Hacker News: zshrdlu

New comment by zshrdlu in "Fable Took My Job"

zshrdlu — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:19:46 +0000

Cuts both ways though, right? You can also quit without notice, you're not obliged to pay your employer severance.

New comment by zshrdlu in "Fable Took My Job"

zshrdlu — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:16:24 +0000

Yeah but 1,2,3 are issues that can be sorted with AGENTS.md, no?

New comment by zshrdlu in "Sorry we made you grind LeetCode"

zshrdlu — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:19:23 +0000

Not sure whether it's good marketing, but interesting insight into the industry.

New comment by zshrdlu in "SQLAlchemy 2.1.0 Released"

zshrdlu — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:12:06 +0000

Having used it in a code-base that had a lot of business logic and objects, I don't mind it at all. It's a transpiler is all. Plus at no point were we married to it, you could generate your query any which way you please, or even hand-craft them if it was getting in your way or your mood shifted.

New comment by zshrdlu in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

zshrdlu — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:02:56 +0000

At this point nearly everyone is using autopilot. It's supposedly just a question of whether the user is a trained pilot or not. The trained pilots resist calling what they're doing "vibe coding", leaving that label to the untrained pilots.

New comment by zshrdlu in "Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team"

zshrdlu — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 06:03:07 +0000

Seems to me it's just research and experimentation.

New comment by zshrdlu in "What even is an OS now?"

zshrdlu — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:42:49 +0000

The argument here is that the hacker ethos is what brought us free/open-source stuff that facilitated us getting where we are today, and that the hacker ethos getting eroded spells doom for widespread free/open-source computing.

New comment by zshrdlu in "What even is an OS now?"

zshrdlu — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 07:39:38 +0000

Why would it necessarily be proprietary? Where are the hackers who love tinkering with stuff in the meantime? Aren't they going to create free/open-source stuff? Isn't that what they've always done?

New comment by zshrdlu in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)"

zshrdlu — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:01:20 +0000

Well how many people are working on truly novel features?

New comment by zshrdlu in "My favorite nonfiction books about cults, scams, and schemes"

zshrdlu — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:32:53 +0000

In a very different vein, I have read a number of books recently that feature a surprising amount of "scam and schemes":

- The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan, about the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression. A lot of people were scammed into settling the high plains by railroad salesmanship and other "real estate" scams.

- The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown. A book about the harrowing Donner Party. Scamming and scheming are what draw them out to that expedition.

- The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. WW1 history but it boils down to the scheming of various men in the respective countries.

- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, Daniel Yergin. The oil rush from America to the World. Scheming features prominently to say the least.

New comment by zshrdlu in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)"

zshrdlu — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:46:23 +0000

Nothing wrong really if the python in turn uses libraries with c bindings or something.

New comment by zshrdlu in "US debt tops $40T as Treasury doubles bond buybacks to calm markets"

zshrdlu — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:08:40 +0000

Not at all true for most developing countries, they borrow despite the high interest. It just means that the burden of interest payments squeeze out welfare programs, development programs, etc. Usually the IMF/World Bank step in to influence austerity measures, fiscal and monetary policy for further loans to be disbursed.

New comment by zshrdlu in "Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself"

zshrdlu — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:55:32 +0000

Well you gotta recharge it of course, just not with a power cord.

New comment by zshrdlu in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)"

zshrdlu — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:24:33 +0000

Checkmate of a move asking for the passport along with the resume. The latter should stand in for the former before an offer is made.

New comment by zshrdlu in "Clojure 1.13 adds support for checked keys"

zshrdlu — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:04:53 +0000

I think for some people it's an aesthetic knee-jerk reaction and the fact that it's "unusual" for a programming language. It's not like their brains "can't grok" -- it's just syntax after all. People don't tend to have that reaction to xml for some reason. It's data, so it gets a pass. But then this is code-as-data and they have to break that barrier conceptually and then get past the aesthetic knee-jerk reaction.

New comment by zshrdlu in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

zshrdlu — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:02:28 +0000

Ted Kaczynski specifically was advocating for primitivity, no?

New comment by zshrdlu in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"

zshrdlu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 05:29:30 +0000

Supposedly. If the productivity boost is good for commercial software it's good for open source.

New comment by zshrdlu in "Tariffs, Saving, and Investment"

zshrdlu — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:04:24 +0000

I will attempt a reductio ad absurdum: why do anything other than print dollars then? Why farm? Why build anything? Why not just use the magic wand all the way?

New comment by zshrdlu in "This is no world for an axolotl"

zshrdlu — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:24:51 +0000

Yeah casual extraordinary claim, I'm equally stumped.

New comment by zshrdlu in "Europe cannot rely on US protection, Pentagon chief tells NATO allies"

zshrdlu — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 08:28:11 +0000

also known as colonies