Hacker News: philip1209

New comment by philip1209 in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

philip1209 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:22:32 +0000

“Not a commodity”

New comment by philip1209 in "Waymo Premier"

philip1209 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:52:08 +0000

Cash back is huge for people expensing rides. “Spend company money on us, and take your personal rides every once in a while for free.”

Same model as airlines.

What Caused That Loud Boom in South Carolina?

philip1209 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:47:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/us/south-carolina-sonic-boom.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363615

Points: 17

# Comments: 4

Preserved Fish

philip1209 — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:49:22 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserved_Fish

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313638

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by philip1209 in "Can we have the day off?"

philip1209 — Thu, 28 May 2026 02:13:27 +0000

Farm, and you won't have to scavenge for food.

Get a tractor, and spend less time farming.

The factory will save time making tractors, so everybody can have one.

Computers will make the factories more efficient.

AI will make the computers more efficient.

New comment by philip1209 in "Ask HN: I am about to go from SWE to Product Manager, what is your day 1 advice?"

philip1209 — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:17:08 +0000

I recommend reading a book about consulting, e.g. in McKinsey's style.

Your PM job will be a lot more about influence and communication.

Influence is often about getting people to trust you and get the last 10% done. Prepare to spend 3 months on a very technically-difficult project, then have the CEO rip apart your demo because the copy on the first screen isn't what he expects, without every getting deeper in to the product. That's the last 10% and your job is getting your tired team to care about it.

The way decisions are made will be significantly different compared to the egalitarianism of engineering. Understanding how your organization makes decisions and adapting to it is key to success as a PM. (Consensus? Founder mode? Disagree and commit?)

Good PMs make impact and at the end of the day. Your career is almost entirely dependent on your manager's subjective opinion of your work. You'll need to learn to "manage up" - ensuring that your manager agrees with your decisions and thinks that you have had impact.

The persona that fails in PM is the pseudo-academic who was told they were smart as a kid, and can't hustle, make a decision, or sell others on their ideas. You need to be prepared for conflict.

New comment by philip1209 in "A fundamental principle of aeronautical engineering has been overturned"

philip1209 — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:19:40 +0000

Fascinating.

I wonder what the implications for radar-absorbing finishes are. Could they be more aerodynamic already?

New comment by philip1209 in "AWS EC2 outage in use1-az4 (us-east-1)"

philip1209 — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:28:50 +0000

> We have experienced an increase in temperatures within a single data center, which in some cases has caused impairments for instances in the Availability Zone.

New comment by philip1209 in "AWS EC2 outage in use1-az4 (us-east-1)"

philip1209 — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:13:39 +0000

Causing downstream outages, e.g. https://status.modal.com/

AWS EC2 outage in use1-az4 (us-east-1)

philip1209 — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:13:11 +0000

Article URL: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status?t=2026-05-07

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057294

Points: 47

# Comments: 8

New comment by philip1209 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

philip1209 — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:06:43 +0000

Isn’t it really “pushing a feature to their products”?

There's a Good Reason You Can't Concentrate

philip1209 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:19:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/opinion/technology-mental-fitness-cognitive.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47942178

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Rippling launches Vanta/Delve competitor

philip1209 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:20:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rippling.com/blog/get-soc-2-ready-with-rippling-no-assembly-required

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47938347

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Tell HN: GitHub Filters Seem Broken

philip1209 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:37:05 +0000

In our repo - it says "Pull Requests: 100" in the nav, but clicking in it says "There aren’t any open pull requests."

I can recreate across many different filters - but something is busted right now. (Perhaps elasticsearch-related?)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924688

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Serendipity Machines

philip1209 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:02:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shishyko.com/essays/serendipity-machines.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47897286

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by philip1209 in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

philip1209 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:39:26 +0000

We proactively rotated keys. Even if you haven’t received an official email, expect customers to inquire about this tomorrow morning.

New comment by philip1209 in "Hyperscalers have already outspent most famous US megaprojects"

philip1209 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:15:06 +0000

Would love to see Apple’s china investment on this chart.

New comment by philip1209 in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"

philip1209 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 02:46:00 +0000

good thing it's getting easier to code - nothing bad can come of this :-)

From Hierarchy to Intelligence

philip1209 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:35:34 +0000

Article URL: https://sequoiacap.com/article/from-hierarchy-to-intelligence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681655

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by philip1209 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

philip1209 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:57:37 +0000

We talk about Sam Altman a lot. At this point he has a Hollywood movie in post-production, a book ("The Optimist"), and a seemingly endless stream of profiles. It feels intellectually lazy to keep researching the same guy when the industry is moving beyond him.

All evidence today suggests Anthropic is passing OpenAI in relative and absolute growth. So where's the critical reporting? The DOD coverage was framed around the Pentagon's decisions, not Anthropic's. And nobody seems interested in examining whether the company that branded itself as the ethical AI lab actually is one. That seems like a story worth writing.