Hacker News: s1mn

The AI Layoff Trap: firms are firing their customers

s1mn — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:54:40 +0000

Article URL: https://tomwatsonofficial.substack.com/p/the-ai-layoff-trap-and-the-markets

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806611

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by s1mn in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

s1mn — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:51:12 +0000

I love it when Americans take the moral high ground

New comment by s1mn in "Tell HN: GitHub might have been leaking your webhook secrets. Check your emails."

s1mn — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 10:18:42 +0000

Waiting 3 months to disclose this is suboptimal.

New comment by s1mn in "What if AI centers were producing food and jobs?"

s1mn — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:37:40 +0000

Shades of Day Of The Triffids here. (https://youtu.be/G8xD_vcK258?si=r1AQ-f6YOAjJByQL&t=1349)

I for one welcome our new shiitake overlords.

New comment by s1mn in "The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV"

s1mn — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:42:13 +0000

I watched the first one. That article on the last testaments made me want to watch it again. Ben Whishaw was the perfect choice, wasn't he?

New comment by s1mn in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

s1mn — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:38:25 +0000

Yes!! This goes for any time you declare a time interval variable. The number of times I've seen code changes with a comment like "Turns out the delay arg to function foo is in milliseconds, not seconds".

New comment by s1mn in "The Last Testaments of Richard II and Henry IV"

s1mn — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:59:52 +0000

Love this, nestled in among the posts about forking httpx and similarity search in DuckDB. It makes me want to watch the BBC adaptation of Richard II again, and listen to The Rest Is History's episodes on the same period.

New comment by s1mn in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

s1mn — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:40:51 +0000

I was never cool enough to run BeOS but I coveted it. It looked so cool and futuristic compared with Windows.

I'm not cool enough to run VitruvianOS either, but i'm glad it exists.

New comment by s1mn in "25 Years of Eggs"

s1mn — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:45:03 +0000

I'm such a sucker for a good, data-driven article. Love this.

New comment by s1mn in "“Your frustration is the product”"

s1mn — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:43:00 +0000

I've used an ad blocker for so long, I'd forgotten the web has got so terrible.

New comment by s1mn in "Show HN: Word Slicer"

s1mn — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:06:57 +0000

Nice! Lots of fun, I'll be coming back. Is it a new game each day?

Show HN: Runny Is an Alternative to Makefiles

s1mn — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 10:03:51 +0000

Using GNU make to run tasks in 2024 made me sad, so I wrote a thing. There are other things like it, but this one is mine. I'd love you to check it out!

* Simple YAML syntax (inspired by Github Actions) * Full schema validaton == autocomplete in your favourite code editor * Build workflows through composition with needs and then * Run steps conditionally with if

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41107622

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by s1mn in "Some packages are no longer installable after test command is removed"

s1mn — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 11:17:49 +0000

For those caught out by this, I put together a Github repo that shows how you can work around it in your Github Actions. Hope it helps! https://github.com/simonwhitaker/setuptools-demo