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yarrowy··on Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?
if he was responsible for Home Depot's app, I can understand why it took him so long to find another job.
yarrowy··on Launch HN: Palus Finance (YC W26): Better yields on idle cash for startups, SMBs
What's the advantage of this versus opening a Fidelity account and buying the same product?
yarrowy··on Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI
just move to 2 hour in class writing blocks.
yarrowy··on Novo Nordisk launches Wegovy weight-loss pill in US, triggering price war
Even if you water fasted, you would not lose 5 lbs a week sustained. It was probably your first week and mostly water weight
yarrowy··on Ask HN: How to make money with SaaS without network or VC funding?
users dont care if you took VC funding or not
yarrowy··on Tell HN: Google Authenticator lost all of my codes
How is that different than Google Authenticator backups?
yarrowy··on Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson
they should also do a business postmortem, how did the exec greenlight this without livestreaming infrastructure in place?
yarrowy··on Our trashy domain killed our reach – don't make the same mistake
“My” sounds scammy. Im assuming athenaai.com was taken? I would have done something like getathena.com or athenaapp.com
yarrowy··on Airlines are running out of 4-digit flight numbers
how about they help jumpstart the economy and hire engineers to fix the problem?
yarrowy··on Fed to Propose Lowering Debit-Card Swipe Fees
such a bad take
yarrowy··on All foster kids in California can now attend any state college for free
Except the whole point of college is that it's more than just education.
yarrowy··on Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?
The days of free dialup internet with the advertising bar oh man
yarrowy··on What is the best VPN service? What do you use? & how does it compare in pricing?
Why is this upvoted? This is clearly a spam post
yarrowy··on Ask HN: Why doesn't Reddit give it's mod's a revenue cut
Mods are overrated, easily replaceable and do not contribute to Reddit's success.
yarrowy··on Ask HN: How to Get Software Based Business Ideas?
yes but what stuff to build and ship?
yarrowy··on Ask HN: How should we compensate forum moderators?
There's no need to compensate them when there's plenty of volunteers willing to do the work for free.

Also Reddit itself has a built in moderating system with the upvote/downvote system and the "new" section.

Mods highly overrate their contribution to reddit. The truth is the site will run fine whether they stay or get replaced and the mods know this.

yarrowy··on Ask HN: Are you going back to Reddit post-blackout?
this is the perfect example of mods going on a power trip.
yarrowy··on Ask HN: You are given 100M to launch a new Reddit competitor
Why buy Apollo when they have their own app? If they cut off Apollo's API access, users will have no choice but to use the official app.
yarrowy··on Ask HN: You are given 100M to launch a new Reddit competitor
I don't understand that guy's argument. So Apollo is costing Reddit 10 million due to their API traffic and he wants Reddit to pay Apollo 10 mil to stop it? How is that better than cutting off their access which would cost reddit zero dollars?
yarrowy··on Life Is Short (2016)
Universal Basic income would solve those problems. Eventually AI and automation should perform all the mundane jobs which is a good thing but we need to provide basic sustenance for everyone.
yarrowy··on Ask HN: Should Startups Form as an LLC or C-Corp?
What about in-state vs Delaware LLC? Is it any easier to convert to a Delaware C-Corp if you started as a Delaware LLC?
yarrowy··on Ask HN: Routers that are secure out of the box?
That router doesn't include WiFi, so would you have to connect it to a second router that has it?
yarrowy··on Ask HN: Do you think Stripe will go public?
well there's actually some competitors coming up that's offering lower transaction fees. Forte.net is offering 2.15% + 25c per transaction. Mastercard has a competitor as well 2.85% + 30c
yarrowy··on Ask HN: I have a product that makes tens of $ a month. What should I do?
Migrate to DigitalOcean, you can probably keep the site on the $5 month plan.