Hacker News: sunsunsunsun

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

sunsunsunsun — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:12:58 +0000

I agree, I certainly can't comment on the legality of this license laundering but I would call them an asshole.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

sunsunsunsun — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:23:06 +0000

Im still using opencode with claude pro so im confused.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "As Rocks May Think"

sunsunsunsun — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 00:54:55 +0000

Considering the usage of LLMs by many people as a sort of friend or psychologist we also get to look forward to a new form a control over people. These things earn peoples "trust" and there is no reason why it couldn't be used to sway peoples opinions. Not to mention the devious and subtle ways it can advertise to people.

Also, these productivity gains arent used to reduce working time for the same number of people, but instead to reduce the number of people needed to do the same amount of work. Working people get to see the productivity benefits via worsening material conditions.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Genie 3: A new frontier for world models"

sunsunsunsun — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 17:07:54 +0000

You seem to forget that most artists enjoy it but due to the structure of our society are forced to either give it up for most of their waking life to earn money or attempt to market their art to the masses to make money. This AI stuff only makes it harder for artists to make any kind of living off of their work.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "First look at the upcoming Starlink Mini"

sunsunsunsun — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 02:07:48 +0000

I wish they would release a dc low power version. If it does any more than 22kbps than its already beating certus and that costs $7/mb for the devices we use them in.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Sea Kit"

sunsunsunsun — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 18:20:25 +0000

I work for usv company. Most of the interest we receive for boats is either multibeam work or illegal fishing enforcement in marine protected areas. We nearly ended up doing some naval work but there was a large internal backlash and the contract was turned down.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Ask HN: How to survive as a homeless programmer in the winter (AB, Canada)?"

sunsunsunsun — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:22:24 +0000

Is this chatgpt?

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Finding a new software developer job"

sunsunsunsun — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 20:05:37 +0000

We have lost candidates at my company which we had pretty much already decided were a fit after 1-2 interviews but we're still forced to go through the rigmarole of these extra interviews over several weeks. It's not just crazy it's also a waste of time and resources.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "NixOS and Flakes Book: An unofficial book for beginners (free)"

sunsunsunsun — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 17:56:57 +0000

Ya their comment does not match up to my experience at all. When I update my lockfile it very rarely breaks and if it does I just roll back a commit and wait a day and it's usually fixed.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "To grasp the extent of inequality, look at the relatively well-off"

sunsunsunsun — Sat, 22 Jul 2023 13:16:30 +0000

I feel this big time. I'm in the top 10% of income earners in Canada and yet me and my family are stuck in a small one bed apartment. We can't buy property as everything in the area would leave us very house poor, if we even qualify for the mortgage.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Never trust a programmer who says they know C++"

sunsunsunsun — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 15:22:48 +0000

I've been writing C++ for 4 years now professionally. I don't claim to be some kind of god at it but what am I supposed to do? Leave it off my resume because I don't know every intricate detail? I've used it to get shit done and make a company money, everything else is fluff.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "What broke Sweden? Real estate bust exposes big divide"

sunsunsunsun — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 06:33:24 +0000

I felt your pain. I live in Victoria and also make $100k but can't afford much more than a 1 bed without destroying our savings goals. Unfortunately my current job is hybrid and they won't let me go full remote. We plan to leave as soon as I find a new opportunity - despite loving living here by every other metric.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Ask HN: How many hours do you work on a daily basis?"

sunsunsunsun — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 09:55:34 +0000

I would say I work 4-6 hours per day. I rarely work more than 40 and make sure I make up that time if I ever do.

Not effected by layoffs - my company mostly runs of government money which appears to still be flowing.

Ai has saved me very little time so far. It's probably cost me work time as I ask it more non-work related stuff.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "ChatGPT Plugins"

sunsunsunsun — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:13:02 +0000

I have never used Alexa, hey google or whatever flavour you choose for more then "set a timer for x minutes" and other very basic tasks. It's amazing how terrible the voice assistant products are compared to chatgpt.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Something weird happens to companies when they hit 150 people (2017)"

sunsunsunsun — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 19:18:10 +0000

This has happened at my company that is now 35 people. Too many managers that have fractured communication. Getting things done was easy when there was 10 people.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Work less, get more done: Analytics for maximizing productivity (2009)"

sunsunsunsun — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 17:16:42 +0000

The key is that you don't ask permission, you just leave.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Google tells employees to share desks as it looks to cut costs"

sunsunsunsun — Thu, 23 Feb 2023 20:48:02 +0000

Simultaneously asking people back to the office while making working in the office a worse experience.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Multi-Account Containers"

sunsunsunsun — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 01:39:39 +0000

I tried this a while back but I've found having two instances of Firefox for work/personal much easier to seperate my life with. I just hotkeyed the launch of the work and personal one and use different themes on the two browsers.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

sunsunsunsun — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 20:10:09 +0000

Heres the catch-22 for me. I dislike remote work where I currently live because I am in a small 1 bed apartment with a child so it's literally impossible to get work done. But why am I in this tiny apartment? Because my company insists we be in the office at least 3 days per week and therefore I cannot afford a bigger place in the most expensive city in my country. I want remote so I can improve my living circumstances.

New comment by sunsunsunsun in "Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?"

sunsunsunsun — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 20:06:04 +0000

Seriously, if you're junior then you're more desperate and you're going to straight face lie about your opinions to make yourself more hireable.