Hacker News: roland35

New comment by roland35 in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

roland35 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:34:48 +0000

I don't think it's bad code that's necessarily the problem - it's bad architecture and systems which will bite you! Often bad code can be easily replaced if it's easy to refactor.

Of course, bad business can ruin it all. I wrote a beautiful and reliable distributed rust agent, but was later laid off due to the company doing poorly.

New comment by roland35 in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

roland35 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:49:16 +0000

I am staying away from sports betting, but I have done fantasy football a few times. I was constantly on edge from it all, even when I was winning! Constantly thinking of who I needed to pick up, who to trade, which matchups were good, it was a time sink.

And I ended up losing to my 10 year old nephew for the championship game!

New comment by roland35 in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

roland35 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:07:51 +0000

That's true, but I think there is a gray area in between. As things scale up in one way or another, having high quality is important for both #1 and #2. Its hard to extend software that was designed poorly.

The question where experience comes in is when quality is and isnt worth the time. I can create all sorts of cool software I couldn't before because now I can quickly pump out "good enough" android apps or react front ends! (Not trying to denigrate front end devs, it's just a skill I dont have)

New comment by roland35 in "Trump Tells Aides He's Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz"

roland35 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:46:59 +0000

I would be shocked if he ever does that. Much more likely is just say something completely different and pretend that has always been the case

New comment by roland35 in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

roland35 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 11:26:58 +0000

For better or worse, Claude is my intuitive interface to jq. I don't use it frequently, and before I would have to look up the commands every time, and slowly iterate it down to what I needed.

New comment by roland35 in "Ask HN: What is it like being in a CS major program these days?"

roland35 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:09:17 +0000

Business majors typically. I remember seeing a small graffiti in my engineering lecture hall that said something along the lines of "limit gpa -> 0: major= business administration"

New comment by roland35 in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

roland35 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:47:26 +0000

A true prisoners dilemma!

New comment by roland35 in "2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March"

roland35 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:53:06 +0000

I am not huge fan of Meta but I wouldn't dismiss them quite so much. I think reels is probably doing pretty well, and despite being cringeworthy FB itself is still going very strong. There are a lot of behind the scenes AI work improving their ads.

There are absolutely a lot of high profile failures though, with the metaverse being #1 (along with the name change to boot!)

New comment by roland35 in "Ask HN: How to be alone?"

roland35 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:32:11 +0000

No need to proselytize please. I think recommeding a community is not a bad idea obviously

New comment by roland35 in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

roland35 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 13:20:53 +0000

If we want to stretch this analogy a bit - I believe all world-level chefs have a team of sous-chefs working for them. Doing things like chopping ingredients, prepping things, in fact probably doing a lot of th cooking. I think building with ai is pretty similar.

New comment by roland35 in "Ask HN: Is it worth learning Vim in 2026?"

roland35 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:04:45 +0000

I think learning vim is definitely relevant. To me, vim is the fastest and most effective way to navigate and interact with text. Even with AI, I think those skills are not going out of style.

New comment by roland35 in "My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder"

roland35 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:58:39 +0000

Thanks for sharing, I remember reading about tinypilot back when I was interested in starting my own thing!

I had an idea for a hardware business for years and it was nice to dream, but thinking about it more and reading this story makes it pretty clear that it is way way waaay easier to continue my career at big tech, for better or worse (sad cry emoji)!

New comment by roland35 in "US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it"

roland35 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:08:49 +0000

Yeah solar viability is highly dependent on your local conditions and electricity costs. Also on your utility’s buyback program.

I have low electricity costs, no time of use pricing, and I don’t think I can sell back. I also live in a very cloudy city. So solar doesn’t make much sense!

New comment by roland35 in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

roland35 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:31:35 +0000

Those levels are based on the electronics themselves. Earlier circuits used TTL which needed higher voltages to signify a "High". Newer CMOS based electronics need less voltage.

Lower voltages help with power savings. Higher voltages can and do work better in high power, high noise environments though! 24V as you see is still very popular and useful inany applications.

New comment by roland35 in "Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15"

roland35 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:23:18 +0000

You should look into the slate truck! This is exactly what they are trying to do

New comment by roland35 in "Eat Real Food"

roland35 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:21:55 +0000

There is some good health advice mixed in with the rest of the MAHA lunacy, particularly around diet and exercise.

Unfortunately their stances on vaccines, supplements, and mental health make are still awful

New comment by roland35 in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

roland35 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:24:25 +0000

The breadsticks are also dairy free! Shocking but amazing for my poor lactase free stomach

New comment by roland35 in "Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?"

roland35 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:50:40 +0000

Leetcode stinks but you are really filtering out a lot of high paying jobs if you refuse to do it

New comment by roland35 in "Zed is our office"

roland35 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:42:08 +0000

Boot speed is nice and all but in general I boot once and I'm done!

New comment by roland35 in "Ask HN: Anyone using Cursor/Claude Code for non-coding workflows?"

roland35 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:31:54 +0000

Just the native voice to text built into macos - although I've heard there are better commercial solutions