Hacker News: pRusya

New comment by pRusya in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

pRusya — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:36:55 +0000

Thank you for letting me know. I should definitely catch up on current state of affairs.

New comment by pRusya in "U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile"

pRusya — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:51:43 +0000

The US has stepped into a huge pile of shit in this round. And instead of getting out fast, they just want to jump dive into it.

Some American people don't know that US misfortunes are celebrated elsewhere. 911 became a holiday in some regions. And if American empire falls down, I feel like at least half of the world gonna celebrate that.

New comment by pRusya in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

pRusya — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:24:00 +0000

Azure is when you have a different version of the same product/api in each region.

New comment by pRusya in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

pRusya — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:58:15 +0000

It's a nice read. Thank you for sharing this.

> Microsoft, meanwhile, conducted major layoffs—approximately 15,000 roles across waves in May and July 2025 —most likely to compensate for the immediate losses to CoreWeave ahead of the next earnings calls.

This is what people should know when seeing massive layoffs due to AI.

New comment by pRusya in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

pRusya — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:30:00 +0000

A story older than Nepal (misleading tourists). And an article from 6 months ago shows how the govt treats its own people with more examples in HN discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45166972

What is less discussed is what happened to people who were able to identify the scam and refused to let it happen.

New comment by pRusya in "No Skill. No Taste"

pRusya — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:51:10 +0000

HN is like an art gallery full of critics. You can be interested in some works or people, even romanticize it. But no one really cares about a gallery or industry in general. We are all just entertaining each other here.

New comment by pRusya in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

pRusya — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:00:32 +0000

I'm using gemini.google.com/app with AI Pro subscription. "Something went wrong" in FF, works in Chrome.

Below is one of my test prompts that previous Gemini models were failing. 3.1 Pro did a decent job this time.

> use c++, sdl3. use SDL_AppInit, SDL_AppEvent, SDL_AppIterate callback functions. use SDL_main instead of the default main function. make a basic hello world app.

New comment by pRusya in "Ask HN: Is there anyone here who still uses slide rules?"

pRusya — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:55:16 +0000

I worked at a countertop shop and used a sliding rule a bit. But I also used a sticky paper with marks to get measurements off my screen. A lot of blueprints provide no dimensions for cabinets and desks.

Countertops is an industry with all the modern tools but 5000yo approach.

New comment by pRusya in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

pRusya — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:06:04 +0000

It's the opposite experience for me. Gemini mostly produces made up and outdated stuff.

New comment by pRusya in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

pRusya — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:49:36 +0000

Definitely good for customers. A bit more stressful for CPT chasers and PPQA. Missing PAD time and delayed shipment is a daily issue because of 0 inventory. I wonder how they gonna change workflows for stow and pick dpts.

New comment by pRusya in "Disable AI in Firefox"

pRusya — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:54:02 +0000

You can fork the source code, but you cannot fork engineers and paychecks from Google and other interested parties.

Programming Language Checklist (2011)

pRusya — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 00:36:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mcmillen.dev/language_checklist.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45631339

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by pRusya in "Nearly half of drivers killed in (Ohio County) crashes had THC in their blood"

pRusya — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:35:12 +0000

Personal experience after living in Columbus for a few months - it felt like everybody was driving drunk and/or distracted by default. Columbus, Dayton and Cincinnati were not very fun to drive around and taking unprotected left turns felt like a gamble.

On the other hand, Amish communities had glass-smooth roads and people were careful when passing horse carriages.

Burbank Airport air traffic control tower unmanned on Monday evening

pRusya — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 03:08:27 +0000

Article URL: https://abc7.com/post/hollywood-burbank-airport-will-have-no-air-traffic-controllers-evening-faa-warns/17952670/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45499014

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by pRusya in "Connecticut Trail Census Dashboard (2025)"

pRusya — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 01:10:55 +0000

I wish there was something like this for Salt Lake City. I have to schedule my trail runs at weird times. Otherwise you bump into people on the trail non-stop. The amount of foot traffic in the mountains is crazy all year round.

New comment by pRusya in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

pRusya — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:32:55 +0000

And covered by universal basic income.

New comment by pRusya in "Systems Programming with Zig"

pRusya — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 18:20:34 +0000

> So Zig is as expressive as C++. but not only safer, but also much simpler, and compiles faster

Tbh syntax-wise Zig feels more cryptic[1] at first than C++.

[1] e.g. `extern "user32" fn MessageBoxA(?win.HWND, [*:0]const u8, [*:0]const u8, u32) callconv(win.WINAPI) i32;` from https://ziglang.org/learn/samples/

New comment by pRusya in "New headless Chrome has been released and has a near-perfect browser fingerprint"

pRusya — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:19:33 +0000

There's a mention to this in the recent Selenium blog post https://www.selenium.dev/blog/2023/headless-is-going-away/#a...

Basically omit options.headless and use options.add_argument("--headless=new") instead.

New comment by pRusya in "DeepMind’s StarCraft II agent will play anonymously on battle.net"

pRusya — Wed, 10 Jul 2019 20:38:14 +0000

It doesn't need much apm or great reaction time if it can place perfect photon cannons.

New comment by pRusya in "Primitive – recreate your photos with vector-based geometric primitives"

pRusya — Wed, 31 Oct 2018 21:06:12 +0000

And here is the original post by the author https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12539109