Hacker News: pyb

New comment by pyb in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

pyb — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:17:33 +0000

Why are you still assuming good intentions of Vercel? This was them less yhan a month ago : https://vercel.com/changelog/updates-to-terms-of-service-mar...

New comment by pyb in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

pyb — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:26:47 +0000

Those worries are ruled out... for now. Laws can be amended.

New comment by pyb in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

pyb — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:07:04 +0000

Same here, I've not been able to open an account, it's a bit frustrating.

New comment by pyb in "Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?"

pyb — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:43:28 +0000

It's the 2026 version of this https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

New comment by pyb in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

pyb — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:35:04 +0000

Reminded of Dan Luu's post on the Normalization of Deviance (2015, https://danluu.com/wat/)

"There's the company with a reputation for having great engineering practices that had 2 9s of reliability last time I checked..."

Now it's 2026, and customers are grudgingly accepting zero 9's of reliability.

New comment by pyb in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

pyb — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 09:57:35 +0000

How could Signal be considered privacy-conscious ? The first thing they do is ask for your phone number.

New comment by pyb in "British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years"

pyb — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 11:01:28 +0000

Interesting to see the deep-dive on "younger car drivers", but not a pip about the old-age drivers. Yet we see from chart 1 that their casualty rate is far worse!

New comment by pyb in "FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap"

pyb — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:21:31 +0000

Not for me.

New comment by pyb in "Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal"

pyb — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:13:29 +0000

If it's confirmed that Altman's played the Koreans against each other, it's going to cause a furore in Korea.

New comment by pyb in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

pyb — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:20:53 +0000

I get the feeling that they are doing this partly for marketing purposes.

New comment by pyb in "Airbus A320 – intense solar radiation may corrupt data critical for flight"

pyb — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 06:16:22 +0000

The aerospace industry has had countermeasures in place against bit-flips for a long time, oftentimes thanks to redudancy

Airbus/Thales's fix in this case appears to add more error checking, and to restart the misbehaving component. https://bea.aero/fileadmin/user_upload/BEA2024-0404-BEA2025-...

("une supervision interne du composant à l’origine de la défaillance ; - un mécanisme de redémarrage automatique de ce composant dès lors que la défaillance est détectée)

New comment by pyb in "Compare Single Board Computers"

pyb — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 07:57:38 +0000

This. Your SBC's ecosystem/support is 10x more important than its specs.

New comment by pyb in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

pyb — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:41:37 +0000

Anectodally, I've seen that some newly graduated engineers prefer to forgo the job search altogether, rather than lower their comp demands to get a foot in the door.

New comment by pyb in "There is a huge pool of exceptional junior engineers"

pyb — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 04:02:32 +0000

Not mentioned in the article : interns/juniors are too expensive these days ; seniors offer better value per dollar of comp.

New comment by pyb in "Tell HN: My advice after I applied to 450 positions before getting hired"

pyb — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:49:39 +0000

What's your location?

New comment by pyb in "4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC"

pyb — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:54:21 +0000

The paradox of politics : are hated whilst actually doing what the majority wants.

As we saw in the case of the Winter fuel Payments : if a policy is unpopular with voters, it is abandoned. The Online Safety Act is popular, so it will stay.

New comment by pyb in "Ask HN: How do you get your devs to understand your customers?"

pyb — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 16:03:10 +0000

A company invented the role of "forward deployed engineer" to solve this problem.

New comment by pyb in "Ask HN: How do you tune your personality to get better at interviews?"

pyb — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:34:30 +0000

There are 300 random candidates but probably only 3 viable candidates.

New comment by pyb in "H-1B Visa Changes Approved by White House"

pyb — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 19:06:50 +0000

As the meme goes: "You don't need to sell it to me, I was already convinced!"

New comment by pyb in "South Korea's military has shrunk by 20% in six years as male population drops"

pyb — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:47:45 +0000

Have you been to Korea ? Or even the UK ?