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New comment by smashburger in "Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth"

smashburger — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:21:40 +0000

L take. Can’t blame npm for software shops wanting to run leaner and ship faster.

I’m personally glad I don’t have to download separate runtimes and apps and can just use the standard browser

New comment by smashburger in "Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code"

smashburger — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 14:40:37 +0000

Ok but what’s the alternative? Owning a piece of software nobody understands or knows how to maintain?

I’ll take the system written in a language that people can maintain and fix

New comment by smashburger in "How to Build Wealth as a Career Person"

smashburger — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:24:43 +0000

Not sure there’s really anything useful in here for building wealth? I get to grind the corporate ladder and hope I get paid more?

New comment by smashburger in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

smashburger — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:57:45 +0000

Haha what

New comment by smashburger in "Ask HN: How do you interview devs in a post-AI world?"

smashburger — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:42:01 +0000

Ive been trialing different types of interviews for over 2 years now and here’s what I’ve found.

I tried 2 flavors of a technical interview and this round was 1 hour in total.

The first was a traditional interview problem where we give the candidate a codebase and a docker image to run against. The problem itself involves using the docker image to post and get responses from but the candidate is expected to write a new helper/service in any language they choose. We ask for no agentic workflows for this but any other resource is fair game. This has been the most successful for us to find candidates and generally provides the best experience.

Our full agentic interview involves an existing fullstack typescript codebase that we give to the candidate a week or two before. The candidate is free to use any agentic workflows they want during the interview and we give them a ticket that we went to implement during the interview. I find a ton of variability in this interview and a lot of people will just take the entire ticket and one shot into Claude without prepping. This is lead to the biggest disparity in results of candidates so we stopped doing it.

New comment by smashburger in "Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing"

smashburger — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:22:39 +0000

Having worked on the gh gql api, I wish you luck with timeouts haha

New comment by smashburger in "Making Startups Powerful"

smashburger — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:12:20 +0000

Is open source still viable these days for a business model that relies on a single large customer and anyone else that also happens to need that solution?