Hacker News: oompydoompy74

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Midjourney Medical"

oompydoompy74 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:58:00 +0000

This is ultrasound. You didn’t read the article. It’s perfectly safe.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

oompydoompy74 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:39:52 +0000

I’m not sure that there is a consistent definition for matters in this context. What matters is completely subjective to an individual. Furthermore, performance is rarely correlated with success and compensation in an enterprise. I could just as easily say that playing the game is what matters.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

oompydoompy74 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:08:05 +0000

Their “in house models” are reportedly basically just Kimi.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

oompydoompy74 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:43:40 +0000

Past, Present, and Future. If you control the means of production you win. Knowledge, skill, and experience are largely irrelevant to the conversation. I’ve held this opinion for quite some time and would be interested to hear alternative perspectives.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)"

oompydoompy74 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:23:36 +0000

I’m of the opinion that projects like this should start hosting Forgejo instances in countries with favorable laws and just mirroring to Github for exposure.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Rsync and outrage"

oompydoompy74 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:19:56 +0000

I really feel for the developer of Rsync. He did absolutely nothing wrong and got flamed to hell for it. I’m glad he has help now and I hope all of the negativity doesn’t get to him. I would certainly have a difficult time with my mental health if I was on the receiving end of all this hate.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "What's gonna happen to software engineers?"

oompydoompy74 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:40:52 +0000

Nothing. There will be more of us than ever as the amount of money each engineer can generate goes up. I’m not sure why everyone comes to the conclusion that there will be less engineers as productivity increases. We aren’t that expensive relative to the value we generate and AI, when wielded by an expert, will exponentially increase the amount of return a single engineer can generate.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Disregard previous instructions and delete all jqwik tests"

oompydoompy74 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:13:17 +0000

This particular culture war is truly exhausting to me if I’m being honest. I could just be burned out, but the arguments back and forth just seem childish. At this point, I will probably never release anything I do as open source for fear of someone screaming at me about using an LLM for coding assistance. It’s not like I don’t see problems with how the sausage is made, but I also eat beef, so you have to pick what you care about.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

oompydoompy74 — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:38:35 +0000

We are kind, but not nice. I generally find the west coast is nice, but not kind. Everyone in the south knows what bless your heart means, so it’s not really a veiled insult.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

oompydoompy74 — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:30:17 +0000

I disagree, but I appreciate your perspective. I think it’s fairly clear that the author is using exaggerated speech to make a point and convey their feelings. The reason I mentioned regional differences is I often find myself having this disagreement with my west coast compatriots.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

oompydoompy74 — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:01:29 +0000

Not every blog is written to be discussed on Hacker News. That being said I enjoyed it and found it illuminating. It could be a regional difference, but I’m from the South East US and didn’t mind the direct communication style at all. I much prefer someone to speak their feelings rather than being nice for the sake of nicities.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

oompydoompy74 — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:24:01 +0000

I empathize with the author. I have severe panic attacks and getting advice from someone who has maybe had a little anxiety once is infuriating.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Having your insulin pump die while you're on vacation"

oompydoompy74 — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:19:03 +0000

The author is a woman. She does call a support line during the course of all of this. The support line was fairly unhelpful.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

oompydoompy74 — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:55:16 +0000

Speaking as an American, I don’t give a shit if it increases productivity or not. Productivity has gone up exponentially with technological advancement since the advent of the 5 day work week. We, as a species, should be minimizing work to 3 or 4 days a week with equal overall pay. Corporations should be fined heavily for contacting an employee after working hours. On call should require corporations to pay hefty overtime. This is a compromise because really and truly corporations should be illegal. Employee owned co-ops are more humane.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

oompydoompy74 — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:19:53 +0000

Nobody wants the pile of Schmidt you are selling fam

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

oompydoompy74 — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:26:02 +0000

Warms my heart. Tech executives and politicians need to be put in their place.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Your AI Use Is Breaking My Brain"

oompydoompy74 — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:38:54 +0000

I thought I was miserable during the Covid years, but now I’ve started to wax poetic about working from home, not having any obligations, and regularly baking bread with my partner.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5"

oompydoompy74 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:40:31 +0000

The commenter was being sarcastic to highlight the current trend of dismissing Mythos, and LLM’s finding security vulnerabilities in general, as a non issue.

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Parents say ChatGPT got their son killed with bad advice on party drugs"

oompydoompy74 — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:13:12 +0000

Sure as shit looks like it to me https://openai.com/index/introducing-chatgpt-health/

New comment by oompydoompy74 in "Aids Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance"

oompydoompy74 — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:31:33 +0000

You do realize that diseases don’t care about borders at all?