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New comment by ibn_khaldun in "CSS-Tricks has a new owner"

ibn_khaldun — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 20:45:42 +0000

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Microsoft offers buyouts to around 60k employees to contain costs

ibn_khaldun — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:28:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-is-offering-buyouts-around-60000-employees-business-insider-reports-2026-10-26/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50247555

Points: 7

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New comment by ibn_khaldun in "Websites Should Be Printable"

ibn_khaldun — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:59:00 +0000

Printing a web page (or a PDF) is not unreasonable provided the content is two pages or more and it's something that invites itself to depth and close reading or some sort of value like ordinary print.

Your everyday blog is not worth the cost or effort. Nor is a Wikipedia entry.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "Tell HN: The Amount of Irrelevant Content on Here Is Insane"

ibn_khaldun — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:25:09 +0000

HN has reached its "elder game" stage [0].

Established public figures here know how to play it. Everyone else either uses it as a temporary means for virality or are just here to hotbox the forum while it still stands.

In the meantime I hope your filter turns into something you think is worth making public. I have a 'concept of a plan' for an alternative but it would take some time and would not be a Show HN.

[0]: https://ribbonfarm.com/2019/01/31/elderblog-sutra-1/

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "Tell HN: The Amount of Irrelevant Content on Here Is Insane"

ibn_khaldun — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:04:49 +0000

I agree. The responses you're receiving here are indicative. But it would help if you included some evidence of your own and a call to action.

Here's a past approach that proved successful for some time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102013

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "Median product "lifespan" has fallen from ~4y down to ~1.5y"

ibn_khaldun — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:11:02 +0000

Software is in its SoundCloud rap era.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "When did New York start building slowly?"

ibn_khaldun — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 23:34:28 +0000

There’s no Power Broker in the city to keep the irons hot.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "The Problem with Don Norman"

ibn_khaldun — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 20:36:29 +0000

This offers an interesting glimpse into the dynamics of a changing world…

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "Typst, a new markup-based typesetting system, is now open source"

ibn_khaldun — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 18:58:31 +0000

Name checks out. This is awesome.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "MIT’s Barry Duncan demonstrates the power of writing in reverse"

ibn_khaldun — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:49:34 +0000

Those can very well be common palindromes just pulled from the web. I know the last line is very common.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "Channel 42 – lightweight voice channels as easy as Imgur"

ibn_khaldun — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 23:41:13 +0000

Mute Mic does not toggle in Safari on iOS for me.

Use cases is essentially for medium-sized lectures. Only one or two people should be speaking at a given moment on these occasions.

All in all, I just like seeing a straightforward web app like this. Glad to help.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "The End of Front-End Development"

ibn_khaldun — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 21:50:51 +0000

I never thought of that. That would definitely put a spoil on common access to digital information in the long term. Perhaps it could even bifurcate the Web in the way that‘s been entertained before: a separate Web document environment and a separate Web application environment.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "Channel 42 – lightweight voice channels as easy as Imgur"

ibn_khaldun — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:22:20 +0000

This is cool. I’m in mobile. My phone has a grayscale display. There doesn’t appear to be anything that shows me whether my mic is muted or not when I press “Mute Mic” nor is there anything that indicated whether my connection is reset when I press the corresponding button.

If this could accommodate around 8 people or so and I had a reason to trust that the communications were secure, I’d have immediate use for it.

It’s Nice though! And the stack sounds cool.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "The End of Front-End Development"

ibn_khaldun — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:17:39 +0000

This is an exciting time, but also topically exhausting. I can see how past generations of technological change may have taken being in the midst of it all for granted in between the hype and the volley of takes for and against the latest groundbreaking innovation of the time.

Side note: I’m looking forward to a viable OpenAI competitor to come along and introduce their own chatbot…right now all of the speculation in the LLM area of AI are concentrated to the work of one company…what else can be out there?

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "The End of Front-End Development"

ibn_khaldun — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 20:13:38 +0000

Elaborate, please. This is a new take to me.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "GPT-4 can infer authorship from a passage of text based on style and content"

ibn_khaldun — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 20:23:56 +0000

He should share the entire chat.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "More students are turning away from college and toward apprenticeships"

ibn_khaldun — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 17:03:46 +0000

College stinks, but what will happen to “blue collar” young people who do not make it into the “white collar” apprenticeship pipeline, who would have previously achieved so through college. Oh yeah, well they can just choose college. But as this apprenticeship thing becomes more popular, what will the competition be like?

Young people! The labor market is turtling…what are we going to do?

Edit: I’m choosing a more tasteful description for the American labor market. Thank you for expressing your distaste with the original one.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "Vespass – A New Kind of Password Manager"

ibn_khaldun — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 14:14:38 +0000

It’s not ready.

New comment by ibn_khaldun in "With ships, birds find an easier way to travel"

ibn_khaldun — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:37:44 +0000

This was a delightful read. I wonder what the consequences will be

Ask HN: Online Writers Under 30?

ibn_khaldun — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 17:08:19 +0000

At first I was going to ask for “bloggers” under 30, because I’m really interested in seeing if there are any young people who have garnered a following through their own personal websites, but I suspect that to be kind of a rarity. I’ll settle also for anyone under 30 with a relatively popular Substack, or account on the Fediverse, or stuff like that.

Just please, no Twitter-ers.

But if you know anyone who satisfies my initial interest and doesn’t compose text content on Twitter, or is not a Vlogger, please share.

Popularity is not a necessity. I suspect that a lot of these writers may operate within certain niches. Niche followings are the among the best though. TIA.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35199871

Points: 1

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