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bsaul commented on The AI Vampire   steve-yegge.medium.com/th... · Posted by u/SilverElfin
missingdays · 3 hours ago
Are there any software engineer\quality assurance\any other IT related unions in EU? How do I join one?
bsaul · 3 hours ago
At least in France, the general work legislation is generous enough that people in the industry don't feel the need to unionize. We've got 5 weeks holidays per year, plus additional ones if your work contract has more than 35hours of work per week.

Needless to say, burnouts are pretty rare. When they do, it's mostly because of toxic management which can't fire you because of legislation, so they just make your life miserable until you snap. I've also seen it happen in some startups where people have to take super long holidays after a successful exit because they've worked insane hours. However it was mostly self inflicted.

bsaul commented on The AI Vampire   steve-yegge.medium.com/th... · Posted by u/SilverElfin
mbgerring · 4 hours ago
This is a good time to repeat that software engineers need a union. We needed this ten years ago, and we need it a lot more now.
bsaul · 3 hours ago
As a european, yes please America, get a union. Get 2 even. You're going too fast, you're way too successful, we can't keep up.

So yes, please adopt our work ethic and legal framework. It's going to help us tremendously.

bsaul commented on Oxide raises $200M Series C   oxide.computer/blog/our-2... · Posted by u/igrunert
akshitgaur2005 · a day ago
I just came to know about Oxide the other day, and god damn if it is not a dream workplace! High salary, flat structure, a large open-source presence, and maybe much more! Their blogs are really good too.

I am an undergraduate right now and looking at the people working there, it doesn't seem likely they would hire a fresh grad, I think I have found the yardstick I am going to measure myself by going forward, "Am I skilled enough that I could work at Oxide?". Hope more companies follow suit in putting the people forward!!

bsaul · 21 hours ago
After a recent experience with flat structures, i tend to be really suspicious. My experience was a total mess of organization, with slack bipping all the time, and nobody "in charge" of maintaining common sense in the architecture, with a long term vision.

Total chaos.

bsaul commented on Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT   theregister.com/2026/02/0... · Posted by u/rbanffy
bsaul · 2 days ago
I wonder why matrix isn't more widerspread at this point. It's open, it's e2ee, it works, it has client lib for integration with any tool..

What makes it not more popular ? Is it the federated approach ? The client applications that don't look really fancy ?

bsaul commented on Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC   harshanu.space/en/tech/cc... · Posted by u/unchar1
bsaul · 2 days ago
One missing analysis, that IMHO is the most important right now, is : what is the quality of the generated code ?

Having LLM generates a first complete iteration of a C compiler in rust is super useful if the code is of good enough quality that it can be maintained and improved by humans (or other AIs). It is (almost) completely useless otherwise.

And that is the case for most of today's code generated by AIs. Most of it will still have to be maintained by humans, or at least a human will ultimately be responsible for it.

What i would like to see is whether that C compiler is a horrible mess of tangled spaghetti code with horrible naming. Or something with a clear structure, good naming, and sensible comments.

bsaul commented on Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, Polarization (2025)   arxiv.org/abs/2510.25417... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
siavosh · 3 days ago
After not logging into Twitter for years I logged back in because I wanted to follow some posts regarding some breaking news. Omg the amount of garbage and fake videos and pictures was overwhelming. My guess is bot content is now so realistic and engagement manipulation is so sophisticated from even a few years ago that people will disengage even more.
bsaul · 3 days ago
I think that's the number 1 reason. Bot simply drive away useful content.

I think musk don't fight against bot because it makes the ads sells more (just like in the first days of SEM, where fake traffic and fake clicks was a source of revenue for second tier ad networks). But ultimately he's going to have to do something against it.

bsaul commented on Apple Container 0.9.0   github.com/apple/containe... · Posted by u/tosh
bsaul · 3 days ago
is this à replacement for docker ?

Super interesting that they're using swift. Does this mean the project is only a wrapper for system libraries ? I can't imagine writing low-level system code in swift yet.

bsaul commented on CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT   politico.com/news/2026/01... · Posted by u/rurp
bsaul · 13 days ago
BTW, what's the current status on LLMs and confidential documents ? Which license from which suppliers are fine and which aren't ?
bsaul commented on 80386 Multiplication and Division   nand2mario.github.io/post... · Posted by u/nand2mario
aidos · 18 days ago
Not sure if it has a name but often there’s a trend of “one thing leads to another” related articles on the HN front page.

Yesterday there was something similar that might have planted a seed in your mind like it did for other people.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46735133

bsaul · 18 days ago
I definitely noticed this trend of article chaining, bu it must have been something else in this case, because i have absolutely 0 memory of seing that post yesterday. Actually, i think my thought came from an instagram video in my feed of a guy showing human division algorithm using sticks on a whiteboard.
bsaul commented on 80386 Multiplication and Division   nand2mario.github.io/post... · Posted by u/nand2mario
bsaul · 18 days ago
Is there a rational explanation on why there seems to be a HN article answering the weirdest questions i had in my mind just a few days ago ? Only yesterday i wondered how did CPU performed division. I didn't ask or type anything about it. It was just in my mind. And now this.

Are we part of a collective mind ? Do social networks algorithms shape society that deeply that we all end up having about the same random thoughts ?

This is really scary in a way.

u/bsaul

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