1. okhobb Dec 1, 2025 parent

   No one is forcing you to give birth in a hospital. Rational people do it at home all the time to this day.
2. okhobb Nov 27, 2025 parent

   Figma is also one dude.
3. okhobb Nov 27, 2025 parent

   I'm sure if the original developer bothered to show up again he could fix it in a weekend.
4. okhobb Nov 27, 2025 parent

   HN users want to know if you're allowed to host the whole Internet on it.
5. okhobb Nov 4, 2025 parent

   My favorite part about Ocaml is the type checker fwiw. Pretty much as soon as I appease it I'm guaranteed a 'working' program that usually does what I intended.
6. okhobb Oct 10, 2025 parent

   Wait until you hear about how much wealth Salomon Bros extracted from the market.
7. okhobb Oct 10, 2025 parent

   I suspect the root argument is really against the efficacy of markets and capitalism as a useful system for humanity, in which case I say that is a fair debate. The benefits are hardly obvious today.
8. okhobb Sep 16, 2025 parent

   Lol same. Wasn't there something like it in System 7 that also got deprecated. I think back then it was called "Launcher" ... https://apple.fandom.com/wiki/Launcher

   Launching seems easy enough from Finder but you never know about innovation.

9. okhobb Feb 10, 2025 parent

   How does this play out? They pay a fine? Tim Cook is extradited? Something in between?
10. okhobb Nov 11, 2023 parent

    'Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets' by Peter van der Linden
11. okhobb Aug 30, 2023 parent

    Is the voltage the reason power lines are buried in Europe? I do wish we would do so in the US.
12. okhobb Mar 13, 2023 parent

    Correct. It would be hard to find a stock where some combination of these players were not the largest shareholders based on the aggregation of all their managed funds.
13. okhobb Mar 12, 2023 parent

    This might be downvoted due to the FED finger point, but that aside it is exactly right. A responsible banker would have invested in floating-rate securities or hedged the fixed-rate risk via interest rate swaps. SVB was certainly sophisticated enough to know this.
14. okhobb Jan 22, 2023 parent

    Pretty sure the Fed "wants" to bring up unemployment. I.e. make wage inflation decrease. To put it another way, they want everyone to feel more poor so they spend less frivolously.
15. okhobb Jan 1, 2023 parent

    I've found NestJs to be a very thoughtful application framework. I'd argue it demonstrates pro-level typescript coding.

    https://github.com/nestjs/nest

16. okhobb Nov 10, 2022 parent

    > My concern is how much funding FTX and SBF in particular were giving to EA/AGI Safety research labs and charities.

    Did a malicious AI orchestrate this downfall?

17. okhobb Jul 29, 2022 parent

    Rich people got them in the 1890s. $10 a "roll" back then; ~$300 today. You had to mail the camera back to Kodak to get the film developed.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20090306221410/http://www.kodak....

    The Eastman Museum in Rochester is worth a visit if you're in the area.

    https://www.eastman.org/about

18. okhobb Jul 3, 2022 parent

    Try checking out the options:

          refetchInterval: false,
          refetchOnMount: false,
          refetchOnWindowFocus: false,
          refetchOnReconnect: false,
          staleTime: Infinity,
    

    I was similarly surprised at how 'chatty' react-query was by default, but changing these defaults quieted it down. Great library though, and I understand the argument for these defaults.
19. okhobb Jun 24, 2022 parent

    This is a strawman and no one would actually design a messaging app using a NoSQL db like that. Typically one would employ a strategy to fan-out data such that the message document has everything needed to render a message in the UI.
20. okhobb Jun 14, 2022 parent

    I generally prefer keeping all the configuration in as few languages as possible and preferably in a single language. Adding filesystem-based config where a config option object in the main language of javascript would suffice goes against that.

    Also, given a filesystem config, now I'm forced to have many very small files around for each route where each file is most likely just a call to another service handler. I'd prefer to mash most into bigger files that handle related but distinct routes.

    Less important, but comes up, it's nice to be able to match routes based on code and not just string equality ... e.g. everyone seems to like having routes for usernames start with '@'

21. okhobb Jun 13, 2022 parent

    This is the same thing I dislike about NextJS. What is the argument for using the filesystem as part of a framework's API?
22. okhobb Mar 3, 2022 parent

    I am curious how this compares to an older YC company OneSignal. https://onesignal.com ... Sounds quite similar on the surface. Does YC bet on multiple companies in the same space?
23. okhobb Feb 15, 2022 parent

    Investors in Vision Fund likely have the goal of returns for this investment that are not similar to the S&P 500 or other public equity indices. I'd further bet that 15-20% annualized is considered a very good result for this part of those investors' portfolios.
24. okhobb Feb 7, 2022 parent

    US tech industry has been staggeringly right place/time for the last decade. As a proxy, the NASDAQ has roughly increased 6x in that timeframe.
25. okhobb Jan 26, 2022 parent

    Not sure I'm following the "more like 14%" ... can you explain that calculation?
26. okhobb Jan 22, 2022 parent

    Starting a company is not fun for most engineers. Way more fun to get paid (a smaller amount, but way above "average") to hack at a company that has already found product-market fit. Replit doesn't have a Facebook-size audience, but it's still millions of people who you can reach with your work.
27. okhobb Jan 19, 2022 parent

    IPO "pop" is a bit of pejorative usually referring to the deliberate underpricing of an IPO so that the investment bankers' big clients can get a quick profit, the difference between the IPO price and the first available exchange price. In the context of this thread, an example of Wall Street sleaze.
28. okhobb Jan 16, 2022 parent

    Are you testing yourself constantly to make sure you're not exposing others? The pernicious feature of COVID is the asymptomatic nature of many infections.
29. okhobb Jan 8, 2022 parent

    Sounds much like the old saw: "we only hire the best!"

    Do any VCs strive to invest in, say, the second quartile of YC batches?

30. okhobb Jan 6, 2022 parent

    It's hard as a new grad to know how to always be on the same page as your manager, much less your skip-level. But, you've now learned the lesson. While fresh it would be a good time to be a bit humble and even a little contrite. Admit that everyone was not on the same page, and proactively ask for weekly 1:1 with your manager and biweekly/monthly with your skip-level. They are there to help grow you in your young career.

    Also, maybe go on an interview or two. Can't hurt to have the confidence that other offers are possible if this goes further south.

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