Hacker News: fleshdaddy

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

fleshdaddy — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:54:03 +0000

So how do you feel about the ending thesis that now you are also this American family?

New comment by fleshdaddy in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

fleshdaddy — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:56:18 +0000

How are you commenting? I thought the internet was turned off in Iran.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

fleshdaddy — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:15:17 +0000

Yeah the deal has also changed. Right as I was leaving the messaging started changing a lot and there was a clear top down “you all need to work harder”. They hired an ex Amazon guy to run my org which really drove the message home.

To be fair though I think Microsoft has decided they are fine with rank and file being mediocre. I don’t know how interested they are in competing for top talent except for at the top.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents"

fleshdaddy — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:41:59 +0000

> You’re right to call this out.

This is such a nightmare. Burning down the world so I can read this shit.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents"

fleshdaddy — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:42:49 +0000

So dumb. I wish these clankers had the decency to add a message saying it’s AI. People are responding genuinely to other comments.

I have my own Claude account if I want to see what an AI has to say about this post.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Launch HN: Terminal Use (YC W26) – Vercel for filesystem-based agents"

fleshdaddy — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:30:33 +0000

Are you an AI?

New comment by fleshdaddy in "First in-utero stem cell therapy for fetal spina bifida repair is safe: study"

fleshdaddy — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:05:14 +0000

I went down a Reddit rabbit hole, a sub called /r/noctor. Basically people, mostly doctors, complaining about the prevalence of nurse practitioners, PAs practicing independently/outside of their scope, etc. The general consensus I see there is that the only people benefiting from this are private equity firms trying to squeeze more profit since they bill the same based on whether you see a doctor or an NP. This in turn has an affect where it doesn’t make sense financially to go through so much school and take on so much debt.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Ted Chiang has won the PEN/Faulkner Foundation's short story prize"

fleshdaddy — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 19:22:46 +0000

God I love that line. I almost wish the story ended right there.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs"

fleshdaddy — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 16:00:33 +0000

I think that’s a little naive to how these massive dinosaurs operate. Microsoft doesn’t build anything in an afternoon, not even Minesweeper. There are probably multiple careers at least partially dependent on the metrics from this. Everything becomes an ongoing process at MS scale, for better or worse.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs"

fleshdaddy — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:56:35 +0000

Yeah exactly. That’s how we end up with ads in our taskbar.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs"

fleshdaddy — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:55:12 +0000

Often times when this stuff comes up I think it’s Microsoft’s organizational structure that’s to blame. Namely that each team operates like their own little company in many ways. So the team and PM for minesweeper forget they’re just a small part of a broader ecosystem.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "'It's better for humans in general': The 4-day workweek is closer than you think"

fleshdaddy — Fri, 31 May 2024 04:19:05 +0000

Opposite for me. Much rather have an extra day where I can do anything I want with no one bugging me. Workdays are basically a wash for me anyways.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead""

fleshdaddy — Sun, 19 May 2024 08:25:18 +0000

For me at least it’s not actually the price of the Uber but that I know what it will be up front. I wasn’t really taking cabs until uber was ubiquitous though so maybe that’s not the same for everyone.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Google workers arrested after protesting company's work with Israel"

fleshdaddy — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 05:34:12 +0000

Well there are limits. You can’t for example protest in my living room or by breaking into the Capitol building. Trespassing can be a form of protest but it’s still illegal.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Microsoft is driving users away"

fleshdaddy — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 21:40:14 +0000

I think that is the crux of the problem actually. Same with Teams, what the buyer wants is misaligned with what the end user wants unfortunately. Most resources are put towards making it an easier sell rather than towards a product the end user loves.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Cloudflare lays off new hires"

fleshdaddy — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 05:13:44 +0000

That’s interesting. I wonder if it has to do with size. I work at a really large company and the commissions are apparently lower but the sales jobs appear more stable. The companies my family member has worked at all fall in the 500-1000 range. Not small but definitely in the sort of high growth phase.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Cloudflare lays off new hires"

fleshdaddy — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:07:55 +0000

I think it complicates matters with her being in sales. It’s a much more cutthroat area in companies the size of Cloudflare from what I’ve seen. If you don’t perform you get cut loose really fast. I have a family member in tech sales and it blows my mind how easy it is to get fired.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "More Teens Who Use Marijuana Are Suffering from Psychosis"

fleshdaddy — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 05:22:23 +0000

Maybe just lowering the allowed concentration of thc in products. It’s wild how strong some of the weed is now. Splitting a joint now I imagine is quite a bit different than in the 70s.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "World Population Estimated at 8 Billion"

fleshdaddy — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 21:19:54 +0000

I think there's another dynamic at play which makes you both right in some ways. My mom and both of my sisters began having kids in their teens. Despite my family always struggling with money I don't ever recall it being seen through an economic lens. My girlfriends family on the other hand is very comfortably middle class, and when her brother had a baby a year or two shy of 30 there were a lot of economic concerns from her parents, they were almost upset at first. It seemed odd to me since him and his wife both had decent jobs and were doing way better than any of my siblings with children, but I realized it's because they weren't going to be able to raise their kids the same way they were raised. It seems like a big problem is that if you're from a middle-class background and want to have a family you'll likely have to come to terms with being worse off than your parents.

I think it's much more a problem for middle class families because unlike poorer families they seem more cognizant of what they have to lose, or at least the perception of what they have to lose, and maybe there's also an aspect where it's more ingrained that they should do better than their parents. I don't know maybe that's obvious to everyone but it was something that got me thinking.

New comment by fleshdaddy in "Ben Fry resigns from the Processing Foundation"

fleshdaddy — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 08:16:39 +0000

I don’t know tbh I’d assume those people donate because they made some money off of the work done on processing and want to give some back to keep development going. I’d think if you wanted to donate to the stuff they’re on about you’d find a non profit specifically for that purpose. I’m sure there are plenty and they’re probably better at it than a software foundation haha.