Hacker News: whatevaa

New comment by whatevaa in "Engineering management after the cost of code collapsed"

whatevaa — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:00:46 +0000

Sure. But try it on a project on non-trivial size and then tell us the cost of it. LLMS are billed per token.

New comment by whatevaa in "Big Tech is stoking unrest in the UK. Why?"

whatevaa — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:27:26 +0000

Immigration is a duct tape solution to fixing things at this point. It is not going to build you an empire today.

New comment by whatevaa in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

whatevaa — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:25:17 +0000

SMPplayer is a frontend for mpv which I use and like.

New comment by whatevaa in "Dutch Railways offers unlimited off-peak train travel nationwide for €49/month"

whatevaa — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:23:10 +0000

I think that is a general vibe. Mixing very different types of transportation on same road will always cause trouble.

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

whatevaa — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 16:22:50 +0000

The models can change at any time and behave differently.

New comment by whatevaa in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

whatevaa — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:42:47 +0000

Elon achived this valuation by merging xAI into SpaceX. The future of xAI is questionable, and without it SpaceX is very overvalued.

New comment by whatevaa in "Claude Opus 4.8"

whatevaa — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:08:27 +0000

Isn't xhigh on opus 4.7 very expensive on tokens?

New comment by whatevaa in "Italy moves to Airbus A330 tankers"

whatevaa — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:43:26 +0000

If you actually read into the case it's more complicated than just it's Airbus fault. It was caused by one of the confused pilots input. Why they were confused is a complicated story.

New comment by whatevaa in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

whatevaa — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:54:26 +0000

Gripen will not be able to fly higher than tree lines in zones with active anti-air. Russia can't really use any of it's air power in Ukraine war, for example.

F35 can actually do something in such scenarios, as detecting them in the first place is hard.

New comment by whatevaa in "Show HN: My dad is a forensic accountant. I automated ~62% of his job"

whatevaa — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:53:15 +0000

Now that would be funny

New comment by whatevaa in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

whatevaa — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:32:49 +0000

Subscribing to a mailing list is not a relationship at all.

New comment by whatevaa in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

whatevaa — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:34:23 +0000

Better start building them then, gonna need a ton of them. Also doesn't help against heatwaves and during droughts.

New comment by whatevaa in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

whatevaa — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:13:42 +0000

Or be forgotten to renewed, lost and, depending on registrar, overtaken.

New comment by whatevaa in "'No way to prevent this,' says only package manager where this regularly happens"

whatevaa — Sat, 16 May 2026 06:12:54 +0000

$20 per year on US is not the same value across the world. Would you say $60 per year is ok too, if you adjusted for income? 100$?

Don't count other people money.

New comment by whatevaa in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

whatevaa — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:43:44 +0000

Extremely hackable on travel.

New comment by whatevaa in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

whatevaa — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:08:02 +0000

Pretty difficult to code OS to take advantage of that. Basically need NUMA, which increases overall overhead.

Otherwise, you may end up filling up your fast memory with some cold data.

New comment by whatevaa in "European Money Pours into Palantir"

whatevaa — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:19:30 +0000

The enemy is using them against you anyway, so you are just losing out.

New comment by whatevaa in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

whatevaa — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:31:45 +0000

uuidv4 is random. uuidv7 includes time.

New comment by whatevaa in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"

whatevaa — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:34:44 +0000

Are talking about brake-by-wire? Where brakes are controlled by electric only, and if electrics die, no brakes?

These are dangerous. Cars are not maintained to aircraft standards and will never be.

New comment by whatevaa in "Brazil's Pix payment system faces pressure from Visa and Mastercard"

whatevaa — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:08:27 +0000

Android and IOS are controlled by US companies. And both google and apple can ban you for no reason.