Hacker News: yawnxyz

New comment by yawnxyz in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

yawnxyz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:52:01 +0000

before AI was around we blamed Covid for doing this to us, and now we blame LLMs... and before that we blamed social media. I'm pretty sure this downtrend has been happening for decades.

New comment by yawnxyz in "First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas"

yawnxyz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:33:08 +0000

it would be racist if we started calling it the texas screwworm, but that's kind of redundant

New comment by yawnxyz in "First U.S. screwworm case confirmed in South Texas"

yawnxyz — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 15:32:00 +0000

apparently it has to be destroyed and can't be sold

New comment by yawnxyz in "The Last Technical Interview"

yawnxyz — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:34:41 +0000

yeah it happens at smaller companies - someone insulted the boss and got sent home (small agency)

New comment by yawnxyz in "The Last Technical Interview"

yawnxyz — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:33:15 +0000

layoffs happen, and they're firings "without a real reason" - and no PIPs exist for surviving layoffs

New comment by yawnxyz in "The Last Technical Interview"

yawnxyz — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:32:18 +0000

yeah that's true, and it gets murky - because employers will just wait til an employee messes up (which everyone does), and use that as an excuse

New comment by yawnxyz in "The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription"

yawnxyz — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:13:36 +0000

> Generically, it's about a unit time of life and how it is spent meaningfully

technology has generally flooded us with more speed, more choice, more entertainment - even the introduction of bicycles caused a similar outrage response, that we're moving too fast and should be slowing down to take in the world around us

the paradox is that choice is both great and awful for us

the one skill to hone / develop in the last couple of decades (way before AI) is the ability to focus, filter, discard, and choose a direction to move in (whether its hobbies, career, apps to build, social media to consume, etc etc etc)

New comment by yawnxyz in "The Last Technical Interview"

yawnxyz — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:23:38 +0000

in most states, as long as it's not discriminatory, you CAN fire anyone for any reason

the article is wrong here

New comment by yawnxyz in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

yawnxyz — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:56:25 +0000

self-hosting is fine, but even if you had a $100k god box with opus-level LLMs, you'd still end up grinding it to a halt if you tried running 5-10 parallel inference streams

New comment by yawnxyz in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

yawnxyz — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:51:21 +0000

saying the quiet part out loud

New comment by yawnxyz in "Does anybody like React?"

yawnxyz — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:43:35 +0000

Svelte + Astro is the combo for me - this combo is great for documentation sites and pages w/ selective amounts of interactivity

New comment by yawnxyz in "Canada losing top talent as workers head to the U.S."

yawnxyz — Mon, 25 May 2026 23:20:29 +0000

that's what happens when your only industries are cooking oil, actual oil, and real estate

New comment by yawnxyz in "Launch HN: Superset (YC P26) – IDE for the agents era"

yawnxyz — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:36:36 +0000

can you make Superset work on folders that aren't git repositories?

New comment by yawnxyz in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

yawnxyz — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:26:59 +0000

this is why people still enjoy eating at Olive Garden and Chipotle and Sweetgreen

basically the AI-slop version of food, yet still they thrive

New comment by yawnxyz in "Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

yawnxyz — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:52:07 +0000

the trope is that they actually said the quiet part loudly

New comment by yawnxyz in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

yawnxyz — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:06:56 +0000

Stainless was a fantastic product; every product/service has to start from somewhere

New comment by yawnxyz in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

yawnxyz — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:42:46 +0000

it's nice to have open source implementations so you can extend / borrow / merge / morph features and ideas into something else

New comment by yawnxyz in "I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now"

yawnxyz — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:38:45 +0000

my tiny blogs no one reads have been racking up a huge deno deploy and vercel bills ($40-50/mo each) bc I ran them "naked" without a cache or cloudflare or static builds - it didnt matter bc I got like hundreds of visitors a month. they were just hono or whatever api pulling from my backend which could be notion or airtable - super simple, though kind of slow

now I suddenly I have 10k visitors a month hammering my apis and causing massive egress and cpu usage - so i had to get them behind cloudflare and now build everything statically - cut the costs back down from 90+ cpu hours to about 0.2 cpu hours a month

crazy times

(also, all donw w/ claude code's help, or it would have taken a week for me to figure out)

New comment by yawnxyz in "Your website is not for you"

yawnxyz — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:58:22 +0000

really good observation, and it's interesting what will happen when implementation gets cheaper - designers will get overwhelmed with too many things to review now, probably

New comment by yawnxyz in "At Protocol: Building the Social Internet"

yawnxyz — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:57:49 +0000

though technically your data lives within Bluesky's servers (kind of like your money lives in a bank) so in some ways it's still the bank's money though it's allotted to you