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New comment by sdevonoes in "Return of the Nigerian Prince Redux: Beware Book Club and Book Review Scams (2025)"

sdevonoes — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:50:26 +0000

Aren’t they the biggest scammers on earth, though?

New comment by sdevonoes in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

sdevonoes — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:43:00 +0000

Wheres the joy in cleaning public toilets? Should all of those workers leave?

New comment by sdevonoes in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

sdevonoes — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:37:26 +0000

There are non technical people building and shipping software. That’s fine, but not all software is equal: the software you release and it’s behind an ecommerce platform (or a bank, or a hospital, or the train system) is not like the software behind your custom-made productivity app. I think for the former software we still need people with the title “software engineer”

And as systems become more complex with time, we will need more people with the title “software engineer”

New comment by sdevonoes in "What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL (2014)"

sdevonoes — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:17:45 +0000

I understand you mean “data” model instead? Perhaps for simple cruds, there’s no much point in differentiating between the data model and the domain model. For more complex scenarios, having orm concerns leak into the domain model is not nice

New comment by sdevonoes in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

sdevonoes — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:54:49 +0000

What YT is now:

- ads every now and then

- addictive shorts no one needs

- suggested videos nobody asked for

- geo ban of videos

Keep Your Skills Sharp the Hard Way

sdevonoes — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 19:51:27 +0000

Article URL: https://explainanalyze.com/p/keep-your-skills-sharp-the-hard-way/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48788373

Points: 4

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New comment by sdevonoes in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

sdevonoes — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:24:09 +0000

> I'm finding AI increasingly harder to like.

That summarises pretty well the whole situation. AI is cool and all, but not worth it considering all the disadvantages

New comment by sdevonoes in "Fintech Engineering Handbook"

sdevonoes — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:16:10 +0000

> I would recommend anyone starting in fintech to take some time to understand accounting principles and the ledger in a bit more depth than just debits vs credits

Any good resources you would recommend to learn more about this?

New comment by sdevonoes in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

sdevonoes — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:08:00 +0000

I didn’t know modern (2015-2026) software engineers were making such a strong distinction between “writing code” and “designing solutions”. It’s not the majority of engineers “design” and then hand over the implementation to others (at least Ive never seen that before).

From my experience, a typical software engineer needs to understand the business (e.g., knowing who your users are), design a solution (e.g., we probably need an event-driven arch right here) and write the code (e.g., we should use select for update skip locked to avoid over claiming). They all are equally challenging imho

New comment by sdevonoes in "Ask HN: Where is the programming profession going?"

sdevonoes — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:02:12 +0000

> What seems clear to me is that expectations around velocity and throughput will increase (are increasing).

This is why I don’t understand why folks around here (that are employed) feel so enthusiastic about AI. We are going to be working more in a rush to produce stuff that we won’t be feeling as proud of as we did before AI. Unless you were in the profession for the money, the delights of crafting software simply go away and AI is pushing us closer to be just… well, I don’t know, but I don’t like it. Sure thing, if you are a CEO, this new state of things must be wonderful

New comment by sdevonoes in "Ask HN: Anthropic banned me from using Claude Code and I don't know what to do"

sdevonoes — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 07:04:39 +0000

Lucky you.

New comment by sdevonoes in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"

sdevonoes — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:38:35 +0000

I never done an iq test, but just curious, can’t one simply “rehearse/study” for such tests? I dunno, let’s say you do a few past IQ tests (with answers available), I guess one could get a higher score just by doing that

New comment by sdevonoes in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"

sdevonoes — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:35:20 +0000

If you want the job, can’t you just lie? Or are SAT scores something that cannot be faked? I dunno, I also say I know Kotlin when I have more experience in Java (and honestly I couldn’t care less about specific tech stacks), or that I know about tcp/udp when all I have is read a couple of (good) books about it.

I don’t feel bad lying about some stupid requirement

New comment by sdevonoes in "Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too"

sdevonoes — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:32:16 +0000

Technically speaking, yeah, those things are cool. What’s not cool (anymore?) is that people like Zuck and other similar billionaires are behind such tech. I didn’t give a shit of the millionaires of the 80s/90s… but these billionaires of today, simply suck big time. So fuck them

New comment by sdevonoes in "Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too"

sdevonoes — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:29:07 +0000

They are billionaires, so it’s fine for us to make fun of them (because the joke is on us)

New comment by sdevonoes in "The founder's playbook: Building an AI-native startup"

sdevonoes — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:04:58 +0000

By that logic, same can be said about code. So, ig everyone “gets there” equally fast, then nobody has an advantage

New comment by sdevonoes in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

sdevonoes — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:58:27 +0000

Because there’s little good about it

New comment by sdevonoes in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

sdevonoes — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:38:28 +0000

Isn’t it clear that the “enemy” of 99% of the people in the world (and in HN) are the ultra rich? Therefore we shouldn’t use Claude/Gemini/OpenAI?

It’s not about stopping progress, rather stopping the ultra rich getting richer and more powerful over our lives. Whether we can use claude to automate a fucking script or service is meaningless compared to that.

The dream of elon musk et al is to keep accumulating power and have non-humans serve them. They don’t want us, and as soon as they can they will replace us. But here we are giving them more power. Ridiculous

New comment by sdevonoes in "What the Fuck Happened to Nerds"

sdevonoes — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:21:19 +0000

Nah. I think you got it wrong

New comment by sdevonoes in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

sdevonoes — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:57:23 +0000

There are no hackers around here anymore. HN is mainly about business nowadays