Hacker News: snihalani

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

snihalani — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:16:01 +0000

Do people here believe in karma? I can't empathize with these management practices.

New comment by snihalani in "Tell HN: Firefox is being slowly deprecated by the industry"

snihalani — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 07:17:58 +0000

I think this is a pact between advertising companies.

New comment by snihalani in "Layoffs at Block"

snihalani — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:24:56 +0000

>I’m with OP, thy should face real consequences for stupid decisions

I don't think the investor cares. The investor wants 1 in X shot at beating the majority and is agnostic to failure.

New comment by snihalani in "DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit"

snihalani — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:38:19 +0000

I don't know if this was an indian thing but we'd get a dopamine hit type tone at the end and that's not present in this audio.

New comment by snihalani in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

snihalani — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 04:21:55 +0000

how do I understand what is the sustainable pricing?

New comment by snihalani in "Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence CA politics"

snihalani — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:15:09 +0000

I wish we had direct voting on important decisions

New comment by snihalani in "Sam Altman: I wonder why Anthropic would go for something so clearly dishonest"

snihalani — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:47:29 +0000

I actually think this is co-operated behind the scenes and intentional marketing.

New comment by snihalani in "Sam Altman Responds to Anthropic Ad Campaign"

snihalani — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 05:44:21 +0000

> Maybe even more importantly: Anthropic wants to control what people do with AI—they block companies they don't like from using their coding product (including us), they want to write the rules themselves for what people can and can't use AI for, and now they also want to tell other companies what their business models can be.

OpenAI's terms of service (https://openai.com/policies/row-terms-of-use/):

What you cannot do. You may not use our Services for any illegal, harmful, or abusive activity. For example, you may not:

1. Use our Services in a way that infringes, misappropriates or violates anyone’s rights.

2. Modify, copy, lease, sell or distribute any of our Services.

3. Attempt to or assist anyone to reverse engineer, decompile or discover the source code or underlying components of our Services, including our models, algorithms, or systems (except to the extent this restriction is prohibited by applicable law).

4. Automatically or programmatically extract data or Output (defined below).

5. Represent that Output was human-generated when it was not.

6. Interfere with or disrupt our Services, including circumvent any rate limits or restrictions or bypass any protective measures or safety mitigations we put on our Services.

7. Use Output to develop models that compete with OpenAI.

Learning: Marketing and Legal team are not in sync with each other.

New comment by snihalani in "GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers"

snihalani — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 23:59:38 +0000

it's painful that HN has become that

New comment by snihalani in "Why senior engineers let bad projects fail"

snihalani — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:21:08 +0000

thank you for writing this <3.

New comment by snihalani in "AWS European Sovereign Cloud"

snihalani — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 23:49:15 +0000

Why is this valuable?

New comment by snihalani in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

snihalani — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:29:15 +0000

I'm not sure we'll get china to buy our debt if we do this

related to: Warren Buffett's Thriftville

New comment by snihalani in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

snihalani — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:04:36 +0000

My takeaway from this: If LLM can eat your lunch, you should remove your cash cow from crawler avenues and gatekeep it to humans only

New comment by snihalani in "LinkedIn Prevents You from Deplatforming"

snihalani — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:09:52 +0000

I think they want you to use their linkedin recruiter product instead

New comment by snihalani in "A confession from a mainstream food delivery app engineer"

snihalani — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 05:47:08 +0000

While management usually tries to hide the evil parts of the business, the nature of eyeing incremental gains is very typical of silicon valley where data cited numbers is the requirement for promotions

New comment by snihalani in "ZoomInfo CEO blocks researcher after documenting pre-consent biometric tracking"

snihalani — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:52:24 +0000

sorry, investor first*

New comment by snihalani in "ZoomInfo CEO blocks researcher after documenting pre-consent biometric tracking"

snihalani — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:52:17 +0000

I wish america was customer first but its always going to be business first

New comment by snihalani in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

snihalani — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 18:30:21 +0000

this. They want to show more paid subscribers to VCs and enabling open source is eating their lunch

New comment by snihalani in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

snihalani — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:16:48 +0000

How does contract law allow this? Is this tactic a common pattern for VC funded or acquired companies?

New comment by snihalani in "California AG to OpenAI: Harm to Children Will Not Be Tolerated"

snihalani — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:45:15 +0000

I feel like we are ignoring X, Meta, and Roblox here