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> early 2025

Is that a typo?

There’s barely 4 months left in 2025.

> On the other hand, not being sycophantic is not really what you want to do for people in mental and emotional crisis.

Having trouble parsing the double negation in your comment.

Sorry, I’ve had a long day :)

How is your company's service started on the loopback interface? You bundle a web server that is installed alongside a native app?

Another such Easter egg is searching for "askew".

https://www.google.com/search?q=askew

PS: https://www.google.com/search?q=bad+UX is a cleaner submission link without any tracking.

That's easy. It's due to a psychological concept called: transfer of learning [0].

Perhaps the most famous example of this is Warren Buffet. For years Buffet missed out on returns from the tech industry [1] because he avoided investing in tech company stocks due to Berkshire's long standing philosophy to never invest in companies whose business model he doesn't understand.

His light bulb moment came when he used his understanding of a business he understood really well i.e. their furniture business [3] to value Apple as a consumer company rather than as a tech company leading to a $1bn position in Apple in 2016 [2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_of_learning

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33612228

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/16/warren-bu...

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/08/billionaire-investor-warren-...

Seems like the main channel is https://www.youtube.com/@williamosman

To help reduce the confusion for other visitor to this post, you might want to email the HN mods to add (2024) to the title .

This will make it clear that you guys built the prior art that Blacksmith took inspiration from.

> I will say that now that I am getting older its getting a bit tougher - the pain is worse and lasts longer and real chronic pain kind of bums me out, but I just enjoy the challenge of trying to work around my body.

Please see this as your body trying to tell you something before you end up with a bad injury that could prevent you from running for weeks.

For me, shin splits subsided after I got more comfortable running shoes and shortening the distance covered during runs (i.e. ~5km down to ~3km, 5-days a week).

> If you can't go outside at all, then this won't really help you though.

If going outside is not an option, stationary bicycles are a thing though there wont be any nice outdoor scenery to go with your cycling.

GP is asking how is he able to land multiple jobs in the first place when they can’t even land one.

Office politics comes after you land a job so it doesn’t explain why he was so successful at getting multiple offers.

I’ve seen claims on Twitter that he used multiple tactics:

1. Good ol’ cold emails;

2.Using a recruiter for warm intros

3. Applying like everyone else but with a resume that is full of fabrications.

A common thread in many of his victim companies: he targeted mostly (YC) startups eager to hire (AI) engineers quickly so they can scale.

It seems all you did was use this formula:

CPI{2025} / CPI{1946} * Price{1946} = Price{2025}

to obtain the price adjusted for inflation?

That is the only way I was able to arrive at the same number you got: $6,594,153.846. TIL.

I think the gp meant YouTube Shorts [1], Google's answer to TikTok and Instagram Reels.

1: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/

Which programming languages are you using with the OTel auto-instrumentation feature?

I literally LOLed at #2, haha! LLMs are making devs lazy at scale :)

Devs almost universally hate 3 things:

1. writing tests;

2. writing docs;

3. manually updating dependencies;

and LLMs are a big boon wrt to helping us avoiding all 3, but forcing your team to pick writing tests is a sensible trade off in this context, since as you say bugs in prod increased significantly.

> But the market is flooded with eau de parfums -- which are far more diluted than a extrait -- using cheaper ingredients, selling for about the same price.

Has she tried raising prices? To signal that her product is highly quality and thus more expensive than her competition?

Basically what antirez described about 4 days ago in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43929525.

So this part of my workflow is intentionally fairly labor intensive because it involves lots of copy-pasting between my IDE and the chat interface in a browser.

I like your framing about “feeling out of control”.

For the occasional frontend task, I don’t mind being out of control when using agentic tools. I guess this is the origin of Karpathy’s vibe coding moniker: you surrender to the LLM’s coding decisions.

For backend tasks, which is my bread and butter, I certainly want to know what it’s sending to the LLM so it’s just easier to use the chat interface directly.

This way I am fully in control. I can cherry pick the good bits out of whatever the LLM suggests or redo my prompt to get better suggestions.

> There are many other search engine options, why should Google be punished for hiring the best people over decades to make the best one?

I’m guessing this whole court case wouldn’t have been a thing if Google wasn’t bribing Apple, to the tune of $20 billion a year [1], to remain the default search engine on iOS.

1: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/apple-may-add-ai-search-...

> I think there are a lot of unexplored ways of using AI to create an intelligent overview of a repo and its data structures, or a React project and its components and state, etc.

Sounds exactly like what DeepWiki is doing from the Devin AI Agent guys: https://deepwiki.com

What about encoding the address as a QR code?

This should not require any Internet access to view by whoever is scanning it to be sorted for delivery.

Your post is very much on topic but as @typesarecool commented: you should add a clear disclaimer that you are one of Algora's founders.

> Not my experience (did job hunt a couple of months back).

Do you think your network and/or having high in-demand skills might have something to do with that?

> But I wouldn’t call it educational.

Edutainment perhaps?

Adderall is a drug commonly abused by people without an ADHD diagnosis.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/generation-adder...

I’ve heard a similar jobs classification but in 3 buckets:

1. builders (maps to reasoning)

2. fixers

3. maintainers (maps to map lookups)

Companies are often a mixture of these 3 classifications. How they skew often depends on maturity (startup vs enterprise).

In addition to Opire for short-term opportunities (aka bounties), there is Algora.

In fact, there are a few of such bounty platforms in my notes, but Algora seems to be the one with the most traction: in terms to new tasks to work on and the bounty amounts being competitively priced.

https://console.algora.io/

Here’s an example of a 2-3 month bounty offering up to $20,000 on Algora, for someone with React Native skills: https://github.com/BasedHardware/omi/issues/1944

Anders explained his reasoning in this interview (transcript):

https://github.com/microsoft/typescript-go/discussions/411#d...

In spite of its dwindling usage, Firefox is still used by more than a 100 million people on desktop.

I posted this comment some days ago [1]:

To put some numbers on what a 2.54% market share means, Firefox actually tracks this data. See here: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity:

> Monthly Active Users (MAU) measures the number of Firefox Desktop clients active in the past 28 days.

> February 10, 2025: 163,203,913 clients

> February 17, 2025: 163,742,671 clients

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43219572

I appreciate your tangent wrt US vs China in space.

TIL: I had no idea China had already launched their own space station: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_space_station

To put some numbers on what a 2.54% market share means, Firefox actually tracks this data. See here: https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/user-activity:

> Monthly Active Users (MAU) measures the number of Firefox Desktop clients active in the past 28 days.

> February 10, 2025: 163,203,913 clients

> February 17, 2025: 163,742,671 clients