Hacker News: klipklop

New comment by klipklop in "Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years"

klipklop — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:18:41 +0000

100% agree that places close too early for folks that work into the evening.

New comment by klipklop in "Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years"

klipklop — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:17:36 +0000

I didn’t forget this. I worked for pennies in retail longer than I ever did anything else. I see a clear change over the past few decades.

New comment by klipklop in "Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years"

klipklop — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 20:50:53 +0000

Take an hour off at 2-3pm in any major US city and look at how many people are just milling about. Mostly shopping. There are a lot of people in the US that are not working.

Pre-2008 retail was quiet in the middle of the day, now it booms. I can’t comment on if this is a good or bad thing, but I am surprised at how many people are causally walking their dog as I am rushing to compete an essential errand and get back to work.

New comment by klipklop in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

klipklop — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:54:33 +0000

This comes off as extremely condescending. I am pretty sure the person you are trying to give basic dieting advice already knows this. Why are you trying so hard to convince people to not take medication that helps them?

New comment by klipklop in "No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass"

klipklop — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:53:03 +0000

You assume the tech lords would allow us access to natural resources to do that. Hint: they won’t. They will own everything.

New comment by klipklop in "No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass"

klipklop — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:48:32 +0000

I am real jealous of the boomers and gen-x being able to bail on the tech job market right as it goes to shit. Could not make for better timing. Everyone else looking at somehow surviving for the next 20-30 years knows that it’s looking pretty bleak.

New comment by klipklop in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

klipklop — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:23:18 +0000

Looks like the Facebook employee got scared. They always keep quiet…

New comment by klipklop in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

klipklop — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:17:29 +0000

For all the folks that proudly say “fine I will use browser X instead!” Don’t you realize the next step is to slowly change chrome so sites will work in chrome, but not other minority browsers?

Google is playing the long game. Boil the frogs slowly.

New comment by klipklop in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

klipklop — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:07:34 +0000

> my manager has no idea who I am, nor what I’m working on, and I’ve never met them despite me being on the team for nearly two months.

This is the fast track to being next in a round of layoffs. If your manager does not know you, they won’t vouch for you when it comes time to toss people out of the airlock. You are in a vulnerable position.

New comment by klipklop in "Devs know AI code is riddled with holes, but ship it anyway"

klipklop — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:15:20 +0000

It’s because upper management demands it. Do most of your coding with an LLM or find another job, etc. How much you “llm all the things” is now a measured performance metric.

It’s pure madness but employees are obligated to give the people that pay them what they want. Either that or lose your healthcare and housing.

New comment by klipklop in "DOS Zone"

klipklop — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:13:09 +0000

I wish iPadOS properly handled full screen and keyboard input. It runs rather well on my M4 iPad Pro but the lack of proper full screen support in the browser with mouse capture ruins it. Awesome emulator though!

New comment by klipklop in "Apple Silicon costs more than OpenRouter"

klipklop — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:24:53 +0000

Even if a Mac mini at home was slightly cheaper per token I still use OpenRouter because I want to out source the heat generation and noise to a datacenter.

New comment by klipklop in "Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar"

klipklop — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:58:53 +0000

This is the best possible take if you ask me. Sundar won because he was not wildly unstable like the other Google Execs were at that time.

New comment by klipklop in "Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary"

klipklop — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:42:24 +0000

The world needs 6.22 open sourced.

New comment by klipklop in "Resident Evil Requiem with Denuvo DRM Cracked"

klipklop — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:06:23 +0000

How much does the frame rate go up by with the crack applied I wonder…

New comment by klipklop in "Americans Recognize AI as a Wealth Inequality Machine, Polls Find"

klipklop — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:12:39 +0000

We might all find ourselves become “useless”. If we don’t like it, a drone might come to our door to correct our behavior.

What do we do when most can’t trade their labor for money?

New comment by klipklop in "Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight"

klipklop — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 06:09:45 +0000

So installing mass surveillance systems without permission of the people being spied on counts as philanthropy now?

We are at a weird place right now in the US.

New comment by klipklop in "Americans want heat pumps – but high electricity prices may get in the way"

klipklop — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:25:33 +0000

We don’t want them, they are being forced on us by banning natural gas furnaces and efficient refrigerants.

New comment by klipklop in "Claude Opus 4.6 extra usage promo"

klipklop — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 02:27:29 +0000

Yeah I can work for minutes in the $20 Claude plan but potentially hours with Codex. It’s just not worth bothering.

New comment by klipklop in "Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees"

klipklop — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:41:23 +0000

People have to work to survive and afford medical treatment in the US. It’s funny how you can blame the people forced to work to survive and not the system that is setup to force them to do so.

The elite post covid have placed the average worker firmly under their boot. They apply more pressure each day.