Hacker News: sharadov

New comment by sharadov in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

sharadov — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:41:57 +0000

work of art!

New comment by sharadov in "The back story behind the first "$1.8B" dollar "AI Company""

sharadov — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:23:30 +0000

Strange but I smelled a fraud as soon as I finished reading the NYT article.

This is the second time in my life that this has happened to me.

First time was when I interviewed at this social media startup which had raised a 100 mil during the pandemic, and promptly collapsed, all numbers there were cooked.

New comment by sharadov in "The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok"

sharadov — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:10:29 +0000

Maybe vibe coding gets so good that we completely trash what was written and build from zero. I've seen that with badly written code as well, easier to rewrite than fix the un-goldly mess.

New comment by sharadov in "In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants"

sharadov — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:25:40 +0000

Rather than encouraging immigration they come up with this.

New comment by sharadov in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

sharadov — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:50:36 +0000

The problem is with the media pouring endless attention on these tech bros and bestowing the mantel of expertise in every field on them - philosophy, politics, religion, sociology.

So now they spout their mouth off and the media hangs on their every word and debates it.

New comment by sharadov in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"

sharadov — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:36:48 +0000

Could not happened to a more usurious company.

New comment by sharadov in "The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Haven't Happened"

sharadov — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:21:06 +0000

The circular deals are getting old - it's like rearranging the chairs on the Titanic's deck.

New comment by sharadov in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

sharadov — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:41:58 +0000

I was a SQL server DBA early in my career, I've not used it in the last decade, glad to hear that it's still a great product.

New comment by sharadov in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

sharadov — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:39:29 +0000

I can understand why Amazon, MS and Nvidia invested - nefarious circular deals, but Softbank? I mean who the heck is giving Masayoshi Son money to invest? Behooves me!

New comment by sharadov in "Oracle slashes 30k jobs"

sharadov — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:54:01 +0000

SQL Server was pretty good until they went the Oracle way with their licensing shenanigans, but even with that they were a lot cheaper than Oracle. In fact SQL server was one of the few great products that came out of MS.

New comment by sharadov in "LLMs can be exhausting"

sharadov — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:45:01 +0000

It's exhausting - sometimes it feels like you are continuously redirecting a deviant child who just won't give up on his shenanigans.

New comment by sharadov in "How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform"

sharadov — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:52:27 +0000

No, they don't have world class technology teams, they hire contractors to do all the tech stuff, their expertise is in management, yes that's world class.

New comment by sharadov in "Workers who love 'synergizing paradigms' might be bad at their jobs"

sharadov — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:39:00 +0000

When you can't convince, confuse is how you sum up corporate speak.

New comment by sharadov in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sharadov — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:33:22 +0000

I can't believe that people are so naively optimistic - it's not too long that we fought endless wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to what end?

The Taliban ruling Afghanistan and an unstable coalition in Iraq.

You know how much we spent? $5.8 to $8 trillion.

New comment by sharadov in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sharadov — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:25:34 +0000

War is America's business and business is good.

New comment by sharadov in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sharadov — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:22:30 +0000

Yeah right and democracy was created in Iraq and Afghanistan as well!

New comment by sharadov in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

sharadov — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:27:05 +0000

Meanwhile Pakistan launched airstrikes on Afghanistan

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/feb/27/pakistan-...

New comment by sharadov in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

sharadov — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:43:50 +0000

This podcast between Tyler and Dan was a great listen - https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/dan-wang/

Dan came off as very China biased and Tyler literally schooled him on a few occasions.

But despite that, there are grains of truth in what he said, we have lawyers turned politicians at the helm in the US, so we have a great democratic system but on the flip side hardly any engineers leading us to the predicament we are in now, where nothing ever gets built.

New comment by sharadov in "Silicon Valley can't import talent like before. So it's exporting jobs"

sharadov — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:31:28 +0000

I am more interested in 2nd order effects, people get experience working at these larger companies and leave to start their own. Exactly how SV works.

New comment by sharadov in "Silicon Valley can't import talent like before. So it's exporting jobs"

sharadov — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 17:29:14 +0000

33K workers added in 2025 is a drop in the bucket for India. India graduates way too many engineers vs not as many jobs created.