Hacker News: lljk_kennedy

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

lljk_kennedy — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:21:35 +0000

Reality left the building a long time ago. I think a lot of world models of how things "should" go are severely outdated.

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Apple WWDC 2026"

lljk_kennedy — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:56:33 +0000

Oddly, the strange handheld look and constant reframing of the talking head shots are pulling me wildly out of focus and distracting me terribly. Wonder what drove the choice to do it.

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Training our own AI models"

lljk_kennedy — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:15:59 +0000

netdix.com

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "The worst job interview I ever had"

lljk_kennedy — Wed, 27 May 2026 07:55:44 +0000

This sounds more like post-hiring admin, unless you're discriminating against parents?

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

lljk_kennedy — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:13:19 +0000

Bullshit work, in other words.

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

lljk_kennedy — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:59:14 +0000

Sell at high, buy at low?

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

lljk_kennedy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:27:51 +0000

I find it hard to blame the workers in this story... it's a poor indictment of the management if they only checked in 3 months later and got this surprise - no wonder the company collapsed!

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

lljk_kennedy — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:20:23 +0000

Are you paid significantly more for your newfound productivity?

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

lljk_kennedy — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:03:21 +0000

Source for it being a "trap"? Got some evidence to share?

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]"

lljk_kennedy — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:39:36 +0000

Failure of the markets, and capitalism in general. Surely if the markets worked properly there would be ample housing due to demand?

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "A website to destroy all websites"

lljk_kennedy — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:15:17 +0000

Hm. I read the title differently - that we create "A" personal website to break the monopoly of the "All" websites like the social media sites he mentions.

The singular destroys the monolithic many.

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

lljk_kennedy — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 18:07:01 +0000

This sounds just as bad as yolo-merges, just on the other end of the spectrum.

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

lljk_kennedy — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:36:50 +0000

It's 75 minutes to _communicate_ the message to customers. Definitely internal teams were ahead of this before it was posted to the AWS Health Dashboard. Status Page posts are lagging indicators of incident progress.

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

lljk_kennedy — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:35:12 +0000

"This is important enough for someone to work on as soon as their shift starts, but not important enough to page someone out of bed for."

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

lljk_kennedy — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:33:55 +0000

Wholly inaccurate. AWS Systems Engineers would have been paged by automated monitoring systems once alert thresholds were breached. No escalation through Support needed.

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend"

lljk_kennedy — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:37:43 +0000

Thank you, I came to say this too. You're mushing your humans harder, and they'll break. Those 5 mins of downtime post-call aren't 100% note taking - it's catching their breath, trying to re-compose after dealing with a nasty customer, trying to re-energise after a deep technical session etc.

I think AI in general is just being misused to optimise local minima in detriment to the overall system.

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Start your own Internet Resiliency Club"

lljk_kennedy — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:44:24 +0000

You're right, of course. Notice I edited out the Swan Lake reference in my quote - https://www.npr.org/2021/08/19/1029437787/in-1991-soviet-cit...

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "Start your own Internet Resiliency Club"

lljk_kennedy — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 08:38:41 +0000

> One of my nightmares is waking up one morning and discovering that the power is out, the internet is down, my cell phone doesn’t work

I dunno.... as I get older, this sounds more and more idyllic

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "I'm the CTO of Palantir. Today I Join the Army"

lljk_kennedy — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:22:20 +0000

Today? In this current version of America? You like the idea of being deployed internally against protestors? Or maybe, Greenland sounds like a nice holiday spot?

New comment by lljk_kennedy in "The trap of "I am not an extrovert""

lljk_kennedy — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 14:13:43 +0000

My intersect of "people I like" and "people I have to spend time with" is likely smaller than yours.