Hacker News: sakopov

New comment by sakopov in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

sakopov — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 04:53:48 +0000

It's funny seeing the doom and gloom cycles over Google's AI future on HN. Google was basically considered dead business not even a year ago on here. If there is one thing true it's that HN has always had a habit of conflating engineering sentiment with business reality.

New comment by sakopov in "Situational Awareness down 67% in July in AI stock rout"

sakopov — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:54:53 +0000

Equally interesting to me is how Citadel made up a rumor about the FED raising rates at this weeks FOMC meeting causing a historic selloff in AI stocks which then allowed them to pick up Situational Awareness on the cheap.

New comment by sakopov in "The Fabled Flatbreads of Uzbekistan (2015)"

sakopov — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:45:38 +0000

> Mirza Ghasemi: A smoked eggplant dish cooked with garlic, tomatoes, and eggs, from the Caspian Sea area.

Eggplant is one of those incredible veggies that seemingly not a lot of people know what to do with. You can bake it on a grill or your cooktop stove to give it that amazing smokey taste. I often eat it as-is without adding anything else but pairing with eggs takes it to the next level. There is another dish from that same general region called Ajapsandali which is probably one of the tastiest breakfast meals you'll ever eat if you like eggplant.

New comment by sakopov in "Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond"

sakopov — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:50:58 +0000

I've seen men shed their egos and women become incredible caretakers when they're with their children and they carry some of that joyfulness, compassion and humanity into the world they occupy. It's a sad world without kids.

New comment by sakopov in "Bloomberg Terminal Is Ugly and Clunky–Everyone Still Uses It"

sakopov — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:01:14 +0000

BT's moat is data. 40 years of data engineering, building relationship with data providers, consuming direct exchange feeds, building proprietary data sets, normalizing and cleaning decades of historical data. Displacing BT is a gargantuan effort.

New comment by sakopov in "Knoppix"

sakopov — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:05:01 +0000

When I was a teenager I always had Knoppix on a floppy disk in my bag to do illicit things on school computers :)

New comment by sakopov in "What Ozempic does to the gut-brain axis"

sakopov — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:07:56 +0000

Does loss of muscle mass, commonly associated with Ozempic weight loss, become an issue after regaining the weight? Can it result in proportionally more fat at the same body weight as before if exercise wasn't part of the regiment?

New comment by sakopov in "Ask HN: Has anyone replaced Claude/GPT with a local model for daily coding?"

sakopov — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:38:27 +0000

This seems to be the answer. Building a rig with a decent graphics card will cost $2k+ and will produce sub-par results. Might as well milk the $100/m Claude sub until open-source alternatives reach parity with today's frontier models.

New comment by sakopov in "Is "colorectal cancer" rising in "young people"?"

sakopov — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:32:15 +0000

This hit home. My dad was diagnosed with colon cancer last week and had a large portion of his colon removed last Thursday. Polyps, which often become cancerous given time, can take a few years to get there. So you don't have to get screened every year but should definitely get the ball rolling. They'll usually be able to take them out during the procedure.

New comment by sakopov in "The real cost of owning a home"

sakopov — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:53:38 +0000

For context, property values have gone up 40-50% since 2021. Additional expenses are much easier to digest when you're not already paying an arm and a leg for a house at much higher mortgage rates.

New comment by sakopov in "The real cost of owning a home"

sakopov — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:45:17 +0000

I would really recommend getting a Home Warranty. I probably saved myself $7-$8K just in the last year fixing all kinds of electrical, plumbing and HVAC issues.

New comment by sakopov in "The real cost of owning a home"

sakopov — Tue, 26 May 2026 17:40:56 +0000

I would argue against this. I'm not sure owning is that much better. At the very least it's just as bad as renting if you bought in the past few years... I bought my home in 2023 and since then my monthly HOA payments doubled, my insurance premiums (nearly) tripled and my property taxes have gone up about $1000. Homeownership went from 35% to 45% of my monthly income. If you bought in the past few years, owning has absolutely been nothing short of a liability.

New comment by sakopov in "US is starting to see heavy job losses in roles exposed to AI"

sakopov — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:05:07 +0000

Most of the job losses are in tech and it all started back in late 2022 and early 2023 arguably before AI was perceived as a real threat. I think after 3 years of tech hiring melting because of all the economic uncertainty people can't see the forest for the trees anymore. Justy $0.02

New comment by sakopov in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

sakopov — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:51:48 +0000

Not trying to get into conspiracies, but about a month ago Michael Burry revealed that he opened a position in $GME which seemed very strange. Now with the news of a potential eBay acquisition I wonder if he's in on this pump and dump scheme if that's what it is.

New comment by sakopov in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

sakopov — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:29:58 +0000

GameStop CEO was on CNBC and acted like a total dick the entire time after they asked him how financing would work for this deal [1]. It appears that he's upset that Squawk Box previously stated that GameStop is a bankrupt meme stock. This is probably one of the funniest CNBC interviews I've seen.

[1] https://youtu.be/Bmj2PaxX24E

New comment by sakopov in "Job Postings for Software Engineers Are Rapidly Rising"

sakopov — Sat, 02 May 2026 06:56:00 +0000

I know this is anecdotal but after almost 2 years of no activity, I have been absolutely hounded by recruiters for nearly a month. They show up in my LinkedIn feed and I get multiple emails a week asking to interview. What in the world changed? It doesn't look like the job market's improved much. In fact I see more layoffs than ever before.

Kamal

sakopov — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:19:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/basecamp/kamal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47806890

Points: 3

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New comment by sakopov in "Union types in C# 15"

sakopov — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:02:03 +0000

Why is the ecosystem bad? I haven't ran any .net code on anything but Linux in years. The open source community is great. I don't know why it gets a bad rep.

New comment by sakopov in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

sakopov — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:55:08 +0000

Can we just get back to html/jQuery/handlebars? Those were the good old days :`(

New comment by sakopov in "The Claude Code Leak"

sakopov — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:52:31 +0000

LOL, very true.