170.237260

Related: The authors wrote a paper on their design of the layout engine.

New comment by ok123456 in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

ok123456 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:08:48 +0000

7-OH is the name for derivatives of kratom that contain the active ingredients.

It has opioid-like addiction tendencies.

Lots of people who used kratom to wean themselves off opioids are now addicted to 7-OH. This includes many people over the age of 30.

Pentagon suspends CMMC phase two requirements, launches review of program

ok123456 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:59:48 +0000

Article URL: https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/07/pentagon-suspends-cmmc-phase-two-requirements-launches-review-of-program/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48908855

Points: 2

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New comment by ok123456 in "Just Pay the Subscription"

ok123456 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:45:30 +0000

Strong appears to be a fitness tracker. It's in competition with a spreadsheet.

OnX appears to be heatmaps as a service for outdoor recreation. They have to cover their opex costs.

These are not the subscriptions people have in mind when they say they hate the subscription model. People dislike obvious rent-seeking behavior; they really dislike it when there is no technical reason something can't be sold to them in a one-time transaction; and they hate it when a product that was offered as a permanent one-time purchase is then only available as a subscription service.

New comment by ok123456 in "Just Pay the Subscription"

ok123456 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:33:03 +0000

> I like subscriptions because, in the worst kind of corporate management speak, subscriptions align our interests. You pay for the app for the duration that you see fit.

We see the same pattern over and over again: (1) subscription service starts and operates at a loss, (2) people recognise this and sign-up, (3) the service gradually enshittifies to the point where there is no real value propisition, (4) company banks on having enough customers from 1 and 2 that enough people will put up with 3 that they can remain profitable.

How does this align with my interests?

New comment by ok123456 in "Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip"

ok123456 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:56:57 +0000

Literally the "new old thing":

https://www.andysarcade.net/store2/all-other-stuff/vintage-c...

New comment by ok123456 in "OpenSSH 10.4/10.4p1 Released"

ok123456 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:04:25 +0000

aka FIPS.