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New comment by awacs in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"

awacs — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:57:42 +0000

Oh the days of watching Silicon Valley and loving this crazy, but quirky but seemingly good intentioned industry to work in. Maybe this is who they always were, but either way, how many billions do these CEOs need in exchange for the good of society is the question I ask.

New comment by awacs in "iPhone Duo"

awacs — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:50:45 +0000

An authentic Steve Jobs demo presentation would generate 100x more excitement than this canned, blan, nearly AI boring level cringe presentation. I'll just wait for a YouTube review where an actual human you can relate to handles it.

New comment by awacs in "DeepSeek announced to raise its API price tremendously"

awacs — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:04:09 +0000

Within a year or two when "good enough" models collide with personal hardware capable of running said models, it all inevitably collapses (and Apple stands on top of the pile of rubble with a construction hat on labeled: "told ya so").

New comment by awacs in "Show HN: Trumpstonks – every company Trump's named, backtested vs. the S&P"

awacs — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:47:49 +0000

You need an API. Then we can all get rich, at least for a little bit. Nice work.

Show HN: A trend and monthly viewer of the monthly Ask HN: Who's Hiring?

awacs — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:34:18 +0000

I'm a long time ruby and rails developer living under the never ending fear of "rails is dead" every month, for the last 15 years or so. Does anyone know the feeling? There are a few aggregators and viewers out there, but I've wanted to build something polished and useful for viewing the HN data, so here it is, my take on the concept. Open and free.

I'm looking to add a bit more utilitarian functionality, a configurable monthly emailer, direct job links, etc, in the future. Hope you find useful.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362961

Points: 2

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New comment by awacs in "Ask HN: Does Claude Code remove the need for so many front-end frameworks?"

awacs — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:28:48 +0000

I've been a rails centric developer for 10+ years and dabbled in React, but lately have felt "supercharged" in my domain, and doing side projects that are explicitly front-end React/Next.js, etc. For my primary job, I work in the enterprise where I'll use AI to assist but I'm still coding 50% there. I think you just need to resist the "letting it rip" and doing everything on its, where properly managed it's a great tool. Not to self-promote but the first ai-assisted next.js typescript project I did which was a revelation: https://flip.watch

New comment by awacs in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"

awacs — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:04:24 +0000

Are we great yet?

New comment by awacs in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

awacs — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:16:56 +0000

I've been a remote engineer for about 10 years now, just over 50, enjoy programming but most of my friends have dropped off or gone crazy (trumpers) in recent years, and I never got married.

I recently took a local wheel throwing (pottery class), which was daunting at first, among a class of almost all females, younger, etc, but im 6 months in and literally just interacting with humans is one of the best parts of my week. Hobby is pretty cool too, so completely different than banging code all day.

Sometimes I don't feel like going after days of being alone and literally talking to no one, it puts you in a "zone" for sure, but then I go to the class, and you realize, at least imho, humans are social creatures. It's like food, we need that interaction or we whither and die.

New comment by awacs in "The Cray-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]"

awacs — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 04:43:47 +0000

I remember doing a report on this in high school in the late 80s. I'd love to do an order of magnitude comparison to a modern M4 Mac... Amazing how far we've come.

New comment by awacs in "My experience with Claude Code after two weeks of adventures"

awacs — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 17:56:25 +0000

I think you need to be a bit more explicit in your usage. I use Claude Code as the plugin in Cursor, to me the marriage of all the great, tastes great, less filling. You see all the changes as you normally would in VSCode / Cursor, but the Claude Code command line UI is absolutely bonkers better than the Cursor native one. They really have it dialed in beautifully in my opinion.

New comment by awacs in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)"

awacs — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:16:14 +0000

That sounds like a great question lol

New comment by awacs in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)"

awacs — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 15:14:27 +0000

  Location: New York, NY, USA
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, StimulusJS, Turbo, Javascript, React, Docker 
  Résumé/CV/Contact: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamfreemer/

New comment by awacs in "I’ve been single all my life"

awacs — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:35:45 +0000

As we all get older we tend to scale horizontally, which is also a problem.

New comment by awacs in "Ask HN: Why is everybody copying layoffs?"

awacs — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:55:05 +0000

Love him or hate him (I'm more the latter at this point) Elon showed you could trim 70% of the workforce from Twitter and it's still up and running. So with that logic, that being on the extreme side, trimming some smaller % is a no brainer to the boards of most companies now.

New comment by awacs in "Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years"

awacs — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:02:45 +0000

I have to say, I didn't realize how strong Hydrogen powered vehicles are right now in development. That could be a legit competitor soon if they work out some of the smaller kinks and develop a fueling network. Literally zero fueling time, much less lithium in the manufacturing process and a closer feel to traditional ICE.

New comment by awacs in "Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years"

awacs — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:00:55 +0000

There's really not much to drive sales for 2023 either. Was watching a summary of new EVs for the year and I'll give him credit on the "jet powered" roadster as very cool, but all the new exciting EVs for the average consumer are coming from GM, Ford, BMW, Toyota (with a very interesting Hydrogen powered offering which is technology I had no idea was even this developed) and a few other smaller startups.

I think Ford really is going to get traction with the F150 Lightning. That's the smartest move you could make, i.e. electrify the #1 selling vehicle with something similar and practical. That's what people want, and if you convert that demo, you basically win over the rest.

New comment by awacs in "Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years"

awacs — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 16:57:30 +0000

I don't think he even cares about Ukraine one way or another. He's just trolling the U.S. gov to "own the libs" as part of his "engagement strategy" for Twitter, as ridiculous as that is. Yes, alienate the entire user base for the company you're completely leveraged on (Tesla), in exchange for people who make on average less per year than your average Tesla costs.

New comment by awacs in "Tesla stock falls again, toward longest losing streak in more than 4 years"

awacs — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 16:55:16 +0000

I would agree on this one, but his pro-Putin / anti-American policy towards Ukraine is the context here. Plus he loves to troll the U.S. Gov (particularly the Dems) who literally made his life as a billionaire possible by funding him with billion to create Tesla when he was still basically "poor". He would be nothing without liberals who created the electric car incentive programs and EV loan programs, yet he trashes them left and right.

New comment by awacs in "The Twitter Files Part 2: Twitter's Secret Blacklists"

awacs — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 05:52:21 +0000

Ok, let's say they did, it's a private company, 1st Amendment doesn't apply in the manner you seem to think. In fact it's the opposite, they as an entity / company have 1st Amendment rights to do as they please with content on their platform.

That being said, yes they suppressed propaganda and disinformation that could lead to bodily harm (as on J6). People like Fox News hosts pushing disinformation that could lead to people dying over COVID is easily crossover into legal territory. Why would they want that shit on their platform? Is it their fault all the disinformation comes from right wing kooks?

This argument is ridiculous. It's like Nazis complaining their propaganda was being removed from the radio and their voice was being silenced.

New comment by awacs in "Ask HN: How is Musk's Apple Twitter threat post not SEC violation?"

awacs — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 08:11:01 +0000

You're getting distribution to a billion devices. That has some inherent value.