Hacker News: abuani

New comment by abuani in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

abuani — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:56:05 +0000

... Being gay does not limit altman or theil from getting married...

And last I checked, plenty of tech billionaires are married and by no stretch of the imagination stupid.

New comment by abuani in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

abuani — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:18:27 +0000

Reading this should make everyone in the US furious about the state of our health system

New comment by abuani in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

abuani — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:22:00 +0000

Maybe GitHub being popped for their own insecure by design platform, will cause them to reconsider growth at all costs. I know it's wishful thinking, but the amount of security incidents the past few years because of how actions was designed is wild. It would be great for them to finally recognize this and take ownership.

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

abuani — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:35:01 +0000

I'm looking forward to marketing folks doing oncall and support work for the features they're shipping.

New comment by abuani in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

abuani — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:43:14 +0000

I take a peak every month or so at spend for my company and notice more and more are consumed $1k in tokens a month and it is bewildering to me how. I use llms daily, and see anywhere from $200-$400 tops. This is using the most expensive models, in deep thinking mode. So I'm not a Luddite against the usage of them. I just can't figure how _how_ to burn that much money a month responsibly.

I genuinely challenge someone spending $5-$10k a month to demonstrate how that turns into $50-$100k in value. At a corporate level, I'd much rather hire a junior engineer who spends $100-$200/month and becomes productive then try and rationalize $100k/year in token spend.

New comment by abuani in "Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers: trading cache for cores for 2x performance"

abuani — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:03:49 +0000

Ah appreciate it. A year ago it was very clear when something was written by an LLM, but now you've gotta look for certain characteristics. I try not to infer to much, especially because llms are really helpful for non native English speakers to write faster.

I'd like to make it a bit more normalized to have public writing be transparent about if llms were used and how. That makes it quite a bit easier for readers to focus on the content instead of debating how something was written lol

New comment by abuani in "Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers: trading cache for cores for 2x performance"

abuani — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:53:24 +0000

Out of curiosity, can you point to specific sections that reel of AI? I read the article and didn't see anything that immediately stuck out, but maybe I need to start looking for different signals.

New comment by abuani in "Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue"

abuani — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:03:30 +0000

Costs were reduced to $0. Can't get better then that for a product that OpenAI had no clue how to monetize

New comment by abuani in "2026 tech layoffs reach 45,000 in March"

abuani — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:34:08 +0000

Curious to see how they can turn moltbook into a money maker. Do they sell ads to agents?

New comment by abuani in "Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008"

abuani — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:17:23 +0000

I'm surprised the article or the source for it didn't dive deeper into the impact the changes to H1B have had on the tech job numbers. Mind you I'm not trying to argue for or against them, but I find it hard to believe the changes aren't contributing at least a small amount to the drop.

The other thing not mentioned is the impact on the end for ZIRP. Every tech company with a pulse over hired such a staggering amount during the pandemic. It's not surprising these companies are returning to reality and not hiring back to the same levels.

New comment by abuani in "I want you to understand Chicago"

abuani — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:53:25 +0000

Others would say this is exactly what they voted for. Unfortunately it's all about perspective, and after a decade of passively consuming hn, it's obvious where the sites interest lies in terms of moderating content.

New comment by abuani in "Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor"

abuani — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:06:49 +0000

Heh, "vi=hx" was exactly how I forced myself to spend a week in helix. Just go for it

New comment by abuani in "Beginner-friendly, unofficial documentation for Helix text editor"

abuani — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:06:04 +0000

It's the first editor since probably sublime text that I've genuinely enjoyed. Useful without any configuration, and very easy to get a productive environment.

There's a few rough edges that I'm trying to work through. I've been able to solve my "open in X" like key bindings. But I have yet to get things like "run test for current method". That's probably the biggest pain point I've had so far

New comment by abuani in "Taking money off the table"

abuani — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:41:40 +0000

Just to reiterate the point the person above you made, but in far simpler terms: independence can be far greater return on your personal well-being then maximizing gains. I'm willing to "lose" out on $50-$100k over the lifetime of my mortgage in exchange for never needing to make a payment on the house again

New comment by abuani in "ICE Will Use AI to Surveil Social Media"

Mon, 27 Oct 2025 01:30:07 +0000

There will be a court case where some bit of evidence is going to be similar to:

Ice Agents: "Is here illegally?" AI prompt: "you're absolutely right!"

New comment by abuani in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"

abuani — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:11:53 +0000

Yeah I agree, we should be holding the ruling class accountable for building generational wealth while average Americans can barely afford basics.

New comment by abuani in "Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road"

abuani — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 18:24:33 +0000

And that attitude is exactly why humanities is a subject every computer science student should take.

New comment by abuani in "Uber will offer gig work like AI data labeling to drivers while not on the road"

abuani — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:23:29 +0000

I had a recruiter reach out for a company doing Agentic SRE's due to my years of experience as an SRE. Second sentence was describing their mission as making the SRE role no longer necessary for companies. I know if you read between the lines that's the goal of many AI companies, but I was surprised how upfront they were.

New comment by abuani in "StageConnect: Behringer protocol is open source"

abuani — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 11:32:33 +0000

... That makes no sense. The value of an instrument isn't what makes a successful musician successful. The best musicians can make the cheapest sounding instrument sound amazing. What cheaper instruments offers is the opportunity for someone to even have a chance.

New comment by abuani in "Hacker News – The Good Parts"

abuani — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:06:33 +0000

There are still a select few subreddits where this is true as well. I genuinely miss 10 years ago getting into random shit like double edge razors, home brewing and woodworking and how supportive those communities were to get into. Some communities _do_ exist, but once they get past a certain size it becomes worthless