Hacker News: variety8675

New comment by variety8675 in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

variety8675 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:14:53 +0000

The market still seems to be hot for roles that provide leverage like platform engineers and Staff+ engineers

New comment by variety8675 in "Microsoft Is Bricking the Perpetual Version of Office 2019 for Mac"

variety8675 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 03:46:36 +0000

It amuses me how Microsoft spent the last two decades trying to fix the reputation they had from the 90s and threw it all away in like a year

New comment by variety8675 in "AI Has Taken over Open Source"

variety8675 — Mon, 25 May 2026 02:57:11 +0000

Is this just an ad for this product

New comment by variety8675 in "Apple's privacy invading tech is likely going mainstream"

variety8675 — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:45:11 +0000

I think the key question is whether this is processed locally or shipped off somewhere. Apple seems to prefer on-device processing when possible

New comment by variety8675 in "Make America AI ready: Strengths, weaknesses, and recommendations"

variety8675 — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:21:10 +0000

You seem to confuse writing about an industry backed AI literacy effort with endorsing it, the article is mostly critical

New comment by variety8675 in "Show HN: Unlinked, MCP Server for LinkedIn"

variety8675 — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:19:42 +0000

Cool project, shame that Microsoft only allows it to work where it is legally required to.

New comment by variety8675 in "SpaceX wants to launch a million satellites"

variety8675 — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:08:59 +0000

> Most people likely don’t think about how often they use satellite communications. But that Instagram post you made? You used a satellite.

This article seems to confuse Starlink with ordinary cellular communications

New comment by variety8675 in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

variety8675 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:58:16 +0000

IHL (Indeed Hiring Lab) + IDX (Index) + US (country) + TP (topic) + SOFTDEVE (software development)

New comment by variety8675 in "Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct"

variety8675 — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 00:14:45 +0000

I get about 10

New comment by variety8675 in "Firefox no longer works after upgrading to macOS Sequoia"

variety8675 — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 00:22:12 +0000

After the upgrade a default firewall rule was added to block all traffic from Firefox. Running /usr/libexec/ApplicationFirewall/socketfilterfw --add /Applications/Firefox.app adds a rule to allow it and the app works as normal.