<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: thepasswordis</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thepasswordis</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:55:47 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=thepasswordis" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Layoffs at Block"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, that's just the reality of the market right now.  Software engineers are an extremely hot field, likely because everybody is trying to add AI to their products.<p><a href="https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-global-intelligence-crisis/" rel="nofollow">https://www.citadelsecurities.com/news-and-insights/2026-glo...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:44:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173139</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47173139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just as a reminder, 15 years ago was 2011.<p>That was...like 4 macbooks ago.  I still have keyboards from that era.  I still have speakers and monitors from that era kicking around.<p>We are definitely, <i>definitely</i> not the last generation to use keyboards.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:38:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895379</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895379</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895379</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact that you believe this is the exact reasoning behind trying to prevent things like what Jimmy Kimmel did here.<p>It could not be more cut and dry than this.  In fact it is <i>so</i> cut and dry that a conspiracy theory on both the left <i>and</i> the right is that the text messages demonstrating his political motivations aren’t genuine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:09:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45309494</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45309494</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45309494</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "GPT-5"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The model should appear as a drop down at the top of the page.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2025 17:22:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827388</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44827388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I actually think that pasting questions into chatGPT etc. and then getting general answers to put into your code is the way.<p>“One shotting” apps, or even cursor and so forth seem like a waste of time.  It feels like if you prompt it <i>just right</i> it might help but then it never really does.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:22:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525123</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525123</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44525123</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The people assessing his talent are falling for the same delusion as the people conducting the interview.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:12:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44457180</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44457180</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44457180</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Remember: we’re all in this together!<p>Is there a single person that takes what Sam is saying here seriously?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:59:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446089</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44446089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Extremely vulnerable to rubber hose attacks.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 01:36:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011383</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011383</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44011383</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would be very happy to do this.<p>Fine, make it optional.  I actually would love a version of cold storage that is: never release this money unless I personally travel to an office if NYC and authorize it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 23:01:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000219</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44000219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there anything crypto does that paper currency doesn’t?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 19:20:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998367</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998367</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43998367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, cool.  My name, home address, phone number, social security number, and images of my drivers license and passport as well as what bank I use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 17:57:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997560</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997560</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43997560</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Correct.  Coinbase is a bank that holds cryptocurrency.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 16:46:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996827</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[flagged]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 16:44:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996807</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996807</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43996807</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Coinbase says hackers bribed staff to steal customer data, demanding $20M ransom"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem is that it seems like the data that leaked is also the data that would be used to do account recovery.<p>And what <i>that</i> means is that<p>1) If you lose access to your account (through either your own fault, or coinbases fault) that the process of recovering it may not be so straightforward anymore.<p>2) Hackers can try to “recover” accounts now using this leaked info.<p>This is a huge problem.  What coinbase needs are IRL offices where you can go and do things like account recovery, and where people trying to steal money can be caught and prosecuted (and makes a huge barrier for the overseas thieves who are usually doing this)<p>The only solution here is: hardware 2 factor like yubikeys.</p>
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<p>No. I absolutely love my car.  I have put 60,000 miles on mine in 3 years, largely from <i>long</i> cross country road trips.  It's far and away my favorite driving experience of any car I've ever driven.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:08:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317439</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43317439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you trying to make the point that people don’t care or aren’t aware of the fact that their clothes are made in sweatshops by linking to a western blog extensively detailing the brands that use sweatshops with the implied point that you should avoid them because they are bad?<p>Sweatshops are bad.  Westerns know this.  They don’t want sweatshops.<p>Seeing YC back a sweatshop management application that uses AI to help managers harass their workers is sad.  It would
be similar to them investing in faster slave ships in the 1850s.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:30:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177709</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177709</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>As someone who grew up in a 3rd world country and whose mother owned a clothing factory, this product seems...fine?<p>People in western countries find things like sweatshops to be objectionable.<p>>The response is an indication of how little people know about how their t-shirts and shoes are made.<p>People in western countries are well aware of how their shirts are made, and don't like it, and try to avoid it when possible specifically because they find sweatshop conditions objectionable.</p>
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<p>The website makes it sounds like this is just...AI sweatshop monitoring software?  What the heck?<p><a href="https://www.optifye.ai/">https://www.optifye.ai/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 02:54:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167544</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167544</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43167544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "HP Acquires Humane's AI Software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So raise the cost until it's profitable and see who buys it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Feb 2025 14:24:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102453</link><dc:creator>thepasswordis</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43102453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by thepasswordis in "HP Acquires Humane's AI Software"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t get it.  Why did they not just sell this as a hardware device?  The projector on it is cool.  That <i>alone</i> starts competing with my Apple Watch.<p>These guys figured out an entire new category of hardware peripheral, and did what I understood to be some pretty cool engineering to make it work.<p>WHY do people push this closed off ecosystem stuff?  Seriously I do not get it.</p>
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