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orphereus··on Successful Companies Go Blind
I don't understand the analogy with the Mexican cavefish. They don't have eyes because they don't need them, and companies don't hire competent people because they don't need them? Is that the take?
orphereus··on How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner
How do you know that they are progressing? Where do you get this information?
orphereus··on How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner
Because North Korea is such a parody of a country that adding a golf course to it sounds completely surreal to me.
orphereus··on How to Survive 3 Years in North Korea as a Foreigner
Playing golf in North Korea sounds crazy.
orphereus··on Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped
"...you’ll soon be able to have just those bespoke features/fixes/integrations built yourself?"

How soon is it? Tomorrow? Next week? 10 years?

People are so sure that LLMs will change everything >>soon<<.

orphereus··on Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years
What?
orphereus··on PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform
Does it have good content? I explored it a bit in the past, but was a bit underwhelmed with content I could find there.

Edit: in the past

orphereus··on The gauge broke: devs felt 20% faster with AI, measured 19% slower
As I read the blog post, I thought that it was released today. Maybe point out that it is almost a year old. It feels like it is manipulating HN users.

And this is coming from an AI sceptic.

orphereus··on Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship
That is oversimplifying it to the extreme.

Like the example with the doctors and how to find actually good ones, you can add this essay to the list of enterpreneurship tips you can compare and decide for yourself what is useful and what isn't.

orphereus··on The Return of Aspect Oriented Programming
This is overly optimistic to say the least.
orphereus··on OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B
Suspicious lack of pro-AI comments here
orphereus··on I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis
Damn, fact checking a bot feels so distopic yet necessary.
orphereus··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
I suppose not getting a layoff email and instead getting it delivered face to face would be more human, but that's American capitalism for you in all its glory
orphereus··on Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%
If I were an employee that got laid off with this email, I'd be really angry and sad.
orphereus··on Our principles
There are people that will call you a luddite for this.
orphereus··on I spent 6 years building my Kanban as I hated how managers run the boards
The amount of comments shilling LLMs on HN is skyrocketing. Could be a recession indicator?
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