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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2026) on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @01:12AM (#50348659)
Looks like a fun job, and an interesting company!

As feedback I just want to say, the salary feels low. I work in the Netherlands too and I think I’d have all your requirements. However, the job would be a big step down in salary - that’s also compared to similar roles I see around.

Re:GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:46PM (#50320030)
How do they feed the game screen to the models? I imagine the models are too slow if you send 60FPS, but I feel like that’s also the case if you maybe feed it 1FPS? If you go any slower, you’ll miss too much info?
Re:AI Isn't Replacing SREs. It's Deskilling Them on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:22PM (#50307143)
I never understand this sentiment. I do SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering/Infrastructure Engineering, and I definitely do need to know how underlying technologies work. Even when everything is kubernetes and YAML.

If you run simple workloads, it’s probably not necessary but then you’ll probably be paid for that. Your company can also choose to outsource complexity to the cloud, and you’ll just be writing YAML. Then there’s also companies where you host everything yourself AND you have large/high workloads, then you still need people with understanding.

With your type of comments, it feels like you’re pretending a developer who writes WordPress websites does the same work as someone doing Erlang for instance. You’ll have different skill sets for every type of engineer, and they’ll all be necessary.

Re:More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:36AM (#49750827)
But why does it need to be reversed?

We are at the same time experiencing all the challenges and consequences of depleting the planet of resources, a warming climate and shortages everywhere. Why can less people in a natural way not be part of the solution?

I imagine they might wait, to make it’s legally obtained Bitcoin.
“neowhimsical” would be a more accurate description. Definitely not “brutalist”, I’m unsure if the founders of this term ever saw anything brutalist.
Re:How to Stop Wasting Your Life on Saturday September 12, 2026 @08:24AM (#49671626)
> You aren’t scrolling for pleasure; you are scrolling for the promise of pleasure.

I am interested, but it's written by AI and that writing style really puts me off.

It’s a limitation of their dataset. If you take all domains, it definitely creates a different picture.

For both France and the UK, less than 15% of sites are behind a CDN. For both, around 95% use Cloudflare.

So in terms of percentages, there’s not much of a difference.

Re:How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment on Sunday September 06, 2026 @01:32PM (#49588811)
Interlinked. Within cells interlinked.

I wonder how they test to see the agent is off baseline. ;)

Re:typ.ing on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:03AM (#49406936)
Check out the Charybdis from BastardKB: https://bastardkb.com/product/charybdis-mini-prebuilt-preord...

They also have self-assembly kits where you solder it together yourself. That’s what I did, the instructions were great!

Re:Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker on Sunday August 16, 2026 @12:53PM (#49321653)
I’d be happy for a content producer wide subscription that would disable ads on all participating sites. As long as that doesn’t exist, I’m happy with my adblocker.

Next to that, my device, my choice what I get to see and what I don’t get to see.

There’s a long way between NW >100 million and making 60K EUR.

Maybe if they taxed NW >100 million, you wouldn’t need a 50% tax on work.

Re:How to Read More Books on Sunday July 12, 2026 @01:27PM (#48882826)
Good advice about not enjoying a book and putting it down isn’t a failure on your part. Same for the part about reading multiple books. This blocked me for a while, if I decided to start a book I HAD to read that book and I HAD to finish it. It’s a great way to kill something you’d otherwise enjoy.

One thing that irked me wrong was the part about audiobooks and attention:

> Listening to audio while cooking or cleaning or whatever you do is not the same thing; you are not 100% concentrated on the content. Also, reading is faster than listening, so use your time wisely.

First of all, sometimes you are not concentrating a 100% on something and that is fine. I listen to podcasts while driving, I often miss sentences or longer bits because there’s more traffic that I focus on. That’s fine. I can either go back or accept it.

Second, this is coming from the person that said:

> I read a book when I cook lunch or dinner, and I read a book when eating breakfast.

> I have become good at walking my dog while reading

Edit: formatting

This is just incorrect with a way too small set of websites. Their estimates are more than double.

However, that is if you take all websites into account. If you only take the most popular websites/biggest companies, their estimates are closer to reality.

Source: I have access to better data.

Re:15-minute at-home Lyme disease tick test on Sunday June 21, 2026 @12:07AM (#48615599)
According to the dutch public health institute, the longer the tick is in the body, the bigger the chance of transmission. Early removal also does not prevent lyme, it just reduces the chances.

Next to that, in The Netherlands we have a site to report tick bites and if they had lyme disease or not. It’s good to know if you should be extra vigilant after a bite from a certain area. I think the self-test could be very useful for such sites.

