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New comment by schonfinkel in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:41:46 +0000

Are you trying to be sane and rational in a market that has turned into a casino? U crazy or something?

New comment by schonfinkel in "Michael Burry says neither SpaceX nor Anthropic is worth $1T"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:09:33 +0000

And this time the boooom has a larger blast radius than all the previous booooms combined.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:40:59 +0000

The worst part is that techies can still work around the insanity if they keep their opinions private. For the serious average Joe the AI mandates must be feeling like hell on earth.

I once worked in a company that had soviet-level efforts to push LLMs into everything, someone eventually made the classic "Natural Language -> SQL Query -> Magic Result in webpage" and got promoted, the tool got mandated for every non-tech employee as part of an AI-boosting effort (people pushing metrics up).

One day I wake up with a product person in despair because the tool couldn't handle what looked like a very simple aggregation, I stopped what I was doing, crafted a 30-line SQL query over HORRIBLE TABLES, a couple CTEs and window functions here and there got him what he wanted. I found out later that single query that took 30 minutes to make saved him from inheriting a 6-month effort to create a microservice dedicated to patching said tool.

New comment by schonfinkel in "SICP Video Lectures (1986)"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:20:34 +0000

If you come from a pure FP or embedded systems background you are exposed to a much better version of "sofware engineering" than your average React dev out there. The bar created by webdev is so low it made the whole industry look like a joke.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Show HN: Atomic Editor – Obsidian-style live preview for CodeMirror 6"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:16:09 +0000

I regret to inform you that, despite your best intentions, you have built an Emacs + Orgmode.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:11:46 +0000

I once worked in a project that vendored most of its third-party dependencies, it was a culture shock at first, but damn, after a while it was so nice being able to work just by building from local source, with normal tooling like `make`, instead of pulling a shitton of deps from the outside world. Made me realize how much "webdev culture" did a disservice to software engineering as a whole.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Strace-ui, Bonsai_term, and the TUI renaissance"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:57:01 +0000

> But I think we will swing back to using GUIs when we find a performant way of making them

I like this new TUI renaissance as well, but if you wanna see what a symbiotic relationship between GUIs x TUIs could look like you need to see what Emacs does with Orgmode and the whole Org ecosystem of org-agenda, org-roam, etc. Lot's of these TUIs from the awesome are somewhat already inside Emacs.

https://orgmode.org/ https://orgmode.org/manual/Agenda-Views.html

New comment by schonfinkel in "Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:50:41 +0000

It's all about moving fast and breaking things ;)

New comment by schonfinkel in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:49:45 +0000

And it's not just AI, we're riding atop a previous finance + crypto bubble that didn't properly pop up.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:38:07 +0000

> Meanwhile, Anthropic is adding ~$10-$15b ARR every month.

I'd like to see how creative their accountants are before thrusting any numbers like that.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

schonfinkel — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 09:01:22 +0000

  Location: Brazil (UTC-4)
  Remote: YES
  Willing to relocate: MAYBE
  Technologies: Erlang, F#, Gleam, Nix, NixOS, Linux, OCaml, Python, SQL, AWS, Azure, Bash, PostgreSQL, Docker, DevOps, Terraform / Tofu
  Résumé/CV: https://schonfinkel.github.io/static/cv.pdf
  Email: marcos.schonfinkel [at] gmail.com

I have 8 years of experience focused on functional programming and declarative infrastructure. My work seeks to converge code, academic concepts and operations through solid mathematical foundations, leveraging the most robust aspects of Computer Science to create resilient systems.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Arch Linux Now Has a Bit-for-Bit Reproducible Docker Image"

schonfinkel — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:48:17 +0000

I don't wanna be that guy but...

NIX FIXES THIS.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Fable 5, F# compiler released"

schonfinkel — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:11:56 +0000

It's nice to see that Fable is still around, my old team once did a proof of concept that later turned into a real service that used both Fable + SQL Type Providers. We had levels productivity that were never heard before, since must bugs were caught by the compiler (which had knowledge of the types all the way from the DB to the FE).

Casus Belli Engineering

schonfinkel — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:20:35 +0000

Article URL: https://marcosmagueta.com/blog/casus-belli-engineering/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47800271

Points: 1

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New comment by schonfinkel in "Some Better Defaults for Emacs"

schonfinkel — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:11:01 +0000

There were also some great options revealed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678283

New comment by schonfinkel in "Engineers Are Great for Marketing"

schonfinkel — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:07:28 +0000

Big tech has noticed this a long time ago, which is why they hire a legion of "developer advocates", its inorganic in the beginning, but it works long-term and once certain tools get into large companies it's almost impossible to remove.

New comment by schonfinkel in "The Downfall and Enshittification of Microsoft in 2026"

schonfinkel — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:26:02 +0000

> Apple is pressuring Windows from above and now from below with the MacBook Neo

> Linux is pressuring Windows from below and from the developer class

If Valve actually delivers their Steam Machines in an affordable price then it'll be the deathblow.

New comment by schonfinkel in "As We May Think"

schonfinkel — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:23:07 +0000

For those interested, there is an awesome link between people like Bush and pioneers like Engebart (and later XEROX PARC), what made these people really genius was not only their (almost prophetic) vision, but they also had the capability to actually sketch (and sometimes implement) their crazy ideas. His early vision for "memex" acted like a "sorcere's spell" when Engelbart first read it in a magazine during WW2.

> By the time he left Berkeley a few years later with a Ph.D. in engineering, he had decided that his mission in life would be, in effect, to turn the memex into reality.

This excerpt is from the early chapters of "Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age". We're living in a reality these giants dreamed, and we managed to mess most of it.

New comment by schonfinkel in "Ask HN: Is there some sort of stigma around Qubes OS on HN?"

schonfinkel — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:05:10 +0000

I've been following the development of Spectrum OS, which seems to be Qubes with a "Nix take".

> Spectrum will, for now, be a Linux-based system, with packages from Nixpkgs but not derived from NixOS. This gives us an actively-developed base with good hardware support, powerful and optimised compartmentalization primitives in KVM, and the reproducible packaging and configuration system that is important for a maintainable compartmentalized system.

https://spectrum-os.org/

https://diode.zone/c/spectrum/videos

New comment by schonfinkel in "Stealing from the Best Emacs Configs"

schonfinkel — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:27:36 +0000

Couple great options I've never heard about, now I'm stealing from the blogpost.