Hacker News: majani

New comment by majani in "Did they ghost you?"

majani — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:11:52 +0000

They responded as soon as you reached out. I don't think that counts as ghosting

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

majani — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:44:10 +0000

The 2000s were a startup winter after the dotcom bubble burst. In those days you were extremely lucky if you could raise over $100k in funding and in revenue $100m was the ultimate fantasy. ZIRP was the 2010s

New comment by majani in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

majani — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:16:22 +0000

Pointless. 95% would stick to the default

New comment by majani in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

majani — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:14:27 +0000

Hang out with some 5-10 year olds and give them control of YouTube, they'll show you within 2 minutes

New comment by majani in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

majani — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:05:40 +0000

The shock and awe from a nuclear strike is unmatched

New comment by majani in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

majani — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:02:12 +0000

There are ego maniacs and people from shame cultures who would be animalistically obstinate in the face of globally televised embarrassment

New comment by majani in "Tesla Sales Down 55% UK, 58% Spain, 59% Germany, 81% Netherlands, 93% Norway"

majani — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 10:22:48 +0000

Since he's now being seen as a conservative, he is now adding into Christian elements to his grift. Expect to see him get even more mystical now

New comment by majani in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

majani — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:28:59 +0000

And it was a great deal compared to the 90% cut you had to give phone carriers to highlight your java apps

New comment by majani in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"

majani — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 18:53:40 +0000

Yes, and also tariffs are a strategy to appeal to nationalists. This group is fine making the tradeoff of a worse economy if it means putting your nation's people first

New comment by majani in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

majani — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:05:47 +0000

O1 would probably want to see a huge number of followers. An OG model with a large following is someone with a huge amount of agency. Probably the highest agency sex worker of them all. Impossible to traffic

New comment by majani in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

majani — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:01:05 +0000

The more I hear about culture, the more I think it seems like the new age mysticism of the right

New comment by majani in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

majani — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:26:32 +0000

Increasing supply would see your property value rise astronomically. Suddenly there would be developers wanting to build a 30 storey building in place of your single family unit. The ROI on that 30 storey would be high enough for them to give you multiple millions of dollars for your land. What would decrease is the beauty of the neighborhood, but people can be taught to appreciate the beauty of highrise buildings

New comment by majani in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

majani — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:29:41 +0000

Looks like they sold right before the end. Wonder whether the AI deals they've struck make up for the difference

New comment by majani in "X's new country-of-origin feature reveals many 'US' accounts to be foreign-run"

majani — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:17:33 +0000

Color me shocked that libsoftiktok is an actual US account. I was certain it was a foreign operative

New comment by majani in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

majani — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:36:47 +0000

Now that network effects and data lock-in have taken root, downtime is not as big of a concern as it was in the 2000s

New comment by majani in "Denmark to raise retirement age to 70"

majani — Wed, 28 May 2025 04:51:46 +0000

Any solution that starts with "if we can all..." is no solution at all

New comment by majani in "CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)"

majani — Mon, 26 May 2025 11:56:42 +0000

Two big leaps in your answer: 1. that the person paying more is rich and 2. that the person paying more likely doesn't care about the band

The way I see it, it is also highly likely that the person paying more is of average income and just convinced themselves to pay more because they are superfans

New comment by majani in "The Origins of Wokeness"

majani — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 22:16:28 +0000

I'm also black and growing up I had the impression that "woke" referred to left-leaning conspiracy theorists and activists. 9/11 truthers and gay rights activists were the main woke groups of the Bush era

New comment by majani in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

majani — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:20:11 +0000

What you are talking of is only possible in companies where the founder didn't take VC investment. Once you take VC money, you get on the treadmill of infinite growth to satisfy investors. That makes companies do strange things in pursuit of this impossible goal. Like hiring for the sake of showing growth in headcount, hiring people to branch into unrelated verticals, hiring people with big resumes just to say you have them on the team etc

New comment by majani in "Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction"

majani — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:10:08 +0000

One thing I've come to realize is that the larger your social circle, the more prone you are to comparisons and hence lifestyle creep. You can see this where the careers that involve a lot of socializing (sales, entertainment, law, finance etc) are known for having flashy people. And the careers that you can do as a loner (programming, quant, researcher etc) are known for having miserly folk