I’m not obese or overweight and while my main meals (breakfast and dinner) are generally very healthy - I can still eat a lot of trash (ultra processed)food as snacks.

I’m sure that could have an effect.

Sounds like communication between departments sucks. If IT develops for them, you’d expect there to be a feedback loop?
Re:Changing How We Develop Ladybird on Friday June 05, 2026 @04:44AM (#48409774)
I think a trust system is the only way. Ladybird will need new/different maintainers at some point in the future. How are you going to find them now?

I don’t disagree with their choice, but it’s not sustainable in the long term.

Re:The Quiet Renovation at Bitwarden on Monday May 18, 2026 @01:56PM (#48183042)
I’ve used Vaultwarden for at lesst 7 years, I’m sure for longer but I’m not sure how long.

Never had an issue with Vaultwarden itself. Restored from backups several times for a variety of reasons (migrating host, corrupt hard disk, re-installs) and that always worked first try.

In regards to hardering, the wiki has a good guide: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/wiki/Hardening-Gu....

Sounds a bit like Mitchell Hashimoto’s Vouch: https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch
Re:MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students on Thursday May 14, 2026 @12:06PM (#48137375)
> This is about research, science research in particular. "Preparing for the workforce" is not the point here (and arguably should not really be the point of education in general, but much can be said about that...).

This is a bit short sighted. Not all university studies are for fundamental science (law, for instance). Some university studies need to work together with industry (again, law. or some physics studies).

Next to that, even for studies that do fundamental research (mathematics), a lot of people attend university for it’s job prospects. For instance, if you want to become an actuary - having done mathematics as a degree will help.

My point being, a large part of university studies and their students are there to “Prepare for the workforce”. I don’t think you can do without that. Fundamental research is not some fantasy world that can do without industry or other things developed by the outside world.

Re:Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia on Saturday May 09, 2026 @07:41AM (#48074143)
I think the same every time I read this, but at one point it has to give, right?

Nothing is going well and economically the population is feeling it. I imagine this can’t go on much longer.

I don’t think it is. If we can then also ensure the US stops meddling in international affairs, we can all be happy!
I highly doubt the creators for the show are actually combining The Matrix and Blade Runner. It just seems the author is hallucinating nonsense.

The Matrix took inspiration from Neuromancer and I guess Blade Runner is the closest we have to a cyberpunk-vibe movie?

None of the text in this article are quotes by the creators, it’s just someone who clearly hasn’t read Neuromancer an asked an LLM to write the article and compare it to existing movies.

Re:Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies? on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:40PM (#47694424)
I do gundog training. When I started with our first dog I did not expect to enjoy it that much. It’s hard to express how much it takes mentally and physically, and the bond you build with your dog is crazy.

Best of all, you don’t actually have to hunt. You can stick to dummies.

In terms of contributing in a meaningful way, your local trainer will always be happy with helpers. If you need to setup multiple 200m retrieves for multiple dogs, it helps if you have someone out in the field doing the work. And lots of stuff to organise and help out with.

Re:Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies? on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:29PM (#47694301)
Sounds fun! Do you have resources to get started?

I do gundog work, it would be fun to do the tracking together with the dog. (I don’t hunt, it would just be to make some walks more interesting)

Re:Ask HN: Any Interesting Niche Hobbies? on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @02:27PM (#47694274)
Really fun! I used to do it too, and I miss it.

How do you combine it with work? Where I live in NL, there are few days where I’m able to go kiteboarding and I probably won’t know until the day off if it’s possible or not.

Very hard to schedule!

Software updates exist, I’m sure they could support it if they wanted to.

Ed25519 isn’t so new that the hardware wouldn’t be capable.

Re:A case for Go as the best language for AI agents on Monday March 02, 2026 @05:02PM (#47224800)
I mostly write Go code (and have barely had to write any code myself in the past months), but today I had to do some work in a Java project and Claude Code was a terrible experience.

It really felt like using AI tooling of a year or two ago. It wasn’t understanding my prompts, going on tangents, not following the existing style and idioms. Maybe Claude was hungover or doesn’t like mondays, but the contrast with Go was surprising.

One example is that I wanted to add an extra prometheus metric to keep track of an edge case in some for loop. All it had to do was define a counter and increment it. For some reason it would define the counter the line before increment it, instead of defining it next to the other counters outside of the for loop. Technically not wrong (defining a counter is idempotent), but who does that? Especially when the other counters are defined elsewhere in the same function?

Anyway, n=1 but I feel it has an easier time with Go.

But AI can fix the bugs, so they won't need me either!

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