Hacker News: shove

New comment by shove in "The Remarkable Incompetence at the Heart of Tech"

shove — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 15:46:23 +0000

The article is about incompetence. Incompetence while doing a fraud gets you sent to prison.

New comment by shove in "A look at IBM's short-lived "butterfly" ThinkPad 701 of 1995"

shove — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 13:54:19 +0000

I did Thinkpad tech support at IBM right around the time these were discontinued. Great machine, rarely had any problems aside from getting drivers and IRQs configured when folks decided to install Win95

New comment by shove in "Figma files for proposed IPO"

shove — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 13:29:00 +0000

Stamen! One of the OGs at this point.

New comment by shove in "How to Leave the House"

shove — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 15:17:05 +0000

This is probably the least controversial thing Mike has ever written, so naturally the HN consensus appears to be universal scorn. (And for the record, I don’t even like dogs, but I’m also aware that’s a me problem.)

New comment by shove in "Stop Writing Brittle Playwright Tests: Why YAML-Based Testing Is the Future"

shove — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 19:21:23 +0000

So the answer to “how are we going to verify that vibe-coded application code does what we think it does is “we’re going to vibe-code the tests too”?

New comment by shove in "Infinite Grid of Resistors"

shove — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:05:55 +0000

Word on the street was that my Physics professor at NCSSM (Dr Britton) worked on this problem during his doctorate

New comment by shove in "Corporations as Paperclip Maximizers"

shove — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 20:11:35 +0000

Downvotes incoming in three … two …

New comment by shove in "Corporations as Paperclip Maximizers"

shove — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:51:11 +0000

CMD-F “capitalism”: zero matches

LOL

New comment by shove in "GUIs are built at least 2.5 times"

shove — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 02:11:13 +0000

Another common conflation is graphic design vs application design. Fusion 360 has strong graphic design and meh application design.

New comment by shove in "Why Blender Changing to Vulkan Is Groundbreaking [video]"

shove — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 23:20:41 +0000

All the videos I’ve encountered from this channel have a disconcerting combination of incredible production value, and highly questionable attention to detail with respect to the information that’s being disseminated

New comment by shove in "International Workers' Day"

shove — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:35:39 +0000

This is presumably sarcastic, but be aware you’re posting on HN where such opinions are held unironically.

New comment by shove in "The Difficulty in Dating Good Men"

shove — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:36:07 +0000

C’mon. Everyone wants unobtainium.

New comment by shove in "A 1980s toy robot arm inspired modern robotics"

shove — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 15:41:06 +0000

I still have the muscle memory for these controls. I was completely gobsmacked when I disassembled it and saw the concentric rings of gears. Very very cool.

New comment by shove in "What a refugee camp reveals about economics"

shove — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 01:35:12 +0000

Author attempts to use this paper to dunk on Marx’ labor theory of value, but Marx discusses this extensively in Capital: price and value are often interchangeable, but not always.

New comment by shove in "Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age"

shove — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 00:35:44 +0000

“Maybe you didn’t hear me, I said ‘good morning steam driver, how are you?’”

New comment by shove in "Revenge of the Junior Developer"

shove — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:41:43 +0000

That was the only thing that conclusively gave it away!

New comment by shove in "Revenge of the Junior Developer"

shove — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 19:00:39 +0000

I read the whole thing, top to bottom, and by the 80% mark, I still wasn’t sure whether the piece was written in earnest or the sharpest piece of satire I’ve seen in a decade.

New comment by shove in "The Burnout Machine"

shove — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 03:37:55 +0000

> If our industry fills with unions, suddenly I won't be able to job hop to positions that look interesting to me.

Huh? Says who?

New comment by shove in "Kerning, the Hard Way"

shove — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 12:26:52 +0000

My initial point exactly

New comment by shove in "Kerning, the Hard Way"

shove — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 00:06:52 +0000

I could have sworn that was where this was going in the first place