Hacker News: rr808

New comment by rr808 in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

rr808 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 22:13:32 +0000

My office has a big grad program so there are hundreds of interns and people under 25 in the office. Is really fun for them, I think its a real benefit that people look for now.

New comment by rr808 in "India's surprise baby bust"

rr808 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:42:13 +0000

I know its not an acceptable view in 2026, but if women had to leave school at 16 and thus couldn't have a professional career I'd think many more women would have multiple children, like 5+ would be normal.

New comment by rr808 in "India's surprise baby bust"

rr808 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 02:38:54 +0000

One issue is that the wealthiest most advanced countries are having the fewest people, while the poorest countries have a the fastest growing populations. Pakistan or Nigeria alone will have more people than the whole of Europe. They may become wealthier but more realistically there will be an even tiny minority of people living well with most of the world in slums.

New comment by rr808 in "Liverpool and Manchester Railway"

rr808 — Wed, 27 May 2026 02:49:27 +0000

There ended up being 4 lines between the two cities. Hard to believe such a thing was possible in this day and age. I guess if there were no cars trains would be much more popular.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool%E2%80%93Manchester_l...

New comment by rr808 in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

rr808 — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:37:28 +0000

Or as Arthur Brooks puts it - the shower now is the only place where you dont have your phone on you.

New comment by rr808 in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

rr808 — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:29:21 +0000

lol yeah I'm not a poet.

New comment by rr808 in "IBM Spins Off the First Pure-Play Quantum Chip Foundry"

rr808 — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:50:26 +0000

Their business model is more like make a lot of noise about high tech, then hire h1bs to do routine IT work their corporate customers do.

New comment by rr808 in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

rr808 — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:46:26 +0000

I have Opus 4.7 at work at 15x. Burns through tokens like water. It feels like one of these new mega datacenters is just for me. I'd love to know what the bill is, but we're just encouraged to do as much AI as possible.

New comment by rr808 in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

rr808 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:05:42 +0000

One reason I like Go is the fast compile. Rust really slows you down. Esp in days of AI when agents are building/testing in cycles.

New comment by rr808 in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

rr808 — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:09:36 +0000

As someone working on a Sunday on a rainy memorial day weekend. Bring back the 5 day week!

New comment by rr808 in "A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan"

rr808 — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:11:20 +0000

Agreed, the biggest boom towns have been in the South where restrictions are low and profits high, leaving some really ugly suburbs.

New comment by rr808 in "A look at Denver’s “Unlocking Housing Choices” plan"

rr808 — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:10:02 +0000

There are millions of homes that are super cheap and no one wants to live there. I think we missed a real opportunity for WFH to allow people to move where things are more affordable, rather than having everyone live in mega cities and complain of high prices.

New comment by rr808 in "Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors"

rr808 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:31:58 +0000

I have 3 laptops, a PC and a PC at work and 2 phones. Passkeys still confuse me and I'm not 60 yet.

New comment by rr808 in "Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors"

rr808 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:03:08 +0000

I quite like the new trend where you can login just by entering the 2fa on SMS or email. Skip the whole username/password.

New comment by rr808 in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"

rr808 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:17:19 +0000

I still remember those $3 uber rides.

New comment by rr808 in "Microsoft to force updates to Windows 11 25H2 for PCs with older OS versions"

rr808 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:34:12 +0000

I'm still on 23H2, windows update fails every time I try. This summer I'm switching to Linux.

New comment by rr808 in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

rr808 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:20:57 +0000

I work in big financials. Everything used to be built on Excel. A lot still is but Python/Jupyterhub or custom applications has taken over a lot of the complex stuff. Excel isn't really essential any more.

New comment by rr808 in "C++26 is done: ISO C++ standards meeting Trip Report"

rr808 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:08:39 +0000

I switched from C++ to Java/Python 20 years ago. I never really fit in, I just dont understand when people talk about the complicated frameworks to avoid multithreading/mutexes etc when basic C++ multi threading is much simpler than rxjava or async/await or whatever is flavor of the month.

But C++ projects are usually really boring. I want to go back but glad I left. Has anyone found a place where C++ style programming is in fashion but isn't quite C++? I hope that makes sense.

New comment by rr808 in "I quit editing photos"

rr808 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:59:40 +0000

Me too, I figured I spent more time on the computer than taking pics. Now I shoot jpg and if I have some spare time I go out and shoot. If I take a good pic I share it with basic editing if any instead of waiting to get it "perfect".

New comment by rr808 in "Electronics for Kids, 2nd Edition"

rr808 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:45:25 +0000

Yeah I started with that. Eventually did an electronics engineering degree. Now I just write python and CI config.