Hacker News: shagmin

New comment by shagmin in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

shagmin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:57:03 +0000

I take it as referring to AIPAC, one of the most influential lobbying organizations in the US.

New comment by shagmin in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

shagmin — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:59:45 +0000

Reminds me of something that made me cringe that I heard from an architect at a medium sized IT shop, "even Google couldn't handle our scale".

New comment by shagmin in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

shagmin — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:28:30 +0000

I just kind of assumed they meant no additional snow to add to the accumulated amount they have for the season compared to 2015.

New comment by shagmin in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

shagmin — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:37:50 +0000

Curious how much this varies among police. Some jobs are by their nature always dangerous.

But there are a lot of cops in the USA, and plenty I'm sure have nice, cozy jobs, and then there are some who spend thee majority of their career policing areas that more closely resemble warzones or 3rd world nations but this isn't the majority by any means.

New comment by shagmin in "IRS Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight"

shagmin — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:06:06 +0000

That's a bit tenuous. Corporate taxes are a cost after profit, which usually means whatever is left over after expenses. This means companies could pay higher salaries specifically to avoid corporate taxes, or invest in things instead.

New comment by shagmin in "The tech market is fundamentally fucked up and AI is just a scapegoat"

shagmin — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:59:12 +0000

Just anecdotally, my experience was the total opposite. I didn't work in the health care industry long though and I think you're probably right in general. But you might also find there's a lot of variation between small companies too and a lot of failures for every success I suppose.

New comment by shagmin in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

shagmin — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:00:03 +0000

I get what you're saying and mostly somewhat agree with your point, but it's kind of funny thinking back and feeling the complete opposite. People like to argue which states would be better off in a civil war, meanwhile I grew up in an area where people liked to claim the south is going to rise yet again. And we do have a problem with militias.

New comment by shagmin in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

shagmin — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 04:33:16 +0000

If a person immigrates to the USA due to success with onlyfans, are they not productive members of society by virtue of having taxable & disposable income from the fruits of their labor? They don't need a PHD to be productive anymore than a soccer player, mentioned earlier. In reality we already have American citizens in the US paying for their college degrees via onlyfans.

New comment by shagmin in "Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt accused of rape, surveillance by ex-mistress"

shagmin — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:03:37 +0000

Isn't this par for the course for the New York Post? I hear that name and think trashy tabloid.

New comment by shagmin in "Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2026?"

shagmin — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:07:28 +0000

What atrophies with calculator usage is an ability to do long form division for example, or arithmetic operations with large numbers in your head for example.

The way you describe AI - tell it the problem and get an easy answer sounds identical to anecdotal complaints I've heard like Google search providing an answer to everything means no one has to learn anything, or everyone copying code from stack overflow articles. At the end of the day it's still another tool with pros and cons, tradeoffs, etc., and will be used and misused and abused by different people in different ways.

New comment by shagmin in "Warren Buffett steps down as Berkshire Hathaway CEO after six decades"

shagmin — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 05:48:24 +0000

I guess that distinction in poor matters some to me, because when I read your original comment (budgeting to avoid staying poor) the first thing that came to mind was someone I know who often says things like poor people should just work harder and variations of that. And then I'm thinking like food deserts or people dealing with more pressing issues where there's probably a general inability to do any long term planning. And in that context it comes across as out of touch or like a naive solution to a complex problem, but then I guess you also have broke college students and others who could certainly heed this advice, not just necessarily low income people.

New comment by shagmin in "Non-Zero-Sum Games"

shagmin — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 03:28:48 +0000

I don't have a concrete example, but I think you can invent plenty of iterated prisoner's dilemmas with whatever modified rules and variables and find 'tit-for-tat' isn't the end-all-be-all. Like it changes things if there's an infinite or an unknown number of rounds, some of the defects are 'noise', etc.,.

New comment by shagmin in "A16z-backed Doublespeed hacked, revealing what its AI-generated accounts promote"

shagmin — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:20:52 +0000

Original title was better in multiple ways. Mods did a disservice here.

New comment by shagmin in "Trillions spent and big software projects are still failing"

shagmin — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:56:05 +0000

I find it kind of hard to define success or failure. Google search and Facebook are a success right? And they were able to scale up as needed, which can be hard. But the way they started is very different from a government agency or massive corporation trying to orchestrate it from scratch. I don't know if you'd be familiar with this, but maybe healthcare.gov is a good example... it was notoriously buggy, but after some time and a lot of intense pressure it was dealt with.

New comment by shagmin in "Red Alert 2 in web browser"

shagmin — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 04:03:30 +0000

You don't need to get to the 3rd age in AoE 2 necessarily, unless you're just sticking with a certain strategy or playing a certain map that warrants it. There are whole metas around going offensive in different ways at each age - drush (dark (1st) age militia units), scout rush, archer rush, tower rush, etc., before getting into the 3rd (castle) age. Usually you start with a scout, and if you're not using it for hunting then presumably you're using it for scouting and if an enemy villager strays too far from safety you can try picking them off. Better players can steal the opponent's boars or sheep, re-locate your town center with higher HP next to your opponent, etc.,.

New comment by shagmin in "OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing"

shagmin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:27:41 +0000

Almost all languages have some sort of object representation, right? Classes with their own behavior, DTOs, records, structs, etc.,. What language are you working in? If you're coupled to a specific database provider anyway there's usually a system table you can query to get your list of tables, column names, etc., so you could almost just use one data source and only need to deal with its structure to provide all your endpoints (not really recommending this approach).

New comment by shagmin in "Red Alert 2 in web browser"

shagmin — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:47:46 +0000

Age of Empires 2 has big tournaments as well, and the campaigns are fairly popular too I think.

New comment by shagmin in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

shagmin — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:56:57 +0000

When I was younger and living in military dorms, I put a old throw away laptop hosting a simple website via Apache on the internet. Every time I checked the log it'd be full of so many random, wild spurts of attacks (granted I had basically 0 legit traffic).

New comment by shagmin in "Tesla Is Recalling Cybertrucks Again"

shagmin — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 18:15:44 +0000

Some would say Tesla has been over hyped as well.

New comment by shagmin in "Helm 4.0"

shagmin — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:43:58 +0000

I know at least a couple times just the templating side saved me where it was convenient to just run a helm command with --dry-run to get the yaml and grab & modify the relevant pieces and apply those manually where I don't necessarily want the whole package or I want snippets of a package or modified yaml that their helm chart didn't support out of the box, etc.,.