Hacker News: the_overseer

New comment by the_overseer in "Write less code, be more responsible"

the_overseer — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:19:00 +0000

Just uninstalled Sumatra. Jesus that code is garbage.

New comment by the_overseer in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

the_overseer — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:03:23 +0000

Or shorter.. NAZIS!

New comment by the_overseer in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

the_overseer — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:29:35 +0000

They are shockingly dumb, aren't they?

New comment by the_overseer in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

the_overseer — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:28:07 +0000

Europe is screwing Americans? That is rich. You started this fucking war you....

New comment by the_overseer in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

the_overseer — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:56:55 +0000

Found the Nazi! Found the Nazi! Please ban this asshole if you have any morality.

New comment by the_overseer in "MacBook Neo"

the_overseer — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:50:41 +0000

Or, she can keep the macbook air as it basically has the same specs as the neo. What is the point of buying the same laptop twice?

New comment by the_overseer in "iPhone 17e"

the_overseer — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:14:54 +0000

No. It doesn't sell. You so called mini buyers never showed up except in forums making a lot of pointless noise. If you understand anything about how businesses work you would understand how useless your comment is.

New comment by the_overseer in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

the_overseer — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:01:48 +0000

You will quickly discover that the values that you hold and the values that they hold are not at all similar. They were just pretending to get your support. And after they no longer need the useful idiot guess what will happen to you?

New comment by the_overseer in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

the_overseer — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:50:17 +0000

or nukes... Welcome to the new arms race.

New comment by the_overseer in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

the_overseer — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:21:06 +0000

USA invaded a country. It was unprovoked, Venezuela did not pose any immediate threat to the safety of USA. There is no moral justification for any of this no matter how you try to spin it. Now Putin can gleefully say: "See? I told you that the West is full of warmongering fascists!"

New comment by the_overseer in "The rise of industrial software"

the_overseer — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:02:09 +0000

And end up writing the usual garbage that takes 2 GB of RAM just for a chat application... No. Acting like those concepts disappeared just because you write Javascript instead of C makes no sense. It still does memory allocation. You still need to manage it. Thinking that the virtual machine/compiler is doing "magic" is exactly what is wrong with most code today.

New comment by the_overseer in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

the_overseer — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:01:01 +0000

Aaahh the beautiful free market where the energy prices keep increasing and if it all fails they will be saved by the government that they bribed before. Don't forget the tax subsidies. AKA your money. Pure honest capitalism....

New comment by the_overseer in "The rise of industrial software"

the_overseer — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:30:08 +0000

It absolutely does. I cannot believe I am reading this on HN... Do you think the idea of a pointer changed? That you need locks when accessing variables when doing multithreading? That principles like "Be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept" have changed? In fact, almost nothing changed from 2005 to now in any conceptual form.

New comment by the_overseer in "Id Software devs form "wall-to-wall" union"

the_overseer — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:51:50 +0000

Or unionize... like they did.

New comment by the_overseer in "Most technical problems are people problems"

the_overseer — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:27:15 +0000

Non-existent situation? How about you read a little history? You can start with the word "collusion".

New comment by the_overseer in "Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?"

the_overseer — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 01:17:19 +0000

Yeah yeah there is this guy with a weird moustache with some crazy ideas that we are being held down by these other group of people. We should definitely follow him. He sounds crazy but he seems so convincing. And look at the cool insignia and symbols! Did you know this salute was back from the Romans? - You circa 1920.

New comment by the_overseer in "Most technical problems are people problems"

the_overseer — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:58:59 +0000

Put down the Ayn Rand BS books. What if the employers make 10k per unit of work while they pay you only $10 per unit of work and they have all talked to each other to never pay more than $10? What do you do then? Complain? Go to court? Who do you think has more influence over the politicians/courts? You making $10 or your bosses that are all millionaires because of your severly underpaid work?

New comment by the_overseer in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

the_overseer — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:52:45 +0000

From the link:

"For now, I’ll go dogfood my shiny new vibe-coded black box of a programming language on the Advent of Code problem (and as many of the 2025 puzzles as I can), and see what rough edges I can find. I expect them to be equal parts “not implemented yet” and “unexpected interactions of new PL features with the old ones”.

If you’re willing to jump through some Python project dependency hoops, you can try to use FAWK too at your own risk, at Janiczek/fawk on GitHub."

That doesn't sound like some great success. It mostly compiles and doesn't explode. Also I wouldn't call a toy "innovation" or "revolution".

New comment by the_overseer in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

the_overseer — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:44:09 +0000

Always the same answer. It's the user not the AI being blown out of proportion. Tell me, where are all those great amazin applications that were coded 95-100% by AI? Where is the great progress the great new algorithms the great new innovations hiding?

New comment by the_overseer in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

the_overseer — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:56:56 +0000

I am wasting my time, you are arguing in bad faith. I have installed windows 7 in a VM and everything takes less RAM not just the start menu and for most things it performs much much better. Start menu actually searches my files instantly, not with delay, not presenting web results, not presenting wrong results. It's doing its job.

Task manager opens immediately. Windows Explorer the same.

Those applications and the OS were written by real humans, not by myths. With your terribly bad argument it seems those OSes never happened since it required "extreme difficulty". No, it didn't require Einsteins. It required non-monkey coders.

You say you wrote your own react native phone app and it only takes 30MBs. So what? You forgot the most important part: what does it do? If it's a basic text editor then yes it's extremely bloated garbage.