Hacker News: rvrs

New comment by rvrs in "Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself (2024)"

rvrs — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:12:29 +0000

And I am exactly the opposite - aside from my first job out of university 10 years ago I have gotten every job since through connections

Irasutoya

rvrs — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:58:24 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irasutoya

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422879

Points: 2

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New comment by rvrs in "Willingness to look stupid"

rvrs — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:05:47 +0000

Whether you like it or not you will look stupid to native speakers. It's a subconscious bias

New comment by rvrs in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

rvrs — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:37:36 +0000

The Neo is supposed to be the budget version. I think MacOS is a decent computing platform for some engineering and creative endeavors -- if one more college kid gets access to it for cheaper I say it's a positive

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: Who still works async and has a 'no meetings' work policy in 2026?"

rvrs — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:09:39 +0000

I work in east Asia for a western startup. My work schedule is shifted a few hours earlier, so I end up waking up at 5 and have meetings starting at 6. I work in silence the rest of the day and we have no-meetings days once a week.

I love it.

New comment by rvrs in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

rvrs — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 08:26:41 +0000

Japanese has a word for green now 緑 (midori). Traffic lights use the word for blue for historical reasons

New comment by rvrs in "Where do the children play?"

rvrs — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:00:39 +0000

I also live in Suginami! There's always a lot of kids running around together, especially after school, but that feels quite normal for anywhere in Japan, no?

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: How to deal with long vibe-coded PRs?"

rvrs — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:46:04 +0000

Enforce stacked PRs, reject PRs over 500-1k LoC (I'd argue even lower, but it's a hard sell)

New comment by rvrs in "A worker fell into a nuclear reactor pool"

rvrs — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 09:23:53 +0000

Did a coal miner write this comment?

New comment by rvrs in "YouTube Forces Ads in Moldova Without Offering Premium as an Option"

rvrs — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:51:06 +0000

I was very pissed off to find that my Youtube Premium didn't work when I visited Armenia. I was still paying for it, but ads played and I couldn't listen to videos in the background. WTF?

New comment by rvrs in "Humane founder Imran Chaudhri likely paid for highly charitable Wikipedia entry"

rvrs — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:02:42 +0000

There's so much obvious evidence of manipulation on Wikipedia, it's insane that it doesn't come under more scrutiny. It's even worse on non-English Wikipedias

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: Do you know travel blogs that have animated SVG maps of their travels?"

rvrs — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:51:59 +0000

Is it this one? https://photos.paulstamatiou.com/new-zealand/coromandel-peni...

EDIT: Any HN mods/devs reading this -- there seems to be a display bug for comment creation time? On edit it says 20hrs (accurate), whereas viewing the comments otherwise shows that it was posted an hour ago. Not sure what's going on

New comment by rvrs in "I want my AI to get mad"

rvrs — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:05:22 +0000

Is there anything out there that's even close to that OG GPT-3? It was the closest experience I've ever had to magic, and I miss it dearly

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: What are the most complicated machines humans have built?"

rvrs — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:48:25 +0000

Really? I feel exactly the opposite, that as a species we are extremely primitive in that regard. We underinvest into social "technology." Systems of collaboration and alignment aren't widespread, and research into it isn't taken seriously

Don't get me wrong, what we have is working (so far? Political happenings around the world don't inspire confidence)

New comment by rvrs in "Social Trust Score"

rvrs — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:24:15 +0000

>I would never create a system that placed a negative on someone's entire life.

>There is always room for and chances to improve ones self.

Great, then here's an opportunity for you to improve: I need you to understand that any social system designed by humans will be flawed and miss a bunch of edge cases. Your intentions do not matter. Doing this will fuck up somebody's life.

New comment by rvrs in "Social Trust Score"

rvrs — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:04:07 +0000

I believe people (who are not deemed guilty of murder or something and imprisoned for life) have the right to start over, and so people have the right to lie. Having a lifelong number assigned to you is evil. This isn't solving any problems. I'm sorry you had bad roommates, but stop.

New comment by rvrs in "Relocating for Tech Jobs in 2025"

rvrs — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 21:04:26 +0000

I'm a born and raised American: I'd give anything to relocate to Europe or Asia permanently (for healthcare access reasons). Currently working a remote job from the US and exploring my options internally and externally.

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: How Do You Bookmark?"

rvrs — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:25:39 +0000

1) For sites I come back to for reference or frequent utility, I use my Chrome bookmarks bar heavily. I have it synced to my Google account in the cloud, and segmented across different Chrome profiles (work email account for work things, personal for personal things, etc).

- Bookmarks to tools I access really frequently (like AWS dashboard) are top-level, and I remove the "Name" of the bookmark so it appears as just an icon in the bookmarks bar. There's a few of these quick-access icons for any given Chrome Profile setup that I have. For work I have Okta, AWS, and a work Wiki via Notion. For personal I have Youtube, email, my seedbox, and Plex.

- Everything else is split into folders for interests, projects, teams at work, etc.

- For things like recipes and articles I will back them up via Waybackmachine and archive.ph and bookmark that instead of the original site

2) For a form of digital scrapbooking for my various interests, of things that are not quite websites (images, videos, quotes, scraps) I use are.na heavily. I want to stress that this is scrapbooking and not a "notes system" a la Obsidian or Notion.

New comment by rvrs in "Has anyone else noticed Reddit being taken over by shills/bot/trolls"

rvrs — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 02:15:10 +0000

This is not news -- Reddit has been very clearly astroturfed for years now

New comment by rvrs in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell"

rvrs — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 04:52:04 +0000

What does your dealflow look like? Do you usually trade smaller unusuals into larger ones or are you just flipping big-money unusuals? How do you get the deals?