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Economies are naturally deflationary (assuming a fixed money supply); services become more efficient, making capital more productive. This happens more or less automatically within competitive markets. So those capitalists do become arbitrarily rich, limited only by institutional factors (tax, labor bargaining, antitrust enforcement). By restricting access to capital markets you're siloing these gains off into their own pool.

The time has long passed since the “inevitable” things should have come into existence, for example universal basic housing. What happened instead of the advent of it is something to behold: somehow instead of supply being provisioned in response to demand, we simply changed the excess demand into an externality. Now there’s been a lot of “rage” about this, but it hasn’t been effectual. We still have plenty of homelessness right now and no particular mechanism to control it. We may not be ready for this change, but that doesn’t mean we will accept the change instead of simply pretending the problem never existed and should never exist, if everyone just behaved right.

Cloudflare is essentially MITM as a service. What else would someone expect?

Does anyone know about the time horizons for executive stock compensation at BigTech? Something has to explain the lack of long-term strategy.

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Over the years I've proven myself adventurous and willing to build pretty much anything. I joined a YC startup out of college and also founded and ran a mid-size video game remake project for over ten years. A self-starter, I am excited to find skilled business partners and create lasting value.

Technologically, I am into servers, frontend, and low-level code. My background spans Go, C, TypeScript/JavaScript (incl. React, Drizzle, Hono, NextJS), Rust, PHP, NixOS / Linux, and recently exploring AI idioms such as Vercel Gateway, LLM-as-a-judge, and OpenAI APIs.

No it's not. HTMX is a backend tech; it hinges on moving your presentation logic from the frontend into the backend, hence the whole hype about it supposedly obviating React.

- Why would you pick $backend technology?

- Because someone told me frontend was dead.

Probably because the news of frontend's death has been overstated.

The M2 money supply has increased by roughly 48% since 2020. There are probably social consequences to this (as it would be strange if there weren't). Perhaps we are feeling the need to try every possible idea to see if that is the thing that wins the money (which is new, and does not obey the old rules).

Not true... this is why they had to add aria- ...

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Full-stack software developer with 10 years of experience in both enterprise and startups (some YCombinator startups).

In keeping with the trends, I have recently proven ability to embrace AI-driven development through production of a desktop app with a large surface area (link in resume) for which I used primarily Claude Code. The app targets 12 distinct binaries, so I have become opinionated on CI practices as well.

My passion lies in solving customer pain through targeted effort and thinking through a business lens. Seeking a company with a similar user focus and culture slanted toward building value over making noise.

Yes but that representation can be over-applied and misleading. For example you can roughly estimate the price of the entire earth. What does that number mean though? Well, nothing, really.

Who do you think is publishing anti-corporation “propaganda”?

Didn’t you just say your landscaper gets fired every year? That would mean they’re not “truly skilled.” So why hire them in the first place if they’re not skilled?

Originally you were assigning zero significance to the act of being fired, now you’re backtracking saying it implies something about value.

Your snow plower and landscaper don't get judged for having 5+ different customers in 5 years. They don't show up in ATSes as job hoppers.

That’s actually something I agree with; I was making that statement as a challenge to the parent comment because it seems to be what they believe.

Obviously fields like oncology and genetics are going to have major disruptions. What sort of event would trigger someone needing to redo their entire 7+ years of medical schooling?

Doctors have to undergo minor professional development refreshers — not replace their entire education. There is a reason we educate early in life; it's hard to retrain the old (and expensive or even approaching impossible).

Most of modern society is new in history; what is that supposed to say? If you are making the point that it's unproven and fragile, that would be a good point and actually one that supports "woe is me" because all of it could disappear overnight considering the fragility.

Society doesn't owe anybody anything. So who's to say when you find something else to do, it will pay enough to live?

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Savvy ex-YC startup Software Engineer, great at taking a project from 0 to 1 and 1 to 10. My background was initially in React and the frontend world, but I've since transitioned to being a more Go/backend-heavy developer working on high-throughput systems. Clocking in at 10 years of experience, I have worked the full gamut, from early stage startups to Fortune 500 companies — and would love to join a team focused on building a great product for the user. You might want to hire me if you have a need for someone who has both business/finance intuition and also software skills.

That would not run counter to the popular (whether true or not) idea that by using functional programming languages you filter for a higher quality labor pool / applicant pool.

Drudgery is not as much drudgery when there is variety. I think a lot of people who see their work as "drudgery" actually just are forced to do one thing and never even think about doing a second thing during their day.

There are a lot of things to hate in the Web3 world. Lack of back button form resubmission or redirect loops is a strange thing to dislike though.

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Savvy ex-YC startup Software Engineer, great at taking a project from 0 to 1 and 1 to 10. My background was initially in React and the frontend world, but I've since transitioned to being a more Go/backend-heavy developer working on high-throughput systems. Clocking in at 9 years of experience, I have worked the full gamut, from early stage startups to Fortune 500 companies — and would love to join a team focused on building a great product for the user. You might want to hire me if you have a need for someone who has both business/finance intuition and also software skills.

And notably, totally interchangeable cogs is exactly what a startup should not want. For the reason that it requires a lot of slack. Startups are supposed to move fast, and if you move fast that means there should be minimal overlap in work between different employees. Layoffs could be fatal at that stage in a company's story.

Well you could stand outside and hand out N95 masks to spread awareness. That isn’t doing nothing to fix the issue.

Happy to try my hand at a management position. Are you saying you have one open?

HN is known for its optimism and abundance mindset. Aside from that, being group actions, reform hinges on mobilizing those who are able to do so to help those who are not. The phrase “solidarity” comes to mind, and that was the whole point. We need a solidarity mindset, not a sarcastic “good luck with that” mindset.

First step is going to be for you to admit you’re actively stopping it.