<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nzealand</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nzealand</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 15 May 2026 16:56:30 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nzealand" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Fake because no uber eats order is under 30$</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:11:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114643</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "Tesla is recalling its cheaper Cybertruck because the wheels might fall off"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“If cracking propagates with continued use and strain, the wheel stud could eventually separate from the wheel hub.”<p>That quote is from Tesla, in the linked article. That says the wheel can fall off.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 19:54:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067900</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067900</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067900</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "Email obfuscation: What works in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've been doing that for two decades. Most of the spam comes directly to my primary gmail. Because I shared that with friends and family. And at least some of my friends and family shared their entire contact list with the wrong app at least once.<p>This article however is talking about publishing your email address on a public website. It matches my experience, that simple javascript concatenation stops 100% of spam. Not that I would or ever did trust my primary email address to that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:07:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616327</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47616327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>  I've worked in many places around the world, developing countries, tropical islands, small huts on remote mountains<p>I am genuinely curious about your work lifestyle.<p>The freedom to travel anywhere while working sounds awesome.<p>The ability to work anywhere while traveling sounds less so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:33:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825600</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825600</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46825600</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "Postal Arbitrage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Looks like they already closed this arbitrage opportunity?<p>When I try to ship a lemon to a friend I get "There was a problem with some of the items in your order (see below for more information): Sorry, Lemon can't be shipped to the address you selected. Please remove the item or select another address."<p>Pity, my friend needed a lemon, to know I was thinking of him.<p>Edit: I can ship a lemon for $3 shipping if I select my friends address prior to adding the lemon to the cart, but with no option for a gift note that I can see.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:03:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603867</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603867</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fun fact. You can click into Popcornmeter and see verified audience reviews versus all reviews.<p>E.g. Audience who went to see 2025's Snow White loved it. Those who haven't seen it hated it. Who is more biased?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 03:26:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44968761</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44968761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44968761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This surprised me as well, until I remembered how long it took advertisers to move from traditional advertising to the internet.<p>Even if you wanted to reallocate a significant portion of your advertising budget to LLMs, it's not clear how you would effectively do that and measure ROI.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2025 20:37:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771218</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771218</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44771218</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "OpenAI raises $8.3B at $300B valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The real revenue opportunity for OpenAI is advertising. More than 25% of Americans use ChatGPT instead of Google, and OpenAI has already announced partnership with Shopify to directly list products. But for now they are focused on market share.<p>Google does not really own the complete AI stack, NVDA is extracting a lot of the value there.<p>Google has two other impediments to doing what ChatGPT does.<p>Googles entire business model is built around search. They have augmented search with AI, but that is not the same as completely disrupting an incredibly profitable business model with an unprofitable and unproven business model.<p>Also... Americans are in the habit of going to ChatGPT now for AI. When you think of AI, you now think of ChatGPT first.<p>The real risk is we are at the tail end of a long economic boom cycle, OpenAI is incredibly dependent on additional funding rounds, and if we recess access to that funding gets cut off.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:51:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758598</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44758598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "How I Use Kagi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I pay for both.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:59:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599245</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599245</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44599245</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "The $25k car is going extinct?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>MSRP of Honda Accord went from $15k-$30k in 2005 to $30k-$40k in 2025.<p>MSRP of one model is also not perfect, but it's another data point.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 16:06:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424901</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44424901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> the United States needs to manage its massive national debt,<p>> The present uncertainty around tariffs and a potential crisis could create conditions that pressure interest rates downward before those Treasury securities mature, by influencing Federal Reserve policy.<p>> What are the flaws in this thinking?<p>Flaw #1:<p>Massive treasury rollovers isn't new.<p>22% of all Treasuries have a duration of 1 year or less.<p>The only new thing is that rates have gone up.<p>Uncertainty is a short term solution to a long term problem.<p>Flaw #2:<p>Economic uncertainty and supply side shocks risks a recession.<p>Recessions usually increase national debt.<p>Flaw #3:<p>The right answer to reducing national debt is to ensure incomes exceed outgoings.<p>The current administration is so focused on extending trillion dollar tax cuts, no amount of tariffs or government efficiency is going to lower the national debt.<p>Flaw #4:<p>Treasuries only really go down during a recession.<p>Recessions are bad, not good.<p>If you think finding a tech job is hard now, or that your RSUs are hurting, wait until you see a serious recession.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2025 15:32:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571207</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43571207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> This reduction marks a 13% drop in Amazon’s global management workforce, shrinking the number of managers from 105,770 to 91,936.<p>(second sentence in btw)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 23:48:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43394051</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43394051</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43394051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Christian Bale's real accent is cockney english. His interviews are... very jarring.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:54:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43373691</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43373691</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43373691</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We have a P0 to add calendar 445/ 544/ 454. This critical oversight is causing us to lose sales, as our sales folks never know when those companies fiscal year ends, and end up missing budgetary deadlines.<p>Also, my legal team says your color choices aren't compliant with Section 508, so regrettably, we do have to take legal action.<p>Edit: EMEA has questions I couldn't answer about GDPR, PII & data governance. Can you please hope on a quick call to see if they also want to sue you?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 15:24:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173069</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "If you ever stacked cups in gym class, blame my dad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Without the speedstacks stackmat, (invented by this guys dad for sport stacking), I doubt speed cubing would be a thing.</p>
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<p>This is for startups who are looking for that one in a hundred person hungry for their solution. Enterprises who have already scaled use an entirely different cook book to get the attention of a VP like yourself. A well-targeted and personalized email has a much better response rate for enterprises with a proven solution and well known brand.</p>
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<p>I am. OP is correct. To get his or my attention, you would need to put in more significantly more effort than you are asking back.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:13:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400422</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42400422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "Kagi Teams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Kagi provides a fantastic summarizer.<p>I have a bookmarklet for Kagi's Universal Summarizer, and if a long article or video doesn't immediately tell me "what it's gonna tell me" then I just click it.<p><pre><code>  javascript:Object.assign(document.createElement("a"), {href: `https://kagi.com/summarizer/index.html?url=${encodeURIComponent(window.location)}`, target: "_blank"}).click();
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Protip: Youtube changed something recently, and now I think you have to show the transcript and watch/wait a little bit before Kagi can find the transcript and summarize the video.</p>
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<p>Amazing!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2024 02:45:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314033</link><dc:creator>nzealand</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314033</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42314033</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nzealand in "Show HN: IMDb SQL Best Movie Finder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup. The correct query is:<p>SELECT * EXCLUDE (titleType, primaryTitle, language) FROM 'imdb01-11-2024.parquet' WHERE (region is null and titleType = 'movie') ORDER BY ( (numVotes * averageRating)+(100000 * 7))/ (numVotes+100000) desc LIMIT 100</p>
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