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New comment by lain98 in "Ask HN: How do you keep up with HN these days?"

lain98 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 07:07:50 +0000

New comment by lain98 in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

lain98 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:41:09 +0000

I'm sorry. Companies are not charities or families but like sports teams. We come together for a limited objective, where the company meets its objectives and I get paid for my time.

I was laid off last year along with many of my colleagues, some time before the layoff the group director had an impromptu meeting and declared we are working for the good of the world and that we should all feel aligned with this message to serve humanity - "Our mission is to empower every person and every individual organisation on the planet to achieve more".

No your mission is to pump the stock and return value to shareholder. My mission is to help you do it and get paid for my time.

And it turns out more often that not, that to serve humanity is a cookbook.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_(The_Twilight_Zon...

New comment by lain98 in "A walk through of the DeltaNet family of linear attention variants"

lain98 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:10:23 +0000

Its greek to me.

New comment by lain98 in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

lain98 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:00:20 +0000

Down 13% in the last 5 days.

New comment by lain98 in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

lain98 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:17:57 +0000

I was fired by microsoft last year, Satya said the layoff was not due to performance reasons and he refused to elaborate what it was. In the job market I had to explain at every interview why I was laid off. People still ask me why I left MS to work at my current less prestigious company when the learn I used to work there and I have to sheepishly repeat the lie I have memorised to make them go away.

Even when I was at MS I saw a culture of always being in firing and hiring mode. They fired people who were perfectly good at their jobs and hired people who needed to be trained and needed higher salaries.

Sorry Satya. I just can't trust MS with my career anymore and I dissuade more people from going there everyday. ¯\(ツ)/¯

What is prole drift and what to do about it

lain98 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:56:37 +0000

Article URL: https://unprole.christianboyle.com/theory

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48628052

Points: 1

# Comments: 3

New comment by lain98 in "Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?"

lain98 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:57:50 +0000

I have been working for 10 years and unable to afford a home to start a family.

I have about 350k USD and live in New Delhi.

New comment by lain98 in "Danish Pension Blacklists SpaceX over 'Catastrophic Governance'"

lain98 — Sat, 30 May 2026 09:48:00 +0000

VTI avoids these issues. It's float adjusted market cap weighted. More float allows better price discovery. So a company like spacex has negligible weight.

New comment by lain98 in "Cisco workforce reductions"

lain98 — Thu, 14 May 2026 06:28:30 +0000

Whenever a company does layoffs willy nilly frequently I stop trusting them with my career. The AI excuses are lazy.

I was laid off last year by one of the big tech companies, and they called me again for a rehire but I just dont trust them anymore even if they pay more. The layoff completely disrupted my life and I developed health issues because of the stress. Not worth the mental hassle.

I have seen a few workplaces which are more deliberate in their hiring and are not on 24x7x365 hire and fire mode unlike many of the big names. I would rather work in such a place rather than have 10 varieties of coffee and condiments in the pantry.

Frankly i'm pissed off.

Sorry for the people who pinned their hopes on cisco and were laid off yesterday. It's not easy.

New comment by lain98 in "Show HN: Free textbook on engineering thermodynamics"

lain98 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:44:14 +0000

Engineering books are very expensive in my country. I want to give calculus a spin. Spivak is a hundred dollars.

New comment by lain98 in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

lain98 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:07:18 +0000

I use archive storage class on google cloud, to store old movies and wedding videos, pictures of old vacations.

For everything else I use paid onedrive subscription. The biggest problem is user interface with s3 like storage and predictable pricing because remember you also pay for data retrieval and other storage apis, with dropbox etc you pay a fixed amount. Every year or so I roll over data into the bucket.

But for infrequently accessed data its fine.

New comment by lain98 in "Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation: Reinforcement Learning and Diffusion Models"

lain98 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:00:06 +0000

I find myself completely outclassed by mathematicians in my own field. I tried to learn a little math on the side after my regular software engineer gig but I'm completely outclassed by phd's.

I am unsure of the next course of action or if software will survive another 5 years and how my career will look like in the future. Seems like I am engaged in the ice trade and they are about to invent the refrigerator.

New comment by lain98 in "Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker"

lain98 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:39:08 +0000

It's possible to do the same with google sheets using GOOGLEFINANCE function and I have been using it to track and manage finances since years.

New comment by lain98 in "Math from Three to Seven"

lain98 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 08:36:37 +0000

I have been trying to join/create a circle as an adult. I asked some of my online friends but no interest so far.

New comment by lain98 in "Ask HN: Former gifted children with hard lives, how did you turn out?"

lain98 — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 08:45:41 +0000

ACE 6. I did good career wise, failure was just not an option to me so I worked hard. At school I was put into accelerated classes for gifted kids. But I feel like I could have done a lot better with more support at home. I see that people get points for diversity etc. in college or hiring, but there is no such support for people who suffer silently, and even if there was I have too much pride to let others know just for some brownie points. Life was particularly hard before I found employment, roughly from the age of 18 to 26. That was also the period when my mental health challenges were more difficult and I had not yet learned how to cope. I have not yet gotten any ‘treatment’ for mental health issues. I got some money after making some fortunate investment decisions that allowed me to climb out of poverty, it might be trivial sum for most people out there but it was a lot to me. Lately I get feelings of being an orphan, just out there on my own and not having my own people to share things with or support in life.

My wife is startled sometimes when I react as I do, she doesn’t understand where it comes from. I have forgetfulness and emotional regulation issues. But she is a nice person and helps me out.

I worry about money and the future all the time.

I would like to thank my mom and God for everything, and Jensen Huang. Will delete this later.

Sorry for poor punctuation and english.