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New comment by upupupandaway in "Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I've had yet"

upupupandaway — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:26:37 +0000

The AI stumbled easily at what would have been the most impressive achievement (book the Airbnb) and yet the author was "terrified" by it?

New comment by upupupandaway in "Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale"

upupupandaway — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:59:58 +0000

I had an offer for $1.2m / year for an M2 position in a MCOL location in the US. So this is the answer. Money.

New comment by upupupandaway in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"

upupupandaway — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:06:37 +0000

> A huge portion of the posts are also propaganda. Finding a new job is tied to listening to propaganda.

I am 100% convinced that a significant number of job posts on LinkedIn are entirely fake and either 1) a way to farm resumes and contact details for sales 2) propaganda to make a company appear to be hiring more than it is.

Positions from companies like Andiamo, Jobgether, etc. are most likely #1 above, while Adyen, Affirm, Airwallex are the latter.

In fact I build a prototype classifier of job listings to separate true opportunities from bullshit posts, but I am too scared to publish it and get sued to oblivion.

New comment by upupupandaway in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

upupupandaway — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:40:09 +0000

My wife is a nurse and keeps in touch with her school professors. They said that the number of people flooding into healthcare careers is more than most colleges can handle, and is starting to cause supply glut in some roles.

New comment by upupupandaway in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

upupupandaway — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:38:38 +0000

This is, to me, the "correct" answer. I am starting to see the role evolve to "software producer", which, like music producers, direct an entire problem space using tools (Claude / ProTools + presets) and occasionally bring some specialized musicians for some advanced parts. Most commercial software will be built this way, much like almost all commercial music already is.

New comment by upupupandaway in "AMÁLIA and the future of European Portuguese LLMs"

upupupandaway — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:39:44 +0000

As a pt-BR speaker from across the pond: https://soberania.ai/

Similar waste.

New comment by upupupandaway in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

upupupandaway — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:11:24 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264

PayPal to Cut 20% of the Workforce

upupupandaway — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:18:45 +0000

Article URL: https://rollingout.com/2026/05/05/paypal-pypl-workforce-cuts-turnaround/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026413

Points: 6

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New comment by upupupandaway in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

upupupandaway — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:32:44 +0000

Brian once came to Hacker News to comment on a thread I posted (about being made an offer then ghosted by Stripe for a leadership position), so if he has the time for that I'd love to see him here talking about the non-technical teams thing. Could be an interesting discussion.

New comment by upupupandaway in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

upupupandaway — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:31:11 +0000

> Non-technical teams are now shipping production code

With the amount of tech leaders blabbering about this, I came to the conclusion that the profession of the future is going to be Security Engineer.

New comment by upupupandaway in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

upupupandaway — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:12:06 +0000

they interviewed me for a generic role and placed me on Reality Labs, and I had a hunch it would go down swiftly (org was decimated 9 months later) so I didn't go.

New comment by upupupandaway in "Show HN: TRiP – a complete transformer engine in C built from scratch just by me"

upupupandaway — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:23:53 +0000

Any data on performance?

New comment by upupupandaway in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

upupupandaway — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:58:54 +0000

Not a security guy here. How did the dependency get compromised, exactly? Did they submit a PR into the main repo at github and it was approved by the maintainers? Or just host compromised versions in other mirrors?

New comment by upupupandaway in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

upupupandaway — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:29:52 +0000

I don't understand this comment at all. Are you being sarcastic? Digging at the developers? At Meta?

New comment by upupupandaway in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

upupupandaway — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:24:07 +0000

I was offered $1.15m a year to work there back in 2022. That's why.

New comment by upupupandaway in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

upupupandaway — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:23:01 +0000

Also extremely astute to stay the hell away from buying Twitter.

New comment by upupupandaway in "Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs"

upupupandaway — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:22:08 +0000

OP is not saying Mark is a good person, but a ballsy CEO. And he is.

New comment by upupupandaway in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

upupupandaway — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:07:36 +0000

Is there a good open source stack to replace Claude or Codex that can be run locally on some advanced hardware?

New comment by upupupandaway in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

upupupandaway — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:01:35 +0000

Why is this necessarily a good thing?

New comment by upupupandaway in "Ask HN: How do you find motivation to do stuff?"

upupupandaway — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:24:50 +0000

25 years into my career here. Motivation is awesome to get you that rush to start building something. Discipline, however, is far more important and will get you more success than anything else. Discipline for what? Achieving goals that you have set. If you don't have goals then that's the problem right there - how will motivate yourself for anything or have the discipline to achieve it?

Over the years my goal changed from being a software wizard to having $x.xm in my bank account by the time I am 50, thus securing my daughter's education all the way through college. Every time I don't want to join the 999th call of the week on "how we can better work together", I look at her picture and realize who I am doing that for - discipline.