<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: halamadrid</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=halamadrid</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:51:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=halamadrid" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is probably the first real thing that is affecting me personally with this whole AI business. Having to pay more for device upgrades going forward. I hope the demand settles or new memory production offsets the demand.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:49:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716101</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716101</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48716101</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just crossed the second year building out Unmeshed - Orchestration Platform.<p>This is basically a rewrite of Netflix Conductor which was the original platform we built while working at Netflix. At Netflix, infra was "free" so we were generous in all the dependencies we had on that - so we decided to rewrite for cost optimization in this version.<p>Unmeshed eliminates the glue code thats typically written for resiliency or connecting things together. And our design of execution also offers it the flexibility of being used as a real-time API orchestrator. It even comes with a managed SQLite service (as many as you need), which means we don't need a provider like Supabase to work with stateful workflows.<p>Fun fact is that in our company, everything we use is actually just static HTML UI built on top of the Unmeshed Platform as backend - like our CRM, SaaS management, Deployments, Finance etc.<p>Check it out here: <a href="https://unmeshed.io" rel="nofollow">https://unmeshed.io</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:08:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544968</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48544968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "Cloudflare CTO enforcing usage limits"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is Anthropic rushing to an IPO because investors also fear it’s the peak? I guess it can grow even after the IPO but is there a fear that the spending will rationalize and hurt the valuations?<p>I know AI companies make money, but the companies consuming these services, are they meaningfully making a revenue to justify the continued spend?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:29:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361496</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is Anthropic rushing to an IPO because investors also fear it’s the peak? I guess it can grow even after the IPO but is there a fear that the spending will rationalize and hurt the valuations?<p>Like a few other commenters, other than reasonably making a software developers work easier I haven’t seen a lot of value creation or revenue boost from AI. I know AI companies make money, but the companies consuming these services, are they meaningfully making a revenue to justify the continued spend?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:28:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361471</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361471</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361471</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Operators of Unmeshed here, which is basically a rewrite of Netflix Conductor. In this orchestrator we heavily use a uniquely scaled version of SQLite and also offers “managed” SQLite instances for managing user data. Combining the durable executions of Unmeshed and along with workflow primitives like sleep, workers, etc you can actually build complex systems with a lot less code than ever.<p>Check it out here: <a href="https://unmeshed.io" rel="nofollow">https://unmeshed.io</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2026 08:30:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334001</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334001</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They both hired some good publicists who is advising that change your tone and messaging to get the public to like and trust the companies.<p>Initially the goal was to convince investors which is pretty much done and now its the retail/public that will value these companies once they IPO. Either way the job market is definitely impacted and is changing rapidly.<p>Will one of these companies be the first to hit 10 trillion valuation?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:39:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315141</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315141</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315141</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looking back it feels like GOOG, FB, TSLA etc. all went IPO at reasonable valuations. Retail & public investors did benefit long term and continuing to get higher valuations in public is not a small feat compared to a VC valuation.<p>A trillion dollar valuation seemed so hard back in the day and now there are so many companies in that list. What's the next level?<p>Is this just signs that $ is no longer the inflating at the same rate over time and its the realistic inflation that is reflecting in the stock market?<p>Prices of all goods surely has to follow to make up for the revenue needed to sustain these valuations and also the salaries to sustain the prices.<p>Unfortunately, those who are not in the loop is not going to have a good time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:35:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315093</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315093</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48315093</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "Just Use Postgres for Durable Workflows"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We work on disk log based architecture for workflows at Unmeshed (<a href="https://unmeshed.io/" rel="nofollow">https://unmeshed.io/</a>) which helps it to scale at a fraction of the cost of traditional workflow systems that are based on expensive databases.<p>Postgres is not cheap to run in the cloud at scale. We went for the cheapest infra, which is basically the disk storage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 20:24:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314940</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48314940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "The Structural Barriers to AI Lawyers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suppose one way is that the Lawyers and Legal Assistants use Legal AI as a replacement for standard search. Instead of parsing content and creating new notes, let AI search and create but humans spend the same amount time instead for verifying what was created.