Hacker News: pards

New comment by pards in "Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers"

pards — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:13:57 +0000

> students will take DevOps: Engineering for Secure Development and Deployment

... in Github Actions? What a great way to discourage them from entering the industry.

New comment by pards in "Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses"

pards — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:50:20 +0000

Off topic: This website looks like a ransom note

New comment by pards in "Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?"

pards — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 11:33:17 +0000

> someone who drives consensus in a large organization. I don't think LLMs are going to solve that problem any time soon.

This statement resonated with me. Thank you.

New comment by pards in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

pards — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:57:09 +0000

https://archive.is/njzLB

New comment by pards in "Fable Took My Job"

pards — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:36:25 +0000

> the cost of developing software is plummeting

For now, until the frontier models decide to stop losing money and pass the real costs onto the consumers.

New comment by pards in "Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team"

pards — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:19:32 +0000

It brings a whole new definition to some medical terms like the "crash cart" used when a patient "codes" [0]

[0]: https://youtu.be/3gRazPZbYOo?t=60

New comment by pards in "Barcodes are about to go extinct"

pards — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:49:37 +0000

Does encoding URLs in QR codes expose the scanners to quishing[0] attacks, such as bad actors sticking malicious QR codes over legit ones?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing#QR_code_phishing_(qui...

New comment by pards in "How I changed teaching after AI managed to do all my homework assignments"

pards — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:04:17 +0000

> Minor note: We observed that some students used AI during live discussions over Zoom (e.g. Cluely)

I frequently see this in remote interviews for senior developers. These are conversational interviews, not coding tests, but some candidates seem incapable of having a conversation without AI.

I can't imagine how these candidates would be able to meaningfully contribute to a whiteboard design discussion with real people.

For a previous client, we resorted to a simple in-person pen-and-paper screening questionnaire with 5 very basic questions. Many candidates declined to attend, and most of those that attended failed dismally.

New comment by pards in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

pards — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:11:04 +0000

> What DAWO stands for

> DAWO brings public values and technology together. The community pursues five primary goals.

But fails to state what the letters in D.A.W.O. stand for

New comment by pards in "The Hierarchy of Money"

pards — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:57:44 +0000

> longer than it takes the dairy farmer to gather fresh eggs

Nit: Cows don't lay eggs

New comment by pards in "Ask HN: How to recover Google auth after phone stolen?"

pards — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:51:07 +0000

Going forward, consider using an authenticator that securely syncs across multiple devices to remove the single point of failure risk.

I use Proton Authenticator now [0]

Authy used to do this, then they enshittified their app and bricked the desktop version.

[0]: https://proton.me/authenticator

New comment by pards in "Small programming tricks"

pards — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:10:46 +0000

Hot-desking killed this practice. I now get desk anxiety on my in-office days

New comment by pards in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

pards — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:04:18 +0000

Eurovision was just the beginning

New comment by pards in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

pards — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:03:26 +0000

51st state? Pfff. How about 28th EU country!

New comment by pards in "Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time's Not Going So Well"

pards — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:57:17 +0000

> Mr. Altman promotes a future in which “A.I. produces most of the world’s basic goods and services” and taxes on the A.I. companies provide “opportunity to directly distribute ownership and wealth to citizens.” In his telling, “people will be freed up to spend more time with people they care about, care for people, appreciate art and nature or work toward social good.”

> Does anyone believe that’s how things would go?

Nope.

New comment by pards in "Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time's Not Going So Well"

pards — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:33:14 +0000

No paywall: https://archive.ph/zFLhV

Big Tech Fooled America Once. The Second Time's Not Going So Well

pards — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:33:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/opinion/ai-big-tech-america-politics.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49657338

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by pards in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"

pards — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:14:33 +0000

> I got a notification from Home Assistant that a fart was detected in the driveway. My neighbor was walking by my house on his nightly walk and ripped one as he passed by the driveway and the fart was detected.

I'd have to disable notifications for this in my neighbourhood to avoid alert fatigue.

New comment by pards in "The Future Belongs to the Weird"

pards — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:45:37 +0000

> You can't out-cog a robot

This is such a great way to summarise the issue facing rank-and-file employees. If your job is predictable, repeatable, systematizable then you're "competing against the price of electricity [and GPUs]"

New comment by pards in "Interviewing Engineers in the AI Era: Lessons from a Year of Rebuilding"

pards — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:02:47 +0000

> orgs still just aren't really shipping that much more quality features

Writing code was never the bottleneck at large enterprises.