Hacker News: skizm

New comment by skizm in "The looming college-enrollment death spiral"

skizm — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:31:32 +0000

If college is considered a glorified high school diploma, then not having one is like not having a high school diploma.

New comment by skizm in "Google has the same AI adoption curve as John Deere"

skizm — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:25:45 +0000

> How is it that a handful of companies are taking off like a spaceship, and the rest, including Google, are mired in inaction?

Which companies? Not counting companies directly benefiting from selling AI.

New comment by skizm in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

skizm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:28:33 +0000

I always thought the comparison to real life falls a bit flat. In the movie there’s a scene where Camacho has a town hall and the audience yells something about everything bad. Camacho fires his gun in the air for silence and acknowledges things are bad and says he’s going to ask the smartest person in the world to help.

So in this scenario the people are allowed to voice real concerns directly to the president without fear of retribution. The president acknowledges things are bad. He describes a plan, with real actionable steps, to help the situation. And to wrap it all up follows through with it and is genuinely interested in making the country / world a better place. None of these things apply to America’s current situation.

At the core of it, in the movie everyone is dumb but well meaning, while in real life most of the idiots are also malicious. They keep voting for the same thing because it hurts their perceived enemies, not because they think their vote will make the country better.

New comment by skizm in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

skizm — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:57:14 +0000

Hopefully I didn’t come off as dismissive. Love the hustle here. It’s always been a dream of mine to quit big tech and do something local like this. Glad to see others have made the jump successfully.

New comment by skizm in "I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job"

skizm — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:13:17 +0000

> We have an acquisition of a small residential operator lined up, which we'll build the tooling for and grow a platform around once we’ve proven the model works and can scale.

This is the exact process private equity tries to do at scale, right?

New comment by skizm in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

skizm — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:05:12 +0000

I think the bigger precedent is that he has already blanket pardoned all J6ers.

New comment by skizm in "PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months"

skizm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:05:31 +0000

I remember a long time ago on Reddit I saw a post saying (paraphrasing) "AMA: PayPal locked up $600,000 of my money because my video game is selling so quickly they think it is a scam." Turns out this was Notch selling early alpha versions of Minecraft off his personal website, which totally did look like a scam at the time.

New comment by skizm in "PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months"

skizm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:02:05 +0000

Venmo is owned by PayPal

New comment by skizm in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

skizm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:21:27 +0000

My first reaction to this was: Matt Levine will need to cut his vacation short. Again.

New comment by skizm in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"

skizm — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:31:40 +0000

> The plaintiff is a 20-year-old California woman identified as K.G.M. because she was a minor at the time of her alleged personal injury.

I didn't realize this was literally a single person claiming they were personally injured by literally every major social media company. How does that even work? What laws are purported to have been broken here? I wholeheartedly support some sort of regulatory framework around social media, but this specific case seems like a cash grab. It was already successful too, since Snap and TikTok have settled.

New comment by skizm in "99% of adults over 40 have shoulder "abnormalities" on an MRI, study finds"

skizm — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:17:58 +0000

He’s getting old, but not over 40 yet.

New comment by skizm in "Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial"

skizm — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:09:25 +0000

All of these things they're saying are unethical, but not illegal, right?

New comment by skizm in "jQuery 4"

skizm — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 13:54:56 +0000

Facebook is PHP ironically.

New comment by skizm in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

skizm — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 13:29:21 +0000

> You might fear that people will start arriving at 1:07pm, but I have seen the opposite. They respect the new time. They arrive by 1:05pm, ready to work.

We do the :05 thing and this is exactly what happens every meeting: all of them end up starting between :07 and :10 since people leave their desk to find the room at :05.

New comment by skizm in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

skizm — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:43:05 +0000

What are good Firefox alternatives these days that will run a proper uBlock origin (not chrome’s watered down manifest v3 version)?

New comment by skizm in "Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox"

skizm — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:17:21 +0000

Maybe this is a lever that they now have to finally break free of their total dependence on Google. Get someone like Meta to pay them to be the default AI model / interface.

New comment by skizm in "I got an Nvidia GH200 server for €7.5k on Reddit and converted it to a desktop"

skizm — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:04:38 +0000

Serious question: does this thing actually make games run really great? Or are they so optimized for AI/ML workloads that they either don’t work or run normal video games poorly?

Also:

> I arrived at a farmhouse in a small forest…

Were you not worried you were going to get murdered?

New comment by skizm in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

skizm — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:09:24 +0000

Valve is the only company I'd let inject anti-cheat software directly into my veins if it meant I could play CS and be sure others were not cheating haha.

New comment by skizm in "Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public"

skizm — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:09:01 +0000

Etsy was a B-corp at the time of their IPO, so there is some precedent.

New comment by skizm in "The Junior Hiring Crisis"

skizm — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:38:15 +0000

I think the simple answer is you can't do this with most people. Bootcamps have tried for a while and mostly failed.