Hacker News: puff_pastry

New comment by puff_pastry in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

puff_pastry — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:49:53 +0000

"Becoming Steve Jobs" had a great part about NeXT and how Steve Jobs grew there to bounce back once he was back at Apple. This looks promising.

I think it's very interesting to read about how his personality grew and how he became a better manager and visionary at his time between CEO-ships.

New comment by puff_pastry in "I'm 34. Here's 34 things I wish I knew at 21"

puff_pastry — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:28:49 +0000

This one made me chuckle, so true!

New comment by puff_pastry in "Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)"

puff_pastry — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 19:37:02 +0000

Asahi is awesome! But this is also proves that laptops outside the MacBook realm really need to improve so much. I wish there were a Linux machine with the hardware quality of a MacBook

New comment by puff_pastry in "Engineers who dismiss AI"

puff_pastry — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 15:07:20 +0000

The two categories of software developers you mention already existed pre ChatGPT and will likely continue to exist. If anything, AI's going to make those who're in it just for the money much less relevant.

Do you really think that Software Engineering is going to be less about precision, control, predictability, and efficiency? These are fundamental skills regardless of AI.

New comment by puff_pastry in "Engineers who dismiss AI"

puff_pastry — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:09:05 +0000

It's been somewhat disheartening to see many techie spaces (also HackerNews) become so skeptical and anti AI. It's as-if the luddites are at it again and they're just refuting progress because of a bad impression or because they fear the consequences.

AI is a tool and it shuold be treated as such.

Also, beware of snake oil salesmen. Is AI going to integrate widely into the world? Yes. Is it also going to destroy all the jobs in the world? Of course not, luddites don't understand the naïvety of this position.

New comment by puff_pastry in "Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus (2021)"

puff_pastry — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:36:45 +0000

HCF! Such a great show!

I’ve rewatched it last year and, like a really good book, I found myself liking a different set of characters than on my first watch. There’s truly a lot of depth there. And a lot of humanity, which is something we sometimes forget about the tech industry.

New comment by puff_pastry in "How Figma’s multiplayer technology works (2019)"

puff_pastry — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:13:27 +0000

Genuinely curious, do a lot of people use these multiplayer features? I always thought of design as (mostly) a solo endeavour

New comment by puff_pastry in "I dumped Google for Kagi"

puff_pastry — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 18:50:31 +0000

I tried Kagi and liked it for the most part. But I really wasn’t seeing the big benefit everyone’s claiming.

Google is…fine? Maybe I just learned how to use it for what I do

New comment by puff_pastry in "Figma spends $300k on AWS daily"

puff_pastry — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 19:58:47 +0000

This is absolutely bonkers, $110mln/year?? How’re they spending this much??

New comment by puff_pastry in "Two publishers and three authors fail to understand what "vibe coding" means"

puff_pastry — Thu, 01 May 2025 17:04:45 +0000

"Author fails to understand that there can be multiple definitions for a phrase"

New comment by puff_pastry in "Grok 3 claims its system prompt includes censorship about Musk/Trump"

puff_pastry — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:04:44 +0000

Just as expected from Musk and his clique: free speech for me but not for thee

New comment by puff_pastry in "US and UK refuse to sign AI safety declaration at summit"

puff_pastry — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 13:11:53 +0000

They’re right, the declaration is useless and it’s just an exercise in futility

New comment by puff_pastry in "Jeff Dean responds to EDA industry about AlphaChip"

puff_pastry — Sun, 01 Dec 2024 09:27:26 +0000

The biggest disappointment is that these discussions are still happening on Twitter/X. Leave that platform already

New comment by puff_pastry in "Bluesky just crossed 20M users"

puff_pastry — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:49:41 +0000

How does any of this address fake news, bots, or inflammatory discourse? It feels like a lot of technical jargon that neither improves nor worsens the platform compared to what already exists. Clickbait will remain immensely popular, regardless of whether you implement a fantastic cryptographic datastore or not.

New comment by puff_pastry in "Bluesky just crossed 20M users"

puff_pastry — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:22:22 +0000

tbf, I don't have a vision for it. I'm just saying that this model works only because we've seen that the current model works around bots, inflammatory content, and fake news. These are all really hard problems..!

New comment by puff_pastry in "Bluesky just crossed 20M users"

puff_pastry — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:13:02 +0000

It's mostly become a marketing tool for individuals

New comment by puff_pastry in "Bluesky just crossed 20M users"

puff_pastry — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:09:47 +0000

I think this medium already proved that it doesn't work. A new social media model needs to emerge - we shouldn't try to rebuild the same old with a fresh coat of paint.