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People Do Not Yearn for Automation

icco — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:36:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029/software-brain-ai-backlash-databases-automation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47878737

Points: 119

# Comments: 68

Deutsche Telekom has a bad DKIM key

icco — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:36:38 +0000

Article URL: https://infosec.exchange/@badkeys/116407565746342278

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47820806

Points: 34

# Comments: 1

New comment by icco in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

icco — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:47:21 +0000

https://natwelch.com personal site with a wiki and blog.

New comment by icco in "US EPA Enforcement and Compliance on Apple Fabrication"

icco — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 02:27:43 +0000

I mean this is bad, but also there are silicon fabs all over the bay area, and have been for decades. Hence the whole "silicon valley" thing.

New comment by icco in "Jaq – A jq clone focused on correctness, speed, and simplicity"

icco — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:12:34 +0000

I use `yq` for this stuff and it handles most of this pretty well.

New comment by icco in "HashiCorp adopts Business Source License"

icco — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 17:12:00 +0000

I would migrate off fast. If they are willing to do this with their oldest and most popular tool, I have no doubt they'll change the license of all of their code soon.

New comment by icco in "Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out"

icco — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:05:34 +0000

I am not a lawyer, but https://explore.zoom.us/docs/doc/Zoom-hipaa.pdf reads like as long as they don't disclose your information, they aren't in violation.

New comment by icco in "Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out"

icco — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:01:50 +0000

Definitely, but so does every advertising play. While AI companies are more egregious, this isn't anything new.

New comment by icco in "Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?"

icco — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:43:39 +0000

With all of the layoffs, we're seeing about a 50-100x increase in number of applicants for open rolls, so the market is definitely more flooded. Also I'm regularly finding applicants were over-lelveled in past roles, and so usually have about one or two titles higher expectations for level than they actually are capable of having.

New comment by icco in "If PEP 703 is accepted, Meta can commit three engineer-years to no-GIL CPython"

icco — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 20:39:10 +0000

Just rewrite all of your Python in Go. Python in 2023 is a mistake.

New comment by icco in "Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?"

icco — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 02:38:24 +0000

https://writing.natwelch.com

New comment by icco in "Show HN: I was frustrated with pricing of PagerDuty et al., so made one myself"

icco — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 03:17:47 +0000

If your service needs to survive a global aws outage, you just can't run with any saas. So many of these companies are single regioned in AWS. Auth0, Okta, Datadog, many others put customers in a regional box, and if that region goes down, all of those customers go down.

New comment by icco in "Ask HN: Why do many CS graduates lack foundational knowledge?"

icco — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 14:40:41 +0000

This is also why you shouldn't take GPA or alma-mater into account when considering resumes. MIT grads are just as worthless as any other 21y old.

New comment by icco in "Hi again @elonmusk"

icco — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 23:29:13 +0000

That's not surprising. hn has been home to anti-worker, pro-techno-utopianism for a very long time.

New comment by icco in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2023)"

icco — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 17:55:04 +0000

Laurel | Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Platform | REMOTE (North America) | https://laurel.ai

Full JD and application form - https://grnh.se/19ed4d612us

Laurel is a time tracking application for lawyers, accounts and other knowledge workers. Our infrastructure / cloud platform team is small but we build, design and manage the platform for our product engineers to build our product!

New comment by icco in "Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps"

icco — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 17:46:55 +0000

There is no cloud provider that is large that wants you building hobby apps. Google, AWS, Azure, Heroku, etc. all want you to build large apps, small apps are not their market and they actively don't want you.

New comment by icco in "Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects?"

icco — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 16:15:53 +0000

Pretty much all of the books at newline do this: https://www.newline.co/

New comment by icco in "CircleCI security alert: Rotate any secrets stored in CircleCI"

icco — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 15:45:18 +0000

Layoffs and outages at Circle. software supply chain attacks becoming more and more popular.

New comment by icco in "An M1 for Curl"

icco — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 16:46:55 +0000

While this is great, there are so many more FOSS projects that OSX relies on that Apple doesn't support in any way.

New comment by icco in "Ask HN: What's a build vs. buy decision that you got wrong?"

icco — Thu, 29 Dec 2022 03:27:37 +0000

Hiring Devops contractors to put together any piece of infrastructure. Infrastructure is so core to your business, you always regret and have to rebuild. Tried twice now and regretted it both times.