Hacker News: r_lee

New comment by r_lee in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

r_lee — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:08:31 +0000

private equity, what would we do without you?!

New comment by r_lee in "Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains"

r_lee — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:48:54 +0000

I'm curious, how do you think people around you there are taking it? I just can't help but feel like that is unsustainable and everyone is just going to burn out

New comment by r_lee in "Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains"

r_lee — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:45:22 +0000

I keep seeing this point made, but what happens when there is not enough demand for all this code that's being produced?

I'm always seeing these "I can finally make my projects and slack off at work!" but I just can't help but feel like people aren't thinking about what comes next

New comment by r_lee in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

r_lee — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:19:43 +0000

I think it won't be like assembly, because it takes more information vs building blocks that have more dense information in them, kind of like how we use libraries and frameworks

New comment by r_lee in "A.I. note takers are making lawyers nervous"

r_lee — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:54:31 +0000

I don't think it's a training issue, it's simply that there's no inherent "I don't know" in the transformer architecture unless it's really like something completely unknown, otherwise the nearest neighbor will be chosen and that will be whatever sounds similar or is relevant, even if it might cause a problem

New comment by r_lee in "Local privilege escalation via execve()"

r_lee — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:35:31 +0000

> I gave them a hypothesis but I said my "real answer" was that it's not worth our brain cycles to figure it out, you just shouldn't write code that requires knowing operator precedence. It's just such desperately boring information that I can't hold it in my head.

this is exactly how I think. and it goes for a lot of stuff in general, we have limited bandwidth and wasting it on useless stuff like this has no real purpose.

yet sometimes I see people show off about how they know how to deal with it but I just don't see the point.

New comment by r_lee in "What's a Mathematician to Do?"

r_lee — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:50:46 +0000

honestly I'm pretty sure opus could solve a rubiks cube if you just gave it the layout if the sides and looped until it would solve it

or even just take a picture of the thing, since they can digest visual input now

New comment by r_lee in "What's a mathematician to do? (2010)"

r_lee — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:38:31 +0000

and so how exactly are you supposed to provide for your family in this scenario?

New comment by r_lee in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

r_lee — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:40:27 +0000

from what I know, Chinese engineering grads are becoming food delivery couriers because there's not enough opportunity?

New comment by r_lee in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

r_lee — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:28:27 +0000

what my experience says is that, when you get "really good" with X, then you can easily write a prompt that says exactly how it needs to be done and you'll be able to do it much faster than writing it all yourself because you know the important parts and the rest is just glue.

New comment by r_lee in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

r_lee — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:57:17 +0000

as in that it reflects market prices in any way. I feel like anybody who works in this field knows that Dell etc. rip off naive customers this way and you can either negotiate it back to reality or just buy 1 small drive and order your own separately

New comment by r_lee in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

r_lee — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:08:00 +0000

> I was quoted $18K for a 3.7 TB Dell NVMe disk

surely you don't actually think that's realistic pricing?

New comment by r_lee in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

r_lee — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:39:08 +0000

I see a lot of this talk on HN

yet I don't see anyone question whether management will be just as excited to see that less work is needed and that it'd just result in layoffs

New comment by r_lee in "Japan is building cardboard suicide drones"

r_lee — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:56:26 +0000

its Military-grade cardboard

New comment by r_lee in "The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It"

r_lee — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:30:41 +0000

then you're just thinking in a very naive way.

you'd need everybody to be onboard, be it your neighbor, the guy 8000 miles away from you on the other side of the planet, all the nations

if even one goes "well ill just keep going" it won't work.

it's like with nuclear weapons, nobody wants to be the one without them unless nobody else has them, so in the end they're still prevalent.

New comment by r_lee in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

r_lee — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:12:12 +0000

he's not one of its "biggest, most prolific users"

moving away from X would just result in less visibility

New comment by r_lee in "GoDaddy gave a domain to a stranger without any documentation"

r_lee — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:41:26 +0000

any serious business should bite the bullet and use markmonitor or something similar where you get a named support guy

New comment by r_lee in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

r_lee — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:08:17 +0000

> The AI era is turning about to be most disappointing era for software engineering.

this has been obvious to me since like 2024, it truly is the worst, most uninspiring era of all time.

New comment by r_lee in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

r_lee — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:43:16 +0000

I 100% thought you were yelling a the clouds lol. see it way too often on HN

New comment by r_lee in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

r_lee — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:35:26 +0000

another one is swap. UnlimitedSwap was deprecated and you can now only use LimitedSwap which restricts how much swap you can use, so you can't take full advantage of zram, which sucks for those looking to run lean