Hacker News: throwmeaway876https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=throwmeaway876Hacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 16 May 2026 12:06:42 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by throwmeaway876 in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"]]>What's the root cause of these ridiculous decisions being taken at tech corporations? Constantly, they fall into fads like these that everyone with a brain knows make no sense but still many companies decide to follow them. For example: RTO -> what's the point of this shit? we never knew for sure but higher ups at most tech companies suddenly decided that RTO was the way to go forward despite all the downsides. Another example: DEI policies, some of them were very non-sensical.

I believe there has to be some downward pressure on these executives to take these decisions but I would like to know where it's coming from exactly and what's the logic behind them. Is it some big institution like Blackrock which has leverage on many of these companies? That's always been my bet but I never knew for sure.

]]>Fri, 15 May 2026 15:58:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150242throwmeaway876https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150242https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48150242<![CDATA[New comment by throwmeaway876 in "What Happened in 2007?"]]>Exactly this.

I am convinced about the premise but for the love of god zoom out those charts.

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