Hacker News: xeromal

New comment by xeromal in "True Rate of Unemployment"

xeromal — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:26:12 +0000

Just a guess but gig work might be picking up some of that slack?

New comment by xeromal in "Early Humans Likely Ate Carbs and Sugary Foods"

xeromal — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:56:51 +0000

Humans seem to do alright with most diets except for the eat too much one

New comment by xeromal in "Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants"

xeromal — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:31:29 +0000

Account created 2021

New comment by xeromal in "The August 17 outage"

xeromal — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:02:26 +0000

Most of my family are small business owners, so I've done a handful of Excel automations that they needed that generally take me a while to figure out. Landing pages and a few 3D designed prototypes that I used the Fusion 360 MCP server for

New comment by xeromal in "The August 17 outage"

xeromal — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:03:30 +0000

Same. Helping family out when I generally was too tired to do it earlier. They're all very happy too

New comment by xeromal in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

xeromal — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:15:01 +0000

Many people were making more money on unemployment than their standard wage due to the covid increased pay. The fed paid $600 on top of state benefits for a few months and then $300 for more than a year after that meaning people were seeing 16 -> 24 dollars an hour in wages for not working in my state of Georgia for instance. It was often smarter to stay unemployed until that ran out compared to local wages.

New comment by xeromal in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

xeromal — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:38:31 +0000

Russia invaded Ukraine specifically because they have nukes. Everyone is afraid to fight back.

New comment by xeromal in "Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager"

xeromal — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:28:23 +0000

Yeah, I grew up in N. GA in a rural area and my family still had a rotary until the mid or late 90s. lol. No internet either

New comment by xeromal in "Waymo in Dallas"

xeromal — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:51:36 +0000

Missing the forest for the trees

New comment by xeromal in "What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?"

xeromal — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:11:59 +0000

I think that's just having a family in general if you're not into it. Many people are chosing not to because they want a different life. It's not really a money question. Humans have been having kids in much worse times. We just have the option not to. Women have more rights and we have birth control.

New comment by xeromal in "What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?"

xeromal — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:34:35 +0000

I've never played this but now I need to

New comment by xeromal in "What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?"

xeromal — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:21:13 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

New comment by xeromal in "What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?"

xeromal — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:16:21 +0000

It's not a rebuttal. There's no rebuttal to someone's personal story.

New comment by xeromal in "What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?"

xeromal — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:08:49 +0000

Only if you're trying to keep up with the Joneses.

New comment by xeromal in "What's Behind the Sharp Drop in Labor Force Participation?"

xeromal — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:03:51 +0000

If 150k to 300k isn't enough for someone, they need financial therapy

New comment by xeromal in "That time when I failed the Microsoft interview"

xeromal — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:52:40 +0000

I think it's because most of us don't do CS once we graduate. We build APIs and websites which don't involve CS at all. It barely involves engineering. lol.

No one uses binary trees or some manual form of serialization.

They use "superlib.search(arr)" or (seriliazer.parse(thingy)" and that's about it. No one cares about what it does. They just know it does it faster than something they could write. The only places that care about it are at the utmost peak of scale.

Heck, I run an API that gets tens of millions of reqs a day and I'm an idiot that couldn't computer science their way of of a paper bag.

New comment by xeromal in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

xeromal — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:10:11 +0000

Good luck doing that in China?

New comment by xeromal in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

xeromal — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:09:49 +0000

Has anyone tried Qwen with the Fusion 360 MCP server? I feel like drawing with python is close enough but I'm curious

New comment by xeromal in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

xeromal — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:40:36 +0000

I'm out of credits or I would've tried fable. I knew it would do well

New comment by xeromal in "Californians' data deletion requests, DROP, become enforceable Aug. 1"

xeromal — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:41:30 +0000

It's probably because I registered the account in her business' name.