Hacker News: frenchmajesty

Show HN: The CTO Game – Scale your infra in real-time, under pressure

frenchmajesty — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:12:55 +0000

I made this game because I didn't like how unrealistic System Design can be in interviews. You're incentivized to make your design as elaborate and fancy as possible so you can show how smart your are and there is a slight negative bias towards "simplest solution that meets the needs"

Therefore, I made this game to help me practice my real intuition for what decisions makes sense given a context.

Hope you all enjoy. Please share feedback so I can improve it I have many ideas but want to test the water first to see how the community feels about it.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47268544

Points: 3

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New comment by frenchmajesty in "Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects"

frenchmajesty — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 21:56:27 +0000

Cool concept! However, the fact that it's on a timer and you can only try the next even in 1m is a killer feature (in a not-good way). Same for not being able to view the leaderboard

New comment by frenchmajesty in "All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives"

frenchmajesty — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:18:15 +0000

Historically this has never flown.

There's only 1 billionaire for every what, 10M people, 100M ? They are outnumbered. At some point the underclass may band together and kick off a revolution to overthrow the ruling class.

Kings have gotten their heads chopped off when the people had enough.

I can see a version of history where the end of capitalism was AI and the AI-owning class with their robots and capital essentially dispose of the majority of the society. Society decides this system is screwed and decides to overthrow capitalism and we invent a new system.

After all, at some point, smart people came up with capitalism to solve the previous system's problems. We may not go to socialism but invent something new entirely to address the flaws of late stage capitalism.

All of My Employees Are AI Agents, and So Are My Executives

frenchmajesty — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 09:36:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/all-my-employees-are-ai-agents-so-are-my-executives/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46171952

Points: 16

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Scheduling in Go (2018)

frenchmajesty — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:30:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ardanlabs.com/blog/2018/08/scheduling-in-go-part1.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46105310

Points: 1

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New comment by frenchmajesty in "Show HN: A game where you invest into startups from history"

frenchmajesty — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:34:34 +0000

Yea it ends on that date. I cashed out with $622K

New comment by frenchmajesty in "Show HN: A game where you invest into startups from history"

frenchmajesty — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:39:32 +0000

I do get answers. The ones who typically said can't disclose are you full of shit. Crack teams know they're cracked and they will tell you.

"I'm a MIT-trained security engineer; I'm an ex-VP at Paypal, etc..."

New comment by frenchmajesty in "Show HN: A game where you invest into startups from history"

frenchmajesty — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 21:13:48 +0000

Damn. Now I understand VC's a little better.

Some deals I saw "damn the traction is off the chart" and I didn't even care to ask any question I just threw money at them. I saw one startup named Salesforce, a CRM. I guess hindsight is 20/20 on that one lol. Didn't even read the pitch.

This game is awesome

New comment by frenchmajesty in "Show HN: A game where you invest into startups from history"

frenchmajesty — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 20:58:03 +0000

Fun game! My investing strategy is to flush out quickly who's the team, what's the traction, what's unique insight into the market.

Bullshitters have trash or no answers. Killer companies have one of those 3 that is usually very compelling.

New comment by frenchmajesty in "I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already"

frenchmajesty — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:54:47 +0000

OP here. I should've added that clarification but it was to say as someone with the "most to gain" financially or professionally from AI becoming more important, I'm still against this content trend and find it is unproductive.

New comment by frenchmajesty in "Show HN: I built a YC interview practice tool (70 latest questions)"

frenchmajesty — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:18:35 +0000

The ideas submitted still go through you where you approve/reject.

New comment by frenchmajesty in "Show HN: I built a YC interview practice tool (70 latest questions)"

frenchmajesty — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:16:08 +0000

Good platform. A similar one was made I used to use back in ~2020 but eventually I think it died.

The best addition would be to have a simple form where people can submit ideas for questions. It'll keep your site from being stale and fading out of relevance like the last one.

I am just sooo sick of AI prediction content, let's kill it already

frenchmajesty — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 17:53:58 +0000

Article URL: https://verdikapuku.com/posts/i-am-just-so-sick-of-ai-prediction-content/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982542

Points: 74

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You need to become a Full Stack person; Product Engineer roles on the rise

frenchmajesty — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:30:31 +0000

Article URL: https://den.dev/blog/full-stack-person/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45928478

Points: 2

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Polish to be the most effective language for prompting AI, new study reveals

frenchmajesty — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:23:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/11/01/polish-to-be-the-most-effective-language-for-prompting-ai-new-study-reveals

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45867766

Points: 4

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The Learning Loop and LLMs

frenchmajesty — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 10:25:33 +0000

Article URL: https://martinfowler.com/articles/llm-learning-loop.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45833589

Points: 1

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RSF forces in Sudan's civil war are preparing for mass genocide

frenchmajesty — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 12:10:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/10/30/darfurs-besieged-capital-falls-to-the-rapid-support-forces

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45781034

Points: 39

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Ask HN: Mamdani is poised to become new mayor of New York. How do locals feel?

frenchmajesty — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 23:00:41 +0000

Title says it all. I've been watching the story from afar. He's dynamic but his agenda to me comes as off as too idealistic and not grounded in the practical reality of how government really operates in terms of inertia and lack of incentive for long-term improvement.

But I digress. What I think doesn't matter. I'm curious to hear what locals make of this? Do you generally agree with his platform or disagree?

Why is that?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45688527

Points: 5

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New comment by frenchmajesty in "Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division"

frenchmajesty — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 19:37:38 +0000

You are looking at it wrong. Meta is a business. You know what they sell? Ads.

In fact, they are the #1 or #2 place in the world to sell an ad depending on who you ask. If the future turns out to be LLM-driven, all that ad-money is going to go to OpenAI or worse to Google; leaving Zuck with no revenue.

So why are they after AI? Because they are in the business of selling eyeballs placement and LLM becoming the defacto platform would eat into their margins.

Twitter/X announces to start auctioning rare user handles for millions

frenchmajesty — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:29:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/social-media/xs-handle-marketplace-will-sell-some-rare-usernames-for-millions-of-dollars-224852740.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45661272

Points: 7

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