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New comment by mrhottakes in "I like 'em thick: an apology to my English teachers"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:35:11 +0000

Great piece. Seeing that depth and context is one of the best parts of gaining intellectual maturity.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Ask HN: No Path from Techie to Management?"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:33:41 +0000

Anecdotally, in the tech industry you usually will need to change companies to move up. Certainly not true everywhere, but it's been a "feature" of the industry for a decade or more.

New comment by mrhottakes in "UC Berkeley professor admits to using AI to edit op-ed on students' math skills"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:31:31 +0000

I think the headline accurately describes the content of the article. The actual op ed is linked.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Ask HN: Is AI the New Spreadsheet?"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:29:40 +0000

Deterministic tools are very useful for people that need a single answer that is verifiably correct (or at least wrong in a way that follows a deterministic process).

Plus, very few orgs are letting employees run up cloud spend bills to replace spreadsheets.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Great Tech Has to Be Scary, by Oscar Oro"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:27:58 +0000

Not really. That's a very facile way to look at the history of technology.

New comment by mrhottakes in "If You Weren't Worried About A.I., You Should Be After the Past Few Weeks"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:26:52 +0000

Anyone that takes the "OpenAI agents did a hacking swarm!" story at face value is naive and helping Altman pump value for the IPO.

New comment by mrhottakes in "Liquid Death X Garage Beer X Jason Kelce Want Your Pee [video]"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:23:12 +0000

Well they can have it I guess, I'm not really using it.

New comment by mrhottakes in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:21:41 +0000

CIA funding helped keep a lot of industries afloat in the 20th century.

New comment by mrhottakes in "AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:20:44 +0000

You're far enough behind that you had to create a burner account to tell someone to self-harm.

New comment by mrhottakes in "AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:18:21 +0000

Honestly it sounds like you don't know what you're talking about.

New comment by mrhottakes in "AI didn't erase the junior engineer's value, it increased it it"

mrhottakes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:14:46 +0000

So surely there's more demand to hire junior engineers and their salaries have gone up?

New comment by mrhottakes in "Why is this 15 year old still in Morocco and not in some big company?"

mrhottakes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:04:20 +0000

Are you asking a company to kidnap a child? What's the ask here?

New comment by mrhottakes in "On AI regulation and messaging"

mrhottakes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:53:35 +0000

So then shouldn't someone be able to see these huge mountains of grains of sand?

New comment by mrhottakes in "On AI regulation and messaging"

mrhottakes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:46:23 +0000

> Thus, a human would've likely made the same mistake.

The AI industry and all of its sycophants in the Trump administration are working very hard to make you believe this.

New comment by mrhottakes in "On AI regulation and messaging"

mrhottakes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:44:12 +0000

Are you sure about that? They're in the middle of a huge marketing push to get people to buy into their IPO. That's "marketing for investors".

New comment by mrhottakes in "On AI regulation and messaging"

mrhottakes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:40:43 +0000

"Curing" cancer is actually a gigantic societal coordination problem.

New comment by mrhottakes in "On AI regulation and messaging"

mrhottakes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:36:10 +0000

They're the same thing, the "altruists" just lie more effectively.

New comment by mrhottakes in "On AI regulation and messaging"

mrhottakes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:33:55 +0000

He absolutely thinks we're stupid.

New comment by mrhottakes in "David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post"

mrhottakes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:21:53 +0000

The only thing David Sacks ever calls for is more money and power for David Sacks.

New comment by mrhottakes in "David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post"

mrhottakes — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:57:05 +0000

> As Zuckerberg notes, concentrating power in the hands of an enlightened few has rarely produced the promised results; the practitioners turn out to be less enlightened in practice than in self-conception.

Pot, meet kettle.