Hacker News: taocoyote

New comment by taocoyote in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

taocoyote — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:34:19 +0000

Is it too cynical to think that "our people" means the shareholders?

New comment by taocoyote in "Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to a quarter of its workforce"

taocoyote — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:29:15 +0000

4. MS plans on re-filling a large portion of those roles at a lower salary

New comment by taocoyote in "Docker Agent"

taocoyote — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:56:58 +0000

A lot of the approaches to orchestration that I have seen feels like a company hiring more managers to make the dev team work faster.

Thank you for coding something that I intended to code but have been too lazy to do.

New comment by taocoyote in "OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"

taocoyote — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:14:42 +0000

Do we know that they can't detect what their bots are doing, or that they haven't taken proper precautions?

New comment by taocoyote in "Afterglow: Run classic After Dark screen savers on modern macOS"

taocoyote — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:28:42 +0000

We need this for the Death Toasters from Opus 'n Bill: Brain Saver

New comment by taocoyote in "Google kills Earth AI generator after one day"

taocoyote — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:47:54 +0000

It's frustrating when a product has a generic name that returns pages of unrelated search results. It's also frustrating when the name gives no real hint about what it does.

New comment by taocoyote in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

taocoyote — Mon, 04 May 2026 05:22:13 +0000

Looks interesting. Does it offer anything special that pi.dev or opencode does not?

New comment by taocoyote in "Atlassian enables default data collection to train AI"

taocoyote — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:32:56 +0000

Stack ranking

New comment by taocoyote in "U.S. science agency moves to restrict foreign scientists from its labs"

taocoyote — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:24:00 +0000

Exactly how many North Korean scientists are working in the U.S. right now?

New comment by taocoyote in "A critical look at MCP"

taocoyote — Sat, 10 May 2025 21:13:47 +0000

I don't understand the logistics of MCP interactions. Can anyone explain why they aren't stateless. Why does a connection need to be held open?

New comment by taocoyote in "Discworld Rules"

taocoyote — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:47:22 +0000

The stories in Discworld books are character driven. LOTR is much more plot driven. I feel like this is an apples and oranges comparison.

It also feels a bit like the false dichotomy arguments from my teenage years, where you could like either Star Trek or Star Wars, but not both.

New comment by taocoyote in "Ask HN: What rabbit hole(s) did you dive into recently?"

taocoyote — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:08:45 +0000

I think you mean HexiBase?

New comment by taocoyote in "YouTube Oddities"

taocoyote — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 23:27:48 +0000

I have my childrens accounts under my main account. If they watch a lot of certain types of videos, that will show up as a suggestion under my main account. I'm positive its not because they are using my account, I watch videos with them.

I also have a second account for watching more technical videos and that leaks into my main account suggestions.

New comment by taocoyote in "I Fucking Hate Jira (2022)"

taocoyote — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 23:14:41 +0000

In my personal experience, Excel.

JIRA is a tool, it doesn't do the work for you. If someone knows how to organize, plan and track a project really well, the tool used doesn't matter as much.

New comment by taocoyote in "Rabbit: LLM-First Mobile Phone"

taocoyote — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 21:07:49 +0000

A lot of VCs don't do any due diligence.

New comment by taocoyote in "Confusing Git Terminology"

taocoyote — Thu, 02 Nov 2023 20:08:22 +0000

Literally potty humor.

New comment by taocoyote in "AWS Icon Quiz"

taocoyote — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:34:58 +0000

Of course, you will need to assign the appropriate IAM Role per icon type.

New comment by taocoyote in "Tech workers remain some of the highest paid in New Zealand"

taocoyote — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 05:37:23 +0000

Outside of Auckland you can do quite well on 150k.

New comment by taocoyote in "I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a different diagnosis (1997)"

taocoyote — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 21:52:39 +0000

Similar experience but I was in the military and I didn't have a choice to say no. I have 5 fillings. They wanted to schedule 2 more but I was due to be reassigned overseas. They tried to delay my reassignment over it. Eventually, they cleared my paperwork but made it clear I was to see the dentist at my new base as soon as possible.

My new dentist says there is nothing wrong with my teeth whatsoever.

New comment by taocoyote in "Upwork just stole $10k from me"

taocoyote — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 21:00:51 +0000

Guilty with no way to prove innocence.