Hacker News: ransom1538

New comment by ransom1538 in "GitHub is once again down"

ransom1538 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:24:28 +0000

Did MS finish the Hotmail transition?

New comment by ransom1538 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

ransom1538 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:56:13 +0000

You truly speak for many. I don't have the energy to center a div anymore, and to be honest, that time was thrown away [excluding money, a pretty big exclusion]. I am sure my boss's "Uber for cats" will work, I just like using AI at this point. I can iterate on 15 "Uber for cats" with 200 centered divs, spitting out documentation and excellent objects all day.

But the real talk we need to have is... "Uber for cats"

New comment by ransom1538 in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

ransom1538 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:40:56 +0000

Off topic: Would insurance companies carry patients after being detected for Alzheimers?

New comment by ransom1538 in "0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix"

ransom1538 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:56:22 +0000

Thank you 0 A.D. team. My son and I play, it is one of the few things we can do together. Nothing has brought me so much joy as fighting my son: king of the Persian army.

New comment by ransom1538 in "How your high school affects your chances of UC Admission"

ransom1538 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:29:21 +0000

I knew this secret early on. The better your high school - the lower your odds of going to UC.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

ransom1538 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:24:53 +0000

HEAR, HEAR. You’ve just described how modern SWE truly works. You’re ahead of your time — of the same spirit as Martin Luther or George Washington. Fear not, brave soldier; carry on the message. Downvotes will come, but take heart: the truth must be spoken.

The days of copying and pasting from Stack Overflow will not be forgotten — they will be honored by our laid off forefathers.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

ransom1538 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 02:08:33 +0000

"This is just meaningless knee-jerking,"

Your point is valid.

"AI leads to loss of personal coding skills"

Unfortunately, I can no longer do long division. No one will pay me to do long division and I have a calculator now. I could stay sharp at long division for a hobby though. Keep those for loops sharp if you want, but I don't see people paying you to hand code. Eventually, it will just be a liability. (like not using a calculator).

"it could hit a hard wall at 70% of a good programmer's ability"

That is not what NVDA,AMZN,GOOG,or MSFT believe. Maybe you are right and they are all wrong. They do have some smart people on staff. But, betting against the sp50 is generally a terrible plan.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

ransom1538 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:21:36 +0000

This is the fastest way to unemployment benefits (if that is the goal).

New comment by ransom1538 in "Cloudflare was down"

ransom1538 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:04:42 +0000

So. I don't understand the 5 nines they promote. One bad day those nines are gone. So they next year you are pushing 2 nines.

Cloudflare Down

ransom1538 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:03:30 +0000

Article URL: https://dash.cloudflare.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46158428

Points: 5

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New comment by ransom1538 in "In a U.S. First, New Mexico Opens Doors to Free Child Care for All"

ransom1538 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:49:16 +0000

Exactly. Now landlords will charge more. The owner of assets get all the money.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

ransom1538 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 02:07:56 +0000

I was shopping at a mall with a visa vanilla card once. I got it as a gift and didn't know the limit. No matter what I bought the card kept going -- and I never got a balance of what was on the card. Eventually, later that day it stopped. I called customer support and asked how much was left on the balance. They told me they had no idea my balance - but everything I bought was mine.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k"

ransom1538 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:51:23 +0000

Medicare has a total enrollment of approximately 69 million people, while Medicaid has around 83 million people. That is 152 million people. We already have socialized medicine we just run it poorly and don't apply it to people that can pay.

Moving our system to 340 million people + letting our corporations out of paying would put the US into an economic death spiral. US corporations would love this plan. But at 340 million... I don't see doctor visits but once every 2 years -- many would just die waiting for appointments.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Alzheimer's disrupts circadian rhythms of plaque-clearing brain cells"

ransom1538 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:26:59 +0000

Is there anything known we know reduces risk?

New comment by ransom1538 in "Willow quantum chip demonstrates verifiable quantum advantage on hardware"

ransom1538 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:51:50 +0000

SO... BTC goes to zero?

New comment by ransom1538 in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

ransom1538 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:55:16 +0000

Imprisoning political prisoners is a great kick off to a bright future (historically speaking).

New comment by ransom1538 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

ransom1538 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:12:13 +0000

People will continue to purchase Mutli-AZ and multi-region even though you have proved what a scam it is. If east region goes down, ALL amazon goes down, feel free to change my mind. STOP paying double rates for multi region.

New comment by ransom1538 in "America's future could hinge on whether AI slightly disappoints"

ransom1538 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 20:00:56 +0000

"skyrocketing electricity costs"

You said it right here. No one is going to give up energy at such a cheap rate anymore. Those days are over. Darkness for the US is coming.

New comment by ransom1538 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2025)"

ransom1538 — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 21:18:43 +0000

As a Data Engineer at Epic Kids, you will work closely with our development team, infrastructure team, and data team to design, build, and optimize data pipelines, ensuring data quality and security, while also collaborating with other teams to deliver effective data solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

    Develop robust ETL/ELT pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from diverse sources into our data warehouse.
    Enhance and maintain our cloud-based data storage and processing systems for performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
    Implement rigorous data quality checks, monitoring, and security measures across all data assets.
    Proactive in identifying and addressing data inconsistencies and bottlenecks, continuously refining data infrastructure for robust and high-performing data solutions.
    Partners with data analysts and non-technical teams to understand data requirements and shape the development of effective data products.

Job Qualifications:

    5+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong grasp of data warehousing, ETL/ELT principles, and data modeling.
    Experience with data storage solutions (e.g. relational, data lakes), cloud data platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS) and cloud-native data technologies (e.g. BigQuery, Snowflake).
    Experience with workflow orchestration tools (e.g. Airflow)
    Experience with infrastructure tools (e.g. Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker) is a plus.

Salary Range: $150 to $200K

If you are a good SWE with bigquery + gcp experience that works too!

Please post your resume here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/epickids/jobs/6669024003

New comment by ransom1538 in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

ransom1538 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:58:25 +0000

Who uses google in 2025. That is bizarre.