I can't decide if the account that created this post is a bot or a teenager in a developing nation:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:jerawaj740&type=all&sor...
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subsection1h commented on Ask HN: How Do Developers Stay Up to Date Without Being on Twitter All Day? · Posted by u/jerawaj740
> The institutions under attack are universities, data repositories, libraries, archives, statistical agencies that have earned their legitimacy through decades of transparency and authentication of verifiable information.
To be absolutely fair: a lot of these institutions also lost legitimacy by aligning themselves with one major political faction and alienating the other. Politics is more than elections and legislative debates, and that was a major political blunder on the part of those institutions. Some of the stuff Trump's done (like to the BLS) is egregious, but the universities have spent so long being outspoken bastions of the left that they should have realized the right would someday be in power decide to send the money they'd been getting elsewhere.
Infrastructure should aim to be bland, try to stay on the lagging end of controversies, and aim for universal support. Trying to use it to win some controversy just makes it vulnerable.
> Infrastructure should aim to be bland
Can you provide examples of sources of information that MAGA considers neutral? The MAGA in my extended family who live in rural America think that scientists promote evolution solely because they're God-hating atheists who are trying to convince Christian children that God doesn't exist.
subsection1h commented on It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts blog.pabloecortez.com/its... · Posted by u/speckx
I personally don’t think I care if a blog post is AI generated or not. The only thing that matters to me is the content. I use ChatGPT to learn about a variety of different things, so if someone came up with an interesting set of prompts and follow ups and shared a summary of the research ChatGPT did, it could be meaningful content to me.
> No, don't use it to fix your grammar, or for translations, or for whatever else you think you are incapable of doing. Make the mistake. Feel embarrassed. Learn from it. Why? Because that's what makes us human!
It would be more human to handwrite your blog post instead. I don’t see how this is a good argument. The use of tools to help with writing and communication should make it easier to convey your thoughts, and that itself is valuable.
> I personally don’t think I care if a blog post is AI generated or not.
0% of your HN comments include URLs for sources that support the positions and arguments you've expressed at HN.[1] Do you generally not care about the sources of ideas? For example, when you study public policy issues, do you not differentiate between research papers published in the most prestigious journals and 500-word news articles written at the 8th-grade level by nonspecialist nobodies?
[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?type=comment&query=author:alyxya+htt...
subsection1h commented on Scripts I wrote that I use all the time evanhahn.com/scripts-i-wr... · Posted by u/speckx
It's weird how the circle of life progresses for a developer or whatever.
- When I was a fresh engineer I used a pretty vanilla shell environment
- When I got a year or two of experience, I wrote tons of scripts and bash aliases and had a 1k+ line .bashrc the same as OP
- Now, as a more tenured engineer (15 years of experience), I basically just want a vanilla shell with zero distractions, aliases or scripts and use native UNIX implementations. If it's more complicated than that, I'll code it in Python or Go.
> When I was a fresh engineer I used a pretty vanilla shell environment. When I got a year or two of experience, I wrote tons of scripts
Does this mean that you learned to code to earn a paycheck? I'm asking because I had written hundreds of scripts and Emacs Lisp functions to optimize my PC before I got my first job.
subsection1h commented on AI is making us work more tawandamunongo.dev/posts/... · Posted by u/elcapithanos
This is just empirically not true. Increase in productivity has lead to broad increase in prosperity (with one relatively recent but currently very important caveat, the housing market).
Now, if what you actually want is to be relatively more prosperous and have more status that's a game you can keep playing forever. But you really don't have to, to simply be better off than all people in the past with far less work.
> Increase in productivity has lead to broad increase in prosperity
All of my grandparents retired in their 50s with fat pensions and then lived into their late 80s without having ever stepped foot on a college campus.
subsection1h commented on Firefox is the best mobile browser kelvinjps.com/blog/firefo... · Posted by u/kelvinjps10
This article includes 894 words and this discussion currently includes 153 comments. Neither one includes the terms "site isolation" or "Fission". WTF.
subsection1h commented on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado nobelprize.org/prizes/pea... · Posted by u/pykello
Its like the Iraq war all over again, you gobble this shit up like its sophisticated propaganda. Like she literally went on Fox&Friends to glaze Trump bombing those Venezuelan boats and supports US sanctions hurting her own citizens. You think she is some sort of popular resistance fighter or something? You Americans are so fucking stupid its hilarious.
> You Americans are so fucking stupid its hilarious.
LOL. The person you replied to is from Venezuela:
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=author:madacol+Venezuela&type=...
subsection1h commented on Auth.js is now part of Better Auth better-auth.com/blog/auth... · Posted by u/ShaggyHotDog
Better Auth has raised $5M. I don’t think it’s great to see a truly free project get absorbed into a commercial venture.
> I don’t think it’s great to see a truly free project get absorbed into a commercial venture.
Auth.js and NextAuth.js didn't seem to be in a healthy state. Work on NextAuth.js v5 began way back in May 2023.[1][2] NextAuth.js v5 was renamed to Auth.js in August 2023.[3] v5.0.0-beta.0 was released in October 2023.[4] Balázs Orbán, the main contributor to Auth.js and NextAuth.js, quit in January 2025.[5][6] v5 is still in beta after all this time. It never had a stable release.
[1] https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/pull/7443
[2] https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/discussions/8487
[3] https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/commit/a996ab57e8ffc...
[4] https://www.npmjs.com/package/next-auth/v/5.0.0-beta.0
[5] https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/commits?author=balaz...
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