Hacker News: 535188B17C93743

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "Letterboxd Is Up for Sale, and A24, Sony and the New York Times Are Bidding"

535188B17C93743 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:20:31 +0000

Can't wait for the enshittification of Letterboxd.

Dear God, don't let Amazon do what it did to Goodreads here.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

535188B17C93743 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:51:51 +0000

Yeah, I've heard of Taalas doing it. Not sure of others but I'm sure lots of companies are considering it, especially as we start to hit points of depreciating returns in training.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "Ask HN: Who is quitting? (July 2026)"

535188B17C93743 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:57:28 +0000

I just quit. A comically inept director who screamed at people and promotions given out for obsequiousness over impact. I'm guessing the second one will be more-or-less the same everywhere but I'd rather not deal with people I don't respect in the slightest.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "Is It Out Yet?"

535188B17C93743 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:29:38 +0000

Edit button exists but isn't clickable? Little boxes look exactly like Claude's UI.

Grade A slop.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

535188B17C93743 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:18:18 +0000

That told me they wanted me to do this and I told them to pound sand. Doesn't help that their online reviews indicate its a sweatshop.

Anyway, they did layoffs like 2 weeks later so I guess I dodged a bullet there.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "OpenAI Is Preparing to File for an IPO Soon"

535188B17C93743 — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:36:28 +0000

SpaceX and OpenAI? Market's gettin' frothy. Oh, this bubble is about to pop.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "Are the costs of AI agents also rising exponentially? (2025)"

535188B17C93743 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:17:10 +0000

I always wondered why the equivalent of integrated mining didn't apply to LLM inference... now it turns out it does and there's a company making it fast and robust!

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in ""McKinsey in a Box": The End of Strategic Consulting?"

535188B17C93743 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:48:40 +0000

I really don't want to be a conspiracy theorist, but it honestly feels like a pyramid scheme. The MBAs/consultants help out the MBAs/consultants. Their effectiveness isn't super important. It's very rare I see a coworker who is actually effective get promoted––it's always the ones who are loudest, steal credit from others, and who are really social/fun to be around.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

535188B17C93743 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:07:01 +0000

Presumably the benchmarks? I'm also interested.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "The Americans Pledging to Buy Less–Or Even Nothing"

535188B17C93743 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:51:57 +0000

How did you get permitted without an inspection or adhering to code?

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "What we know about CEO shooting suspect"

535188B17C93743 — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 23:22:48 +0000

It's in the 98th percentile, lol. Yes, it's very high.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "New York City Council Votes to End Broker Fees Squeezing Renters"

535188B17C93743 — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 22:41:39 +0000

Didn't they do this before and brokers found a way around it?

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "California's gas prices to increase 65 cents per gallon with new fuel standards"

535188B17C93743 — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:58:07 +0000

California needs to just fully invest in nuclear. And regulate or use eminent domain to buy PG&E to socialize it. Costs would go down, executive pay would go down, reliability and issues related to forest fires would likely go down.

And they need to invest in better public transit. Imagine LA with SF-level public transit. Or SF with NYC-level public transit (or better).

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "Report on the role of standardized test scores in undergraduate admissions [pdf]"

535188B17C93743 — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 16:47:20 +0000

I agree. Every other comment here seems to be like "well duh" and I'm... skeptical. My experience is that the ACT/SAT seem to be good indicators of getting good grades in well-defined spaces. But things like creativity, curiosity, work ethic are much better predictors of other kinds of success that frankly matter much more in the real world.

I know some really, really unintelligent people who got good grades in college. They just ate books.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "All the Major Tech Layoffs in 2024 So Far"

535188B17C93743 — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 13:22:40 +0000

I think companies used to be able to deduct "R&D time" which was a very vague definition for programmers and the IRS has tightened that up.

https://www.eisneramper.com/insights/tax/impact-174-software...

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "More Californians are driving EVs, making public charging a potential nightmare"

535188B17C93743 — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 03:38:43 +0000

Unless they park in parking garages.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "MBAs who can't find jobs"

535188B17C93743 — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 19:24:09 +0000

I think it's important to note how they're highlighting top MBA programs though where admissions numbers haven't changed a ton and are "typically" still highly sought after.

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "Who makes the most reliable new cars?"

535188B17C93743 — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 19:12:22 +0000

Isn't Subaru also Toyota?

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "The secretive rise of the 'overemployed'"

535188B17C93743 — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 14:54:08 +0000

As long as there's no conflict of interest between the companies, what's the issue? How is this any different from someone taking a job at all of those companies sequentially?

New comment by 535188B17C93743 in "California employers must reimburse remote workers for all necessary expenses"

535188B17C93743 — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:03:46 +0000

Central Ohio [1]. I didn't realize it was so cheap.

1. https://www.betterbuyenergy.com/ - Zip 43215