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Amazon cut more than 1,800 engineers in record layoffs

miked85 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 13:56:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/21/amazon-cut-thousands-of-engineers-in-its-record-layoffs-filings-show.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46023590

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New comment by miked85 in "Despite sticker prices, the real cost of getting a degree has been going down"

miked85 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 04:02:16 +0000

the value of them is much less however

New comment by miked85 in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

miked85 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:34:23 +0000

Monoliths might be better in some cases, microservices in others. Performance can obviously differ based on implementation.

New comment by miked85 in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

miked85 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 01:19:18 +0000

I can't, since I don't know Netflix's architecture - I was responding to "I'd love to hear exactly how a monolith application is guaranteed to perform better, with details."

New comment by miked85 in "Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson"

miked85 — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:48:24 +0000

It's not guaranteed, but much fewer points of failure.

New comment by miked85 in "Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem"

miked85 — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 18:06:46 +0000

I really only buy stuff from Amazon that is unlikely to be counterfeit. I haven't even had great luck with that approach. Better to go through the manufacturer's site, or a more reputable site.

New comment by miked85 in "Microsoft breached antitrust rules by bundling Teams and Office, EU says"

miked85 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 19:53:31 +0000

I don't think it's all that petty. Teams is really bad, and if you have to deal with it daily, time to find another job.

New comment by miked85 in "Home ownership is not the boon to older Americans that it once was"

miked85 — Sun, 12 May 2024 00:50:51 +0000

The rising price of a house you own means very little if everything is going up - plus throw in inflation, interest rate, and taxes. If you move now, you are going to pay more unless you significantly downsize.

New comment by miked85 in "China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers: Report"

miked85 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 23:12:24 +0000

No real reason to use Intel or AMD since they already stole all the tech.

New comment by miked85 in "Research shows that people who BS are more likely to fall for BS (2021)"

miked85 — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 03:24:53 +0000

It's not a lie if you believe it.

New comment by miked85 in "Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports"

miked85 — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:33:48 +0000

Your O key might be broken as well

New comment by miked85 in "Dev onboarding, then and now"

miked85 — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 14:12:22 +0000

Kind of a long way to say that the author uses Docker for development environments.

New comment by miked85 in "Google Promises Unlimited Storage; Cancels; Tells Journalist Life's Work Deleted"

miked85 — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:55:47 +0000

I honestly don't know why anyone would use Google for anything anymore.

New comment by miked85 in "Meta's new AI image generator was trained on 1.1B Instagram and FB photos"

miked85 — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 05:21:05 +0000

Yet another reason to steer far clear of anything Meta.

New comment by miked85 in "VMware is now part of Broadcom"

miked85 — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 02:24:14 +0000

Their own.

New comment by miked85 in "I-10 closure in California prompts state of emergency"

miked85 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 02:09:17 +0000

I don't think it is unique to CA, I've never heard it any other way in other parts of the southwest.

New comment by miked85 in "Wisconsin couple has old phones and nobody to buy them"

miked85 — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 17:43:21 +0000

Seems like a very niche market - I think they may have increased their supply a little too much.

New comment by miked85 in "Airbnb is broken, CEO says – His plans to fix it"

miked85 — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 00:22:06 +0000

I'm sure there are some cases where Airbnb is a good solution. I've never really understood where a hotel isn't a much easier option for most. Plus many HOAs have banned short term leases like Airbnb.

New comment by miked85 in "Dengue rates plunged after release of lab-altered mosquitoes"

miked85 — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 01:49:22 +0000

Healthy for everything else though

New comment by miked85 in "Has the U.S. economy reached a turning point?"

miked85 — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 01:51:14 +0000

A turning point for the better? It certainly doesn't seem like it.