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New comment by cik in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

cik — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 16:23:59 +0000

For years people have been able to legally murder on behalf of their country, with not have a beer. This is another item that will operate as intended.

New comment by cik in "Spain to expand internet blocks to tennis, golf, movies broadcasting times"

cik — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:24:33 +0000

It's absolutely a service problem. I can pay for the local sports rebroadcast packages.. but oh wait, you just don't feel like this week, playing the Raptors game, because there's a local thing you think people will watch? Fair enough, subscribe to DAZN, and pay there.. oh sorry, we've opted to stop carrying .

Sigh, fine, I'll pay for NBA Leaguepass. I don't live in your country... great, random blackouts. Fine, I'll try and use a VPN (hell, I literally used tailscale to a friend's house for a bit).. but then those games are blacked out too, at random?

I'm literally paying you for the service. So yeah, giving some insanely sketchy crypto website $5/month for unlimited whatever that just always works, is worth it. 10/10 will definitely do again. I'm sick and tired of fighting with the NBA, the CFL, or G-D only knows what just to try to watch the things I'm paying for.

New comment by cik in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

cik — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:26:16 +0000

Professional bodies act as nothing more then gatekeepers and rent seekers for things of this nature. Anyone can write software, but not everyone writes security minded software.

We already have laws in place, and certifications that help someone understand if a given organization adheres to given standards. We can argue over their validity, efficacy, or value.

The infrastructure, laws, and framework exist for this. More regulation and beaurocracy doesn't help when current state isn't enforced.

New comment by cik in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

cik — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:16:03 +0000

Great. Now do Android phones...

New comment by cik in "The case for becoming a manager"

cik — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:29:52 +0000

The best managers of my career have all been developers, and like myself enjoy going up and down the management chain based on the need of the org. My favourite, at age 61 joined a ~250 person company as CTO, but spent his initial, transitional period of 90 days, as a part developer, part meeting listener, quietly learning as one would expect, helping them scale to 800+ people.

He's the example to me, of the career I'm intentionally pursuing. There's tremendous amounts to learn from, and contribute to, everywhere. Sometimes an organization and I best work together with me managing, other times with fingers on the keyboard. Sometimes, there are multiple jobs.

We could recognize that we're in a different era, or at least that's my bias. Roles are increasingly combinations of generalists, especially in the AI era.

New comment by cik in "OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)"

cik — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:04:40 +0000

100% agreed. There's so much locked up appetite for IPOs, both from the tech crowd and the general public. There have been very few quality IPOs since COVID frankly.

I'll wager that the IPO market can actually absorb all three of these that yes, are the size of the last 10 years combined. The trading market itself is larger, as are values, and valuations.

I assume that to maximize value you see a standard lock and roll play here. The S-1 will declare the 10% release, with commentary about future (6 or 12 months) another 5%. Plus don't forget institutional. There's ample space here, even before the Nasdaq 100 changes that are probably coming into play. If those come into play then inflows accelerated, as did valuations.

Try not to get scammed while looking for work

cik — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:05:18 +0000

Article URL: https://trysound.io/try-not-to-get-scammed-while-looking-for-work/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411038

Points: 3

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New comment by cik in "Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting"

cik — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:39:33 +0000

At scale they will. For now, someone else puts the effort into growth marketing, eyeball capture. Reddit eventually changes the rules, seizing control, thereby acquiring users for less human cost (as opposed to missed revenue opportunity).

New comment by cik in "New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes"

cik — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 12:23:33 +0000

I'm waiting for the return of the interrobang (‽). I've used em-dashes for years, down to having an xmodmap for it, also for my beloved interrobang.

New comment by cik in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

cik — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:36:38 +0000

I'd argue that the panic as default answer isn't purely calls, it's also outlook, even financial trauma. I know of several people who could easily weather said layoffs, who don't need to work, but would be complete wrecks. They're just built this way.

New comment by cik in "Blood test boosts Alzheimer's diagnosis accuracy to 94.5%, clinical study shows"

cik — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:11:41 +0000

This anecdote is just that - a one off. We can use experiments, and papers to learn more, and should.

New comment by cik in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

cik — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 11:43:46 +0000

The problem is incentives. The organization selling the per-token model doesn't have the incentive, at scale to have you reduce token consumption. Other technologies do, hence adding value.

New comment by cik in "Show HN: GitHub "Lines Viewed" extension to keep you sane reviewing long AI PRs"

cik — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:36:38 +0000

This is very much my take. As long as the general rule is a lack of long PRs, I think we get into a good place. Blueskying, scaffolding, all sorts of things reasonably end up in long PRs.

But, it becomes incumbent on the author to write a guide for reviewing the request, to call the reviewer's attention to areas of interest, perhaps even to outline decisions made.

New comment by cik in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

cik — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:37:53 +0000

This is already how it works today. If there demand curve shows an increase in desire for the same items in another jurisdiction, rather then make more and ship for location, they are reshipped from your geography, even store to store.

Secondly, disposal is one of two things:

1. Donation to a company that collects clothes, who in reality sell these clothes by the tonnage. Most of the clothing recyclers are companies of this nature.

2. Sale at a low value to the company above.

Alphabet lines up 100-year sterling bond sale

cik — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:38:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/3260bc45-e09e-45a7-ae30-e55effbaf29b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46958371

Points: 2

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New comment by cik in "xAI joins SpaceX"

cik — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:45:51 +0000

We're witnessing a bailout and downloading of costs, at scale. Whether or not one buys into whatever the vision of these companies are - it's clear, there's interdealing.

Tesla theoretically now owns a chunk of xAI... whose valuation will no doubt increase due to the internalized SpaceX acquisition. Append to this a future IPO, as discussed in the artice, presumably an eventual premium of 20-50% (reasonable, 14% purely for the ibankers when this will happen)... yields to an interesting bailout situation.

To me, the real question is why. The $2B from Tesla can't possibly move the needle for any party involved in this transaction. If this were to be work 50x as opposed to a potential 50% upside (hell, make it 2x for argument's sake) it still doesn't compute. So what's the actual reason.

New comment by cik in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

cik — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:09:11 +0000

To me this misses a third group, those using these tools as a series of virtual teammates, a mock team member with which to ping pong possibilities.

This is actually the greatest use case I see, and interact with.

New comment by cik in "Doing the thing is doing the thing"

cik — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:48:58 +0000

This nails my issue with systems design insanity. There are so many things you learn through living with systems that are correct, though counterintuitive.

Do a thing. Write rubbish code. Build broken systems. Now scale scale. Then learn how to deal with the pattern changing as domains specific patterns emerge.

I watched this at play with a friend's startup. He couldn't get response times within the time period needed for his third party integration. After some hacking, we opted to cripple his webserver. Turns out that you can slice out mass amounts of the http protocol (and in that time server overhead) and still meett all of your needs. Sure it needs a recompile - but it worked and scaled, far more then anything else they did. Their exit proved that point.

New comment by cik in "Tell HN: Bending Spoons laid off almost everybody at Vimeo yesterday"

cik — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:09:58 +0000

Calcalist is the news source for the tech community here in Israel. Admittedly the English site is complete rubbish compared to the Hebrew site - but it's still THE local source.

New comment by cik in "Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance"

cik — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 08:39:40 +0000

No, much of this is a political issue. America wants food standards that are different from many trading partners; fair enough. But it makes it impossible to export many farm goods as a result. This is outside of the current political climate, and has been going on for ages. It's just coming it a head now.