Hacker News: pelagicAustral

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Forever Young: how one molecule can lock plants in a youthful state (2025)"

pelagicAustral — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:19:31 +0000

Absolutely, especially if you can mine them for electricity to keep datacentres going

New comment by pelagicAustral in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

pelagicAustral — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:33:38 +0000

Thank you for flagging this issue.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

pelagicAustral — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:32:23 +0000

The only way we'll going to achieve anything remotely akin to World Unity™ is as some form of dystopic Warhammer 40K future. You try putting even 5 people in a root have them reach consensus on anything.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers"

pelagicAustral — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:58:18 +0000

Well, yeah I know about take-homes, I mean 2 3 hours tops. In-office.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers"

pelagicAustral — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:48:03 +0000

I don't understand why can't someone just come up with an interview where they propose an issue that is truly something that can be expected in the role, give the applicant a few hours to come up with an action plan and a solution architecture, put it down in writing, sketch some graphs, and then present it...

Why is that so groundbraking? wouldn't that immediately tell you a lot about the applicant, regardless of the final implementation being a 10 or not?

New comment by pelagicAustral in "India's surprise baby bust"

pelagicAustral — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:20:28 +0000

> But as India and others hurtle through their demographic transition, the consequences will not be pain-free.

Pain for whom? The people profiting from cheap labor probably.

Why is such a massive sin to scale down? To slow down a bit, I don't think the whole world is about to collapse, but even if it was, I rather that than turning it all into the hellscapes we see on some of the most overpopulated places in the world just so a mere 1% of the population can indulge.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

pelagicAustral — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:53:40 +0000

You're absolutely right...

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

pelagicAustral — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:41:54 +0000

fwiw I asked Claude to look at GP's post and write me a story titled "The Cathedral, the bazaar and the junkyard" and I have a pretty good time reading his riff.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Show HN: Eyeball"

pelagicAustral — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:39:25 +0000

> perfect - you picked 0 · off by 1 (0.03%)

New comment by pelagicAustral in "KDE at 30"

pelagicAustral — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:36:15 +0000

I will donate my entire pension if they make it so I can have a Windows 2000 theme that actually works and doesnt require me to hack a dozen files each time they push and update.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

pelagicAustral — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:02:15 +0000

Wasn't this the plot of the Wire season 3 or something?

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

pelagicAustral — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:59:14 +0000

Because there is such good precedents that providing unlimited resources to troubled areas actually fix problems.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

pelagicAustral — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:22:01 +0000

I'm not tired to talking to AI because I specifically instructed my agents to channel Alec Baldwin in Glengary Glen Ross, so i constantly reminded that coffee is for closers only.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "DynIP – Dynamic DNS with RFC 2136, IPv6, DNSSEC, and BYOD"

pelagicAustral — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:21:54 +0000

It looks alright, I have no issue with it. People just like to hate on things that have zero relevance to the actual product.

It's not like pre-LLM you wouldnt go to Themeforest and see hundreds of designs that were all the same. Now they just call it AI slop, before it was just slop.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Ruby for Good"

pelagicAustral — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:53:47 +0000

I feel like your comment is a bit tongue in cheek and i am going to take it at face value, but I honestly been feeling increasingly more like doing verbatim what you're suggesting and i dont have a very solid justification for it.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

pelagicAustral — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:15:28 +0000

I just use Claude Code and intellij, so I don't understand why so many people complain about Antigravity ditching VS Code, what's the surface not covered by using Antigravity CLI + VS Code (or any other IDE)?

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

pelagicAustral — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:43:11 +0000

Designers gotta eat

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

pelagicAustral — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:05:46 +0000

Yeah, no, I'm probably thinking more around the lines of deodorant, or tattoo removal services.

New comment by pelagicAustral in "Show HN: Cervantes yet Another HN Reader"

pelagicAustral — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:30:28 +0000

Sounds pretty good, thanks for the tip!

New comment by pelagicAustral in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

pelagicAustral — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:56:29 +0000

What I am really waiting for is ads on my commit messages.