Hacker News: pm90

New comment by pm90 in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

pm90 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:52:08 +0000

The vast majority of crimes are still being prosecuted as such. You have to reach a certain size/notoriety and money to buy a POTUS pardon; I doubt that matters for a relatively unknown outfit like Delve.

New comment by pm90 in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

pm90 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:45:11 +0000

Oracle is a large company. Many of those laid off were outside the US. This is a non-story.

New comment by pm90 in "Iran says it will target US tech companies in Middle East"

pm90 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:24:31 +0000

The problem with accepting military work is that foreign governments will now consider you a legitimate military target.

New comment by pm90 in "Nobody is coming to save your career"

pm90 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:58:01 +0000

It would force a company to come to the negotiating table when laying off workers and grading their performance. It would prevent a lot of bs layoffs; at the very least concrete reasons would be needed for RIFs.

New comment by pm90 in "Nobody is coming to save your career"

pm90 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:55:49 +0000

What many of these articles miss is that even if you do everything they say you will still not get the promotion you want for several reasons.

My advice for Career Growth for engineers who like to do things is to be willing to take on problems that others might not want, things that aren’t “sexy”, if you find them interesting. Theres a lot of interesting problems and you can grow your career by following the direction that interests you rather than the company. And when it comes to promotions, its often easier and better compensated to get a new job rather than trying to convince a bunch of people that you should be promoted.

New comment by pm90 in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

pm90 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:20:40 +0000

Microslop is clearly flailing. They were first movers with the OAI investment but OAI is doing fine on its own and microslop failed to capitalize on that early momentum. Now they’re resorting to increasingly desperate measures across their product portfolio to stay relevant.

New comment by pm90 in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

pm90 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:26:36 +0000

Technology moves fast and is prone to hype. While NoSQL and Kafka were certainly oversold, almost every mid-large scale tech company has at least one nosql system and kafka-like system in use. The proponents weren’t wrong, they oversold the impact.

There is other tech that did completely change how we do things. CI/CD, Containers, Kubernetes, distributed tracing etc. are considered standard now (but weren’t not that long ago).

New comment by pm90 in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

pm90 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:44:08 +0000

Its what happens when you surround yourself with incompetent yes men.

New comment by pm90 in "Goodbye to Sora"

pm90 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:59:17 +0000

It feels like the bubble is starting to pop. A crisis of confidence is not something OAI can afford at this stage...

New comment by pm90 in "GitHub is once again down"

pm90 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:47:10 +0000

i heard that they asked LinkedIn to do this too and they either refused or their systems were too complex so they refused to. Maybe that explains why LI availability seems ok

New comment by pm90 in "Student beauty and grades under in-person and remote teaching"

pm90 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:07:39 +0000

Our society has a lot of pretty privilege (and tall privilege for male identifying humans). Taking steps to address this is welcome.

New comment by pm90 in "Having Kids (2019)"

pm90 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:15:43 +0000

We celebrate the other option so why not celebrate child free lives? It seems like historically a lot of people have had to make this decision not by their own will or need. Showing people that they can have just as compelling lives as parents is a net-good.

New comment by pm90 in "Having Kids (2019)"

pm90 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:11:29 +0000

Every parent “messes” up their kids life, its a matter of degree. Its part of the human experience.

New comment by pm90 in "Having Kids (2019)"

pm90 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 02:08:47 +0000

> Partly, and I won't deny it, this is because of serious chemical changes that happened almost instantly when our first child was born. It was like someone flipped a switch. I suddenly felt protective not just toward our child, but toward all children. As I was driving my wife and new son home from the hospital, I approached a crosswalk full of pedestrians, and I found myself thinking "I have to be really careful of all these people. Every one of them is someone's child!"

One thing Ive observed about Americans is how less of this feeling exists, without having kids etc. Like why the f does he not care for pedestrians before having a kid? Did he believe that adult humans just apparated out of nowhere? I see this a lot in how people drive, too.

I believe it is a result of the hyper-indivialistic and hyper-capitalist society rather than something innate in the people. I do think Americans deserve (and should demand and build) a better system.

New comment by pm90 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

pm90 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:41:48 +0000

anecdotally every place ive worked at has switched over and never looked back.

New comment by pm90 in "OpenRocket"

pm90 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:28:21 +0000

Im guessing that all the sudden interest in rocketry and drones is related to the war in the middle east? Because I have found that very interesting too, that a country as poor and as heavily sanctioned as Iran is managing to hold out the mightiest human forces the world has ever seen.

New comment by pm90 in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

pm90 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:44:10 +0000

Except the tobacco part. Is this consumer grade or is it meant for industrial uses (organic pesticides etc).

New comment by pm90 in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

pm90 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:35:41 +0000

Out of curiosity, it sounds like you're the kind of person that could easily find another job. Why slog it out until the end rather than quit/find a better gig? Genuinely interested because every time I've ended up with a manager like that my mental health has suffered so now I generally start planning my exit as soon as I'm stuck with a bad manager.

New comment by pm90 in "U.S. Navy turns down Hormuz escort requests because of high risk"

pm90 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:44:40 +0000

Imagine the optics of a single destroyer/cruiser being on fire. It would shatter the myth of American naval power (some are arguing that this war already did that, which I tend to agree with).

New comment by pm90 in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

pm90 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:55:00 +0000

Its weird to hear Atlassian being associated with productivity boosts of any kind considering the zillions of developer hours wasted trying to navigate JIRA.