Hacker News: rawrenstein

New comment by rawrenstein in "Amazon closing its Fresh and Go stores"

rawrenstein — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:28:49 +0000

There was a concept Amazon Fresh store with “Just Walk Out” technology on Capitol Hill in Seattle. They closed it down a couple of years back but the brand was absolutely Amazon Fresh.

New comment by rawrenstein in "Breaking up with JavaScript front ends"

rawrenstein — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 21:19:30 +0000

> It is inspired by Elm, a delightful functional language for building web applications.

That killed my interest instantly.

Tales of the M1 GPU

rawrenstein — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 16:50:20 +0000

Article URL: https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33789940

Points: 1014

# Comments: 367

New comment by rawrenstein in "Amazon built a new unit to fix its engineering culture"

rawrenstein — Wed, 21 Sep 2022 15:35:52 +0000

Predates Jassy? He has literally worked at Amazon for decades and most of that on Amazon Web Services.

New comment by rawrenstein in "Framework is now available in Australia"

rawrenstein — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 06:29:34 +0000

I returned my 12th gen Framework and purchased an M1 Pro MBP. It was absolutely the right decision. I just wasn’t ready to accept the lower quality product for such a premium price as much as I wanted to support the company.

New comment by rawrenstein in "Framework Laptop (2022) review: the repairability dream"

rawrenstein — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:07:26 +0000

I actually think the title is wrong. The URL slug actually states 2021, and later in the article: "The industry shipped 348.8 million PCs in 2021..."

New comment by rawrenstein in "Personal Knowledge Management Is Bullshit"

rawrenstein — Tue, 03 May 2022 00:32:28 +0000

Wait. Is Obsidian open source? Any links to their code?

New comment by rawrenstein in "Milk alternatives produce up to 4.5x less greenhouse gas emissions as milk"

rawrenstein — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 17:33:55 +0000

Is there some sort of milk collectors guild I don’t know about?

New comment by rawrenstein in "Naked Yoga videos don’t violate Community Guidelines says YouTube"

rawrenstein — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 20:49:35 +0000

Channels can't monetize "Adult Content" according to "Advertiser-friendly content guidelines" from YouTube [1]. Each video I encountered was clearly marked by AI for such content. It requires human intervention to successfully verify a claim that the content is educational. I doubt most of these spam YouTube accounts are doing this. (I'm claiming spam because separate accounts are copying and pasting the same video descriptions.) It's sad to see really. Naked yoga is really great outside of this exploitation. Videos with no verbal instructions and non-instructional shots of genitalia kill the spirit of the practice. Such a shame.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en

New comment by rawrenstein in "$200M seed valuation for Roam shows investor frenzy for note-taking apps"

rawrenstein — Fri, 11 Sep 2020 23:20:55 +0000

+1 for Obsidian. Lots of refinement in such a young product. It has been my main driver recently. I picked it up primarily to keep things local rather than rely on an internet connection. Even so, took only a few minutes to add encrypted backups to S3 debounced on file change.

New comment by rawrenstein in "Amazon Announces $2B Fund to Invest in Climate Tech Companies"

rawrenstein — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:13:08 +0000

Don't forget that that delivery truck isn't just delivering boxes for you.

AWS CodeArtifact: A fully managed software artifact repository service

rawrenstein — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 01:22:33 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/introducing-aws-codeartifact-a-fully-managed-software-artifact-repository-service/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23484270

Points: 167

# Comments: 86

New comment by rawrenstein in "My Amazon Interview Horror Story"

rawrenstein — Sun, 04 Nov 2018 03:32:42 +0000

Another Amazon employee here. It's just lunch. We're there to give candidates a moment to relax after their morning interviews. Lunch buddies are never asked for feedback.