Hacker News: Archonical

New comment by Archonical in "Cursor 3"

Archonical — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:03:35 +0000

Isn’t Cursor’s business model mostly subscriptions? They’re the ones paying for inference, not the user directly, right? So wouldn’t they be incentivized to minimize token usage per unit of user value, not maximize raw tokens?

New comment by Archonical in "We hid a free trip to Switzerland in our privacy policy"

Archonical — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:32:25 +0000

This is just an ad.

New comment by Archonical in "What young workers are doing to AI-proof themselves"

Archonical — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:18:30 +0000

The parent comment is describing supply and demand. If Blizzard attracts a larger supply of workers who will accept lower pay and worse conditions because they intrinsically want the job, Blizzard gains leverage. That is exactly why studios like Blizzard can get away with more than “NicheBoringFinanceCo.”

New comment by Archonical in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

Archonical — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:03:26 +0000

I don't read it. Why is it awful?

New comment by Archonical in "Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount"

Archonical — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:24:29 +0000

Late 2023 levels was after the November 2022 layoffs as well (~11k cut).

New comment by Archonical in "Meta planning layoffs as AI costs mount"

Archonical — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:22:54 +0000

> this is what, the third layoff in 5 years?

They have done more targeted layoffs as well like the FAIR layoffs in 2025 and the RL layoffs in January 2026, as well as the 5% performance cut in February 2025.

New comment by Archonical in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

Archonical — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:52:36 +0000

It's around the same time they announced their Applied AI org under Boz, which is responsible for data for Avocado/Mango/Watermelon training now. The timing certainly doesn't help.

New comment by Archonical in "How Big Diaper absorbs billions of extra dollars from American parents"

Archonical — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 14:22:45 +0000

With declining birth rates in the west, wouldn't it also make sense that Big Diaper is increasing prices and expanding into luxury products while unit sales go down? Expanding into products for the elderly, like incontinence, would also make sense, or perhaps expanding products into more countries (I don't know the global reach of say Pampers).

I know it's not the same thing as enshitification, and I don't know if the diaper industry is even vulnerable to enshitification, but it would be such a nice play on words if the diaper industry had enshitification.

New comment by Archonical in "Buckle Up for Bumpier Skies"

Archonical — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:58:47 +0000

People do this to meet minimum requirements for mileage tiers, e.g. I know someone who was close to Diamond status on Delta and went to Miami and back without leaving the airport area just for the miles.

New comment by Archonical in "We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk"

Archonical — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 04:44:53 +0000

Palantir is a glorified data aggregation/data visualization platform. Hooking up Claude to different data systems, with safeguards turned on in Claude Gov, is different than what the government is asking from them now. Similar to if the government had Claude hooked up to Tableau/some salesforce derivative and then asked it to be autonomous in the kill loop/spy on US citizens.

New comment by Archonical in "The next two years of software engineering"

Archonical — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:14:20 +0000

May I suggest that it may be your attitude about that piece of paper that is holding you back rather than the paper itself?

New comment by Archonical in "All it takes is for one to work out"

Archonical — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 02:22:13 +0000

There's also the option of choosing to not commit to either action. One stays in the status quo without choosing it, but since agency is negatively correlated with regret and no agency was used, the 'choosing not to do something' option probably has a higher chance of being regretted.

New comment by Archonical in "Nano Banana Pro"

Archonical — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:28:33 +0000

Phased rollouts are fairly common in the industry.

New comment by Archonical in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

Archonical — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:17:01 +0000

Maybe since Amazon is reporting Q3 numbers soon and this will only show up in Q4 numbers?

New comment by Archonical in "United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet"

Archonical — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 03:02:10 +0000

Watermarks usually have branding to indicate ownership. Two distinct 3D paperclip overlays don't seem like watermarks and JonNYC doesn't use them in all photos he's posted on his thread on Bluesky.

They don't even seem to serve as visual cues.

New comment by Archonical in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

Archonical — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:30:10 +0000

I have premium. I can confirm this. Whatever your private browsing page shows is what I see. If you're fully private, all that registers is that someone has looked at my profile but nothing identifying, just a bump in profile views.

New comment by Archonical in "US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low"

Archonical — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 20:26:54 +0000

No one said it was on that list.

New comment by Archonical in "US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low"

Archonical — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 19:33:44 +0000

What part are you disagreeing with? It says the US is being left out of China's expanding visa-free program, not that 10 years ago the USA was on the visa-free list for China

New comment by Archonical in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

Archonical — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:08:11 +0000

I'm not sure I see the point. The march to $1T took 10 years with available financial statements.

New comment by Archonical in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

Archonical — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:04:13 +0000

My experience has gone the other way than OOP: Anecdotally, I have had VCs ask me to review AI companies to tell them what they do so they can invest. The VC said VCs don't really understand what they're investing in and just want to get in on anything AI due to FOMO.

The company I reviewed didn't seem like a great investment, but I don't even think that matters right now.