Hacker News: vogelke

New comment by vogelke in "The revolt of the reader"

vogelke — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:37:38 +0000

> in, say, two years, we will be all writing and talking like this

Shoot me now.

New comment by vogelke in "Product Backlog Problems: Why Your Hierarchy Is Broken"

vogelke — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 02:51:03 +0000

If they can't justify why this is a bug, and why it's worth your time to fix this as opposed to something else, you should be able to revoke their permission to touch your backlog.

New comment by vogelke in "Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV"

vogelke — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:57:27 +0000

This is perfect.

Since AI makes it easier for incompetent people to look smart, AI can help us expose those people for what they are.

New comment by vogelke in "I Remain a Skeptic"

vogelke — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 01:31:38 +0000

By checking the diffs carefully, you're showing how to use an LLM to add value instead of creating a 17000-line PR that nobody with any sense will read.

LLMs are really good at making it harder to ignore ignorant people, and you've demonstrated that you're NOT part of the problem.

New comment by vogelke in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

vogelke — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:57:48 +0000

This is right on the money. It's not that we have way more bad engineers than before; it's that the damage they do is out of all proportion to their numbers.

New comment by vogelke in "The Economic Benefit of Refactoring"

vogelke — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 10:16:26 +0000

> I can't give them any sort of answer that makes sense ...

Pride of workmanship. For those who understand, no answer is needed. For those who don't, no answer will work.

New comment by vogelke in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

vogelke — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:48:16 +0000

> ...management is making strategic decisions after snorting a long line of social-media-psychosis and TED talks.

+1. Straight into my quotes file.

New comment by vogelke in "AI changes the economics of software rewrites"

vogelke — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:09:22 +0000

I love this. Straight into my quotes file.

New comment by vogelke in "Ask HN: Why hasn't there been a real competitor to Ticketmaster yet?"

vogelke — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:28:54 +0000

Matt Stoller has written some excellent articles about Ticketmaster's monopoly crap.

New comment by vogelke in "Declining America"

vogelke — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:59:01 +0000

Probably. As an American, I have to agree with you -- it's been the case for many years (WAY before Trump) that within 50 miles of our border, your rights go to wherever last year's snow went.

It's too bad so few people can say "My country, if right to be supported, if wrong to be corrected."

New comment by vogelke in "Two computers, one monitor, zero fiddling (2025)"

vogelke — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:11:20 +0000

I have a Dell 2208 monitor with 4 USB-2 ports. If I bought three of these switches, would I be able to share keyboard/mouse/monitor between two machines? My monitor does not have HDMI, just VGA.

New comment by vogelke in "Mercurial, 20 years and counting: how are we still alive and kicking? [video]"

vogelke — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:19:19 +0000

Best part about open source -- Mercurial is still around, I use it for my home servers, and it's being maintained. I can use git, but Mercurial's workflow just makes more sense to me.

New comment by vogelke in "Colossus: The Forbin Project"

vogelke — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:57:29 +0000

The "Demon Seed" book was creepier (and a lot more pervy) than the movie.

New comment by vogelke in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

vogelke — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:21:40 +0000

I hope you're kidding. I've seen lots of 'Net people claim to be experts, and I wouldn't trust most of them to feed my cat.

New comment by vogelke in "Linux 7.0 Broke PostgreSQL: The Preemption Regression Explained"

vogelke — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:50:57 +0000

https://lwn.net/Articles/343828/ describes Alan Cox trying to fix the TTY layer, being trashed by Linus, and removing himself from the maintainer page.

New comment by vogelke in "The operating cost of adult and gambling startups"

vogelke — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 21:04:50 +0000

Exactly. Legal drugs get weaker because you can exchange information about minimum required dosages (saving money) without risking arrest.

Illegal drugs get stronger for exactly the reason you stated in your first paragraph.

New comment by vogelke in "Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time"

vogelke — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:43:34 +0000

> It's a one lane road and "over taking" is not possible.

Best poop-related comment I've seen.

New comment by vogelke in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

vogelke — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:43:27 +0000

Your core skills are fine. Unfortunately, appreciation for those skills has already been blasted into orbit by the AI-BS bubble.

This tech has made it easier for second-handers to pass off inadequate work as the equal of your work. They're too lazy to exert the effort to read/think/write, and being second-handers, they're fine with the APPEARANCE of reading, thinking, and writing.

This has been going on for millenia, and the only fix I've seen is to call it out every time it rears its head.

New comment by vogelke in "Stop picking my Go version for me"

vogelke — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:30:22 +0000

Thank you for this article. If I want to be told when to upgrade, I know where to shop, i.e. Bill's Bloatware in Redmond.

New comment by vogelke in "Personal Encyclopedias"

vogelke — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:19:10 +0000

Great example of a commonplace book. Jillian Hess has written extensively about this -- her books are well-researched and organized.