<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: thendrill</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thendrill</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:30:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thendrill" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "God sleeps in the minerals"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You must be real fun at parties ...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:57:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783579</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "The team behind a pro-Iran, Lego-themed viral-video campaign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you mean the US of I?<p>Remember Snowden? Remmeber Assange? Remember Aaron Swartz? Remember the terrorizing of Occupy Wallstreet organizers? Remember the funding of terrorists all over Africa? Remember Libya? Remember who funded Isis?<p>Is that regime you are talking about?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:38:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663246</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663246</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47663246</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "A Love Letter to 'Girl Games'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's really hard not that deep...<p>Video games and technology has always been spearheaded by "autistic" tendencies... There is a certain repetition that autistic people and people with adhd have. Most of those people are men...<p>Women were never excluded. They just never found much interest in it. Just like it is for chess or motor sports.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:08:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590423</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "Closure of Hormuz is 'greatest global energy security threat in history'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well I guess they should stop stealing lands from their neighbors...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:49:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47465616</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47465616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47465616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "Closure of Hormuz is 'greatest global energy security threat in history'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well the epistine files proved that Israel has controlled every politician since the oslo accords (1994)..</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:37:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462803</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462803</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462803</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "Closure of Hormuz is 'greatest global energy security threat in history'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Israel is the greatest global security threat in history.<p>there ftfy..<p>The have nukes, commit genocide, extort foreign politicians, attack every neighboring country. Assasinate people all over the globe. Ignore every international law and convention. Also they are the only country compeletley exempt from the FIVEYE surveillance program.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:24:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462698</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462698</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462698</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "AI coding is gambling"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see alot of people get really confused between the act of writing code VS. programming...<p>Programming is willing the machine to do something... Writing code is just that writing code, yes sometimes you write code to make the machine do something and other times you write code just to write code ( for example refactoring, or splitting logic from presentation etc.)<p>Think about it like this... Everyone can write words. But writing words does not make you a book writer.<p>What always gets me is that the act of writing code by itself has no real value. Programming is what solves problems and brings value. Everyone can write code, not everyone can "program"....</p>
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<p>This article makes an elephant out of a fly. The explonation is much simpler...<p>The microphone and communication protocols on Bluetooth is shit. Everyone that talks alot on the phone knows that the microphone one a wired headset is sooo much better than Bluetooth, simple as that. You hear better and they hear you better. That is it</p>
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<p>So you think that engineers that maintain and write the FOSS that runs most of the world IT infrastructure ( Linux, Curl, GIT etc. ) do it for the returns ?</p>
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<p>It is not going to solve their problem. But It allows ME to solve their problem WAYYY faster-<p>Think about it like this... Its like a bank, but for software not money...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:22:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276993</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276993</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Does it really matter how or who wrote it ? I would argue that LLMs have better and deeper thoughts than 65% to 70% of the world population ! Have you even talked to your fellow citizens ?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:21:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276976</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276976</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47276976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeh cool story. But being passionate about a hobby is not gonna pay my bills...<p>When I charge a customer for a solution they don't care about how elegant my code is. They just care if it works for solving their problem...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:35:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260902</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260902</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47260902</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly....<p>I will just copy paste my comment from another thread but still very relevant><p>Coding isn’t creative, it isn’t sexy, and almost nobody outside this bubble cares<p>Most of the world doesn’t care about “good code.” They care about “does it work, is it fast enough, is it cheap enough, and can we ship it before the competitor does?”<p>Beautiful architecture, perfect tests, elegant abstractions — those things feel deeply rewarding to the person who wrote them, but they’re invisible to users, to executives, and, let’s be honest, to the dating market.<p>Being able to refactor a monolith into pristine microservices will not make you more attractive on a date. What might is the salary that comes with the title “Senior Engineer at FAANG.” In that sense, many women (not all, but enough) relate to programmers the same way middle managers and VCs do: they’re perfectly happy to extract the economic value you produce while remaining indifferent to the craft itself. The code isn’t the turn-on; the direct deposit is.<p>That’s brutal to hear if you’ve spent years telling yourself that your intellectual passion is inherently admirable or sexy. It’s not. Outside our tribe it’s just a means to an end — same as accounting, law, or plumbing, just with worse dress code and better catering.<p>So when AI starts eating the parts of the job we insisted were “creative” and “irreplaceable,” the threat feels existential because the last remaining moat — the romantic story we told ourselves about why this profession is special — collapses. Turns out the scarcity was mostly the paycheck, not the poetry.<p>I’m not saying the work is meaningless or that system design and taste don’t matter. I’m saying we should stop pretending the act of writing software is inherently sexier or more artistically noble than any other high-paying skilled trade. It never was.</p>
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<p>I will just copy paste my comment from another thread but still very relevant><p>Coding isn’t creative, it isn’t sexy, and almost nobody outside this bubble cares<p>Most of the world doesn’t care about “good code.”
