Hacker News: user99999999

New comment by user99999999 in "'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket"

user99999999 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:07:59 +0000

Proper data privacy laws would make this sort of thing nearly impossible

New comment by user99999999 in "'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket"

user99999999 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:07:07 +0000

Close it. Sell off all the assets and give the proceeds as compensation to those whose data was exposed. Why do we have a human death penalty but not a corporate one?

New comment by user99999999 in "Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died"

user99999999 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:02:55 +0000

RIP to privacy too

New comment by user99999999 in "Sidekick: Local-first native macOS LLM app"

user99999999 — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 20:49:51 +0000

Looking forward to when there will be a broad llm api accessible in the browser via js

New comment by user99999999 in "Copilot for Everything: Training your AI replacement one keystroke at a time"

user99999999 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:18:41 +0000

Growth and productivity due to technology innovation does not stagnate. Rather the output becomes more complex, of higher quantity and of higher quality.

Any business / company / marketplace participant stagnating by these outputs will be replaced by the competition.

Market forces require constant growth and output. Again, the magic word is “competition”. Stagnation loses, and thus does not survive.

I’m so tired of the “AI will replace us” argument

New comment by user99999999 in "Material Theme has been pulled from VS Code's marketplace"

user99999999 — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 16:30:08 +0000

“Can’t wait to see the Netflix documentary about this”

New comment by user99999999 in "Official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview is out"

user99999999 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:51:17 +0000

Just go into the interview wearing a “hearing aid” a fellow confidant waits outside in an unmarked white van feeding you the answers.

New comment by user99999999 in "Official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview is out"

user99999999 — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:49:18 +0000

Good to see a thriving industry based on the discontent of people rather it not exist

New comment by user99999999 in "Users don't care about your tech stack"

user99999999 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:41:10 +0000

But your next interviewer will drill you for hours about it

New comment by user99999999 in "AI killed the tech interview. Now what?"

user99999999 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:44:43 +0000

Please share your GitHub @

New comment by user99999999 in "AI killed the tech interview. Now what?"

user99999999 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:43:03 +0000

My worst code is always what I wrote yesterday. Often what’s missing is context, unless I comment ad nauseam. Sure I didn’t write complete test, obey open closed principles abstract into factory functions. The code I send from my hobby projects is likely a mess, because finishing on my own time by my own unpaid constraints wills it to be so

New comment by user99999999 in "AI killed the tech interview. Now what?"

user99999999 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:37:03 +0000

Never really liked leetbro interviews. Always reeked of “SO YOU THINK YOU CAN CODE BRO? SHOW ME WHAT YOU GOT!” The majority of my work over 10+ years of experience always relied on general problem solving and soft skills like collaborating with others. Not rote memorization of in order traversal.

New comment by user99999999 in "South Korea bans new DeepSeek AI downloads"

user99999999 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 15:52:55 +0000

How much methylene blue do I have to snort to reach this level of enlightenment?