Hacker News: quantumsequoia

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Layoffs at Block"

quantumsequoia — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:15:47 +0000

Test

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

quantumsequoia — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:30:55 +0000

Most people overestimate the prevalence of malice, und underestimate the prevalence of incompetence

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Aaron Levie: Startups win in the AI era [video]"

quantumsequoia — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:08:18 +0000

He's being a salesman, he wants to convince enterprises they need Box AI

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

quantumsequoia — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:35:54 +0000

"Everyone" as in financial companies and governments

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

quantumsequoia — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:31:22 +0000

Nothing aspires to be Apple. They're all about design. I can't see them getting invested in a nerdy philosophical cause like this

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Big Tech Killed the Golden Age of Programming"

quantumsequoia — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:36:15 +0000

It's called pooled hiring, and it makes sense when a company is hiring lots of people for lots of teams. Most large companies do this when hiring rates are high. You end up with better employee-team match when you interview a candidate first and then match them based on their skills/interest, rather than contacting them for a specific role they may or may not be interested in.

Has nothing to do with whether hiring is for headcount or other reasons

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Libraries and Well-Being: A Case Study from The New York Public Library"

quantumsequoia — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 06:22:24 +0000

My library has one, but it's only open for 1 hour a week, which is a shame because most 3d prints take longer than that

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

quantumsequoia — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 21:11:57 +0000

> Tiktok is actively suppressing the stories.

Is there any evidence of this? FWIW, I saw plenty of tiktoks talking about the China hack

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones"

quantumsequoia — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 05:31:46 +0000

San Francisco seems to be missing from the cities list

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Show HN: I made a tool to compare time zones"

quantumsequoia — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 05:30:15 +0000

I'm most impressed by the domain name. How much does time.fyi cost you?

New comment by quantumsequoia in "How we turned the tide in the roach wars"

quantumsequoia — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:17:26 +0000

If they kept coming back, that means you never really exterminated the population, just got their numbers low. You need to make the population go extinct

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Beeper – Moving Forward"

quantumsequoia — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 01:12:28 +0000

> It's not like apple only allows iphone to iphone texting.

Because of the limitations of SMS (not supporting high res pictures, no groupchats over 10 people, etc) it effectively is only for iphones. People with Android phones in the US in iPhone-circles simply cannot be socially integrated and have full social lives

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Beeper – Moving Forward"

quantumsequoia — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 01:06:53 +0000

The /r/beeper subreddit is full of people coming in to complain about beeper. Even if people don't think what beeper is trying to do is worthwhile, I don't understand what makes people emotionally invested to the point where they are would devote a ton of energy to complaining about perceived threats. It's like they see any threats to Apple as a personal attack on them

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Beeper – Moving Forward"

quantumsequoia — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 01:01:40 +0000

They are a for-profit company, but they want to make their profit by filling a demand people are willing to pay for

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Beeper – Moving Forward"

quantumsequoia — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:51:23 +0000

Among non-technical lay people, the perception is Android can't interoperate with iPhones due to inferior technology. (For example, people call low resolution photos android photos. They don't realize photos sent over sms were downscaled by the protocol, they assume it was taken in that low resolution format to begin with)

Suddenly being able to text androids without issue made it clear to everyone it's a policy-limitation, not a technological limitation

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Beeper Mini is back"

quantumsequoia — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:16:26 +0000

Can you sue someone for violating TOS? It's not illegal, and Apple doesn't have any damages.

Terms of Service are just... the terms you need to follow in exchange for service. If you violate the terms, you get cut off from service... which they already did

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Beeper Mini is back"

quantumsequoia — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:13:33 +0000

Interestingly, in the groupchat I'm in (N=67, mostly software engineers in the Bay Area), I've noticed a high correlation between people taking Pro-Beeper and Pro-Palestine stances, and those taking Pro-Apple and Pro-Israel stances

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Beeper Mini is back"

quantumsequoia — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:08:09 +0000

iMessage isn't dominant because it's "better". It's dominant because it's the default. Doesn't matter how good a chat app is, iMessage users aren't going to switch

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Beeper Mini is back"

quantumsequoia — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:04:32 +0000

Considering beeper is coming after Google's closed chat networks too, I doubt it.

New comment by quantumsequoia in "Beeper Mini is back"

quantumsequoia — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 23:01:59 +0000

What grounds can they sue them on?