Hacker News: spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spiderPigHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:10:39 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Amazon CEO Asks His Hollywood Studio to Explain Its Big Spending"]]>The biggest winner in all this will be Netflix. They’re the only profitable streaming service and we’ll see all these streamers consolidate and either sell their catalogs again or cut down on spending

]]>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 15:54:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602237spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36602237<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "English as the new programming language for Apache spark"]]>Just feels like a marketing gimmick tbh. This won’t work well enough for semi technical BI people to just use it out of the box without some gnarly debugging

]]>Thu, 29 Jun 2023 23:18:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36528157spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36528157https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36528157<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "MIT 6.S191: Recurrent Neural Networks, Transformers, and Attention [video]"]]>That user name though

]]>Sun, 02 Apr 2023 01:20:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35406098spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35406098https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35406098<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "The technical interview practice gap"]]>Very clever post encouraging companies to spend more on this trite style of interviewing perpetuated by Aline, Gayle and the leetcode gang. Who offers said mock interviews at $100 a pop? Well interviewing.io of course!

]]>Wed, 10 Mar 2021 04:51:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407887spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407887https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26407887<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Tiny meteorites are everywhere. Here's how to find them [video]"]]>Good to see The Verge investing in these types of articles instead of the usual tech drama

]]>Sat, 16 Feb 2019 18:07:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19179929spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19179929https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19179929<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Ask HN: Did you delete your Facebook account in 2018?"]]>Imo, those are valid points but still not worth giving up your privacy to Facebook for. I’d rather keep my data to myself until a non-ad supported version of either FB or some other platform comes out

]]>Mon, 24 Dec 2018 03:35:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750124spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750124https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18750124<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Oculus GoBlack – How to Make Your Oculus Go Better"]]>The virtual desktop thing looks cool. Has anyone been able to use it as an external monitor for coding ? I have neck problems and this seems like a great replacement

]]>Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:30:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697453spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697453https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697453<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users"]]>Hoarding data is different from OSS. We’re talking about infra providers. IMO, they should be regulated like public utility companies.

]]>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 21:00:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18684707spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18684707https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18684707<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Facebook says new bug allowed apps access to private photos of up to 6.8M users"]]>Turns out solving 3000 Leetcode questions doesn't teach you now to do security right

]]>Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:32:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18683826spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18683826https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18683826<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Up close with New Zealand’s most notorious gang"]]>As an Aussie, I was expecting a mob of angry Sheep ;)

]]>Thu, 13 Dec 2018 06:30:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18670288spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18670288https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18670288<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Uber Joins Lyft in Race to Tap Investors"]]>$120 billion? Wow, so SoftBank 3x’ed their $7bn investment in a year?

]]>Sat, 08 Dec 2018 03:19:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18633678spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18633678https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18633678<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Lyft Files for IPO"]]>I would rather wait for the Magic carpet service due by 2025.

]]>Thu, 06 Dec 2018 15:04:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18618521spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18618521https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18618521<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Waymo One: The next step on our self-driving journey"]]>RIP Uber.

]]>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:53:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609337spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609337https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609337<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Facebook's seized files published by MPs"]]>Indeed, kudos to them having the gall to do such a thing. Heavily lobbied congressmen would never do such a thing or even implement something like GDPR here.

]]>Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:48:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609280spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609280https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18609280<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Google rescinds candidate verbal offer due to low GPA"]]>This. Why put them through the whole interview gauntlet? Sheer arrogance

]]>Sat, 01 Dec 2018 07:13:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18575691spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18575691https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18575691<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Google Tried to Patent My Work After a Job Interview"]]>They only show up in threads praising Google as a utopia.

]]>Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:12:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18569605spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18569605https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18569605<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Transitioning Google Cloud leadership after three great years"]]>Wasn't Diane greene from VMWare?

]]>Fri, 16 Nov 2018 19:18:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18471206spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18471206https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18471206<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Delay, Deny and Deflect: How Facebook’s Leaders Fought Through Crisis"]]>Zuck's always been a sore loser.

]]>Wed, 14 Nov 2018 21:34:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454211spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454211https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18454211<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption"]]>Our company is dependent on this as well and the way customer service has been handling this has been abysmal thus far.

]]>Mon, 12 Nov 2018 00:14:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18429622spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18429622https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18429622<![CDATA[New comment by spiderPig in "H-1B visa fraud: Sunnyvale man indicted for bringing in 600 workers illegally"]]>Tech industry is not part of Bannon's platform? https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/2/14472404/st...

The terms "tech oligarchs" have been part of his verbal repertoire throughout the campaign.

]]>Sun, 11 Nov 2018 12:15:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18426035spiderPighttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18426035https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18426035