Hacker News: John23832

New comment by John23832 in "Why do anxious people lean left?""

John23832 — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:10:22 +0000

I could point to SO much anxiety in right leaning people. Demographic, financial, political, etc.

New comment by John23832 in "Microsoft and Uber Are Running into an AI Cost Problem"

John23832 — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:06:29 +0000

This is the actual answer. Very few teams internally actually got access to Claude Code to begin with. All teams still have access to the clause models. It’s a carve out to dogfood the agent.

New comment by John23832 in "Growing tribe of jobless techies is stuck in Silicon Valley's new reality"

John23832 — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:12:40 +0000

I'm not saying anyone is lazy, I'm saying by the numbers the proportion of the population which is young (which did the heavy lifting during the example revolutions) are not there.

New comment by John23832 in "Growing tribe of jobless techies is stuck in Silicon Valley's new reality"

John23832 — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:27:43 +0000

Startup's have famously traded pay for the "carrot" of outsized returns on equity. The pay always sucks.

Most people do not want to work for subpar pay in the one of the most expensive areas in the US. Especially when you're getting diluted off of the cap table as happens now. You're always ending up behind.

That's before considering people with actual life responsibilities.

New comment by John23832 in "Growing tribe of jobless techies is stuck in Silicon Valley's new reality"

John23832 — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:23:44 +0000

Prior revolutions (American, Cultural, French) were all put into action by young, strong, people.

We don't have that anymore. It won't happen. There's no one coming to save us.

New comment by John23832 in "The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Probably Think"

John23832 — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:44:18 +0000

Even if you remove the economic interests, human society has always worked with the young taking care of the old. We're reaching the point where there is no more young. That's a problem.

A 20 year old was made 20 years ago.

New comment by John23832 in "New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure"

John23832 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:11:08 +0000

People already lived in Australia before Britain shipped its prisoners there. It was habitable.

Nobody is spending trillions to build a prison on another planet.

New comment by John23832 in "Nonprofit hospitals spend billions on consultants with no clear effect"

John23832 — Fri, 08 May 2026 00:48:44 +0000

The management consulting industry wouldn’t work without them.

New comment by John23832 in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

John23832 — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:15:35 +0000

I think there is a difference between "Eternal Summer" (when everyone got full-time internet in their homes which meant more people around), and "corporate capture" (everything on the internet is corporate interest first, end stage capitalism).

New comment by John23832 in "Amazon rolls out AI hiring software to automate job interviews"

John23832 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:49:19 +0000

If I know there is no human in the loop in my hiring process, I will not apply.

However I am an (ostensibly) privileged software engineer. This article says that this will be used for the holiday rush. Contract/warehouse workers are often the most oppressed working class. It’s sad that this can be forced upon them.

New comment by John23832 in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

John23832 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:05:17 +0000

> Social media is an extremely competitive landscape, with competitors rising overnight.

This is not true at all. There are two players. FB/Instagram and TikTok. Using one does not preclude using the other. Other than tiktok, who was the last new player in social?

> Google, Apple and Microsoft dominate the world with their products and platforms. Facebook & WhatsApp certainly doesnt.

Whole countries literally run on WhatsApp.

New comment by John23832 in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

John23832 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:22:28 +0000

Sounds a lot like Cloudflare at the moment.

New comment by John23832 in "The underrated benefits of always having oatmeal at lunch"

John23832 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:07:10 +0000

Oats are soluble fiber, which the vast majority of people are deficient in.

New comment by John23832 in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

John23832 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:55:24 +0000

How is this flame bait when it specifically addresses both the title and the content of the article?

The article itself is a list of prior art of introspection and a critique of Marc’s lack of awareness of said art.

New comment by John23832 in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

John23832 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:58:26 +0000

We all know he’s wrong. The problem isn’t that he is wrong, it’s that we have elevated the wealthy into a status where they can be wrong, have no correction, and make decisions whole clothe which negatively affect the rest of us. All while being insulated from their negative world view.

New comment by John23832 in "Trump fires Pam Bondi as attorney general"

John23832 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:13:42 +0000

While not directly connected to Jan 5, a surprising amount of the rioters ended up with state crimes.

It’s almost as if they were criminals all along.

New comment by John23832 in "Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?"

John23832 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:43:22 +0000

Tmux

New comment by John23832 in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

John23832 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:42:02 +0000

If I you can project power globally , but as soon as a human is put on the ground they're disintegrated by a 100 dollar drone, how important was your ability to get there?

New comment by John23832 in "“CEO said a thing” journalism"

John23832 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:48:07 +0000

Reaction-baiting (or -bating depending on your perspective) really has ruined most discourse. There a direct line to advertising and social media.

New comment by John23832 in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

John23832 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:13:30 +0000

I do, but think that that's orthogonal from the constant positive affirmations to all of his random thoughts. That's a sensation bought.