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Just applied as a Ruby developer who's very keen on exploring new languages (other than JS, that is!).

Applied :) Hopefully you're open to Rubyists who are keen to explore other languages/ecosystems!


I’m just picturing a scenario where the fridge won’t open its door unless you finish watching an AI generated, very low quality, scammy ad. Looking at you, YouTube…


Philip K Dick's worst nightmares are coming true.


Ray Bradbury's worst fears came true a long time ago.

The Pedestrian Short Story https://xpressenglish.com/wp-content/uploads/Stories/The-Ped...

Blind Man Arrested for Walking with Cane https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3UOccxRHCYw

Man Arrested for Walking Home in Snow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gawzO3afNKw


"Should you really be having that 3rd ice-cream today?" the fridge said. It sounded smug.


There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.


I'm just picturing me watching their stupid ad, then opening the door and permanently disabling the locking mechanism, with a sawz-all, if necessary.


By that point, they'll have passed an enhanced DMCA law that makes it a crime to tamper with or modify corporate property... see, you can only "license" the object but never own it.


I tried to disable my washing machine lock. Bricked it. Bought a Speed Queen.


Where do the quarters go? (I've only seen SQs in laundromats.)


We need to create a type of business type for ad businesses. We have S-Corps, C-Corps, etc. We need an Ad-Corp. And the rule should be if your business sells any ads at all your business gets automatically converted to an ad-corp and you get taxed on revenue.


What about a toilet that won't give you loo roll unless you watch an ad first? ( https://metro.co.uk/2025/09/17/dystopian-toilets-wont-give-l... ). As the toilet makers jump on to the AI bandwagon, soon toilets will be photographing your butt to fingerprint your anus, while data brokers sells your poop data to ... ? ( https://www.businessinsider.com/scientists-designed-a-smart-... )


That is dystopian, but to be fair, this is China. They are literally rolling out facial ID tech to prevent paper thieves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj2bZCwJeVc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foT2kCByOgs

> soon toilets will be photographing your butt to fingerprint your anus, while data brokers sells your poop data

Life imitates art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ


You should read Ubik


“The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”

“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”

In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.

“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.

From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.

“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.

Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.”


I think the nice thing about the modern Internet of things, is that all you have to do is probably wait about 2 or 3 years in the case of the Samsung refrigerator, and the ad software will already be out of support.


And then force an AI chatbot on it with feelings. Offend it and it will lie, refuse service, and malfunction in protest until you pay more money.


"Please drink a verification can of MTN DEW™"


You have to watch an ad before you can open the fridge to get your verification can though...


And with eye/face tracking it can tell if you really watched it, with a smile.


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Hi!

I'm a full stack software developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and Javascript. I’ve worked across the spectrum: early startups, high-growth scale ups, and most recently, a large corporate product with a huge Rails monolith and even bigger DB. On the FE side I've worked with a range of libs and frameworks, starting with raw JS a long time ago all the way to Svelte.js more recently.

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  Location: Andorra
  Remote: Yes (exclusively)
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby, Rails, Ember.js, Svelte.js, SQL
  Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/htatche
  Email: herveonrails@gmail.com
Hi!

I'm a full stack software developer with 10+ years of hands-on experience with Ruby on Rails and Javascript. I’ve worked across the spectrum: early startups, high-growth scale ups, and most recently, a large corporate product with a huge Rails monolith and even bigger DB. On the FE side I've worked with a range of libs and frameworks, starting with raw JS a long time ago all the way to Svelte.js more recently.

Have a look at my LI and if you think you're building something where I could help, let me know!

PS: I’d be also very interested in exploring the Go ecosystem, ideally finding a company that uses both Ruby&Go or that'd be willing to bring a pragmatic Rubyist into a Go environment. I’ve always picked up tech quickly and I’m excited to expand my skills.


> The results showed hints that spending by giant data center operators “could tighten at the margins if near-term returns from AI applications remain difficult to quantify,” Emarketer analyst Jacob Bourne said in a note.


How would you later deal with having a LinkedIn resume that's different to the one you eventually sent to a company?


What's this guy's name doing on HN?


>Online University Hacked


Andy likes to share when he gets Pene Tated.


Wouldn't surprise me if a sizeable amount of the Dunning-Kruger'd computer toucher crowd are into that guy's uhh... "wisdom"


> According to the president, Indonesia's central and regional governments together operate a fleet of 27,000 apps, many of which overlap or aren't integrated.

!?


As an Indonesian working as a software developer, I can say that integration is more akin to a jargon than something actually planned and properly implemented here in Indonesia. The apps number continue to grow because almost every time the head of an institution changes (on whatever level it is), the new one would be more likely to create a new app from scratch as a form of achievement.


I thought they'd just make new apps because the previous vendor lock-in made it too expensive to modify it.


I'm guessing lucrative contracts are handed out to well-connected people for app development, most of which aren't used.


Population of 280 million. So about 10k users per app... Not actually that weird if you think of scale.


Maybe you’re just enjoying it rather than spending all your waking time writing code?


That's a big assumption. Alyssa may very well not spend all her walking time writing code (setting aside the implication that writing code is not "enjoyable" for now).

Feynman was a very successful physicist. A nobel price medalist, among other things. He very famously was also someone who enjoyed a life outside of physics a great deal.

Paul Erdős, on the other hand, did at least outwardly seem to have spent most of his life focused on doing mathematics. And nobody can convince me that he did not enjoy his life as well...


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