Hacker News: kadomony

New comment by kadomony in "Googlebook"

kadomony — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:02:51 +0000

So, these will just be dumped into schools and the already deteriorating education system will just collapse because kids won't know anything and Gemini will just be doing everything for them.

I hate AI.

New comment by kadomony in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

kadomony — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:49:00 +0000

The message is too smart for the people it's directed at.

New comment by kadomony in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

kadomony — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:27:06 +0000

Shocked that they didn't just offer eBay $2 like they did for literally everything I brought to trade in.

New comment by kadomony in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

kadomony — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:56:45 +0000

I bet they were already in talks for being acquired and not open sourcing Arc was one of the conditions.

Who knows what Atlassian will do with it, but I did find it a bit frustrating that in the Atlassian blog announcing the acquisition, they showcase images of Arc when they're specifically talking about Dia. The two browsers do not have UI parity, and much of what I loved about Arc would need to be recreated in Dia.

New comment by kadomony in "Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic"

kadomony — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:29:59 +0000

This was so fun; thank you! Congrats on getting it licensed!

New comment by kadomony in "Google to pay $28M to settle claims it favoured white and Asian employees"

kadomony — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:11:07 +0000

Am I interpreting this correctly? It sounds like the lawsuit is filed on behalf of at least 6,632 employees. $28,000,000 distributed amongst that many is roughly $4,221.95. That's not even accounting for the law firm's stake. That seems like an absurdly low amount to pay to folks to say "sorry we screwed your career over".

Google can and absolutely should be paying these people more in compensation.

New comment by kadomony in "Google announces agreement to acquire Wiz"

kadomony — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:09:09 +0000

Yes. They became billionaires overnight.

New comment by kadomony in "Launch HN: Sift Dev (YC W25) – AI-Powered Datadog Alternative"

kadomony — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:07:09 +0000

The marketing design approach feels very off to me. You barrage me with an annoying scrolling marquee showing me the most abstract, unrecognizable logos telling me I should trust you because they do. 10+ companies on board feels rather small.

You said AI-driven analysis to identify logs, but I'm already skeptical of AI doing tasks like this, and you obfuscate it further by not actually showing me how it works, just another generic abstract marketing design graphic.

I dunno. It just seems like vaporware-as-a-service from the design vibes.

New comment by kadomony in "Dear Student: Yes, AI is here, you're screwed unless you take action"

kadomony — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:31:24 +0000

I probably am misremembering then and just use the dean as a generalized title. This was almost 13 years ago. This person was definitely in charge of curriculum, I remember that much, so probably not the dean. Thanks for correcting my misuse of the word.

New comment by kadomony in "Dear Student: Yes, AI is here, you're screwed unless you take action"

kadomony — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:09:40 +0000

That was just an example, not strictly what I was there for. I just pointed it out to the dean as something that was always mentioned, but glanced over like "ew, this doesn't matter so much".

It, in fact, ended up mattering a lot.

New comment by kadomony in "Dear Student: Yes, AI is here, you're screwed unless you take action"

kadomony — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:27:25 +0000

University-taught computer science curriculum is going to have to change drastically.

Disclaimer: I am not a CS degree holder. But I did attempt a masters in software engineering and it was really eye-opening to me to see how far behind "traditional" curriculum was when compared to real-world opportunities. My university completely overlooked things like front-end web development and a host of other modern needs at the time; when I spoke to the dean, he recommended the school might just not be a fit.

So if we're leaving students behind for AI outputs and shutting the door in favor of the old guard, what happens to the new wave? Will schools train them to get to the point of working with systems enough to call bullshit on AI? Are schools even teaching students AI right now?

I ask sincerely just because when I pushed for change in curriculum, I basically was shown the door that led to me dropping out and (thankfully) landing a gig at a startup that opened up another (better) door for me.

New comment by kadomony in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

kadomony — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 22:06:48 +0000

Ugh. Can't someone please just let us customize how we want to experience the Internet? It seems like a right to repair law. But right to remove. If I know how to take out ads and I want them gone, I should be free to do so.

New comment by kadomony in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

kadomony — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:59:19 +0000

I think that we'll need to adopt network-level filtering if we want to outsmart the browsers. I haven't looked back since adopting NextDNS and configuring my router to filter all traffic through it. It does a great job of stripping ads out of all my devices connected to it, and that's something I don't mind paying a few bucks for a year (I think it's like $19/year).

Check it out here: https://nextdns.io/

New comment by kadomony in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

kadomony — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 05:05:53 +0000

Alfred does a lot more beyond just searching.

New comment by kadomony in "macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)"

kadomony — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 05:05:05 +0000

> - There's still no good window manager for macOS. Rectangle is as close as it gets, but it's not good IMO because it only works on non full size windows. (the solution is just get ninja-like with three finger swipe, and endure using the mouse/trackpad more than you'd prefer)

I use Magnet and it does the job well. If you're familiar with it, I'd love to know why you don't think it's a good window manager. Or do you just mean there's not a good NATIVE window manager for the OS?

Ask HN: How do you keep your channels and messages organized in Slack?

kadomony — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 20:23:58 +0000

I feel like I'm drowning daily in the number of channels that I am added to either because of my job function/role in an org or the project being in-flight. How do you keep things clean? The constant bold channels is driving my insane.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42197755

Points: 2

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New comment by kadomony in "Amazon Makes It Harder for Disabled Employees to Work from Home"

kadomony — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 23:39:46 +0000

They want these people to quit. In a company that basically selects for survival of the fittest and operates on constant evolution of talent and speed, do you really think they honestly care about disabled employees?

New comment by kadomony in "Introducing ChatGPT Search"

kadomony — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:30:18 +0000

I was skeptical of LLM search until I saw Arc Search in action with its "browse for me" functionality.

New comment by kadomony in "M4 MacBook Pro"

kadomony — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:34:54 +0000

Conversely, the M3 supposedly has better multi core performance? How is that possible?

New comment by kadomony in "Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why"

kadomony — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 14:40:55 +0000

Wait, so you're just not eating every other day?