Hacker News: winterbloom

New comment by winterbloom in "The Lost Atomic Update on Loongson CPU"

winterbloom — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 13:09:05 +0000

Why does the western world care about Chinese CPUs, let them play in their sandbox with their own systems

New comment by winterbloom in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

winterbloom — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:26:20 +0000

we are working on it, the thousands of gig workers tuning frontier models

New comment by winterbloom in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

winterbloom — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 10:22:33 +0000

You need to spell and grammar check your writing

New comment by winterbloom in "Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers"

winterbloom — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:52:38 +0000

lemme guess, you are anti-israel as well

New comment by winterbloom in "The 14 Steps it takes to open my office door with a new phone"

winterbloom — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:49:50 +0000

the vast majority of things are on you, if you had a working phone, it would just be install an app, login, and it works

it is better than having to carry keys around

New comment by winterbloom in "The only scalable delete in Postgres is DROP TABLE"

winterbloom — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:24:30 +0000

how does that solution work if the table that is dropped has foreign key constraints?

New comment by winterbloom in "Don't read any books written post-2024"

winterbloom — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:33:04 +0000

Did your symptoms ever improve?

New comment by winterbloom in "Healthchecks.io now uses self-hosted object storage"

winterbloom — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:57:43 +0000

what happens if you suffer catastrophic failure, you'd lose up to one hour of data?

New comment by winterbloom in "Average is all you need"

winterbloom — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 12:52:46 +0000

how do you know those queries are actually correct without domain knowledge?

Do you know enough about JOINs and how they work to be able to break those big queries down and figure out whether they are doing exactly what you're asking for in English?

New comment by winterbloom in "How long-distance couples use digital games to facilitate intimacy (2025)"

winterbloom — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:51:43 +0000

i mean that would apply to meeting your SO in real life too, that's just how life works

New comment by winterbloom in "Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI"

winterbloom — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:46:43 +0000

I guess it is AMA, anything except about your current hiring pipeline lol

New comment by winterbloom in "Show HN: Littlebird – Screenreading is the missing link in AI"

winterbloom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:25:20 +0000

Does your company actually look at resumes? you post in HN but nothing ever goes through. I have a feeling that your recruitment team is not doing their job properly (or being super selective)

New comment by winterbloom in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2026)"

winterbloom — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:32:36 +0000

Why not just move to NA/Europe? Chinese engineers are a security risk

New comment by winterbloom in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

winterbloom — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:14:43 +0000

how does this work from a security standpoint? per user encryption?

New comment by winterbloom in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

winterbloom — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:33:20 +0000

yeah you might do that, but how many non-technical people can be bothered to do so?

New comment by winterbloom in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)"

winterbloom — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:51:12 +0000

Location: Canada/US Remote: Open to it

Willing to relocate: Open to it

Technologies: React/Next.js/Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Tailwind/Typescript/Python/Django/etc

Résumé/CV: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZuUttzrImLuoBmBcJL_tu0rP...

Email: actual.edward@gmail.com

My name is Edward. I'm an individual with close to a decade of experience shipping impactful software and leading teams

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/edward-c-040270111/

Quick bullet points:

- Significant experience with working across the stack

- Cooperative engineer with a focus on velocity and revenue

- Wears many hats

New comment by winterbloom in "Setting up phones is a nightmare"

winterbloom — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:31:01 +0000

who do you think gets in trouble if her phone dies and all her stuff is gone

storing things in the cloud is responsible

New comment by winterbloom in "Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is killed in Israeli strike, ending 36-year rule"

winterbloom — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:43:26 +0000

Yeah but a good majority don't want Islam in Iran, Iran used to have a culture

New comment by winterbloom in "The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter"

winterbloom — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 07:57:26 +0000

I mean we could be just like rodents to them, I won't think people care about uprooting rodents

New comment by winterbloom in "Discord Is Not an Acceptable Choice for Free Software Projects (2020)"

winterbloom — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:50:38 +0000

Normal people find discord to be more user friendly than irc