Hacker News: claudenm

New comment by claudenm in "The (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh"

claudenm — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:34:03 +0000

Only oracle has taken on debt so far, among the hyper scalers.

New comment by claudenm in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

claudenm — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 13:40:59 +0000

Great work. I'm sure the brain-rotted OP will be back to regurgitate whatever he read on twitter and completely ignore your debunking.

New comment by claudenm in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

claudenm — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:44:04 +0000

You knew a decade ago that a million 150 year olds were collecting social security and nothing came of it?

New comment by claudenm in "X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links"

claudenm — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 03:49:17 +0000

Is it wise to credulousy believe everything your government tells you without source data?

New comment by claudenm in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

claudenm — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 12:05:36 +0000

This is also wrong. It’s extremely unhealthy, unsafe and unsustainable to lose 15% of your body weight in 2 months.

New comment by claudenm in "How long til we're all on Ozempic?"

claudenm — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 02:53:28 +0000

This is an extremely unhealthy rate of weight loss. All guidance centers around .5-1kg/week as both safe and sustainable.

New comment by claudenm in "MasterCard suspends all services in Russia"

claudenm — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 03:58:40 +0000

Any citation on that?

New comment by claudenm in "Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes"

claudenm — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 14:33:06 +0000

Noted Pro-Covid Senator, Ron Johnson. This is all quackery. The description is just an appeal to authority ("highly credentialed") when in reality they are regularly debunked despite their credentials: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/01/24/robert-malo...

New comment by claudenm in "Live tracking of Amtrak trains"

claudenm — Tue, 24 Jul 2018 23:57:38 +0000

It's weird (to me) that this submission is getting upvoted now. It's existed for five years (I helped work on a small part of it).

New comment by claudenm in "Facebook has lost $100B in 10 days and now advertisers are pulling out"

claudenm — Tue, 27 Mar 2018 00:15:49 +0000

Very good compensation is one reason I can think of.

New comment by claudenm in "Breaking a large AWS spend into understandable pieces"

claudenm — Fri, 19 May 2017 00:46:06 +0000

I think you're absolutely right, but what's hilarious to me is that they have private pricing for many of their services. For the traffic we're already doing, we just asked and they knocked our cloudfront bill down nearly 75%. We didn't have to change our usage at all. Granted, we serve a lot of traffic.

New comment by claudenm in "I spent three months working full time to get a job"

claudenm — Sun, 05 Mar 2017 14:45:17 +0000

> Companies who are not Google or Apple like to read books about Google and Apple, pretend that they are Google or Apple, and imitate recruiting processes that come from Google or Apple. Which doesn't serve them very well, because they are NOT Google or Apple.

A million times this. I got rejected from a company because the interviewer decided he didn't like that I used array concatenation to find the correct solution to a problem he gave me. This was for a job at a 100 person company. Companies writing line of business software need to stop acting like they are google.

New comment by claudenm in "Rockstar lib will make you a Rockstar programmer in 2 lines of code"

claudenm — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 14:08:45 +0000

You're right -- the big 4 was stolen from the audit world.

Depending where you look it's the Big 5 or Big 4 and will be some of Google, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft.

New comment by claudenm in "Ask HN: I Have Cancer. What Should I Do?"

claudenm — Sat, 30 May 2015 14:11:36 +0000

Malpractice litigation increases health care spending by 2.4% [0]. Many states have already passed tort reform that limits how and when a patient can sue and recover. There are lots of factors that increase health costs in this country, but litigation barely registers. Getting insurance companies out of the game (the BIG Leeches, in your example, who take 20% of the dollars in the system) would go a much longer way.

[0]http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/9/1569.abstract

New comment by claudenm in "Rent Control Creates Higher Rents in SF"

claudenm — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:58:44 +0000

It's falicious to think demand is fixed in SF. Removing rent control does nothing to stem demand. Also arbitrary deeming '$2' affordable is made without any supporting evidence.