Hacker News: tegiddrone

New comment by tegiddrone in ""Code was never the hard part" is an insult to all programmers"

tegiddrone — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 19:54:22 +0000

> Why did companies seek 10x ninja rockstar coders and subject them to leetcode interviews—surely, a junior fresh out of college could churn out something if it's so easy?

Because companies resent that they have to take on risk and pay people to extract value from the market.

Ugh, why do we have to pay people to code, maintenance, etc. Lets pay people to extract more value for our bonuses and shareholders. Lets try to only hire heavyweights so that we don't get hung up on that difficult-to-measure coding process, knowledge transfer, messy human-ness. Oooh how nice, we can hire a fewer employees that know how to leverage code agents that free them up to think about that what REALLY matters...

New comment by tegiddrone in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

tegiddrone — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:17:23 +0000

it's Q*bert!

New comment by tegiddrone in "Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years"

tegiddrone — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:45:24 +0000

I donno man, i just want to drive my gondola thing and help fish “get high.” Glorious

New comment by tegiddrone in "Costco is the anti-Amazon"

tegiddrone — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:59:03 +0000

Costco is popular in Japan as well. I also think about the bike infra[0] to Ikea in Netherlands— a similar store that may be more associated with car/suburban culture.

[0]: https://youtu.be/CgvYgxo6UY8

New comment by tegiddrone in "Wireless LAN SD"

tegiddrone — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:20:54 +0000

Speaking of interesting SD card features-- it would be nice to have a way to have the sd card expire. Like if it doesn't get voltage for a duration of time: it self erases.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

tegiddrone — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:43:22 +0000

Sounds like the aforementioned rockstar dev may have found their way to comment and miss the point.

When I was less self aware, I'd say similar things: my coworkers/manager can't accept that I write perfectly good code at a faster pace. Doesn't matter whether it's good or bad code-- the coworkers have to collectively understand it in order for it to be maintainable.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Show HN: Lowfat – pluggable CLI filter that saved 91.8% of my LLM tokens"

tegiddrone — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:15:29 +0000

Still learning myself, but I've seen MCP tools just lightly wrap upstream json-body REST APIs. Works. But not only is the json structure more tokens but often the model just needs a small subset of fields in the payload.

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

tegiddrone — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:08:28 +0000

My H1B coworker has paid $180k more in taxes than I have. We are the same age. He has fewer years working in USA than I have as a citizen. We calculated this by the data exposed by the mySocialSecurity website.

I get to vote and he does not.

Edit: s/green card/H1B/

New comment by tegiddrone in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

tegiddrone — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:47:36 +0000

Oh, I WISH that was the case but I'd estimate only 10% of SWE would fit your model of minimum competence... and yeah a lot of that 10% are browsing HN. I recall in 2016 asking coworkers why they voted trump. "My 401k" was a frequent answer.

Vibe coding existed long before AI, especially in web/startup/enterprise information systems. You don't need to be a critical thinker to make a successful RoR app.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

tegiddrone — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:08:01 +0000

Yeah, it is an interesting bubble to be in. I worked with a company that could not keep up with the rising SWE salaries and thus attracted a different kind of SWE. I definitely felt the difference in education with the new hires. Reading comprehension/attention was weak. AI will easily replace them, I guess.

Finding the data on this would be convenient but its still unclear to me. I'm not a fan of how that article from NU cites its sources loosely, including lazily citing Wikipedia.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Why consumer choice is stripped away and how the tech industry profits from it"

tegiddrone — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:34:45 +0000

Let us all reflect on AI with a core point this article is trying to make: that we build habits around a product. The industry goal is to have our dependency. What a fabulous position to be in where we can’t think or code without a subscription their LLM assets.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Open source is not about you (2018)"

tegiddrone — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:57:37 +0000

A tiresome sysadmin I've been talking to is under the impression of: "well, if stagnates or otherwise shifts focus away from our interests then someone will just fork it, duh!" .. when glancing thru Discord successors

New comment by tegiddrone in "In praise of –dry-run"

tegiddrone — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:00:08 +0000

I’m interested to know the etymology and history of the term. Somehow I imagine an inked printing press as the “wet run.”

New comment by tegiddrone in "YouTube Playlist Downloader"

tegiddrone — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:03:42 +0000

I've been glancing at ytdl-sub, which does the same thing but with interesting options to rate limit.

https://ytdl-sub.readthedocs.io

New comment by tegiddrone in "PeerTube is recognized as a digital public good by Digital Public Goods Alliance"

tegiddrone — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:26:20 +0000

I have seen organizers get stuck in the dopamine loop of focusing on inspiring content that "increases engagement" and getting fixated on moderating trolls that it actually gets in the way of doing impactful work. I definitely on the depression train on this front. It's far worse than digital versions of flyers, people aren't incentivized to focus show up when they can just keep scrolling for their fix.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Nostr"

tegiddrone — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 15:46:13 +0000

I concur and "apolitical" is probably not the best word. I think it is an attempt to convey that the platform can't ban people. It is resistant from infrastructure censorship. Here is an example specific use case:

https://how-nostr-works.pages.dev/

I find that example pretty humorous... Damn, what kind of controversy is Pamela spreading?

I like it but feel nervous that there is synergy with the bitcoin space. Hype and validation is thick in that space

New comment by tegiddrone in "What about using rel="share-url" to expose sharing intents?"

tegiddrone — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 16:06:30 +0000

I agree. Except we aren't there with web literacy and having that integrated UX is significant.

New comment by tegiddrone in "A Practical Guide to Running Local LLMs"

tegiddrone — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:06:35 +0000

Is there a spreadsheet out there benchmarking local LLM and hardware configs? I want to know if I should even bother with my coffeelake xeon server or if it is something to consider for my next gaming rig.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Neuralink, "forcefully removed ""

tegiddrone — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 23:36:30 +0000

Thanks for shedding some light on this element of the story. I like to keep references like this when mustering support for action.

What does bipartisan even mean? I've seen my state lose a republican congressperson who, while I disagreed with, called out trump on disrespecting branches of gov during first term and since been replaced with a pro-trump congressperson. The checks and balances are eroding and the citizen response has to be strong.

New comment by tegiddrone in "Show HN: BunkerWeb – The Open-Source Web Application Firewall (WAF)"

tegiddrone — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:47:42 +0000

thanks for the tip! At a glance, the SafeLine looks very opaque.. not clear why it starts up so many docker containers and how they are built. I can appreciate that bunkerweb illustrated its architecture a bit more with their docs and descriptive image names.... E.g. `bunkerweb-scheduler` vs `safeline-luigi`