Hacker News: rpowers

New comment by rpowers in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

rpowers — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:57:04 +0000

Don't worry, I'm sure their leadership is thinking "AI Bots" instead of remote workers.

New comment by rpowers in "Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?"

rpowers — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:40:37 +0000

I use it every day, sometimes for hours. Once I embraced that fact that my family goes to bed before I do, I use it watch all of my "nerdy" shows at night. During the day it's been really great for having a large desktop that I can see throughout the house. For gaming, I use the geforce now service and a playstation controller. It's been quite fun!

New comment by rpowers in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

rpowers — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:59:15 +0000

This is exactly how it happens at my house. I purposely stick to to the $20-$40 boxes for this reason. Over $100, that's not a toy anymore for me. That price range becomes a collectors figurine.

New comment by rpowers in "The user is visibly frustrated"

rpowers — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:29:12 +0000

This is basically the Linus Torvalds method. We could take a page out of FOSS here.

New comment by rpowers in "I built a programming language using Claude Code"

rpowers — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:27:29 +0000

I'm imagining the amount of energy required to power the datacenter so that we can produce isEven() utility methods.

New comment by rpowers in "Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts"

rpowers — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 20:24:49 +0000

Just ban social media entirely. You would find a lot benefits to society for doing exactly that.

New comment by rpowers in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

rpowers — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:24:52 +0000

I keep reading comments that claim GenAI's positive traits, but this usually amounts to some toy PoC that very eerily mirrors work found in code bootcamps. You want an app that has logins and comments and upvotes? GenAI is going to look amazing setting up a non-relational db to your node backend.

New comment by rpowers in "Microsoft lowers AI software growth targets"

rpowers — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:46:26 +0000

Is 8 where they leaned heavily into touch screen boxes?

New comment by rpowers in "Claude for Chrome"

rpowers — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:12:42 +0000

I've had this conversation a couple of times now. If AI can just scan a video and provide bullet points, what's the point of the video at all? Same with UI/UX in general. Without real users, then it starts to feel meaningless.

Some media is cool because you know it was really difficult to put it together or obtain the footage. I think of Tom Cruise and his stunts in Mission Impossible as an example. They add to the spectacle because you know someone actually did this and it was difficult, expensive, and dangerous. (Implying a once in a lifetime moment.) But yeah, AI offers ways to make this visual infinitely repeatable.

New comment by rpowers in "AdonisJS"

rpowers — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 16:26:19 +0000

Anyone else see these types of announcement posts, and it's like they already have thousands of users? Where do y'all learn about these projects so early?

New comment by rpowers in "Boeing wants FAA to exempt MAX 7 from safety rules to get it in the air"

rpowers — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 18:25:47 +0000

This feels like disabling unit tests in order to get tests to pass. I've yet to see this strategy not blow up later.

New comment by rpowers in "Show HN: I built an open source web calendar inspired by the Google calendar"

rpowers — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 20:36:43 +0000

I have read many comments on this thread pointing towards other calendar libraries. I appreciate projects like this because I believe it's healthy for our industry to rethink "solved" issues. You put a cool spin on this topic and I hope that it taught you lots while building it.

New comment by rpowers in "We're All Bored of Culture"

rpowers — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:24:44 +0000

Not that I believe the OP's statements, but I think the idea is that 'inclusive' cultures live at the intersection of many circles rather than their union.

New comment by rpowers in "People who can't give up paper"

rpowers — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:23:02 +0000

I'm in the same situation as you. Though I think the major factor is that the physicality of handwriting the notes helps me.

New comment by rpowers in "Ramda: A practical functional library for JavaScript programmers"

rpowers — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 19:30:52 +0000

I used Ramda for 3+ years. I like somethings but overall wouldn't pick it up again. FP in general makes it really easy for people to write inefficient passes over data. In addition, debugging or code reviewing ramdajs code can be painful as you often have several layers of call stack with meaningless (curryN, pipe, map, pick) functions. I say meaningless because when your whole app uses ramda, you find it very difficult to know what is being map'd or curry'd.

New comment by rpowers in "A Tiny Grammar of Graphics"

rpowers — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 23:20:37 +0000

The thing I hate about all of these GoG approaches is the wastefulness of the translation of data + style into visual representations. For example, if you have a dashboard with 8+ charts visible, the scaffolding of the charting library starts to weigh down the system in both performance and memory usage. VegaLite, especially, seems to make a copy of the data being passed in. Looking at the examples of ObservablePlot, I can see more wasteful processing in the form of dataset.map(d => d.property) sprinkled in several places.

New comment by rpowers in "The Google incentive mismatch: Problems with promotion-oriented cultures"

rpowers — Wed, 04 May 2022 20:05:49 +0000

Ex-googler here. I hated the promotion process with a passion. 20 pages of "evidence" which is usually just links to green/blue docs, CLs, and just flowery puff language to argue your case. My org skipped the promo committee process at the start of the pandemic when I was up for it. When we had teammate that changed teams join us for a virtual meet up to tell us _he_ got promo in his org. I quit the next week.

New comment by rpowers in "A Better Git Flow"

rpowers — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 23:59:37 +0000

Yeah I'm also confused why making multiple unrelated changes is celebrated with a special gitflow. Two changes == Two PRs.

New comment by rpowers in "Venmo, PayPal, Cash App must report payments of $600 or more to IRS"

rpowers — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 00:33:12 +0000

This is fantastic news as my wife has been complaining about scalpers on apps like Mercari and Poshmark.

New comment by rpowers in "What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)"

rpowers — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 17:26:00 +0000

I agree.

However, having just recently replaced a couch from a chain retailer, I can attest that they are pretty much made from paper mache.