Hacker News: bix6

New comment by bix6 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

bix6 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:05:54 +0000

I really enjoyed having to wait 30 seconds for Cloudflare to let me into this website.

New comment by bix6 in "Your data, your choice: Solid project by Tim Berners-Lee"

bix6 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:56:10 +0000

Has anyone used this? The apps list doesn’t seem worthwhile?

New comment by bix6 in "Improving my focus by giving up my big monitor"

bix6 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:24:17 +0000

> One day I was doing work on my laptop on a couch because hitting 30 apparently means that sleeping slightly incorrectly results in debilitating back pain.

You working out? PT?

New comment by bix6 in "Delve removed from Y Combinator"

bix6 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:15:29 +0000

Airbnb, DoorDash

New comment by bix6 in "iNaturalist"

bix6 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:57:21 +0000

Best movie of the year hands down

New comment by bix6 in "March heat in American west has left snowpack at record-low levels"

bix6 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:10:23 +0000

Colorado river collapsing this year?

New comment by bix6 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

bix6 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:17:34 +0000

Many of the startups I work with. We’re helping save the oceans and land. Purpose and profit are dream scenarios for me. It’s difficult in a capitalist economy but it exists.

New comment by bix6 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

bix6 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:15:51 +0000

They massively over committed to data center deals with debt. Safra leaving is also a big deal. Look at the stock price since she left.

New comment by bix6 in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

bix6 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:01:41 +0000

It feels like Oracle has made some massive strategic missteps in the past year. I’m curious if they can turn it around.

New comment by bix6 in "U.S. stocks are set to deliver their worst quarter in nearly four years"

bix6 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:04:56 +0000

So what does this mean for technology?

Well there are 3 huge IPOs supposed to go out this year. This hurts liquidity and clogs the pipes.

And then for early stage venture, where I work, it will be harder to raise funds and move new ventures forward. Especially given the extreme shifting of public assets to loyalists.

Overall it’s a bleak time for American exceptionalism. The only companies that are in vogue are AI and Defense. Biotech continues to get hammered because who needs medicine when we can just bomb people with AI right?

New comment by bix6 in "Legal AI startup Harvey raises $200M at $11B led by Sequoia, up from $8B in 2025"

bix6 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:38:02 +0000

lol 58x on arr?

New comment by bix6 in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

bix6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:54:19 +0000

Ah yes because the family making $40k/year can afford $10k in medical expenses.

New comment by bix6 in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

bix6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:39:13 +0000

You think regular Americans have the money to afford high deductible plans? One ER visit bankrupts people.

New comment by bix6 in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

bix6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:28:05 +0000

Why are you so defensive of rich people?

Idaho has an affordability crisis and it is partly caused by rich people from out of state using their FAANG (or equivalent rich work) to box them out of properties.

New comment by bix6 in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

bix6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 17:17:08 +0000

https://www.lmtribune.com/local-news/achilles-takes-on-risch...

> By my estimate, about 60% of Idahoans don't earn a livable wage

Sure boss it’s all fine and dandy.

New comment by bix6 in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

bix6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:43:57 +0000

We’re already there. Your individual labor isn’t enough to make a living unless you subscribe to the altar of a feudal FAANG. This is preposterous.

> Collectively, the wealthiest 1% held about $55 trillion in assets in the third quarter of 2025 — roughly equal to the wealth held by the bottom 90% of Americans combined.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-wealth-gap-widest-in-three-d...

New comment by bix6 in "I quit editing photos"

bix6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:37:49 +0000

Can’t forget the cost of all that film. That’ll easily outpace the Lightroom sub.

New comment by bix6 in "I Quit Editing Photos"

bix6 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:30:45 +0000

I’m almost done moving from Lightroom to Darktable. Lightroom is amazing but I don’t edit enough these days to justify $20/mo.

New comment by bix6 in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

bix6 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:08:29 +0000

> I suppose being your own boss is one of the few ways to stay passionate and care about something for a long enough period of time.

I run a business and the passion is still hard to maintain. On Friday one of my customers cussed me out for 20 mins because I took a few hours to respond. That was a tough way to start the weekend.

New comment by bix6 in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

bix6 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:04:03 +0000

Yeah well economies of scale matters more than your sanity