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New comment by newbie578 in "GitHub Is Having Issues"

newbie578 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:03:34 +0000

I assume these are the "famous" AI productivity gains they all talked about =)

New comment by newbie578 in "Elevated errors on login with Claude Code"

newbie578 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:41:50 +0000

Still down, looks like it will be down for the whole day. Looks like time to call it a day...

Microsoft CEO's memo explaining why there are layoffs while making profits

newbie578 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:56:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ceo-memo-job-cuts-profit-enigma-of-success-2025-7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44689917

Points: 4

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New comment by newbie578 in "Behind the Curtain: A white-collar bloodbath"

newbie578 — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:36:29 +0000

I am surprised no one has commented on this. Perhaps it is not visible by the title that it is the CEO of Anthropic being quoted here.

The article was a positive surprise, I didn't expect such an informative outlook, covering both the doomer and optimist views.

New comment by newbie578 in "Buffett to step down following six-decade run atop Berkshire"

newbie578 — Sat, 03 May 2025 23:00:54 +0000

I cannot believe that there are people praising Merkel with a straight face. She is literally a laughing stock in Europe, I put her as the poster boy for immigration crisis together with the energy crisis. The only thing she did was shove problems further in the future not caring about the consequences.

New comment by newbie578 in "Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds"

newbie578 — Thu, 01 May 2025 08:13:01 +0000

Finally vindicated! For years we were arguing with the Apple fanboys here on HN about what Apple is doing and how it is wrong, immoral and illegal. Glad to see something starting to happen.

I just wonder what are the next excuses going to be?

New comment by newbie578 in "Business co-founders in tech startups are less valuable than they think"

newbie578 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:21:11 +0000

This list is a pure fallacy of statistical understanding. Skewed data and cherry-picking while also being strengthened by our subjective biases. I would appreciate the list way more if it also included founders who applied but were rejected, or for any other reason were not invested in.

For stuff like this I recommend the book, May Contain Lies by Alex Edmans, he does a fantastic job explaining how most of the time we seek data to confirm our hypotheses, instead of seeking a hypotheses that confirms our data.

New comment by newbie578 in "AI is turning us into glue"

newbie578 — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:24:18 +0000

Well written, I agree with the basic premise of the idea, I just think the changes will be even more dramatic.

A lot of us are stationary, thinking stuff and other people around us will be automated, but not us, “I am special”, well I fear a lot of people will find out just how much special they unfortunately are (not).

New comment by newbie578 in "DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next"

newbie578 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 22:35:37 +0000

You won’t hear that here because HN is notoriously pro Apple for some reason, even though all the evidence points to Apple being the same, if not bigger evil than Google

New comment by newbie578 in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

newbie578 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 08:34:54 +0000

As a person born in the middle class, I am quite sad to see it's extinction in realtime. Not sure what is the solution to this.

New comment by newbie578 in "Sergey Brin says 60 hours a week is the 'sweet spot'"

newbie578 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:19:56 +0000

Says the guy who was in retirement for the last 6 years. Unbelievable how intelligent people can sometimes be so obtuse.

New comment by newbie578 in "Show HN: While the world builds AI Agents, I'm just building calculators"

newbie578 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 09:10:46 +0000

On wide screens the app is not centered, add some margin auto.

New comment by newbie578 in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

newbie578 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:19:29 +0000

Scary to watch the pace of progress and how the whole industry is rapidly shifting.

I honestly didn’t believe things would speed up this much.

New comment by newbie578 in "Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics"

newbie578 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:13:54 +0000

I had a lot of problems with getting Umami to work with Vercel, in the end I abandoned it and used Vercel Analytics.

First Umami was being blocked by all ad blockers and it caused my web app to crash, then I had to use some workaround which allowed it to work with ad blockers but stopped my Express app from sending responses back to the frontend.

It irritated me so much, because there is not enough documentation for it, although I did find multiple people reporting something similar like me. I just called quits on it, analytics shouldn't be that complex to setup if you are not self-hosting, the Vercel one is serving me okayish for now.

Show HN: A parody app which shows how every ridiculous idea can be AI powered

newbie578 — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:37:04 +0000

For the last year, everywhere I looked, I saw AI, even for minuscule stuff, it had AI slapped on it.

So I joked around with my friends how the next big thing would be AI-powered toilet paper, and other similar ridiculous ideas. That's when I decided to make a simple satire app where every suggested idea, no matter how crazy, will "explain" how it can be AI-powered.

I had fun making the app and then trying out random ideas with my friends just for laughs. If anyone wishes to try it, it is free to use on hyperai-frontend.vercel.app

Any feedback is welcome :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43060931

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by newbie578 in "OpenAI cofounder John Schulman is joining Mira Murati's startup"

newbie578 — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 13:16:27 +0000

Doesn't the cofounder role kinda lose its power when there are like 10 of them, or I don't know how many OpenAI cofounders there are, every day it feels like a new one emerges.

New comment by newbie578 in "Interview with DeepSeek Founder: We're Done Following. It's Time to Lead"

newbie578 — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:14:21 +0000

Doesn't matter if and how much they used OpenAI's models. The only important thing that matters is that they managed to disrupt the status quo, Silicon Valley will need to be more aware going forward.

New comment by newbie578 in "Software engineer pay heatmap for Europe"

newbie578 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:18:21 +0000

It is so disheartening to see Europe's tech industry flounder so much. Living in Europe and then seeing how the salary gap with the USA is just increasing is flat out demoralising. However I do not see a way out until salaries start increasing.

New comment by newbie578 in "This is How Many Startup Businesses Fail in the First Year (+Survival Tips)"

newbie578 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 10:51:34 +0000

I also came to comment the same thing. I cannot believe someone made a design choice to have it implemented that way with a straight face...

New comment by newbie578 in "AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li has a vision for computer vision"

newbie578 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 22:47:45 +0000

I might be rude for this comment, but can anyone explain what did Fei-Fei Li accomplish in AI to be considered a pioneer?

I read her autobiography and I still do not understand. The only thing she did was create the ImageNet dataset, by paying Amazon Mechanical Turk. Am I missing something? I don’t understand how is she in the same breathe as Cunn, Goodfellow, Hinton, even Karpathy?