Hacker News: shadow28

New comment by shadow28 in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

shadow28 — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:12:25 +0000

> Professionally, I see people largely falling into two camps: those that augment their reasoning with AI, and those that replace their reasoning with AI. I’m not too worried about the former, it’s the latter for whom I’m worried.

Related recent article posted on HN - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913650

New comment by shadow28 in "California leaders report four to six weeks worth of gasoline and diesel supply"

shadow28 — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:24:55 +0000

Yep, it's a low sulfur, lower volatility gasoline blend (https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/how-california-reg...) which apparently cuts harmful exhaust emissions like carbon monoxide and NOx.

Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful (2018)

shadow28 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 22:09:53 +0000

Article URL: https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47928063

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shadow28 in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

shadow28 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:06:30 +0000

> competent replacement for Google Maps

Maybe in the US and a handful of other countries. See the replies on this thread talking about various issues with using Apple Maps elsewhere - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47840219#47840616.

New comment by shadow28 in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

shadow28 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:52:02 +0000

It's exactly the other way around actually, continental US would include Alaska since it's still on the North American continent whereas contiguous US excludes both Hawaii and Alaska. Contiguous US refers to the lower 48 states.

New comment by shadow28 in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

shadow28 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:42:09 +0000

> 12-15K feet just isn’t that high in the scheme of things. Many peaks in the western US are in that range or more.

The highest peak in the contiguous United States is Mt. Whitney at ~14.5k feet

New comment by shadow28 in "A once-proud tradition is becoming awkward for elite universities"

shadow28 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:50:49 +0000

https://archive.is/2026.03.05-133047/https://www.economist.c...

A once-proud tradition is becoming awkward for elite universities

shadow28 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:50:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/united-states/2026/03/04/a-once-proud-tradition-is-becoming-awkward-for-elite-universities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47263058

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Perplexity Computer

shadow28 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:21:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-perplexity-computer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47168151

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by shadow28 in "Apache Arrow is 10 years old"

shadow28 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:06:11 +0000

Arrow supports zero-copy data sharing - checkout the Arrow IPC format and Arrow Flight.

A decades-old video game has helped me defeat the doomscroll

shadow28 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 01:31:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/feb/09/how-a-decades-old-video-game-has-helped-me-defeat-the-doomscroll

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954182

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The Stable Marriage Problem

shadow28 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:01:08 +0000

Article URL: https://acotra.substack.com/p/the-stable-marriage-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46791958

Points: 19

# Comments: 6

New comment by shadow28 in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

shadow28 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:44:37 +0000

I don't disagree with your overall point, but how's an S22 ultra a "medium range Android"?

ClickHouse valued at $15B as database analytics firm rides AI wave

shadow28 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 06:28:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/database-management-firm-clickhouse-valued-15-billion-amid-ai-boom-2026-01-16/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46655833

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by shadow28 in "FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home"

shadow28 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:14:57 +0000

And the UK is not Venezuela.

New comment by shadow28 in "FBI raids Washington Post reporter's home"

shadow28 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:15:11 +0000

The Guardian is not an American newspaper.

New comment by shadow28 in "What old tennis players teach us (2017)"

shadow28 — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 14:52:38 +0000

Yeah, this article is quite funny in the context of today's men's tennis landscape, where an entire generation of players (90s born) were effectively blocked from the big prizes by being sandwiched between two generations of all time greats. Money is obviously an important factor in the growth and development of most athletes, but the article seems to be downplaying the importance of inherent talent and ability in sport.

New comment by shadow28 in "I'm Kenyan. I don't write like ChatGPT, ChatGPT writes like me"

shadow28 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:45:54 +0000

Sorry for the pedantry, but "thought" and "taught" are actually phonetically different (/θɑːt/ vs /tɑːt/).

New comment by shadow28 in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

shadow28 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:04:30 +0000

https://jepsen.io/analyses/nats-2.12.1

New comment by shadow28 in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

shadow28 — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:23:52 +0000

> most of the credit for a huge company's success goes to the CEO who gets 100X the salary of a regular worker while delivering usually pretty much nothing

Well, in Confluent's case I'm not so sure that's true given that their CEO is also the company founder as well as one of the original authors of Apache Kafka.