Hacker News: syngrog66

New comment by syngrog66 in "If you started a company two years ago, many assumptions are no longer true"

syngrog66 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:58:29 +0000

depends on assumptions. thats the load bearing element. 99.99% of what was true then is still true. its mostly on the fractal churning edges where hyped change happens. things flip-flop too:

2021-2024: good time in US for EV startup

2025: terrible time in US for EV startup

2026 March/April: AWESOME time in world for EV startup

focus on fundamentals, not flakey ephemerals

2020: wise to have smart elite software engineers on your team

2021: ditto

2022: ditto

2023: ditto

2024: ditto (is this when ChatGPT launched? dont care. snore)

2025: ditto (what are YC/HN/VC hyping now? snore)

2026: ditto

2027+: ditto, likely

New comment by syngrog66 in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

syngrog66 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:33:12 +0000

browser plugins are an anti-pattern. and security risk. less depedencies are better. all modern social media platforms, including HN, should have out-of-box way to mute/block and delegate to service as well. There are often categories of folks/accounts I likely dont want to see/hear from or have my content exposed to them where I can help it. HN has demonstrated itself to have a toxic subset in their community, as elsewhere.

New comment by syngrog66 in "I've Seen a Thousand OpenClaw Deploys. Here's the Truth"

syngrog66 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:40:36 +0000

its almost as if its rules should be persisted, versioned and tested in a deterministic way. I also wonder if it might end up useful to try enforcing some kind of constraints to data (memory) itself. like if we could enforce atomicity, consistency, isolation AND durability. and transparency so no place for malware to hide. and deterministic execution, from fully reproducible builds...

er, nevermind. prob just crazy castles in the sky wistful dreams :-)

New comment by syngrog66 in "OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break"

syngrog66 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:35:18 +0000

somehow I've been able to do that for 40+ years using my brain, eyes, fingers, vi , CLIs and shell scripts. no unsolved problems there.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Ask HN: Any interesting niche hobbies?"

syngrog66 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:41:17 +0000

wargaming

designing improvements to democracy & taxation

New comment by syngrog66 in "Show HN: Orange Juice – Small UX improvements that make HN easier to read"

syngrog66 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:38:11 +0000

my top wishlist of HN features:

* personal ability to mute/block any account

* BONUS: and/or delegate above decision to list-providing service at given externally-hosted URL

* intelligently autowrap text of long lines, like its 2026 (heck like 1997)

New comment by syngrog66 in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

syngrog66 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:17:06 +0000

I understand desire to get off US infra. But Bunny.net is Slovenian, and Slovenia borders Hungary, a de facto Russian vassal state. Other nations would be safer. If you want to de-risk you should really de-risk.

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

syngrog66 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:08:59 +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+hn2026apr@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 "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

syngrog66 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:29:12 +0000

bad English, bad writing, stopped reading fast.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Neovim 0.12.0"

syngrog66 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:55:07 +0000

vi/vim has enabled that for 30+ years.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide"

syngrog66 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 20:41:52 +0000

one rando set of opinions. stopped reading fast

New comment by syngrog66 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

syngrog66 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:07:59 +0000

> With proper constraints,

load bearing phrase there

nothing about the US currently can be characterized as having proper constraints

generic "bet on anything" betting markets massively encourage corruption and market manipulation via shock events and insider trading. false flag attacks, etc

New comment by syngrog66 in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

syngrog66 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:51:14 +0000

This story/topic should not be on HN.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

syngrog66 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:11:46 +0000

This story should not be on HN. Shame on you folks.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

syngrog66 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:20:34 +0000

It solves no actual problem I have. Yet introduces many new ones. Its a trap. So I don't use it and have a strong policy against using it or allowing others to use it on things I work on. BATNA is key.

New comment by syngrog66 in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

syngrog66 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:39:18 +0000

pre-money valuation at launch of $2.3B?! they have no product or customers or profit, correct?

New comment by syngrog66 in "I audited the privacy of popular free dev tools, the results are terrifying"

syngrog66 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:40:37 +0000

Man Enters Cage With Face-Eating Leopard Surprised When Leopard Eats Face

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

syngrog66 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 06:34:29 +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+hn2026mar@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

LatLearn: FOSS Golang latency instrum & reporting lib

New comment by syngrog66 in "Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal"

syngrog66 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:07:09 +0000

television??

New comment by syngrog66 in "Show HN: Deff – Side-by-side Git diff review in your terminal"

syngrog66 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:06:11 +0000

if its not in Rust or browser-based or a "cloud" service or the result of multi-GWH of LLM "training" or a VSCode plugin or ideally all of the prior then the HN kids wont be interested :-)