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New comment by stack_framer in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"

stack_framer — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:59:52 +0000

I'm reading The C Programming Language, 2nd edition (the K&R book), and working through all the exercises.

It's a great book, although it's forcing me to admit that I need glasses (the print is so small)!

New comment by stack_framer in "Cisco workforce reductions"

stack_framer — Thu, 14 May 2026 05:51:19 +0000

"...fewer than 4,000 jobs, representing less than 5 percent of our total employee base."

I cringe at this attempt to soften the numbers by saying "fewer than" and "less than" here. Conversely, and ironically, it also puts inflated numbers in your head.

"How many people will be axed at Cisco?"

"3,998 ... but at least it's fewer than 4,000!"

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

stack_framer — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:05:55 +0000

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Remote: Remote/Hybrid/On-Site

Willing to relocate: To Arizona, Texas, or Florida for the right opportunity

Technologies: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CUhv4zVHxUlkLidmVu19ZacPhMf...

Email: rob [dot] johansen at gmail [dot] com

I just got laid off by Pie Insurance, along with 64 other people (including staff software engineers, engineering managers, product managers, and other roles). I worked across the stack at Pie, building design systems and reusable UI components on the front end, as well as APIs and event-based systems on the back end.

New comment by stack_framer in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

stack_framer — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:52:46 +0000

Wow, the way Upwork is handling this seems really bad. They announced the layoffs today, but nobody will know who is being let go until next week! Sheesh.

New comment by stack_framer in "Vercel’s pricing page"

stack_framer — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:10:28 +0000

Our first year on Vercel, the bill was $40,000. When our management went back to negotiate the second year, Vercel wanted $120,000! Vercel wasn't offering 3x the features, mind you, they just knew we were locked in. Our management got it down to $60,000 (still a 50% cost increase, year over year).

Our app is small beans, too. We don't even have that many users. To borrow a favorite term from DHH, Vercel are "merchants of complexity."

But they're only half the problem. Our management is the other half. They can't be bothered to grow a spine and move away from Vercel. So we'll just keep paying, and eventually some people will "be affected" by a "reduction in force."

New comment by stack_framer in "LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request"

stack_framer — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:18:52 +0000

Now do OpenAI...

New comment by stack_framer in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

stack_framer — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:01:09 +0000

I once had an external monitor with a maximum refresh rate of 30 Hz, and mouse movements were noticeably sluggish. It was part of a multi-monitor setup, so it was very obvious as I moved the mouse between monitors.

I'm not sure if this LG display will have the same issue, but I won't be an early adopter.

New comment by stack_framer in "Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent"

stack_framer — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:01:12 +0000

My wife and I canceled Netflix a while ago and went back to DVDs. An FYE store in our area recently had a store closing sale, so we bought three DVD players and snapped up all our favorite DVDs for a few bucks each.

No subscription, no mid-movie ads, and no worrying about this or that service losing the streaming rights to whatever.

New comment by stack_framer in "No Semicolons Needed"

stack_framer — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:05:32 +0000

I never actually type semicolons in my JavaScript / TypeScript. In work projects, my IDE adds them for me thanks to the linter. In personal projects, I just leave them out (I don't use a linter, so my IDE does not add them), and I've never had a problem. Not even once.

Semicolon FUD is for the birds.

New comment by stack_framer in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

stack_framer — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:07:53 +0000

Under Secretary of War Emil Michael posted that there is no active negotiation with Anthropic:

https://x.com/USWREMichael/status/2029754965778907493

New comment by stack_framer in "DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit"

stack_framer — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:19:50 +0000

The AOL version missed an opportunity: After connecting it should have said, "You've got mail!"

New comment by stack_framer in "AI makes you boring"

stack_framer — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:03:50 +0000

AI also makes you bored.

New comment by stack_framer in "Why I don't think AGI is imminent"

stack_framer — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:15:32 +0000

I'm seeing a 404 page. I assume this is unintentional, but it's making a funny point: How could AGI possibly be imminent and we still have 404 pages?

Regardless, I agree with this article whose body eludes me: AGI is not imminent, it's hype in the extreme. It's the next fusion. It's perpetually on the horizon (pun intended), and we've wasted trillions on machines that will never reach it.

New comment by stack_framer in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

stack_framer — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:42:25 +0000

We went from having new JavaScript frameworks every week to having new AI frameworks every week. I'm thinking I should build a HN clone that filters out all posts about AI topics...

New comment by stack_framer in "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it"

stack_framer — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 16:22:40 +0000

Wow, this is a new low I did not expect to see. "Just get high and you'll be able to code with an LLM." Preceded by, "I know it's terrible."

I'm wholly unwilling to relinquish my health and my morals to "AI" so I can "ship faster." What a pathetic existence that would be.

New comment by stack_framer in "We mourn our craft"

stack_framer — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 02:43:23 +0000

I find it such a strange cycle to tell AI to write some code, then tell it to fix the bugs in that code. Why didn't the AI just not include those bugs the first time it wrote the code?!

New comment by stack_framer in "We mourn our craft"

stack_framer — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 22:59:32 +0000

Truer words were never spoken. You have imparted wisdom upon me today. :)

New comment by stack_framer in "We mourn our craft"

stack_framer — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:30:41 +0000

Older than whom?

New comment by stack_framer in "We mourn our craft"

stack_framer — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:29:29 +0000

> your world view has fixed into a certain way the world works

Yeah, it's weird. I'm fixated on not having bugs in my code. :)

New comment by stack_framer in "We mourn our craft"

stack_framer — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:27:45 +0000

> But it is coming and you will either have to adapt or become irrelevant.

I heard it will be here in six months. I guess I don't have much time to adapt! :)