<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: rglynn</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=rglynn</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 01:50:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=rglynn" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rglynn in "I quit. The clankers won"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a US-centric take, in Europe, particularly in cities, we walk everywhere.<p>There is perhaps some relevance to the analogy however, because the US is designed in such a way that makes walking difficult to impossible. I am already seeing this pattern in vibe-coded areas where engineers will just use AI because it's too difficult to parse and edit by hand.</p>
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<p>Depends on seniority and market, but my experience has not matched this. In my recent search I even had a company change their process at my request. Too many companies just copy the FAANG approach without considering if it suits their team(s).<p>We have some responsibility as candidates to tell HR departments and recruiters that some stuff doesn't fly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:36:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586448</link><dc:creator>rglynn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rglynn in "My MacBook keyboard is broken and it's insanely expensive to fix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I guess you can make the argument that legislating repairability will raise the price floor for devices because it increases the cost to the manufacturer. This isn't a problem for most of us in tech, but affordability can be an issue for many.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:50:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572678</link><dc:creator>rglynn</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572678</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47572678</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by rglynn in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Imagining future possibilities and implementing software to account for them are two different things.<p>The argument here is to validate those possibilities before acting on them.</p>
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<p>IME tok/s is only useful with the additional context of ttft and total latency. At this point a given closed-model does not exist in a vaccuum but rather in a wider architecture that affects the actual performance profile for an API consumer.<p>This isn't usually an issue comparing models within the same provider, but it does mean cross-provider comparison using only tok/s is not apples-to-apples in terms of real-world performance.</p>
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<p>More often than not I've seen this be the case. Refactoring as "rewrite using my idiomatic style, so that I can understand it", which does not scale across the team so the next engineer does the same thing.</p>
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<p>I like guns and cars, but not sports. How exactly is it performative? Both are engineering marvels and fascinating to watch videos about, and they also happen to be a load of fun.<p>I watch hours of videos on both with nobody else around and don't really talk about those topics with others much. So in the spirit of HN, I'm actually curious to know what about those interests is performative?</p>
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<p>In reverse? What do you mean exactly?<p>As someone who is neither an Elon fan nor a hater, it irks me how deranged HN is about anything Musk-related.</p>
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<p>Other than the inconvenience, is there any privacy risk in just having a separate device purely for those apps and nothing else?<p>Or is it more of a principle to resist this being forced on us?</p>
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<p>I'm not sure where you live but a lot of countries don't have this (yet) or it is optional.</p>
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<p>I think it's beneficial to hear this, as I've definitely been on the other side of this before now. So, thanks for sharing.<p>As much as we can fault the technology and the hype around it, this as much a people problem as anything else. Before AI, this same problem happened with architecture/PoC to implementation hand-offs.<p>AI is a new tool that a lot of us are still figuring out, but that doesn't excuse poor communication.</p>
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<p>I mean to be fair, "Just use Postgres" will get 400 votes here without people even clicking TFA.</p>
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<p>Agree with this tactic, very useful when working in a team. I use a <i>--dry-run=false</i> approach.</p>
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<p>Capital, both social and economic.<p>Also data, see <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637328">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637328</a></p>
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<p>"... how much ram has the system" is a typo or an ESL mistake, so not an LLM.</p>
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<p>This is just for the web interface, the API is staying for now.</p>
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<p>IME 5.2-codex (high) is not as good as Opus 4.5, xhigh is equivalent but also consumes quota at a higher rate (much like Opus).</p>
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<p>In the future?</p>
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<p>I think of it this way:<p>Is your goal for the software you write to need constant intervention, or would you say you'd aim for it to run smoothly with few bugs?<p>The team is akin to a piece of software architecture, only much more complex and comprised (partially) of humans.<p>You want someone to build that team and then have the team up and  running, delivering value. When it breaks, or you want it to do new/different things, you need someone to step in to fix it or change it.</p>
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<p>They are basically the same, long black is water with espresso poured on top, americano is espresso with water poured on top.</p>
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