Hacker News: pm90

New comment by pm90 in "Stwipe Acquires OpenWouter"

pm90 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:37:15 +0000

We need more QuinnyPigs in Tech.

New comment by pm90 in "São Paulo resident transforms degraded area into urban forest"

pm90 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:51:07 +0000

I … feel like this isn’t a feel good story? This man put 22 years of his life into something that could be done is less than a week with explosives/modern machinery?

New comment by pm90 in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

pm90 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:45:40 +0000

Tech has always had an unhealthy streak; it was ok while workers were being compensated well and treated amazingly. The end of zirp has cut comp and benefits massively so there’s a lot less upside to this lifestyle.

New comment by pm90 in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

pm90 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:36:49 +0000

This is how bls data has always worked. And the reason is that they don’t always have the full picture every month and need to account for new data in the stats.

New comment by pm90 in "Discovery Loop"

pm90 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:38:26 +0000

I think people are missing what this really is: Google giving some of its most senior engineers the best retirement home to keep them away from competitors. This isn’t in jest; I wish i could make enough money to not care for more from my job and then do research after i get old. Its honestly a brilliant move.

New comment by pm90 in "Scaling NumPy on Free-Threaded Python"

pm90 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:37:20 +0000

All of software is a hack in some way or another. You think of tradeoffs and make a decision. Theoretical purity is mostly an academic thing and Im sure you would love TCS.

New comment by pm90 in "Waymo in Dallas"

pm90 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 22:08:05 +0000

DFW is amongst the top 5 metroplexes in the US and is extremely low density, high sprawl with few public transit options and a car heavy culture. This is a a welcome change.

New comment by pm90 in "Taylor Farms Called White House to Try to Delay Cyclospora Recall"

pm90 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:11:47 +0000

The US Federal Government has been meaningfully degraded by the brazen corruption of the people in power. Already there was a crisis of faith in authority; this is just going to make it much much worse.

I wonder if its time to rethink some of these institutions. It seems like Food Safety is especially important to the welp being of society; it might make sense to have food testing labs in every major population center/distribution hub. Funded by a tax on the food companies or perhaps even locally. Its just unbelievable that the entire US population is so vulnerable… what if a bad actor did something nasty deliberately?

New comment by pm90 in "Thanks HN for 15 years of support and helping me find my life's work"

pm90 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:44:22 +0000

Some of the best engineers I worked at got their start in programming at the recurse center... thank you for the good you've done in this world!

New comment by pm90 in "An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold"

pm90 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:04:03 +0000

The Mughal empire cannot possibly be characterized as theocratic in any meaningful way for most of its history (of course there are exceptions). They weren’t even devout muslims themselves. They married hindu Rajputs and adopted Indian customs, translated the classical hindu texts into Persian etc.

New comment by pm90 in "An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold"

pm90 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:59:52 +0000

Who are the outsiders? India has been a melting pot for “outsiders” forever; from the Greeks, Huns, Turks and Persians to Africans (Habshis in the Deccan). Once the dynasty started they considered themselves “Hindustani” and took title reflective of that. Persian was the language of bureaucracy not just in the Mughal but also the hindu Maratha courts.

Painting a period that saw the largest number of hindu temples being built, the largest ever expansion in wealth of the country as some kind of despotic enslavement is historical revisionism. Yes certain islamic rulers were more orthodox than others and attempted to suppress other religions; such is the nature of the Monarchic rule. But in the net, the early modern period in India was undoubtedly a golden age for the region.

New comment by pm90 in "An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold"

pm90 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:48:44 +0000

While European states invested in building up their human capital over the past 200 years, most of the Indian economy was turned into an extractive colonial state. The lack of investment set the country back by a lot. After Independence, it turned its back sharply on Capitalism (rightfully so, having suffered under extreme capitalism for a couple of hundred years). Unfortunately, that didn’t end up working very well either, since it lacked the strong Institutions and State Power required to succeed that way. Politically, Partition of the Country destroyed existing economic structures and trade routes that had existed for hundreds of years, setting back all countries in the subcontinent even further… and then you also had multiple wars.

Honestly its quite amazing that the subcontinent has remained as stable as it is today; it could very easily have descended into the carnage we see today in Myanmar.

New comment by pm90 in "An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold"

pm90 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:41:23 +0000

The Islamic period in India was one of the most prosperous periods in India’s history, ever. India was responsible for 25% of the worlds GDP during Mughal Emperor Jahangirs reign. The decline of Indian economy is directly a consequence of British Policies.

New comment by pm90 in "An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold"

pm90 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:38:30 +0000

Bigotry does rot brains huh.

New comment by pm90 in "$65K to work at Anthropic? Debate ensues amid IPO wave"

pm90 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:08:33 +0000

This was a really dumb move by Anthropic. They can clearly afford to pay more and attract the best talent. Why be so stingy? Focus on growth.

New comment by pm90 in "An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold"

pm90 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:04:01 +0000

Besides the sketches, she has written extensively about Indian rulers at the time (e.g. Ranjit Singh). If you found this interesting, you would love the Empire Podcast... I believe they talk about Emily in the episode on Afghanistan (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/79-invading-afghanista...); Dalrymple's book on the subject (Return of a King, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_a_King) is also a masterfully well researched, delightful read.

New comment by pm90 in "Give Smart People the Tools to Do Smart Things"

pm90 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:11:43 +0000

Normies just don’t understand what all is involved in running and evolving a production system. They think all programmers do is write code. Of course they believe that AI could replace programmers.

My in laws smugly asked me what I would be doing for work since AI would take away all the programming jobs and I said its not gonna happen and they laughed in derision.

New comment by pm90 in "Factorio 2.1 Experimental Release"

pm90 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:03:21 +0000

Factorio is an amazing piece of work. I wish the devs would open source the codebase and artwork; its just such an amazing piece of engineering that I think the world deserves to own it. They could continue charging for players to play the game and charge some royalty for derivatives… The devs have said that they are tired of working on it, which is fine, but wish their solution would then be to release the code or organize institutions that would continue development outside of wube…

I feel like the game could be taken in many directions. True multiprocess support, parallel execution, multi-level buildings and so much more.

New comment by pm90 in "AMD Readies Full Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support for Linux"

pm90 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:02:54 +0000

amazing how much valve has advanced consumer readiness of linux.

New comment by pm90 in "Prairieland defendants sentenced today to prison terms ranging from 30-100 years"

pm90 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:37:06 +0000

This is absolutely outrageous. A complete mockery of the criminal justice system and especially of Texas.