Hacker News: jc_811

New comment by jc_811 in "Stripe and Advent have made a joint offer to acquire PayPal – sources"

jc_811 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:39:24 +0000

If you look at their financials, they’re clearly making money. In 2025 they had 33B in revenue with a net income of 5.2B

New comment by jc_811 in "Cloudflare CEO: few engineers or customer-facing sales people laid off"

jc_811 — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:15:49 +0000

Full quote: "Some truth to that. There’s a whole bunch of back office you needed to be public which AI has made a lot more streamlined. Very few engineers or customer-facing sales people impacted by our layoff. And we’ll continue to hire like crazy in those roles — like we did as a startup."

More quotes by him in other comments too:

[1] "Roles are being cut. Whole functions. Who will survive and thrive are anyone who’s building the product to be sold, or anyone who’s selling the product. We and others will hire everyone good we can find for those roles."

[2] "We’ll still be on a roll hiring. Just shifts to focusing on people who either build or sell products. Fewer roles needed to act as scaffolding supporting those functions"

[3] "Agree! Hence we laid off very few software engineers. Very few customer-facing sales people either. But if you don’t think AI changes how SalesOps, for instance, will be done going forward then it probably means you don’t know what SalesOps is."

[4] "We’ll still be hiring at a rapid pace. This isn’t about cutting headcount. It’s about shifting what roles we need. More people building and selling product. Less providing back office functions to support them."

[5] "We’re not slowing down hiring. We’re just shifting for what roles we’re hiring. This isn’t about cutting staff, it’s about changing what roles we need."

[1]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052598611679097040#m [2]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052559855274144039#m [3]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052560831909433554#m [4]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052557234182172932#m [5]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052557696650428882#m [6]- https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052561977080205637#m

Curious what you all think of this, or if this matches what you're hearing/seeing out there? From public forums it seems like quite a few engineering roles were impacted.

Cloudflare CEO: few engineers or customer-facing sales people laid off

jc_811 — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:15:49 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2052561977080205637#m

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48066052

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games

jc_811 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:17:37 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/03/figuring-out-why-ais-get-flummoxed-by-some-games/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370695

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Spain orders NordVPN, ProtonVPN to block LaLiga piracy sites

jc_811 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:04:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/spain-orders-nordvpn-protonvpn-to-block-laliga-piracy-sites/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47055274

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

The Inverted Panopticon: China Weaponized the West's Own Wiretap Infrastructure

jc_811 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:24:57 +0000

Article URL: https://shanakaanslemperera.substack.com/p/the-inverted-panopticon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46779079

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Photonic Raises $130M to Accelerate Quantum Computing and Networking

jc_811 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:11:01 +0000

Article URL: https://photonic.com/news/photonic-raises-180m/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523843

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Any online tech spaces you hang around that don't involve AI?

jc_811 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 13:15:56 +0000

I understand why Ai is dominating online discourse right now. The tech is novel, it’s pushing boundaries, the business side has trillions of dollars involved, and it’s made its way to the mainstream of every day people.

But, I just truly don’t find it interesting. For all those that do - great! But for myself, for whatever reason it just does not scratch that part of my brain. I’d rather spend days writing and debugging code (to create a 5 minute automation ;) ) than having Ai spit something out in 10 seconds.

I just use Ai like a supercharged stack overflow. Ask it something if I have a syntax error or whatever, and then move on by continuing to use my own brain to think through the logic and patterns of my project.

All that to say - I miss what HN was before Ai and LLMs started dominating everything!

Anyone have other spaces, blogs, communities, or whatever where you go to learn and/or discuss interesting things that don’t have anything to do with Ai?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46254307

Points: 12

# Comments: 10

New comment by jc_811 in "He's Been Right About AI for 40 Years. Now He Thinks Everyone Is Wrong"

jc_811 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:06:34 +0000

Very little content on the actual thing he says will be replacing LLM: World models

New comment by jc_811 in "The accidental click that changed everything: the Apify origin story"

jc_811 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:00:27 +0000

It is 2025 and Tesla just announced flying cars. (Self driving cars are still not a thing)

New comment by jc_811 in "The accidental click that changed everything: the Apify origin story"

jc_811 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:59:38 +0000

Awesome product & team. I remember back in 2016/17 I used it for some fun projects and jumped on calls with the founders to help me with roadblocks or questions I had.

Issues Affecting CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor for Windows

jc_811 — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:42:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/security-advisories/issues-affecting-crowdstrike-falcon-sensor-for-windows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45537314

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jc_811 in "Elon Musk's xAI lays off workers tasked with training Grok"

jc_811 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:46:57 +0000

https://archive.ph/q56om

Elon Musk's xAI lays off workers tasked with training Grok

jc_811 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:46:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-xai-layoffs-data-annotators-2025-9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45280557

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

New comment by jc_811 in "Like humans, every tree has its own microbiome, a new study has found"

jc_811 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 07:03:50 +0000

I think you underestimate what does (or could possibly) have consequences for life on earth

What kids told us about how to get them off their phones

jc_811 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:01:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/kids-smartphones-play-freedom/683742/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44911873

Points: 57

# Comments: 103

Webflow RCA Incident [pdf]

jc_811 — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:46:35 +0000

Article URL: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6220f3e30d60ec3ef9a240d3/688b9826671ccaa24c912c7c_Webflow%20RCA%20Incident%20829%20-%20July%2028%202025.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44747441

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Cells are fast and crowded places

jc_811 — Mon, 19 May 2025 15:15:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.righto.com/2011/07/cells-are-very-fast-and-crowded-places.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44030763

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

New comment by jc_811 in "Mark Zuckerberg says social media is over"

jc_811 — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:15:44 +0000

I don't know if their newsfeed algorithm is broken, or just grasping at straws, but whenever I log in (fairly often simply for FB marketplace) my feed is full of posts and recommendations for things that don't even make sense for me. For example hiking groups that are in a random mid-size city 2,000mi from me. Or student housing groups in a random international city.

I've tried to even provide feedback on them not being relevant, but they still always appear. I don't know, it really does seem that their newsfeed relevancy is fundamentally broken

New comment by jc_811 in "Supabase raises $200M Series D at $2B valuation"

jc_811 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 16:22:01 +0000

A $2B valuation with revenue roughly between $15M-$25M a year. Is this normal? Seems insane to me. And I love Supabase!