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New comment by 1270018080 in "I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27"

1270018080 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:27:22 +0000

Are you unsure if he is evil?

New comment by 1270018080 in "Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers"

1270018080 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:04:53 +0000

I was a huge AI skeptic from the beginning through ~2025. But once Opus came out, it's pretty obvious writing code by hand is an obsolete skill on its own. You still need to know how to read code, how to know what good/bad code looks like, and if it matches what you're truly asking for. But there's really no reason to be typing code with your own fingers in 2026 and beyond.

2024 me would be shocked at current me saying this.

New comment by 1270018080 in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

1270018080 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:05:19 +0000

I love not socializing. I've never enjoyed a party in my life, I hate dating, I don't want to lose any time in the day to hanging out with anyone. But what I wonder is if am I fundamentally an antisocial person, or am I a product of my cursed environment and trapped in the momentum of the antisocial tidal wave that has been happening since before I was born?

New comment by 1270018080 in "Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis"

1270018080 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:53:37 +0000

NYC, and a handful of neighborhoods from the other top 5 cities, are the only places in the entire country that have semi-functioning urban design. The entire population of America who wants human centered urban design only have a few square miles to pick from. So of course the cost of living will be high.

New comment by 1270018080 in "Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis"

1270018080 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:50:22 +0000

This is the most impactful economic discovery of the century. You can raise taxes as much as you want if you add a layer of seperation to it and print currency.

New comment by 1270018080 in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

1270018080 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:16:31 +0000

This is a nepotism war

New comment by 1270018080 in "Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompetitive' Fees"

1270018080 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 18:05:34 +0000

All fees and taxes and tariffs end up being a direct cost to the consumer

New comment by 1270018080 in "Show HN: I couldn't afford interview prep, so I built a free alternative"

1270018080 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 15:16:49 +0000

Leetcode seems so pointless in the AI era. It was already pretty pointless but there’s nothing to it now.

New comment by 1270018080 in "AI has torched the market for junior programmers"

1270018080 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 20:22:29 +0000

Same. I don't think it will happen for as long as my company exists.

New comment by 1270018080 in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

1270018080 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:24:32 +0000

> Are those exams a contest?

Yes

New comment by 1270018080 in "U.S. science is in chaos"

1270018080 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:05:35 +0000

I don't think this era of ignorance and anti-intellectualism can be compared to a previous point of time in modern America.

New comment by 1270018080 in "U.S. science is in chaos"

1270018080 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:03:49 +0000

Are people really moving to China? A country that will never give outsiders citizenship?

New comment by 1270018080 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

1270018080 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:29:21 +0000

Hasn't cursor's revenue declined? I think they already peaked.

New comment by 1270018080 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

1270018080 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:27:49 +0000

Cursor became obsolete pretty quickly as Claude has improved. Good on them to find an out before they collapsed. $60 billion is a huge overpay.

New comment by 1270018080 in "Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over"

1270018080 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:16:41 +0000

Ironically an HR department is detrimental to unionization efforts

New comment by 1270018080 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

1270018080 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:18:03 +0000

There is nowhere else for that money to go

New comment by 1270018080 in "The dead economy theory"

1270018080 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:13:16 +0000

The jobs they worked turned into capital which is where their leverage comes from. So it's still applies.

New comment by 1270018080 in "The dead economy theory"

1270018080 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:07:32 +0000

For a frontend developer? What is there to scale? The app is already done.

New comment by 1270018080 in "US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City"

1270018080 — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:07:48 +0000

> What solution

The nobel prize winner hopefully figures that out

New comment by 1270018080 in "How We Broke Top AI Agent Benchmarks: And What Comes Next"

1270018080 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 02:27:34 +0000

Writing is still an art, and AI will never be able to do it well like all other forms of art.