<p>That way the billable hours can match, but like the article says, who does this benefit? Ultimately the transfer of time to another task will keep law just as expensive. Perhaps there is room to save time on verification vs creation. Is it worth all the investment though?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 07:49:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291012</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291012</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48291012</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is quite amazing. I remember being on the original friendster way back in the day. They had so much potential. And there was also orkut.com that was even better because of the simpler UX. Then came Facebook and you all know the rest.</p>
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<p>This is true. Speaking only based on personal experience. My team had started treating AI like a super intelligent being.<p>“AI suggested we do it that way”<p>And we’ve been degrading our systems rapidly for last several weeks. We’ve decided to pause and reflect and change how we use AI on tasks that are not dead simple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:27:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913977</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913977</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47913977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Really hard to look at these images given how not human like the humans are. A few are ok, but a lot are disfigured or missing parts and its hard to find a raccoon in here.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:12:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858907</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "GitHub's fake star economy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Buying stars explicitly is one mechanism. Another one is running Hackathons in India or lower cost countries with a prize, which is qualified by "Starring" said repo.<p>Easily 1-3k stars per hackathon from student or hackathon participants for a cost of $1-5k. And some free marketing comes with too since participants may post on LinkedIn or other social media if they win something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:58:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838965</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47838965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"hundreds of calls per week" because the mechanic is under the hood every day seems a little off. Hundreds seems way too excessive. Perhaps an exaggeration to highlight the problem's seriousness?<p>With that kind of volume, I think even before AI could have helped, why not hire some staff and potentially even a receptionist. Given the volume, this seems like an easy choice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:18:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499173</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499173</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499173</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This was such as interesting read, but I found this link via LinkedIn rather than hackernews.<p>I would have expected this to be somewhere at the top right now given how deep the article digs and evidence seems legit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:44:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449815</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449815</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I pay $20 for OpenAI and codex makes me incredibly productive. With very careful prompts aimed at tiny tasks, I can review, fix and get a lot of things done.<p>I’ll happily pay up to $2k/month for it if I was left with no choice, but I don’t think it will ever get that expensive since you can run models locally and it could have the same result.<p>That being said, my outputs are similarish in the big picture. When I get something done, I typically don’t have the energy to keep going to get it to 2x or 3x because the cognitive load is about the same.<p>However I get a lot of time freed up which is amazing because I’m able to play golf 3-4 times a week which would have been impossible without AI.<p>Productive? Yes. Time saved? Yes. Overall outputs? Similar.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:18:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020722</link><dc:creator>halamadrid</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47020722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by halamadrid in "AI-First Company Memos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>HubSpot CTO was very vocal about how AI is changing everything and how he is supporting by offering the domain chat.com to OpenAI etc. I say was because it has toned down quite a bit. I always thought HubSpot will transform into a true AI CRM given how invested the CTO was in the space from the early days.<p>Now the stock is down from $800+ to $200+ and the whole messaging has changed. The last one I saw on LinkedIn was 
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No comment on the HubSpot stock price.<p>But, I strongly agree with this statement:<p>"...I don't see companies trusting their revenue engine to something vibe-coded over a weekend."
""<p>The stock dip is likely because of the true AI native CRMs being built and coming to market, but why couldn't HubSpot take that spot given the CTOs interest in the space.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906109">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46906109</a></p>
<p>Points: 8</p>
<p># Comments: 7</p>
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<p>If someone in the admin reads this, there is a chance this will be reversed and lead will be allowed in gas again :)</p>
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<p>Switched to codex and the CLI experience has been amazing, and I used to be huge fan of Cursor before and I haven’t opened it for ages now. I’m curious if I am missing out on anything that works better with Cursor.</p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730232">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46730232</a></p>
<p>Points: 4</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
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