Hacker News: tdeck

New comment by tdeck in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

tdeck — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:10:13 +0000

Regardless of what good things other Israeli companies might be doing, it's clear that the Israeli government doesn't have a problem with these malware / spyware companies.

New comment by tdeck in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

tdeck — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:56:02 +0000

The US has plenty of guns. The idea that there aren't sufficient guns for some kind of armed resistance is absurd. The issue is cultural - we'd apparently rather fire them off in schools and malls and movie theaters.

New comment by tdeck in "Lines of code got a better publicist"

tdeck — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:06:46 +0000

What happened was the audience changed. Before, the audience for things about writing code was mostly software developers. Now it's the employing class. The collective wisdom of engineers? It has little impact on the conversation because the audience doesn't care. In fact, it's more than indifference; many are eager to no longer be "burdened" by it.

Not only do they not want to pay our salaries, which is an expense, they're eager not to have to depend on our expertise or judgement as well. That judgement and expertise is a locus of control that resides outside their own hierarchy.

New comment by tdeck in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

tdeck — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:46:06 +0000

    Oh, I’ve read it. Including this gem:

   "When you are in prison, it becomes your home. When I heard this morning that Evin prison was bombed, I felt a sharp pain in my heart. When I was released, I left a piece of my heart there."

   Racism really makes people dumb.

For those playing along at home, this is a quote from someone who was thankfully released prior to the bombing (in 2022), who is worried for the people still in there. I'm sure you missed this sentence which was hidden literally right above it?

> Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman who was imprisoned for years at Evin, told the BBC she felt "sick" with concern following the strike.

New comment by tdeck in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

tdeck — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:42:51 +0000

It's interesting to see the kind of nonsensical, evidence-free ideological statements that some people use to hand wave away decades of horrifying US perpetrated atrocities.

Ignore the genocide the US is engaged in right now, if it loses the war it started with Iran there will be 50 hypothetical genocides that I made up! Why stop at 50? Maybe there will be 500 or 5,000 genocides! If not for the benevolence of the US, we'd be having another world war every 2-3 years. It just stands to reason I suppose.

New comment by tdeck in "Love systemd timers"

tdeck — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:39:10 +0000

I wish printers could have a mode like this to print random images from an album, or a calendar, rather than wastefully draining ink into a sponge every few days.

If nothing else, maybe it could be some kid's high school science fair project idea.

New comment by tdeck in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

tdeck — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:19:54 +0000

So in other words, while America is starting the most wars, it somehow gets credit for the hypothetical wars that weren't started? The assumption being that the natural state of the world is to have a world war every few years?

New comment by tdeck in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

tdeck — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:08:41 +0000

Did you not have enough tokens to read the article?

New comment by tdeck in "Iran stops negotiations with U.S., vows to 'completely' block Strait of Hormuz"

tdeck — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:34:58 +0000

One of Israel's earliest airstrikes was a prison Iran used to hold dissidents

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8621gnknjo

Calling in a massive airstrike on a prison where the opposition is being held isn't exactly the way to support the opposition.

New comment by tdeck in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

tdeck — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:05:24 +0000

What can those of us who are passive investors do to protect ourselves?

New comment by tdeck in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

tdeck — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:03:38 +0000

Indeed, not enough people are asking why the Biden administration sat on the Epstein files for 4 years and did nothing with it.

New comment by tdeck in "[dead]"

tdeck — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:50:33 +0000

And the author was right on the trigger flagging comments that point out their slop.

New comment by tdeck in "Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?"

tdeck — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:12:10 +0000

> Notice how none of the blue voltages match any of the red/green ones (other than the extremes)? That means you don't get to see any pure grays

I assume this is why RGBI color was so common in the 80s.

New comment by tdeck in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

tdeck — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:33:00 +0000

True thought leaders are asking "what could I build, if I had access to infinite incompetent junior engineers?"

New comment by tdeck in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

tdeck — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:31:27 +0000

Very few industries have an interview process that's as painful and time-consuming as the software industry. If people are "job-hopping", perhaps it's because they're dramatically undervalued by their employer. I left my first job for a 30% raise, despite really liking my colleagues and leaving behind a bunch of institutional and systems knowledge and starting with a blank slate.

New comment by tdeck in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

tdeck — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:27:30 +0000

At least as a software manager you get the satisfaction of helping another human being develop in their own career. I doubt making Claude Code less prone to certain kinds of fuckups is quite as rewarding.

New comment by tdeck in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

tdeck — Sun, 31 May 2026 13:22:28 +0000

It's not just waiting on them, you're going to be reviewing an endless flood of their agentic slop, cajoling or bullying them into sticking with a problem or looking harder for information, all in between glancing at AI summaries of your colleagues' AI generated Slack messages and approving the AI generated auto-replies.

New comment by tdeck in "Voxel Space"

tdeck — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:02:10 +0000

It's interesting that the color maps seem to have shadows "built in", so that you get a 3D bevel effect from just looking at the color map.

New comment by tdeck in "'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing"

tdeck — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:53:20 +0000

It's sort of ironic that all the money going to "teach Bambu a lesson" is ultimately defending a guy who is building free tooling that specifically adds value to the Bambu platform. In a sense they win either way.

New comment by tdeck in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

tdeck — Sun, 24 May 2026 05:07:13 +0000

America is also run by a cabal of pedophiles and despite that being pretty out in the open at this point, there have been no consequences for them at all. It's not a good looking situation when even CSA and genocide are met with an "eh, what can you do?" shrug by a populace that has been led to accept worse and worse every year.