Hacker News: cpcat

New comment by cpcat in "Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO"

cpcat — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 03:03:41 +0000

Oh. All this time I thought Wix pivoted to become a security company and suddenly Google wants to buy it. Just realized Wix is not Wiz. Still weird.

New comment by cpcat in "Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?"

cpcat — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:10:53 +0000

Unrelated, I'm interested in the tech behind it to build my own PWA. May I ask what tech stack you use. Sorry if it's obvious I'm just getting started

New comment by cpcat in "Show HN: Open Source Version of AI "Math Notes" from Apple WWDC"

cpcat — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 14:27:36 +0000

I believe Apple isn't doing any "trickery" either. They're probably just running a local (on-device) llm?

New comment by cpcat in "Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video]"

cpcat — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:29:38 +0000

I actually saw a job posting that said at the very end "this is just an example". Previously it didn't have that line. So I'm guessing someone complained about being replaced and they had to put that line in there. Unfortunately they have since removed the job posting، It's a YC startup too

New comment by cpcat in "Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video]"

cpcat — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 10:27:22 +0000

I'm a witness of that. Both to threaten that you're being replaced once we find someone and to make you think there is someone coming to help. I know for a fact it's the former. Since there was no hiring manager nor HR where that happened, I believe this is a common practice which is being advised to startups at some level. I've seen three or four YC startups do that which makes me wonder if someone is spreading this terrible practice among their network

New comment by cpcat in "Show HN: Solo founder launched iOS Development Agency as a Subscription"

cpcat — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 04:27:53 +0000

I like the idea. You can mention some more specific use-cases like offer to build an MVP from scratch, then provide subscription based support. Or suggest taking-over a project from another outsourcing team, etc.

New comment by cpcat in "Tired of late messages from your boss? A new bill aims to make it illegal"

cpcat — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 05:29:36 +0000

I used to answer and start selling them my own product

New comment by cpcat in "Tired of late messages from your boss? A new bill aims to make it illegal"

cpcat — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 05:17:28 +0000

Wait till you meet some fun bosses. I actually hope you do

New comment by cpcat in "YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble"

cpcat — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:13:28 +0000

Well they claim that currently the data is centralized and owned by a small group of companies, and they want to decentralize the data so that "users own their data". At least that's what they claim

New comment by cpcat in "YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble"

cpcat — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 22:03:45 +0000

I've read some CEOs leaving AI to build decentralized AI. A crossover between web3 and AI.

New comment by cpcat in "YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble"

cpcat — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:48:22 +0000

I know a company that claims to do AI. Their models didn't work so they ended hiring humans to manually do the job AI was supposed to do. Obviously that won't scale, but they still call themselves an AI company.

New comment by cpcat in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

cpcat — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:36:40 +0000

What is the next article? AI launched a nuclear missile?

New comment by cpcat in "Ask HN: How do you decide what to do given market trends?"

cpcat — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 21:17:59 +0000

You refer to the economy as strong. Relatively it's not. Also depends on what you mean by economy. There are parts of the economy which are worse than before, and those are affecting the job market. I'm not saying AI hiring is the only reason, the relatively bad economy is another reason. As for AI there were articles that mentioned exactly that, companies are ending other projects to invest in AI. I'm sorry I don't have a reference handy for you, maybe you can search for them. Since you don't seem to have understanding of what economy is and generalizing it, which is clearly a fallacy, I suggest you are either being arrogant or ignorant to console yourself

New comment by cpcat in "Ask HN: How do you decide what to do given market trends?"

cpcat — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:52:24 +0000

AI solutions haven't taken anyone's job yet. Current AI solutions do make copy-pasta a lot faster though. I believe the reason all these engineers lost their jobs is because of companies greedily re-budgeting to hire AI talent and acquire AI startups. AI still hasn't replaced any developers yet, although that might still happen one day.

New comment by cpcat in "Elon Musk Bashes Remote Work"

cpcat — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:44:14 +0000

Doesn't he sleep in his factory. That's contradicting.

Elon Musk Bashes Remote Work

cpcat — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:43:45 +0000

Article URL: https://me.pcmag.com/en/how-to-work-from-home-serie/16977/elon-musk-bashes-remote-work-the-laptop-class-is-living-in-la-la-land

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35975906

Points: 2

# Comments: 4

New comment by cpcat in "Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams"

cpcat — Wed, 17 May 2023 14:31:15 +0000

There are special phone cases/holders designed for that. I'm pretty sure Google will sell those too. Not to mention this might be a camera recording the driver-distraction and not the road. So it doesn't have to be in the sun. Or even for passengers in a driverless car

Ask HN: Is it me or iOS development has become more fragmented than Android

cpcat — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 22:09:40 +0000

I'm referring to developer experience. Take dependencies for example. Adding a dependency for an SDK in Android seems to have become more consolidated; a Maven url in Gradle and you're good to go. On iOS you have multiple options; Swift Package Manager, CocoaPods, Carthage. On the other hand, iOS UI feels consolidated but Android design feels still fragmented. Is anyone adopting Material design at all?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33757315

Points: 12

# Comments: 1

New comment by cpcat in "Welcome Home, Garry Tan"

cpcat — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 00:27:55 +0000

Congrats. I was binge-watching on Youtube and came across one of your videos a few days ago which inspired me to start thinking of doing something with my 10 year experience, specially when you talked about there being no shortage of money :) No other investor has ever reached me via Youtube let alone inspire. Great move by YC.

New comment by cpcat in "Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers"

cpcat — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 16:46:50 +0000

It says start typing to search. So i started typing and it didn't search. I really expected it to be some sort of typeahead search without requiring focus on the the search field :)