They care about “does it work, is it fast enough, is it cheap enough, and can we ship it before the competitor does?”<p>Beautiful architecture, perfect tests, elegant abstractions — those things feel deeply rewarding to the person who wrote them, but they’re invisible to users, to executives, and, let’s be honest, to the dating market.<p>Being able to refactor a monolith into pristine microservices will not make you more attractive on a date. What might is the salary that comes with the title “Senior Engineer at FAANG.”
In that sense, many women (not all, but enough) relate to programmers the same way middle managers and VCs do: they’re perfectly happy to extract the economic value you produce while remaining indifferent to the craft itself. The code isn’t the turn-on; the direct deposit is.<p>That’s brutal to hear if you’ve spent years telling yourself that your intellectual passion is inherently admirable or sexy. It’s not. Outside our tribe it’s just a means to an end — same as accounting, law, or plumbing, just with worse dress code and better catering.<p>So when AI starts eating the parts of the job we insisted were “creative” and “irreplaceable,” the threat feels existential because the last remaining moat — the romantic story we told ourselves about why this profession is special — collapses. Turns out the scarcity was mostly the paycheck, not the poetry.<p>I’m not saying the work is meaningless or that system design and taste don’t matter. I’m saying we should stop pretending the act of writing software is inherently sexier or more artistically noble than any other high-paying skilled trade. It never was.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:58:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242212</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242212</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46242212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "Is it a bubble?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Coding isn’t creative, it isn’t sexy, and almost nobody outside this bubble cares<p>Most of the world doesn’t care about “good code.”
They care about “does it work, is it fast enough, is it cheap enough, and can we ship it before the competitor does?”<p>Beautiful architecture, perfect tests, elegant abstractions — those things feel deeply rewarding to the person who wrote them, but they’re invisible to users, to executives, and, let’s be honest, to the dating market.<p>Being able to refactor a monolith into pristine microservices will not make you more attractive on a date. What might is the salary that comes with the title “Senior Engineer at FAANG.”
In that sense, many women (not all, but enough) relate to programmers the same way middle managers and VCs do: they’re perfectly happy to extract the economic value you produce while remaining indifferent to the craft itself. The code isn’t the turn-on; the direct deposit is.<p>That’s brutal to hear if you’ve spent years telling yourself that your intellectual passion is inherently admirable or sexy. It’s not. Outside our tribe it’s just a means to an end — same as accounting, law, or plumbing, just with worse dress code and better catering.<p>So when AI starts eating the parts of the job we insisted were “creative” and “irreplaceable,” the threat feels existential because the last remaining moat — the romantic story we told ourselves about why this profession is special — collapses. Turns out the scarcity was mostly the paycheck, not the poetry.<p>I’m not saying the work is meaningless or that system design and taste don’t matter. I’m saying we should stop pretending the act of writing software is inherently sexier or more artistically noble than any other high-paying skilled trade. It never was.</p>
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<p>I wish every engineer would aspire to be like him. He is truly worthy!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:15:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077322</link><dc:creator>thendrill</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077322</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46077322</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thendrill in "From VS Code to Helix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have to agree. It is too similar to vim, yet it is not vim.... I dont get what is the value proposition here. I mean I feel helix is just stripped off SpaceVim  ????</p>
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<p>I have loved it since '99, when my friends used to tell me that to be a linux admin you have to stay up late because midnight commander works only after midnight ! Slackware 7 <3</p>
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<p>So we pay roughly 3 times more for the same functionality... Is the convince worth that much?? By this logic in 2090 people would have to pay most of their salaries for that "one device".... Dystopian....</p>
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<p>Work is slavery. So we all cry... On the inside.</p>
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