Hacker News: shortstuffsushi

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

shortstuffsushi — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:12:11 +0000

  Location: Wisconsin, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Node, TypeScript, C#, cloud deployment, etc
  Résumé/CV: https://grahammueller.com/Resume.pdf
  Email: graham.mueller315@gmail.com

I've really worked on just about everything. The last few years have been primary various node applications, the few years prior to that were mostly C#, prior to that mobile development...

Looking to get into something new. Open to pretty much anything at this point.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "DisplayMate"

shortstuffsushi — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:42:09 +0000

I'm not familiar with DisplayMate, and the site appears to be hugged. Unsure what this is doing on the front page, but for any similarly lost folks:

> DisplayMate is the Worldwide Leader in Video Diagnostics and the World's most advanced Display Calibration and Optimization Software.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

shortstuffsushi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:33:58 +0000

I recognize that I'm missing that part of the context, but it still surprises me that the answer to that is relatively global surveillance. In the current state of things, homelessness is perfectly public and observable, right? And so at any point now, the proposed "enforcement" could take place without the need for cameras? I think that part is unclear to me as well, the problem that exists that this solves.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

shortstuffsushi — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:49:48 +0000

Usually, I'd say this sort of comment is not really contributing much to the conversation, but in this case I agree with the sentiment. With a lot of these posts about the surveillance tech that's becoming increasingly prominent everywhere in the public, there are a lot of commenters here that seem to be of the opinion that "this is fine, as long as you have nothing to hide, there's nothing lost" - or worse in this case, that perhaps that there's something to be gained by taking the "bizarre and dangerous" off the street. Admittedly, I do not live in one of the cities that have issues with a large homeless population, so the experience is a bit lost on me, but I am surprised to see, especially on this forum, people embrace any form of surveillance state. We evidently have learned nothing by both the performative and actual surveillance adds since the Patriot Act. Perhaps the general populous is in fact on board with this and those of us who aren't are the minority.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "Ferrari Luce"

shortstuffsushi — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:50:07 +0000

Having owned an Impala of that generation, and having seen so many around for so long, this is exactly where my mind went. These are a dead ringer for their rear lights.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

shortstuffsushi — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:54:46 +0000

Man, you've been on a streak of these purely vitriolic posts. Maybe take a break from the internet for a bit? These posts read like someone who needs help.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

shortstuffsushi — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:11:31 +0000

I think that the idea is each action uses more tokens, which means that users hit their limit sooner, and are consequently unable to burn more compute.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

shortstuffsushi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:05:07 +0000

If you're not aware, the GP was a reference to the original Dropbox HN post, wherein BrandonM said, effectively, "why wouldn't I just use rsync?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

shortstuffsushi — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:46:14 +0000

I would argue that the first couple of these could be considered "features." Not sure what you mean about the bench seat - the "regular cab" configuration is a 3 person bench.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "Ford F-150 Lightning outsold the Cybertruck and was then canceled for poor sales"

shortstuffsushi — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:27:36 +0000

> There are no more basic utilitarian pickups any longer, at least in the US.

What makes you say this? The F-150 series has a pretty serviceable option in their XL trim. 8ft bed, 4x4, "dumb" interior (maybe not, looking at their site looks like the most recent is iPad screen, sigh) - but what else would you look for to call it utilitarian?

You're right that each feature is further limiting, but I would argue premium and utilitarian are reaching for opposite goals.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

shortstuffsushi — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:40:24 +0000

While a lot of these ideas are touted as "good for the org," in the case of LLMs, it's more like guard rails against something that can't reason things out. That doesn't mean that the practices are bad, but I would much prefer that these LLMs (or some better mechanism) everyone is being pushed to use could actual reason, remember, and improve, so that this sort of guarding wouldn't be a requirement for correct code.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "A staff engineer's journey with Claude Code"

shortstuffsushi — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 02:20:15 +0000

A similar, non-LLM battle, is a global find and replace, but _not quite identical_ everywhere. Do I just go through the 20 files and do it myself, or try to get clever with regex? Which is ultimately faster...

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "XSLT removal will break multiple government and regulatory sites"

shortstuffsushi — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:15:04 +0000

No kidding, the entire thread seems to be "you don't know what you're doing and you haven't done any research," in the face of responses saying "correct, this is the beginning of the process, where we do the research."

Then some random tag on guy presumably after this hit HN "I like that it doesn't have ads," which has literally nothing to do with the issue, lol.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

shortstuffsushi — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:43:40 +0000

I actually think it's ironic for precisely that reason. Similar to covering music, there is a legal precedent for making books available in public libraries - though most cover artists don't pay the royalties, and in this case this online library is not paying the GP. In the case that GP did in fact pay the fee, I rescind my criticism.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

shortstuffsushi — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 19:36:22 +0000

This strikes me as a bit ironic, if you're serious, as you list your current work as covering the entirety of the Beatles discography. Are you paying them for the rights?

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "Blocking LLMs from your website cuts you off from next-generation search"

shortstuffsushi — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:56:02 +0000

I'm surprised I don't see any comments here to this effect yet: isn't this just AMP 2.0? Website authors don't want their content scraped and rehosted by a 3rd party, even when that 3rd party claims it's for their own benefit. We have a whole kerfuffle about this nearly a decade ago. The arguments for both sides don't appear to have changed.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "XMLUI"

shortstuffsushi — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:00:18 +0000

Maybe just me but seeing side by side "spreadsheets are all you need" and ".ai" seem to be somewhat uh... competing claims.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "Why agents are bad pair programmers"

shortstuffsushi — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:28:39 +0000

This is just fundamentally not the case most of the time. LLMs guess where you're going, but so often what they produce is a "similar looking" non sequitur relative to the lines above it. It guesses, and sometimes that guess is good, but as often, or more, it's not.

The suggestion "think in interfaces" is fine; if you spell out enough context in comments, the LLM may be able to guess more accurately, but in spelling out that much context for it, you've likely already done the mental exercise of the implementation.

Also baffled by "wrong or suboptimal," I don't think I've ever seen an LLM come up with a better solution.

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "WeatherStar 4000+: Weather Channel Simulator"

shortstuffsushi — Thu, 29 May 2025 20:37:25 +0000

It seems like this could make a good addition for the folks working on EmuVR @ https://www.emuvr.net/

New comment by shortstuffsushi in "Generative AI Hype Peaking"

shortstuffsushi — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:27:52 +0000

I agree with the position that most people are not coming from "elite" schools, as someone who hires in the midwest. I still much prefer someone with a four year school (and, as the other poster mentioned, internships) to a bootcamp. I have had one bootcamp graduate of five total that was at a useful starting skill level, compared to probably 90% (don't have a count for this one) "base useful" skill out of college.