Hacker News: SMAAART

New comment by SMAAART in "GameStop Preparing Offer for eBay"

SMAAART — Sat, 02 May 2026 13:14:29 +0000

History rhymes, same playbook as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCI_Inc.

New comment by SMAAART in "Allbirds announces pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes 175%"

SMAAART — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:41:04 +0000

I smell a shareholders' class action lawsuit. Wait for it.

New comment by SMAAART in "Amazon to acquire Globalstar and expand Amazon Leo satellite network"

SMAAART — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:38:11 +0000

Clayton M. Christensen (The innovator's dilemma) would agree.

New comment by SMAAART in "Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth"

SMAAART — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:40:31 +0000

https://exifinfo.org/detail/RjJtDLtCfS5kpq0fM2e7yA

New comment by SMAAART in "Ask HN: How do you deal with people who trust LLMs?"

SMAAART — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:24:23 +0000

It all depends on the context: how does this affects you?

Is this something you can control or is this outside your control?

New comment by SMAAART in "Why Intelligent People Make Others Uncomfortable [video]"

SMAAART — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:05:37 +0000

How Intelligent People Deal with Stupid People — Schopenhauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TspV1odsXo

Why Intelligent People Make Others Uncomfortable [video]

SMAAART — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:56:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQYxHSw-TCI

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47214040

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by SMAAART in "Palantir Gets Millions of Dollars from New York City's Public Hospitals"

SMAAART — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:47:23 +0000

https://archive.is/bK8xU

New comment by SMAAART in "Ask HN: Resources to get better at outbound sales?"

SMAAART — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:42:24 +0000

Google these:

1) "inbound marketing"

2) The lean startup / MVP

New comment by SMAAART in "I took some random bets in life about what should I do and now I am stuck"

SMAAART — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:54:00 +0000

Your word choice, e.g. "bets", implies that your mental model for life is gambling.

While very popular today, it's a losing game that you are playing.

Read/study about better, more empowering mental models, for instance, check the writings of Shane Parrish.

New comment by SMAAART in "We're losing our voice to LLMs"

SMAAART — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 17:03:39 +0000

Some people, but not everyone, are abdicating their agency. Period.

And that too is an expression of their own agency. #Laissez-faire

New comment by SMAAART in "Tell HN: Stall AI progress for the benefit of humanity"

SMAAART — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 12:06:02 +0000

The Genie is now out of the bottle.

New comment by SMAAART in "10 Years of Writing a Blog Nobody Reads"

SMAAART — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:12:32 +0000

Chop Wood Carry Water.

New comment by SMAAART in "Ask HN: How did your startup get its first real users?"

SMAAART — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:38:38 +0000

> A lot of startup advice is vague.

Sure, but in an ocean of quantity you need to know where to look for quality:

1. https://www.startupschool.org/

2. Book: The Lean Startup.

Those 2 resources address everything you need to know and then some, with concrete advice.

> What channels worked?

You have it all wrong.

New comment by SMAAART in "Cloudflare is working again for my servers (US East)"

SMAAART — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:20:25 +0000

Same here (US East)

New comment by SMAAART in "Ask HN: What Are You Reading?"

SMAAART — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:14:34 +0000

1) Blue Ocean Strategy (again)

2) Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time

New comment by SMAAART in "Ask HN: Why is there no operating manual on how to live life?"

SMAAART — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:24:39 +0000

There is. You get to write it yourself; you get to be your own master/leader.

Critical thinking skills are the most essential tools, so is studying philosophy. You have agency, use it.

Of course you could always abdicate your agency to religion (pick one), or politicians, or influencers, or money/consumerism.

No matter how you dice it, the choice is always yours, and yours only,

New comment by SMAAART in "Ask HN: Do you negotiate salary in this job market?"

SMAAART — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:18:53 +0000

1. Always negotiate

2. Read this book: Never Split the Difference

NOTE: Understand the difference between negotiations and bluffing.

New comment by SMAAART in "I empower down or has it been hacked?"

SMAAART — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:01:47 +0000

When trying to access via the app or webapp I get the message: "We're improving your experience. Please log in later".

But I have received no emails regarding an upgrade or something to that effect, and their status site says: Our deliverables will be deployed during second weekend of every month. It may cause some latency in APIs during the deployment window.

No signs on x either: https://x.com/EmpowerToday

Something does not add up.

I empower down or has it been hacked?

SMAAART — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:01:47 +0000

Article URL: https://developer.empower-retirement.com/docs/status-and-maintenance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45727830

Points: 1

# Comments: 2