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samdoesnothing··on Bitcoin's Sky-High Prices Have Not Panned Out
Lol typical fud.
samdoesnothing··on Codeberg is down
What's better, CI thats built by monkeys or CI that's offline?
samdoesnothing··on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
Wait I thought they left because Github software engineers are "monkeys".
samdoesnothing··on AI Is Breaking the Moral Foundation of Modern Society
Or maybe it's just a bubble and once it pops it will be seen as a useful tool for some things, and the world will keep going on.
samdoesnothing··on AI agents break rules under everyday pressure
I never got the impression they were saying that the mechanism of operation dictates the output. It seemed more like they were making a direct observation about the output.
samdoesnothing··on The Junior Hiring Crisis
Crazy that you're getting downvoted. You're right about everything. Well, maybe about rust on the backend...

The world is fundamentally different than it was 50 years ago and the same boomer platitudes no longer make sense. We are going to suffer a global economic collapse in the near future (conveniently when the generations to blame are retired or dead) and it's going to reshape our world and what labor looks like.

I just hope that my generation will be kinder to future generations than the last.

samdoesnothing··on Free static site generator for small restaurants and cafes
Nobody should need a PDF renderer to see the soups.

Actually, nobody should need an XML parser to see the soups either.

samdoesnothing··on Anthropic acquires Bun
How much time do you think you saved versus writing it yourself if you factored in the time you spent setting up your AI tooling, writing prompts, contexts etc?
samdoesnothing··on The Junior Hiring Crisis
Can you post a repo so we can see what it's generating?
samdoesnothing··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Post a repo
samdoesnothing··on Anthropic acquires Bun
Show us your repos.
samdoesnothing··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
I don't know if it's about trying to do significantly better, but rather who these threads are for. If they're for the seekers, you would let them speak freely about their experiences. If it's for the companies, it makes sense to censor replies. Unfortunately you're put in a position to make this choice no matter if you want to or not.

Thanks for listening to feedback :)

samdoesnothing··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
Nice!
samdoesnothing··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
Are you still hiring for the 3 month old postings or have they been filled?
samdoesnothing··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
Thanks for your response :) In my experience almost all companies claim to respond to applications or inquiries but I expect most seekers would say it's more like 1/10.

It may be worth mentioning that you're continuing to open new positions and hire in the next thread. That would be (imo) a positive signal for others and would dispel these types of concerns. Because like others have said, they remember the companies who post over and over again and tend to not bother with them, under the assumption that they just aren't filling the position (if they even exist).

samdoesnothing··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
The solution has been mentioned in the threads you linked, and I haven't seen any argument against it - let users share their experiences and/or question job postings in the replies. Heck, the author responded to my comment and had mine not been detached, people could have read the exchange and come to their own conclusions. You're simply protecting the companies with this type of one sided moderation. The way to combat fraud isn't to prevent people from speaking out against it.

If you aren't capable of telling what postings are real/not real (and fair enough, it's a hard problem) what makes you think you can do the same for the replies?

I'm sure I'm not alone in feeling like it's very one sided, and in the current market which heavily favours hirers over seekers it's just another thing going against the seekers. Who often have real concrete stressors like the threat of homelessness.

Either that or remove the rules that by your own words are unenforceable, so people aren't mislead into thinking this board is more curated than, say, indeed or LinkedIn.

samdoesnothing··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
If the mods aren't going to enforce the rules what other options do we have? Serious question. This ad has been posted in 11/12 threads this year. Perhaps there should be a cooldown on the same posting after 3 months?

Job applicants are under enough stress as it is, they shouldn't be fooled into wasting their time applying to ghost jobs.

samdoesnothing··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
> Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to responding to applicants.
samdoesnothing··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
> Please only post if you are actively filling a position and are committed to responding to applicants.
samdoesnothing··on A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson
Why not compare them to their modern equivalents? They seem mostly the same as politicians today, except some actually cared about the people the ruled.
samdoesnothing··on A new myth appeared during the presidential campaign of Andrew Jackson
> The problem with the self-made man myth

Is that it's a complete straw man. It's not about not having help - every great achiever has had a figurative (sometimes literal) army of supporters behind them. Including those in history.

What the "theory" actually posits seems trivially true - that the people who do super extraordinary things are extraordinary themselves. Whether it's talent, hard work, both, insanity, etc. The idea that these people are just normal and very lucky or whatever is absurd.

samdoesnothing··on All it takes is for one to work out
Why are so many people in this thread purposefully misinterpreting the post so they can criticize it? The author obviously doesn't mean you only need one thing per domain to work out in your lifetime, but the present. I.e you don't need two girlfriends at once, even though you might have multiple relationships throughout your life...

Sheesh. HN is grumpy today.

samdoesnothing··on Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale
nooooo you don't understand, safety is the most important thing ever for every application, and everything else should be deprioritized compared to that!!!
samdoesnothing··on Shopify pulls off real time 8K browser rendering on the Exosphere
I'm not saying it was the wrong choice in hindsight but Three.js is not particularly fast either so I'm surprised they managed to get 8k/60 out of it.
samdoesnothing··on Shopify pulls off real time 8K browser rendering on the Exosphere
I don't understand why they chose to use webgl in the browser versus something like raylib. Like don't get me wrong, it's very cool and it worked so it's tough to fault it, I just don't really understand why they chose three.js and the browser out of all options lol.
samdoesnothing··on Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
Probably much sooner than 50 years, but yeah. If you mean filthy rich I think that takes a combination of work skill and luck that's hard for most people to achieve.

That being said, you don't need to be filthy rich to live a good life. There's the perspective that it's all mindset of course, but barring that you don't need to be filthy rich to go see F1 races for example. I've been to some when I was nearly broke. Obviously no Grand Prix grandstands but it's still achievable for the average person.

samdoesnothing··on Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
This is the mentality of a socialist. And their solution isn't to lift everyone up, but rather bring those more successful down.
samdoesnothing··on Bringing Sexy Back. Internet surveillance has killed eroticism
There are many more ways of making money, and the economy is not zero sum. And of course just because most could do it doesn't mean most will. Most of us can workout 3 times a week, that doesn't mean most of us do.
samdoesnothing··on How good engineers write bad code at big companies
Yeah that's true. As with most things it's a mix of factors.
samdoesnothing··on How good engineers write bad code at big companies
I think it's more that optimizing your hiring process for leetcode savants selects developers who prioritize algorithmic practice over everything else. They also deprioritize character over raw technical skill. But it turns out you need well rounded developers who are able to work with others, communicate well, and have taste. If your hiring process deprioritizes that, don't be surprised when the software produced is shite.
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