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New comment by amykhar in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

amykhar — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:28:49 +0000

In case you don't want to disable your ad blocker https://web.archive.org/web/20260528011622/https://techcrunc...

New comment by amykhar in "US transportation bill would add a $130 annual fee for EV drivers"

amykhar — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:21:12 +0000

It kind of makes sense because gasoline taxes help fund road projects. Of course, if you live in a state like Pennsylvania, there's not much evidence of real improvements to the pothole infested roads.

New comment by amykhar in "The coming AI jobs-pocalypse"

amykhar — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:04:54 +0000

It comes from watching Linked In and talking to people in real life. Again, I don't think it's AI eating the jobs. I think it's greed that's eating jobs.

New comment by amykhar in "The coming AI jobs-pocalypse"

amykhar — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:38:42 +0000

I disagree - at least for the near future. If companies stop outsourcing to poorer countries, they'll be hit now. If so many Americans lose their jobs that nobody has money to buy anything, that will affect poorer countries too. It's not the technology of AI that's necessarily causing the problems. It's the greed of all the shareholders and business owners laying off everybody in favor of automation. This has been building up for years - even before AI. The quest to replace human jobs with gig economy workers and automation is also a relevant factor.

New comment by amykhar in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

amykhar — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:29:07 +0000

Conventional wisdom always used to be that China would never compete with the US because they were rote learners and we were more creative. I'd say that is no longer the case. China has been doing a LOT of interesting things. I joke with my son that given the state of the US lately, I'd almost rather move to China.

New comment by amykhar in "Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want"

amykhar — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:48:50 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20260427024735/https://www.theve...

New comment by amykhar in "Ask HN: Has anyone else found Google unusable lately?"

amykhar — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 13:08:14 +0000

I've used Kagi for a couple of years now. I decided I didn't want to be the product anymore, and try to pay for the tools I really use.

New comment by amykhar in "Using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases for various topics"

amykhar — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:12:58 +0000

https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/2039814446479192187#m

New comment by amykhar in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

amykhar — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:20:42 +0000

Fingers crossed that this https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly.... doesn't have any effect.

New comment by amykhar in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

amykhar — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:49:09 +0000

He wasn't really getting rid of stuff though. He was moving it to "cold storage" so the primary storage was clear. When he needed a rarely used thing again, he could get it out of cold storage.

New comment by amykhar in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

amykhar — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:45:57 +0000

Doubtful. Despite your articulate counter-argument, I am unconvinced of your viewpoint.

New comment by amykhar in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

amykhar — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:46:22 +0000

When I was growing up, I remember some drama because East German and Soviet male athletes were trying to compete as women. If male to female trans athletes were allowed to compete, I imagine it would just be a matter of time before a female athlete would HAVE to be trans in order to stand a competitive chance.

New comment by amykhar in "Learnings from a No-Code Lib: Keep the Spec Driven Development Triangle in Sync"

amykhar — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 19:18:28 +0000

This is interesting. It seems like it may only be applicable to brand new projects though. Could you envision it working for large, existing applications that wouldn't have specs for the existing code?

New comment by amykhar in "Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation"

amykhar — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:11:46 +0000

Businesses should definitely support the open source projects that they use. I'm still astounded that professional developers seem so adverse to paying for the tools and libraries that they use to make their own money.

New comment by amykhar in "Tesla sales fell by 9 percent in 2025, its second yearly decline"

amykhar — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 22:10:12 +0000

I'm frankly disappointed that number isn't much higher.

New comment by amykhar in "$6 Michelin Stock in 60 Minutes [video]"

amykhar — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:51:18 +0000

I watched that video the other day and immediately ordered an Instant Pot

New comment by amykhar in "Waymo has received our pilot permit allowing for commercial operations at SFO"

amykhar — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:36:25 +0000

Cause what this country needs is to automate away even the gig economy jobs that are out there. Let's keep making a few people rich and screw all the normal people out there.

New comment by amykhar in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

amykhar — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:44:50 +0000

I don't really need AI in my browser. I do like spaces in Arc, and how it handles cleaning up my tabs. The color coding of the sidebar for the various profiles is the one feature I haven't been able to find in things like Orion, Vivaldi, Firefox, etc. By color coding, I mean the ability to make the entire sidebar a different color, which helps me make certain I don't do stupid things in prod.

New comment by amykhar in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

amykhar — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:53:54 +0000

I also hated that they were trying to make it a free tool, which would mean selling user data to make money, and would require growth at all costs.

These days, I'm trying to migrate to paid tools. I would much rather work with a slower growing company that has a real business model other than grow and sell out.

New comment by amykhar in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

amykhar — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:50:35 +0000

I love the Arc Browser, but they discontinued development on that. I honestly have no interest in Dia at this point. AI is already available in any of the tools that I would want it in, and I don't think I would want any one company having visibility into more of my apps and data.