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uladzislau

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uladzislau··on How the AI Bubble Will Pop
Calling this an “AI bubble” reads like pure sour grapes from folks who missed the adoption curve. Real teams are already banking gains - code velocity up, ticket resolution times down, and marketing lift from AI-assisted creative while capex always precedes revenue in platform shifts (see cloud 2010, smartphones 2007). The “costs don’t match cash flow” trope ignores lagging enterprise procurement cycles and the rapid glide path of unit economics as models, inference, and hardware efficiency improve. Habit formation is the moat: once workers rely on AI copilots, those workflows harden into paid seats and platform lock-in. We’re not watching a bubble pop; we’re watching infrastructure being laid for the next decade of products.
uladzislau··on Microsoft paywalling features in Notepad and Paint
This should be in “not the onion”.
uladzislau··on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
Why it’s so ugly? Can you style it a bit? It’s not like 80’s anymore.
uladzislau··on Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1
So misleading, nothing about actually finding clients.
uladzislau··on Show HN: Ambulate – Detailed Trip Planning
Unusable on mobile unfortunately
uladzislau··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
This is very underwhelming update, let’s wait for the next year
uladzislau··on iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Absolutely underwhelming announcement, I will hold for the next year
uladzislau··on Meta announces hiring freeze, warns employees of restructuring
It’s not just Meta, many other companies are on the hiring freeze. Probably the reason is not fulfilled Covid period bets on growth and expansion.
uladzislau··on U.S. Accuses Google of Illegally Protecting Monopoly
#splitthemup I would say ;)
uladzislau··on Do We Live in a Simulation? Chances Are about 50–50
It’s interesting how quickly this submission disappeared from the front page, hm.

I think the only way to find an answer is to somewhat base it on faith not just pure science.

What if the future has already happened (at least some version of it) but the past has never existed like we know it? That’s why the simulation has been used.

If the “base” universe/Earth that we live in just appeared a few dozens years ago “as is” out of nowhere then the only way to make it “real” is to actually simulate the past.

Mandela effect and predictive programming are actually anomalies in favour of multiple iterations on the simulated past.

Now the question is who benefits from this and why? The technologies from the future (which are not distinguished from magic) and antagonist - Devil/Lucifer that is not interested that we see God as the creator or maybe even furthermore to undermine God’s role or maybe even trap him in this reality.

This actually also answers the question why we don’t have a proof that God exists because someone put real huge effort to disprove it i.e. here’s a given reality, now how we came here but without God?

Apparently all efforts on this failed otherwise we would never even heard about concept of God or simulation. And it also proves that we’re indeed in “base” reality.

And because God does exist in this reality the future is not predetermined despite whatever means antagonist is using to prove otherwise.

uladzislau··on Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content
How many titles on Netflix are available in 4K? I did a quick search and it’s either incorrect or there’s not that many, mostly original Netflix content.
uladzislau··on I got locked out of my Google account for a month
Why or why Google asks about the date the account has been created? 9/10 you won't remember exact month/year and this screws up any chance of account recovery.
uladzislau··on Artwork Personalization at Netflix
Now let's talk how Netflix "personalizes" Most Popular and Trending titles - on 3 different accounts I've seen there 3 different set of movies in each of the hit lists.
uladzislau··on I tried emailing like a CEO and it made my life better
Well CEO can do it because she is a CEO. If any employee would use this method it'd be considered poor communication and the person considered as lazy and incompetent.
uladzislau··on Lessons we learned while bootstrapping
The first tip - red ocean/blue ocean strategy contradicts what these guys have been doing themselves - 1. take a proven "premium WordPress hosting/WPengine" model 2. use hip violet cartoonish website design as hundreds of other startups. 3. run affiliate program with huge payouts $500/referral (potentially). Now I'd take every advice mentioned with a grain of salt.
uladzislau··on How to interview a technical co-founder
Open source contributions shouldn't be a deciding factor as I've seen a few very active open source devs unable to do the commercial work on the proper level. On the other hand, lack of open source meaningful activity is a red flag.
uladzislau··on You Will Not Understand This
I think it all comes down to manipulation and usurping too much power over public and private opinion, it's applicable to every mentioned company. If you're not paying for the product - you're the product. If some people prefer to being played, it's their choice.
uladzislau··on “realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error”
A bunch of tweets disappeared from my Twitter account in early March of this year without any reason or trace. I had them cached on Twitter mobile app so I had the proof it's not my imagination. I reached out to Twitter support, didn't get any reply and wasn't able to figure out what happened :/
uladzislau··on How Booking.com manipulates users
I don't get it why people complain all the time and still use it? Even their parent company Priceline UX is much better, then there's Expedia and other sites. I would never book anything on Booking because it's plain ugly and keeps design from 1998, even Craigslist looks modern in comparison.

Their hiring and interview process, at least in product management - it looked like they are fishing for fresh ideas on what to A/B test on their website. All the talk was focused around it. Answering the questions they didn't give a single direct answer only extremely vague ones. Red flags all around.

uladzislau··on Ask HN: How to sell your app/side project while working full-time?
What do you use for outbound lead generation?
uladzislau··on Ask HN: Why don't tech job listings include compensation ranges?
At least you can dig some info on Glassdoor, Indeed and LinkedIn salaries. And I find it's pretty accurate.
uladzislau··on Macron condemns 'massive' hacking attack
Now expect Russians to be blamed, worked well in US, rinse and repeat.
uladzislau··on Twilio stock plummets as major client Uber distances itself
As far as I know Uber goal is to replace all of the 3rd parties APIs/products they're using with built in-house. So I guess any company having Uber as a major customer should be concerned.
uladzislau··on Atlassian Design
Based on Jira design and UX I can't say I'm interested.
uladzislau··on Places to Post Your Startup or Product
I'd prefer 25 good reputable vetted places - i guarantee some of these sites are not even loading.
uladzislau··on Audrey – A smart personal assistant app that helps you to get things done
"Request accesss". How do I know you're just not running some sort of marketing study/proof of demand?
uladzislau··on Suicide of an Uber engineer: Widow blames job stress
There're two critical ways out of the situation like this which looks like severe major depression to me - 1. remove yourself from the stressful situation 2. seek medical help.

The worst in this situation is that the person is unable to clearly understand the severity of the situation and take an action so the role of friends and family becomes the critical one.

uladzislau··on What the CIA WikiLeaks Dump Tells Us: Encryption Works
Puff and bluff. Assume that they are trying to save their asses only.
uladzislau··on WikiLeaks Releases Trove of Alleged C.I.A. Hacking Documents
You should consider the assumption that your security IS compromised at any given point in time (bypassed or whatever) then you could foresee and prevent some worst case scenarios which usually come from hubris nonetheless ("hey, our app is 100% secure and tested by the top security experts - not like other apps on the market").
uladzislau··on Spammers expose their entire operation through bad backups
It puzzles me that all these spam/fishing operations are being uncovered by an accident and there's no proactive private or nonprofit organizations pursuing these criminals.

Overall our current state of (an average user) security can be described as Swiss cheese where anyone with malicious intent can poke a hole and use it without any repercussions.

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