Hacker News: redherring22

New comment by redherring22 in "I'm just having fun"

redherring22 — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 14:46:07 +0000

It may not be pretentious, but pretending that an extra 1-2 keystrokes per sentence is "exhausting" is pretty sad.

New comment by redherring22 in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

redherring22 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 13:07:11 +0000

This isn't a groundbreaking article. We already knew about this kind of scam, so why trudge through an article written by an LLM doing its best Linkedin grifter impression?

New comment by redherring22 in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

redherring22 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:57:14 +0000

I stopped reading a few paragraphs in.

I get the point of the article. Be careful running other people's code on your machine.

After understanding that, there's no point to continue to read when a human barely even touched the article.

New comment by redherring22 in "An Infinitely Large Napkin [pdf] (2019)"

redherring22 — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:14:57 +0000

We do not speak Middle English.

New comment by redherring22 in "Goodbye, Slopify"

redherring22 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:29:05 +0000

Terrible music? You know you choose what you listen to, right?