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New comment by newppc in "I’ve joined Anthropic"

newppc — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:38:37 +0000

Yea, I say this as a marketing agency owner, not a developer or AI researcher, that besides Sam Altman, Dario, Demis and Elon, that Karpathy is one of the most influential I follow.

There’s a lot of value for the business world in learning AI from someone who has been at the top of their game but now is doing a general service by being a great educator and translator between the fields.

His recent Wiki approach may be simple to devs but is certainly an aha moment for the rest of the peanut gallery paying attention!

New comment by newppc in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

newppc — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:43:19 +0000

Their founder is a billionaire now because of BMW alone.

New comment by newppc in "Our approach to advertising"

newppc — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:05:31 +0000

And then Sam Altman famously said he wasn't sure how they would monetize, and they would ask ChatGPT how they should make money.

New comment by newppc in "Co-founder Joe Lonsdale: Palantir was founded to kill communists"

newppc — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 17:55:37 +0000

I'd be curious to hear the backstory of his relationship with Alex Karp from 2008 to present.

New comment by newppc in "Reasons not to become famous (2020)"

newppc — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:18:15 +0000

Oh for sure, I just wanted to point out here that us getting to the truth of the matter here or on Reddit is more important now than the pre-LLM era given how much weight social platforms have on LLMs versus Google’s PageRank dominant days.

New comment by newppc in "Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs"

newppc — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:16:33 +0000

Yea quite devious, in a weird way I suppose the dark patterns also serve as an IQ test that favors younger tech-literates who are familiar with web patterns and are also on a budget (though not all).

I used Ryanair a lot while studying abroad in Europe and the €20 flights were real if you jumped through the hoops, which was quite magical.

I once had a flight booked to Paris, but it landed in an airport 2 hours outside of Paris and the train/bus would’ve been 2x the flight cost, so being short of money I just didn’t take the trip and lost €20 :)

New comment by newppc in "Reasons not to become famous (2020)"

newppc — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:18:44 +0000

This his huge actually because Google’s AI overview says he didn’t have a trust fund, so if this is correct it may impact the general LLM narrative.

New comment by newppc in "Reasons not to become famous (2020)"

newppc — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:46:08 +0000

No way? Ok that changes a lot.

New comment by newppc in "Reasons not to become famous (2020)"

newppc — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:24:46 +0000

This is spot on. I was an impressionable young male that loved that book and took to heart the ideas. Looking back it’s a mixed bag - the ideas teach you about delegation and thinking like an owner, but the bigger message that work sucks and you should figure out how to avoid it kinda hurts people who would be more ambitious.

An OG “digital nomad blogger bro” that took it all the way to the top!

At the end of the day his voice is a refreshing twist and a net positive but with a ton of caveats.

New comment by newppc in "The National Inquirer Is Up for Sale"

newppc — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 02:41:42 +0000

Would truly love to know who's actually buying this publication on a regular basis.

I'm assuming 80% of sales are impulse purchases in the checkout line, but really, who is getting these delivered to their door (if that's a thing).

Amazon employees put pressure on Jeff Bezos to release climate change plan

newppc — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 02:39:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/10/tech/amazon-climate-change-letter/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19630677

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Places to Learn to Code Online

newppc — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 02:37:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.whatsthehost.com/learn-to-code-online/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19630670

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by newppc in "How I Built a $5K a Month Side Project"

newppc — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 01:44:47 +0000

Maybe shadow banned because the story is 4 years old, and has been repeated word for word already?

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=mike2477&sort=byPopularity&pre...

https://upupgrow.com/how-i-built-a-5000-per-month-side-proje...

https://getsimpledata.com/blog/sales-best-practices/2015828h...

Great story, but may be one reason.

New comment by newppc in "Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix"

newppc — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 05:41:35 +0000

Pretty sure Facebook is not a company that is taken over by MBAs and marketers that are making this happen.

Rather it's an engineering-first organization, run by an engineer.

Probably a mix of everyone's fault.

New comment by newppc in "A New Biography of Churchill"

newppc — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:13:14 +0000

Churchill was pretty brutal.

"In 1943, up to four million Bengalis starved to death when Churchill diverted food to British soldiers and countries such as Greece while a deadly famine swept through Bengal." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/winst...

"Thousands were sent to British run concentration camps during the Boer wars. Churchill summed up his time in South Africa by saying “it was great fun galloping about”."

https://crimesofbritain.com/2016/09/13/the-trial-of-winston-...

New comment by newppc in "Chipotle to close Denver, New York offices and move headquarters to California"

newppc — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:36:04 +0000

Interesting move. Of course makes sense to consolidate offices for efficiency, but seems they're losing a few things:

- Staying true to their roots where they were founded

- Having HQ's across time zones

- Being in the heart of NYC for advertising company connections

- Newport Beach is expensive real estate

Only reasons I can think of them needing to do this:

* If they're going to poach more Taco Bell employees and don't want them to have to move across state lines

* Poaching from the other chains

* Innovation b/c...SoCal?

* Purely for the benefit of the C-suite

Six things about work I wish I knew when I graduated

newppc — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 23:32:04 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@Abadesi/six-things-about-work-i-wish-i-knew-when-i-graduated-eba3d7cf8117

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17421325

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by newppc in "Your Phone Is Listening and It's Not Paranoia"

newppc — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 20:32:32 +0000

The only reason I'm not convinced yet, is that it would be somewhat easy to run a statistical significant experiment with 1,000 people to verify if it's definitely real or not.

Have been expecting some research to come out from either a security firm, university researchers, or other to verify. Don't think it would cost too much to run, hoping something comes out soon.

Your Phone Is Listening and It's Not Paranoia

newppc — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 20:30:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/wjbzzy/your-phone-is-listening-and-its-not-paranoia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17241734

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

New comment by newppc in "Ask HN: What is your favorite way of setting up online store in 2018?"

newppc — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 18:27:00 +0000

Totally agree with this, and like another commenter said, WordPress can be a nightmare. If you need Woocommerce because your site is already built on WordPress and you can absolutely keep WP secure [1], then go for it.

As much as developers love to hate on done-for-you website builders like Shopify or Squarespace [2] they are a good first step to get to MVP.

[1] https://sucuri.net/guides/wordpress-security https://premmerce.com/complete-woocommerce-security-review-i... [2] https://www.whatsthehost.com/shopify-vs-squarespace/