Hacker News: vrosas

New comment by vrosas in "Haunting Photos Show the Aftermath of the Kursk Submarine Disaster in 2000"

vrosas — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:17:32 +0000

One of the most interest facts about this disaster is that if the submarine was standing on its tail straight up, its nose would be sticking 150ft OUT of the water it sunk in.

New comment by vrosas in "AWS App Runner availability change"

vrosas — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:54:55 +0000

It’s basically GCP AppEngine circa 2010

New comment by vrosas in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

vrosas — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:29:13 +0000

It’s also pretty damn obvious when LLMs write code. Nobody out here commenting every method in perfect punctuation and grammar.

New comment by vrosas in "Engineers do get promoted for writing simple code"

vrosas — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:17:58 +0000

Engineers who ship get promoted. Sometimes they also write simple code. Often they do not.

New comment by vrosas in "Push events into a running session with channels"

vrosas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:57:27 +0000

Interesting. I set up a bunch of slack webhooks for server events that's been working decently well but maybe I'll look at telegram.

New comment by vrosas in "Push events into a running session with channels"

vrosas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:53:11 +0000

I also get the impression this is way more complicated than it needs to be. Or maybe it's simple and they keep inventing new terminology for stuff that basically already exists. The crypto bros did the same shit. Like, bidirectional communication has been a thing for decades. We're just changing what we call the client and the server? And the protocol is just strings the bot on the other end is a little better at reading?

New comment by vrosas in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

vrosas — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:10:09 +0000

Meta is just paying engineers not to work at any other faang company.

New comment by vrosas in "AirPods Max 2"

vrosas — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:24:34 +0000

I've struggled to understand how Loop earplugs cost $25+ when you can get actual music-playing earphones for less than $10.

New comment by vrosas in "I'm Too Lazy to Check Datadog Every Morning, So I Made AI Do It"

vrosas — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:14:35 +0000

Almost no one actually knows how to set up their monitoring. Like, they know the words but not the full picture or how the pieces should actually fit together. Then they do shit like this to try and make up for that fact.

New comment by vrosas in "Florida judge rules red light camera tickets are unconstitutional"

vrosas — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:31:04 +0000

My daycare fines parents $5 _per minute_ of lateness.

New comment by vrosas in "Most of the US economy is in a recession"

vrosas — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 23:32:13 +0000

Mojtaba will be dead within a month. What would it say about the entire operation if they just backed off and let Khamenei’s son take over?

New comment by vrosas in "Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays"

vrosas — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:32:05 +0000

I agree with you that Afghanistan is a much different country. My fear is that once the entire centralized theocracy is bombed out of existence it will open the door for localize warlords to begin carving up territory. The alternative is a Khamenei 2.0 character stepping in. But then the question is, will Israel/the US not just assassinate them too? I don't know but there's no way this ends well.

New comment by vrosas in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

vrosas — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:06:14 +0000

I have 100% failed interviews by giving that answer when their definition of scale was 10,000!!!! req/sec. Like sorry dude in 2026 that's not much different than 10 req/sec and my original design would work just fine... But that's what happens when your interviewer is a "senior" 24 year old just reading off the prompt.

New comment by vrosas in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

vrosas — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:00:35 +0000

> shouldn’t we future-proof this?

The answer to this is almost always "NO" in my experience, because no one ever actually has good suggestions when it comes up. It's never "should we choose a scalable compute/database platform?" It's always "should we build a complex abstraction layer in case we want to use multiple blob storage systems that will only contain the lowest common denominator of features of both AND require constant maintenance AND have weird bugs and performance issues because I think I'm smarter than AWS/Google AND ALSO we have no plans to actually DO that?"

/I'm not bitter...

New comment by vrosas in "Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays"

vrosas — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:19:57 +0000

Iran is on “death ground” as Sarah Paine would say. It’s a TERRIBLE idea to put your enemy on death ground because all they can do is fight now. We’re going to keep bombing them until there’s nothing left. Iran is going to end up looking like Afghanistan (a broken country of small feudal states) at the end of this.

Edit: By Iran, I'm referring to what's left of the current Iranian administration and military, not the entirety of the Iranian people.

New comment by vrosas in "Welcome (back) to Macintosh"

vrosas — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:10:32 +0000

It often feels like Apple hires the best hardware and marketing people in the world and holds them to the highest standards, but the software design and engineering people are left to just kind of screw around, redesign stuff for shits and giggles, and laugh as people fill their forums with bug reports and (very obvious) feature requests.

New comment by vrosas in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

vrosas — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:43:56 +0000

You took the time to write this entire paragraph and didn’t realize it’s just because Claude is a masculine name?

New comment by vrosas in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

vrosas — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 18:29:14 +0000

I don’t know, I’ve found the follow ups nice sometimes. You can just ignore them if they’re not useful. The computer won’t get mad…

New comment by vrosas in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

vrosas — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:25:06 +0000

When everyone got into baking early covid I couldn’t understand why no one was baking anything, like, good. No pizza or pie or cake or muffins or banana bread or even a damn focaccia. The world collectively just decided the end-all be-all of baking was… sourdough.

New comment by vrosas in "How will OpenAI compete?"

vrosas — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:32:21 +0000

Google is doing a much better job integrating AI into existing products. Gemini CLI and such seem just like a way to keep the leading competitors humble (a la iOS vs android). They're also building AI tooling tailored to specific companies (like the Goldman thing just announced) and have the cloud infra to back it up. I really only see Anthropic and Google surviving in 10 years.