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rd··on Generative AI as Seniority-Biased Technological Change
What was the incentive for companies to train juniors into seniors in the past, post job-hopping era? Curious to know if that incentive has warped in the past two decades or so as someone who's starting their career now.
rd··on I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers
Not a huge believer in belittling an author's points, but the author makes absolutely not one objective point in this entire article. Genuinely every single thing he describes is an opinion, nothing more, nothing less. And those opinions, at that, aren't even very accurate.

AirPods becoming e-waste? Seriously? Pick a better idea to make your point, because pretty much everyone I know has had their AirPods for 2-3+ years, and even if that was _when_ they decided to move onto another, that's an _incredibly_ long amount of time to have wireless earbuds of those quality at that price point.

And as for disabling features on the Apple Watch - again, seriously? Most techie, HN'y complaint ever. There's a reason the Apple Watch and AirPods sell as well as they do - people love them.

As for awe at new features - AirPods live translation, standard iPhones being ProMotion, one of the thinnest phones ever created?

This is just a terrible opinion piece.

rd··on Gemini 2.5 Flash Image
The average man finds the average woman more attractive than the average woman finds the average man. Replace attractive with (eye-catching/attention-grabbing/motivating/retention-boosting).
rd··on Open letter accuses BBC board member of having a conflict of interest on Gaza
I don’t disagree, but it does seem to fit squarely in a culture war (and or) political topic.
rd··on Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast
Cool product, but also crazy to see someone with my name in the wild. Every Raunak I've ever met has the Ronak spelling.
rd··on Launch HN: Nomi (YC X25) – Copilot for Sales
How is this different than Cluely?
rd··on AI assisted search-based research works now
MCP maybe? A release notes MCP (maybe into ReadTheDocs or pypi) that understands upgrade instructions for every package.
rd··on FTC takes action against Uber for deceptive billing and cancellation practices
Don't be intentionally obtuse - even for people living in a place with public transport as encompassing as say NYC, you _need_ some form of ride-sharing service eventually in day-to-day life. Being banned from the duopoly of ride-share services is a life-altering thing to happen.
rd··on How to bike across the country
I'd love to do this one day! Curious - after reading, the part about wildlife scares me. Did you ever run into genuinely worrying situations with wildlife? Hearing about Black widow spiders alone makes me want to only do this with a van following behind me to sleep in at night!
rd··on Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco
Does anything like this exist for just flying around cities (not SF, anywhere) in general? Would love to experience what a drone sees even if it's in a limited area.
rd··on My LLM codegen workflow
Has anyone who evolved from a baseline of just using Cursor chat and freestyling to a proper workflow like this got any anecdata to share on noticeable improvements?

Does the time invested into the planning benefit you? Have you noticed less hallucinations? Have you saved time overall?

I’d be curious to hear because my current workflow is basically

1. Have idea

2. create-next-app + ShadCN + TailwindUI boilerplate

3. Cursor Composer on agent mode with Superwispr voice transcription

I’m gonna try the author’s workflow regardless, but would love to hear others opinions.

rd··on I put a Spotify jukebox on my website so you can control what I'm listening to
Quick little project I hacked together this morning! Please check it out at your convenience :)
rd··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
It is impossible to deny that DJT appears to be far younger than he really is, and at the very least, his energy and character are much more striking as youthful than any of the Democrat leadership (Biden, Pelosi, the other geriatrics). There's a reason we have dozens of quotable moments from Trump and like three max from Biden.
rd··on IMG_0001
Are you still in touch with Casey? I’ve watched him for 10+ years now so always fascinating to hear about his work.
rd··on ABC News hacks into popular robot vacuum, watches owner through camera
Not everything is racism. This is xenophobia. Using words incorrectly takes away their meaning.
rd··on The Engineering of Landfills
How do you make China adhere?
rd··on Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla
https://archive.is/zzMAr
rd··on Show HN: AI Tool Is Now Supporting React, Angular, CSS, Svelte, Vue
I’m begging you to try out cursor and sonnet as the model.

It is incredible, and it genuinely feels like magic when it comes to codebase context.

rd··on Launch HN: AnswerGrid (YC S24) – Web research tool for lead generation
So it’s Claygent with a better tutorial?

Not hating or sarcasm - I also hated onboarding to clay and I consider myself to be not dumb. If that is the goal, and your GTM strategy, I think it’s a good one.

I also think clay is ridiculously expensive - you could win there too.

rd··on Fine-tuning now available for GPT-4o
Cursor + Sonnet feels like a cheat code right now. Feels similar to the excitement I had the first day I ever used GitHub copilot.

I saw this this morning - it really made me think about what the future of 1-man non technical founder startups will look like. https://x.com/0xluffyb/status/1825854097481736479?s=42&t=7-X...

rd··on Automating My /Now Page
Which parts are dangerous to the average chum with no enemies?
rd··on Launch HN: Promi (YC S24) – AI-powered ecommerce discounts
Very cool. Saw you were H ‘10 - go crimson! Best of luck!
rd··on Launch HN: Promi (YC S24) – AI-powered ecommerce discounts
An actually cool use case of AI. Congrats on the launch.

Some questions:

1) I’m assuming by “personalizing discount across users”, you mean personalized one-time coupon codes? I wonder if the UX of seeing one price in regular Chrome and one in incognito would be upsetting. I also don’t know how price discrimination works but seems relevant?

2) I’d love to understand more about how for smaller retailers there’ll be enough data to make meaningful discount programs for a limited set of consumers? Will data from similar/multiple retailers be bucketed?

3) Any numbers/data on effectiveness so far?

rd··on Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
Uploading horizontally or >1m should fix this?

Most things or demos I send are horizontal, but I agree, the automatic shorts of vertical is annoying

rd··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
Something something cheap boot vs. expensive boot something something…
rd··on If we want a shift to walking, we need to prioritize dignity
Can’t say for certain but intuitive guess is it’s dirt (literally dirt in some cases) cheap to do a ground level parking slot?

Slap some paint on the ground, put up a booth and a sign, and you’re good?

Whereas an elevated garage is probably a years-long project?

I also think most of these parking lots are probably owned by small time chumps, not consolidated mega parking companies.

rd··on Ask HN: How can social media companies combat product astroturfing?
No, you're definitely right, and I agree. I suppose my question is more intended at protecting the average consumer.

I wasn't alive for this, but I understand candy cigarettes used to be popular, and they were advertised at children, but the government cracked down on it. I know Internet astroturfing like I'm describing is a different beast, but I guess what I'm wondering is what the future of advertisement regulation looks like?

rd··on Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer
Do your research before responding to me next time. They're both email design tools - Resend is based around building your emails in React.
rd··on X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
at least 25 seems reasonable, no?
rd··on Show HN: Sendune – open-source HTML email designer
How does this compare to something like resend?
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