Hacker News: 40acres

New comment by 40acres in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

40acres — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:33:16 +0000

After years of companies refusing to go public (looking at you Stripe), it's almost refreshing to see a hyped tech go actually IPO.

New comment by 40acres in "US public debt projected to reach 181% of economic activity in 30 years"

40acres — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 22:46:05 +0000

Someone framed debt to gdp ratio like this: if your debt is 150% of your GDP. It would take a year and a half to pay off your debt if all the national income (gdp) was allocated to payments.

No obviously this isn’t a realistic policy - but if we can have “war-time” economies as proven in the past it reasons that we can have an economy solely focused on the repayment of debt (idk, high taxes for a decade?). Am I tripping?

New comment by 40acres in "US public debt projected to reach 181% of economic activity in 30 years"

40acres — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 22:42:47 +0000

What does that have to do with the debt?

New comment by 40acres in "Google is selling all my personal information in Google Domains to Squarespace?"

40acres — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 22:10:37 +0000

I’m not sure about this one - seems like it significantly reduces the value of data, which would have a downstream impact on the entire industry. I guess that’s what you intended, but my mind quickly went to a rabbit hole with the second order effects of this one.

New comment by 40acres in "Samsung bans use of A.I. like ChatGPT for employees"

40acres — Tue, 02 May 2023 15:27:43 +0000

The market is definitely there for enterprise LLMs. Everyone is using GPT for work. I use it to provide stubs for memos and to brainstorm - but the real value comes from replace internal “tribal knowledge” with an AI who knows your org in and out.

New comment by 40acres in "LVMH becomes the first European company to surpass $500B in market value"

40acres — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:13:01 +0000

Some would say your first paragraph describes Apple.

New comment by 40acres in "Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?"

40acres — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 18:23:41 +0000

Thanks. It’s a startup of about 100-150 people.

New comment by 40acres in "Ask HN: V2 – Laid off folks, are you getting hired yet?"

40acres — Sun, 12 Mar 2023 03:23:39 +0000

I was laid off in November - few false starts here and there but I start my new gig on the 20th. Better yet I have $20k left from severance which is really nice.

New comment by 40acres in "Hundreds of changes made to latest editions of Roald Dahl's books"

40acres — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 23:43:48 +0000

JK Rowling built a billion dollar children’s franchise shortly after Dahls death.

New comment by 40acres in "Andy Jassey Calls for Amazon to Return to Office"

40acres — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 22:14:23 +0000

I don’t know how to quantify it but I have definitely noticed an increase in productivity. I don’t need my whole team in the office but a few key people once a week was a game changer.

New comment by 40acres in "YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down"

40acres — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 19:24:08 +0000

Funnily enough I really like YouTube shorts. A lot of Tiktokers cross post and because of this I haven’t found a reason to download TikTok.

New comment by 40acres in "GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices"

40acres — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 19:03:23 +0000

This is the exact same message Microsoft CEO said in his message. So yes MSFT is directing these layoffs.

New comment by 40acres in "Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?"

40acres — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 17:25:53 +0000

I was laid off in November. I've applied to dozens, probably hundreds of jobs. I've had two interviews (one bigtechco) and a YC startup. Both did not work out as they went with more senior candidates. I decided to take a different approach and tailor my resume to each job and narrow the types of jobs I applied too. This has led to an increase in recruiter calls and I'm setting up interviews now.

However it does seem there is still a lot of flux, especially with larger companies who are still trying to allocate headcount. I've had calls with Google that were basically like: "we're interested, but we don't know HC yet, let's circle back in 3 weeks".

New comment by 40acres in "Amazon Q4 2022 Financials"

40acres — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 22:22:04 +0000

I still don’t get why it’s a problem. There should be an advantage in taking the investment needed required to go vertical and leverage that for your entire business.

New comment by 40acres in "Amazon Q4 2022 Financials"

40acres — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 18:16:42 +0000

I don't understand the anti-trust argument against Amazon Retail and AWS. Amazon Retail went vertical by building their own cloud solution and then sold that solution to customers - what's anti-trust about this?

New comment by 40acres in "ChatGPT Plus"

40acres — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:28:50 +0000

I'd love to understand how the "Plus" naming convention became so popular.

New comment by 40acres in "Stripe increases fees for EU and UK-based businesses in April"

40acres — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 15:51:27 +0000

Stripe has announced recent enterprise wins (Amazon, BMW) but these are negotiated deals with less margin. Seems like as they increase their share of enterprise they are simultaneously turning the screw on SMBs and start ups.

New comment by 40acres in "Builder's Remedy goes into effect in many California cities tomorrow"

40acres — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:58:09 +0000

I can't wait.

New comment by 40acres in "A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution"

40acres — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 01:19:12 +0000

I’ve been binging A History of Europe, Key Battles podcast which traces European History from Alexander to WW1. It really gives a great overview of European history and allows for one to see broad trends. For me, the Industrial Revolution is a product of the Enlightenment, Centralization of states (decline of feudalism) and the competitive nature of Europe (no single hegemony on the power).

Even without the overseas Empires Europe probably would’ve been the birth of the revolution.

New comment by 40acres in "Stripe issues"

40acres — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:02:30 +0000

Did the Stripe mafia tag this?