Hacker News: syngrog66

New comment by syngrog66 in "Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine"

syngrog66 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:09:44 +0000

vi, pandoc

New comment by syngrog66 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

syngrog66 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:25:14 +0000

meanwhile all I need is a cursor (lowercase) and I can program and do all the actual software engineering I need. been true for many decades and likely will for many more

New comment by syngrog66 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor AI coding agent operator Anysphere for $60B"

syngrog66 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:07:22 +0000

vim

New comment by syngrog66 in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

syngrog66 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:23:51 +0000

pre-replaced it with combo of my brain, vim, an assortment of other CLI/TUI tools, etc

New comment by syngrog66 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

syngrog66 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:11:03 +0000

book on performance; latency instrumentation; DCC TTRPG adventure module; OCPP software; latency/stability issues & upgrades for legacy backend codebase

New comment by syngrog66 in "Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity"

syngrog66 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:08:10 +0000

great, thanks. just saw this, btw

New comment by syngrog66 in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

syngrog66 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:03:05 +0000

scratched my own itches related to OCPP, latency, git, ssh and JMX. none involved AI

New comment by syngrog66 in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

syngrog66 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:59:14 +0000

topics & individuals

whether something fad or not does not matter to me

New comment by syngrog66 in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

syngrog66 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:39:24 +0000

unfortunate name: very similar to Godot at passing glance. my brain already stumbles going back and forth between seeing LLVM and LLM, IP (Internet protocol) and IP (Intellectual property). Don't me started on X vs X vs X vs ...

I do like that it reinforces this rule of thumb:

  Q: "How do you know if any given piece of software is written in Rust?
  A: "Oh they'll tell you. They *will* tell you. Upfront and over and over again."

New comment by syngrog66 in "Launch HN: Expanse (YC P26) – Unlock Wasted GPU Capacity"

syngrog66 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:22:10 +0000

I'm writing book on perf optimization, love to ask you questions sometime. email me (in my bio here) if interested. thanks!

New comment by syngrog66 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

syngrog66 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:48:07 +0000

Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & scalability, some math & ML

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/raw/refs/heads/master...

Email: groglogic+hn2026jun@gmail.com

programming for decades. solid fundamentals. troubleshooter. tech lead/arch. SRE-ish. solved legacy Heisenbugs & shipped, many times.

author of perf cheatsheet

writing book on HPC

US citizen, native English

ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, instrum, caches, sessions, threads, db conns)

research & due diligence for US State Dept on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo (ie. natsec)

game engine creator & toolmaker since kid

once built small sw biz

recent client: sys prog R&D on mem alloc latency & SEGV resilience. C on Linux. delivered code, benchmarks, diagrams & report on how to upgrade perf & avail of their soft-RT (micros mattered), $-impacting backend

LatLearn: FOSS Golang latency instrum & reporting lib

New comment by syngrog66 in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

syngrog66 — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:47:51 +0000

between all the Linux LPEs and Claude's known security flaws, alone, I'd be shocked if Github and Microsoft hadnt gotten hacked by now. reasonable bet we mainly hear it when big shops get bit

New comment by syngrog66 in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

syngrog66 — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:20:35 +0000

I have respect for Karpathy. Not for anyone who made Claude or promotes it. So this is a shame. But I can't fault anyone for accepting an offer with (I assume) lots of 0's in the dollar part.

New comment by syngrog66 in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

syngrog66 — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:54:11 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta

https://chatgpt.com

New comment by syngrog66 in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

syngrog66 — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:52:25 +0000

Facts for context:

Malta has a population of only 550k.

Everyone in Malta could already, before this deal/plan, and even without it now, use ChatGPT (or any other LLM model/service, whether free or premium.)

New comment by syngrog66 in "Claude for Legal"

syngrog66 — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:38:24 +0000

if ever there was a domain for an LLM to be sloppy, reckless or emit lies or hallucinations it would be related to law advice and legal documents

er, wait

New comment by syngrog66 in "Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)"

syngrog66 — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:50:00 +0000

The smart nerd will know precisely how to decode that line's results.

The wise nerd will not allow lines like it in their codebase, in the first place and, having seen one, will refactor it (probably involving more lines or parentheses) to make it more clear and easier to maintain.

The latter approach scales better, in long run.

New comment by syngrog66 in "The Emacsification of Software"

syngrog66 — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:36:00 +0000

whoosh goes the point of Markdown over some youngster's heads

New comment by syngrog66 in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

syngrog66 — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:17:54 +0000

Zuck is a billionaire sociopath. All else flows from that.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

syngrog66 — Sun, 10 May 2026 04:15:13 +0000

Or we could just use our brains, eyes, fingers, and programming languages. Which all clearly work just fine, despite what the AI promoting hypesters would have you believe. Plain text is fine. Markdown is fine. All of it is OK. Don't give in to FOMU and peer pressure, kids. Conformity is not required.