Hacker News: theplatman

New comment by theplatman in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

theplatman — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:31:48 +0000

open source projects are usually creating something for themselves so it's much easier to know what to build when you are the user

whereas, commercial software has a disconnect between who are the users and developers are

New comment by theplatman in "The percentage of Show HN posts is increasing, but their scores are decreasing"

theplatman — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:52:43 +0000

that ship has sailed along time ago

New comment by theplatman in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

theplatman — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:12:06 +0000

Engineers say they want to work on hard problems then complain that they can’t solve something because it’s too complex

New comment by theplatman in "In New York City, congestion pricing leads to marked drop in pollution"

theplatman — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 15:53:18 +0000

working class people are predominantly using public transit to get around nyc

this claim has been debunked many times and anyone with eyes can see who the private drivers in NYC are

New comment by theplatman in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

theplatman — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:25:59 +0000

the problem with ETH at its peak is that the gas fees made cost of doing anything real too costly

if there was a real use case it would have manifested itself at this point

i think the abstraction needs to be much higher to end user for this stuff to have value. having to manage your own wallet doesn't make sense.

New comment by theplatman in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

theplatman — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:29:21 +0000

With all due respect, engineers in finance can’t allow for outages like this because then you are losing massive amounts of money and potentially going out of business.

New comment by theplatman in "I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer"

theplatman — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:54:33 +0000

there are high trust societies where you still cannot take people at their word because it might not be a culture of being direct to others. thinking of japan which is high social cohesion and trust, but still difficult to navigate business contexts due to how problems would be communicated.

New comment by theplatman in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

theplatman — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:02:36 +0000

i cannot imagine how they are going to be able to meet their obligations unless they pull off a massive hail mary at this point via a bail out or finding someone to provide tens of billions of dollars in funding.

New comment by theplatman in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

theplatman — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:28:20 +0000

i agree - it shows a remarkable lack of creativity that we're still stuck with a fairly subpar UX for interacting with these tools

New comment by theplatman in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

theplatman — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:27:25 +0000

open ai is at risk of complete collapse if it cannot fulfill its financial obligations. if people willing to give them money don't have faith in their ability to win the AI race anymore, then they're going out of business.

New comment by theplatman in "Is America's jobs market nearing a cliff?"

theplatman — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:44:02 +0000

can't comment on west coast but from perspective in NYC, i think the market for SWEs willing to work in office here is very good. might be different since there's lots of different industries hiring for SWE roles in addition to typical tech "startups" here.

i've noticed that folks who want to work remote having a tougher time if they're looking for tech jobs. makes sense if you look for jobs at a local non-tech company, you might have better luck.

generally seems like remote jobs have the most competition so if you can find jobs localized to your market, you will have more luck there.

New comment by theplatman in "Do YC after you graduate: Early decision for students"

theplatman — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 09:51:39 +0000

For awhile now I’ve felt like YC has turned into another badge for the type people who are obsessed with prestige. It’s all about checking a box and not about the substance of what they want to do.

This is evident in how disappointed certain people are when they’re rejected from YC. Their startup is merely a vehicle to get into the club.

New comment by theplatman in "Vibe coding cleanup as a service"

theplatman — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 09:10:49 +0000

There is a balance between getting to market as fast as possible and avoiding an architecture that will immediately make it hard to iterate after MVP.

The problem is that a lot of engineers don’t know how to not over engineer and waste time. And product/sales usually don’t know how to strike the balance.

New comment by theplatman in "Young graduates are facing an employment crisis"

theplatman — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 21:33:54 +0000

philosophy is probably a bad example to use because i think it's actually one of the "liberal arts" majors that's actually very applicable to skills you need in the corporate world.

the skillset you get from philosphy make it a common degree for folks who want to study law. a big part of studying philosophy is learning how to construct and analyze ideas and arguments so you would be well suited for consulting, politics, marketing, etc.

New comment by theplatman in "Why Understanding Software Cycle Time Is Messy, Not Magic"

theplatman — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:32:42 +0000

This is crazy. I have worked at some large orgs and never experienced that level of bureaucracy to deploy to test/qa environments.

I’ve seen in sensitive apps needing an approval to go to prod but it’s async and didn’t require a meeting!

New comment by theplatman in "JavaScript Temporal is coming"

theplatman — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 04:35:43 +0000

BigInt shipped because financial organizations needed it for certain applications.

New comment by theplatman in "What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code"

theplatman — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 17:58:03 +0000

Yeah I definitely agree that they’re doing some great engineering work in the company.

It’s a strange place because it’s fully owned by Mike Bloomberg without any board or other group of shareholders that oversees his decisions. There is a “board” equivalent but they report to him. It’s great in someways like how they’re able to spend so much of their profits on philanthropy but leads to a lot of quirks.

New comment by theplatman in "What I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code"

theplatman — Sun, 02 Jun 2024 14:19:54 +0000

If you’re the type of person who won’t just move on from an idea when you’ve been repeatedly told no that indicates you’re probably a difficult person to work with in other ways.

That kind of behavior is less welcome in enterprise environments where they want you to get in line with the top level goals.

From my experience working at Bloomberg, there was a limit to how much you could rock the boat as a dev and in many ways the technology/language choices were limited to the approved stack.

New comment by theplatman in "Google releases smart watch for kids"

theplatman — Thu, 30 May 2024 03:45:58 +0000

And we can also see ample evidence that overly controlling kids has a detrimental effect on them as they grow older.

New comment by theplatman in "Merging Remix and React Router"

theplatman — Thu, 16 May 2024 18:42:12 +0000

It’s really frustrating how the remix/react router maintainers refuse to examine how their major version changes have caused pain for tons of developers out there.

There’s a reason why this feedback keeps coming up again and again.

I think the fact that the team chose the React Router name tells me they don’t understand how tainted the name is for a lot of experienced front end devs.

And moving forward it’s going to be even harder to search for issues when you stumble on a problem because the names of Remix/React Router have been polluted over the years.