Hacker News: sagarkamat

New comment by sagarkamat in "xAI joins SpaceX"

sagarkamat — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 00:21:50 +0000

Does this mean the foreign software engineers in xAI are now subject to ITAR?

New comment by sagarkamat in "Workday suffered a data breach"

sagarkamat — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 03:19:11 +0000

Great! Can all companies please put this data in their own databases so we don't need to fill the same data for every single company please??

New comment by sagarkamat in "Anker is recalling over 1.1M power banks due to fire and burn risks"

sagarkamat — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:53:56 +0000

FWIW, yes i was able to submit a claim. Did get a confirmation screen saying claim submitted but no email confirmation yet.

New comment by sagarkamat in "Airlines are charging solo passengers higher fares than groups"

sagarkamat — Sat, 31 May 2025 03:37:49 +0000

This is the wrong comparison though. Merchants offer bulk discount to incentivize customers to buy more units of whatever they’re selling. I can’t buy more than one seat on the plane of its just me traveling. I can’t utilize the ‘bulk discount’ if I’m not traveling with anyone

New comment by sagarkamat in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

sagarkamat — Thu, 22 May 2025 02:07:18 +0000

Meh, all stock deal. They are not spending any raised cash on this.

New comment by sagarkamat in "Material 3 Expressive"

sagarkamat — Mon, 19 May 2025 04:49:50 +0000

Thank you for the detailed reply. Great insight

New comment by sagarkamat in "I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won"

sagarkamat — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:14:58 +0000

But they could absolutely move to a system where the vast majority of filers could attest that the numbers IRS already has are all the income they have and be done with their returns. Then only the subset that has other income or adjustments would need to do a more involved filing.

New comment by sagarkamat in "Detroit’s revival takes shape after decades of decay"

sagarkamat — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:20:00 +0000

I'd say don't give up on Ann Arbor yet. It's a great place to live in and there are plenty of jobs in a commutable distance within Metro Detroit.

New comment by sagarkamat in "Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace"

sagarkamat — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:39:29 +0000

I used Gemini to do a similar task and for whatever reason, i found it performed better when i broke down the task into individual steps.

New comment by sagarkamat in "Permira completes Squarespace acquisition after upping bid to $7.2B"

sagarkamat — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:08:56 +0000

I guess they can make a heck of a lot just by cutting the podcast sponsorships.

New comment by sagarkamat in "Y Combinator Traded Prestige for Growth"

sagarkamat — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 03:49:23 +0000

>Finally, I want to call out the phenomenon in the world of VC where the ability to generate hype alone is enough to make you and your investors a lot of money, even if there isn't a lot of substance in your company (and even if things are morally or ethically questionable), through the mechanism of greater fools.

Amen brother. VCs and the Valley elite think the society at large has turned on them, without introspecting on how VCs seem to reward bad behavior and grift.

New comment by sagarkamat in "United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing"

sagarkamat — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:59:59 +0000

Does it matter though that the numbers are because of PRC tipping the scales? It worked for chinese internet and auto companies. Also, chinese manufacturing is obviously capable of high standards of manufacturing if they decide to. People forget how tenuous airbus once looked or how fast they scaled up

New comment by sagarkamat in "United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing"

sagarkamat — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 17:53:16 +0000

Chinese COMAC seems to be on the verge of selling meaningful numbers to chinese airlines. Wont be surprised if they are a very viable competitor in ~20 years which isn’t much in the aviation world where backlogs span a decade

New comment by sagarkamat in "Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees"

sagarkamat — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 03:55:38 +0000

Can someone answer this question for me? By now, a ton of companies have done layoffs explaining that they overhired during COVID. These hires had to have come from somewhere, presumably other industries. What happened to those industries? Do they not want workers back? Did those jobs go away? Or do people just not want to go back to them?

New comment by sagarkamat in "Autopay is making us worse at managing credit-card bills"

sagarkamat — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 02:23:13 +0000

But there are usually 25 days between when a statement is generated and an Autopay is deducted for that statement. Just have your checkup of the statement scheduled between those 25 days

New comment by sagarkamat in "Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek documentary, 18 years later"

sagarkamat — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 16:05:53 +0000

I remember watching this documentary a few years ago and thinking

1) this concept had so much promise but man they could have made this docu better

2) those are some famous names before they became famous

3) we need more such docus that capture forever the daily office life at a particular point in time

New comment by sagarkamat in "Twitter Rebranding: Online Auction, Memorabilia, Art and More"

sagarkamat — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 04:29:42 +0000

Crazy how much overpriced furniture companies will buy even as they are piling on losses

New comment by sagarkamat in "Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design"

sagarkamat — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 22:04:11 +0000

SpaceX is literally US's only domestic way to send humans to ISS right now

New comment by sagarkamat in "[dead]"

sagarkamat — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 02:50:37 +0000

A bit old but I can't believe I can't find a post about this on Hackernews. Wistia paid Sandwich Video to make a $1000 ad, a $10000 ad and a $100K ad, and then made a very informative documentary about the whole thing.

New comment by sagarkamat in "The design thinking movement is absurd (2018)"

sagarkamat — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 21:42:56 +0000

Its funny to see this phenomenon repeat itself again and again in corporate America. Company X manages to become successful due to bunch of amorphous reasons. Some academic decides to reverse-engineer this messy process into a neatly packaged theory that has some kernal of obviousness at the heart of it. Then the academia-consultant-management complex takes it over and starts evangelizing it for $$ to companies and contexts that are only tangentially similar to the original company. Obviously the cut-paste theory fails to take hold in its new home. Rinse repeat till a new fad comes in. Lean, Agile, Design thinking...