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One consequence of LLM fraud at scale making remote/online tests & document submission worthless is it might act as a giant revitalizing boost for the bricks-and-mortars school systems. Suddenly having real teachers and students in room together has value again, for credibility and authenticity alone.

LLMs are also making having a public repo code portfolio be much more worthless as a sign of legitimacy

easier: dont do vibe coding or allow AI bots

better: break up codebase into areas over which certain engs will "own" code reviews over. divy up burden

best: hire best folks, mentor them

lots of modern software devs suffer from the same thing notoriously associated with teenagers: strong urge to conform and comply with peer pressure. individuals vary, obvs. but as you age this urge shrinks

depends on assumptions. thats the load bearing element. 99.99% of what was true then is still true. its mostly on the fractal churning edges where hyped change happens. things flip-flop too:

2021-2024: good time in US for EV startup

2025: terrible time in US for EV startup

2026 March/April: AWESOME time in world for EV startup

focus on fundamentals, not flakey ephemerals

2020: wise to have smart elite software engineers on your team

2021: ditto

2022: ditto

2023: ditto

2024: ditto (is this when ChatGPT launched? dont care. snore)

2025: ditto (what are YC/HN/VC hyping now? snore)

2026: ditto

2027+: ditto, likely

browser plugins are an anti-pattern. and security risk. less depedencies are better. all modern social media platforms, including HN, should have out-of-box way to mute/block and delegate to service as well. There are often categories of folks/accounts I likely dont want to see/hear from or have my content exposed to them where I can help it. HN has demonstrated itself to have a toxic subset in their community, as elsewhere.

its almost as if its rules should be persisted, versioned and tested in a deterministic way. I also wonder if it might end up useful to try enforcing some kind of constraints to data (memory) itself. like if we could enforce atomicity, consistency, isolation AND durability. and transparency so no place for malware to hide. and deterministic execution, from fully reproducible builds...

er, nevermind. prob just crazy castles in the sky wistful dreams :-)

somehow I've been able to do that for 40+ years using my brain, eyes, fingers, vi , CLIs and shell scripts. no unsolved problems there.

wargaming

designing improvements to democracy & taxation

my top wishlist of HN features:

* personal ability to mute/block any account

* BONUS: and/or delegate above decision to list-providing service at given externally-hosted URL

* intelligently autowrap text of long lines, like its 2026 (heck like 1997)

I understand desire to get off US infra. But Bunny.net is Slovenian, and Slovenia borders Hungary, a de facto Russian vassal state. Other nations would be safer. If you want to de-risk you should really de-risk.

Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & scalability, some math & ML

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/raw/refs/heads/master...

Email: groglogic+hn2026apr@gmail.com

programming for decades. solid fundamentals. troubleshooter. tech lead/arch. SRE-ish. solved legacy Heisenbugs & shipped, many times.

author of perf cheatsheet

writing book on HPC

US citizen, native English

ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, instrum, caches, sessions, threads, db conns)

research & due diligence for US State Dept on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo (ie. natsec) game engine creator & toolmaker since kid. once built small sw biz

recent client: sys prog R&D on mem alloc latency & SEGV resilience. C on Linux. delivered code, benchmarks, diagrams & report on how to upgrade perf & avail of their soft-RT (micros mattered), $-impacting backend

LatLearn: FOSS Golang latency instrum & reporting lib

bad English, bad writing, stopped reading fast.

vi/vim has enabled that for 30+ years.

one rando set of opinions. stopped reading fast

> With proper constraints,

load bearing phrase there

nothing about the US currently can be characterized as having proper constraints

generic "bet on anything" betting markets massively encourage corruption and market manipulation via shock events and insider trading. false flag attacks, etc

This story/topic should not be on HN.

This story should not be on HN. Shame on you folks.

It solves no actual problem I have. Yet introduces many new ones. Its a trap. So I don't use it and have a strong policy against using it or allowing others to use it on things I work on. BATNA is key.

pre-money valuation at launch of $2.3B?! they have no product or customers or profit, correct?

Man Enters Cage With Face-Eating Leopard Surprised When Leopard Eats Face

Location: Colorado, USA

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Golang (Go), C, Python, Java, SQL, git, Docker, Linux/POSIX, Internet & web dev, cloud IaaS, distributed, concurrency & threading, performance & scalability, some math & ML

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/mkramlich/portfolio/raw/refs/heads/master...

Email: groglogic+hn2026mar@gmail.com

programming for decades. solid fundamentals. troubleshooter. tech lead/arch. SRE-ish. solved legacy Heisenbugs & shipped, many times.

author of perf cheatsheet

writing book on HPC

US citizen, native English

ex Orbitz on core tech (JVM, GC, perf regress follow-up, ops, logs, instrum, caches, sessions, threads, db conns)

research & due diligence for US State Dept on public defenses against foreign adversarial propaganda & disinfo (ie. natsec) game engine creator & toolmaker since kid. once built small sw biz

recent client: sys prog R&D on mem alloc latency & SEGV resilience. C on Linux. delivered code, benchmarks, diagrams & report on how to upgrade perf & avail of their soft-RT (micros mattered), $-impacting backend

LatLearn: FOSS Golang latency instrum & reporting lib

television??

if its not in Rust or browser-based or a "cloud" service or the result of multi-GWH of LLM "training" or a VSCode plugin or ideally all of the prior then the HN kids wont be interested :-)

madness & reeks of setup bait for security exploits

The DNS name has both Russian and Indian in it, and its about vibe coding and AI to make system level software which can access the plaintext of my app comms: nope, nope, nope, nope and oh hell no.

solves no actual problem I have and not worth the security risk and extra complexity of a plugin by a random remote stranger

The surveillance industry has gotten out of hand. It is also true that there is ample reason to ignore and avoid anything coming out of the OA's author, who has a strong history of Russian-aligned propaganda efforts. Please don't cite him or amplify him further. Propaganda and disinfo ops worldwide are just as big of a problem as accelerating, unchecked, abused surveillance.

ie. vim

OCPP software. Golang latency instrumentation lib. realtime Roguelike adventure game. book on HPC. edu game prototype design. DCC TTRPG adventure module