Hacker News: Akababa

Dating Is a Rich Person's Game Now

Akababa — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:02:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/dating-is-a-rich-persons-game-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48029252

Points: 5

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New comment by Akababa in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

Akababa — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:58:20 +0000

There are diminishing returns to more engineers. Also hiring more is like investing with leverage. You might increase EV but also increase the chance of going bust if things go poorly.

New comment by Akababa in "Alpine Linux does not make the news"

Akababa — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:20:44 +0000

Found the person who didn't read the article lol

New comment by Akababa in "Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend"

Akababa — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 04:05:16 +0000

ozontel.com doesn't exist. Is that a typo or did a competitor really buy ads to a nonexistent domain?

Bad Software Engineering Killed Cyberpunk 2077’s Release

Akababa — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:12:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-jGEtqB4wU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25618015

Points: 2

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New comment by Akababa in "GM scales back partnership with electric truck startup Nikola"

Akababa — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 05:57:41 +0000

So Trevor fabricated evidence to fool the police? That's a far more serious offense than the sexual misconduct, and frankly it's hard to believe he could pull that off, unless he managed to bribe the police. Johnny's probably not completely innocent - they can both be scumbags.

New comment by Akababa in "Prediction Markets Beat Polls"

Akababa — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 05:20:18 +0000

If you look at it in terms of risk-adjusted returns (Sharpe ratio), a fixed transaction fee costs more Sharpe on a low-variance bet than it does on a high-variance bet. The variance of balanced contracts is higher than the variance of unbalanced ones (p(1-p) is concave with maximum at p=0.5), so after adjusting for risk the transaction fee is more significant for the unbalanced contract.

New comment by Akababa in "DoorDash S-1"

Akababa — Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:45:39 +0000

A large proportion, if not the majority of my doordash orders include some sort of promotion. They're everywhere and at this point I almost have an expectation that doordash will always have a promotion that lets me order at a discount.

I think that these effective consumer subsidies are included in their "sales and marketing" budget.

New comment by Akababa in "Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S."

Akababa — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 20:17:26 +0000

Yeah, but left/right is a big part of what differentiates political parties. It's like the first factor in a PCA decomposition.

New comment by Akababa in "Andy Kelley (of Zig) intimidated into vacating apartment for Hulu filming"

Akababa — Sat, 24 Oct 2020 08:10:41 +0000

I don't get it. If the landlord wants the filming to happen so badly, why doesn't he kick in a few grand to compensate his tenant... That's a lot easier than kicking and screaming all night.

New comment by Akababa in "8086 Microcode Disassembled"

Akababa — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 20:01:55 +0000

If ROM space is so valuable, why is ASCII text (which I imagine is relatively large) stored on it?

A new quantum paradox throws the foundations of observed reality into question

Akababa — Sun, 06 Sep 2020 18:34:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.inverse.com/science/a-new-quantum-paradox-throws-the-foundations-of-observed-reality-into-question

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24393552

Points: 3

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New comment by Akababa in "Blanked-out spots on China's maps helped us uncover Xinjiang's camps"

Akababa — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 03:12:17 +0000

If true, that's uncannily reminiscent of North Korea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inebLA3HqPo

Ray tracing has failed to deliver on its promise

Akababa — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 07:24:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/au/ray-tracing-has-failed-to-deliver-on-its-promise/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24250235

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

New comment by Akababa in "Why did a hedge fund manager worth $700M take a $630k job managing an oil fund?"

Akababa — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:35:49 +0000

That's the fundamental problem of hiring: you have to make educated guesses about who is going to make a better employee. And you should be willing to pay more to hire someone who you believe is better. For some companies, salaries are such a small part of their revenue that it makes sense to offer some candidates a lot more... and if your first choice happens to accept a lower salary, it doesn't really matter - you've saved a drop in the bucket.

New comment by Akababa in "Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life"

Akababa — Sun, 23 Aug 2020 00:18:01 +0000

They can't lock me out of my account if I do it myself first!

New comment by Akababa in "Why a Slack Backlash Is Inevitable"

Akababa — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:55:37 +0000

Have you talked to the person who made the not? They might not realize how distracting it is. Maybe they'll move it to another channel as a compromise.

New comment by Akababa in "Why did a hedge fund manager worth $700M take a $630k job managing an oil fund?"

Akababa — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 07:22:54 +0000

It's about supply and demand. If he really is the best person for the job, then there's nothing to be gained from paying him a higher fixed salary. But if there's someone else who's even marginally better that you can get for $10M, it's probably easily worth it - for the size of the fund, one person's pay is a negligible amount.

New comment by Akababa in "The universe has made almost all the stars it will ever make"

Akababa — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 06:51:05 +0000

That's a uniform distribution

New comment by Akababa in "Michigan college is tracking its students with a flawed app"

Akababa — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 06:29:27 +0000

You can even use an android emulator for this - some of them come with location spoofing too.