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New comment by deepzn in "Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?"

deepzn — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 17:55:22 +0000

Daft Punk is one of my favorite artists ever but I am not familiar with all their discography(my shame and I mean to remedy that). But this was such a cool read from an obvious bigger fan than me. Half way through was only when I realized the significance of a BPM of 123.45, I didn't read it out without the decimal until then lol. And so many more fans in the comments, wow.

New comment by deepzn in "Show HN: A word of the day that doesn't suck"

deepzn — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 23:40:43 +0000

Nice, anoter James Somers blog post/project, I like. Love your articles, dude. And have a bunch on my reading list to catch up on.

New comment by deepzn in "Anime is eating the world"

deepzn — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:29:54 +0000

Though the most popular anime by far around the world is shonen. Which caters to the typical male teen/pre-teen audience, but also adults and is typically characterized by action, typical underdog protagonist stereotypes of a loner, outcast, who develops a tight knit support group or team on their quest to overtake or defeat a great evil in the world.

E.g. One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, Attack on Titan, etc.

What's your most controversial programming opinion?

deepzn — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 02:35:46 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/406760/whats-your-most-controversial-programming-opinion

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41021961

Points: 1

# Comments: 13

New comment by deepzn in "Notes on Puzzles"

deepzn — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:57:33 +0000

Startups are competition. You're fighting with others to put up the best product in market. It's a race against time as well.

New comment by deepzn in "Notes on Puzzles"

deepzn — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 17:31:19 +0000

Adversarial learning. Machines are inherently better at it than humans, which is one more reason to worry about AI.

Tonic Immobility in Sharks[video]

deepzn — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:37:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5usnMtNVyp8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36753759

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by deepzn in "13-3-74 Soldier returns to Tokyo after 30 years of hiding in the Philippines"

deepzn — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:58:45 +0000

13-3-74 Soldier returns to Tokyo after 30 years of hiding in the Philippines

deepzn — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 00:52:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS0K-WHZOXE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36732005

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

Are We Drinking the Same Water as the Dinosaurs?

deepzn — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:42:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.castlewater.co.uk/blog/are-we-drinking-the-same-water-as-the-dinosaurs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36426720

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by deepzn in "Ask HN: Is everyone becoming a Product Manager these days?"

deepzn — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:17:00 +0000

There was another post a while ago, that showed how all the money in Tech was gathering people from all other professions like Finance, Law, etc. And that's how tech workforces ballooned in the last decade, and exploded during the pandemic. Now a lot of that is being dialed down, with cost controls.

But, it's a result of where the money lies. And has been done in industries and periods past. Tech realized that every company needs to be honing their product strategy, it's not cool that your tech is awesome, but you need sell it. I think this group structure is more useful than the legacy agile/ with a scrum master model. PMs can steer the ship and handle all the roles of a business analyst, scrum master, and to some degree maybe even merge with an engineering manager (might be going towards that), but perhaps it was a good idea to separate engineering and product/business decisions.

New comment by deepzn in "Do high interest rates fix high inflation?"

deepzn — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 01:00:04 +0000

A decade of government spending on critical infrastructure at low interest rates was missed.

Edit: Want to add also, the rich got richer as monetary policy flowed into capital markets, while inflation increased hurting the poor the most in the last couple years.

New comment by deepzn in "The US government is buying troves of data about Americans"

deepzn — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 18:48:50 +0000

I understand US carriers and ISPs are the most guilty parties that are selling data to third parties. Maybe not intentionally, but we have seen in the past when third parties get access to user information hoarded by Big Tech for e.g. Cambridge Analytica.

Even the data that is collected by Facebook + Google, are mostly non consensual and we don't know what they do with it. Or it's like the classic gun to your head, to use our "free" services aka, if you don't pay for it, you are the customer.

New comment by deepzn in "Mental Liquidity"

deepzn — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:49:26 +0000

direct link to post: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/arent-any-typos-essay-we-laun...

New comment by deepzn in "The US government is buying troves of data about Americans"

deepzn — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 15:09:15 +0000

When it comes to adtech, I don't immediately think of Big Tech, but they are in fact the largest aggregators of data which feeds into the system. I always wondered why there isn't enough government pushback or regulation to limit this. I guess this post is maybe part of the reason.

I think in the public sphere, many don't think of Big Tech as privacy intruders, even with Facebook's public failures, many continue to use their services. I'm not sure if most people care or don't care. But when Apple took the initiative to limit 3rd party cookies by asking it's users directly whether they wanted to allow it or not, the majority chose not to allow it. Which shows people don't want their data to be tracked.

On a related note, I don't think I've ever clicked on a banner ad on a site, or any twitter/youtube ad, etc. There's certainly an element of marketing that's brand awareness. But all the other metrics about click rates, and purchase intent, etc- I have no idea how this all adds up to the massive numbers that Big tech pulls in from ads on the Internet.