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New comment by yawz in "Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai"

yawz — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:58:01 +0000

Do I understand correctly that Kagan has been working on his part for (more than) 40 years?

New comment by yawz in "So you think you could be an electrician?"

yawz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:45:02 +0000

Do you live in the houses that you flip? I don't think that this is a pattern I see around me.

Claude Frontier Academy. Why is Anthropic looking to train 10k AI engineers?

yawz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 13:56:49 +0000

Article URL: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/what-is-claude-frontier-academy-and-why-is-anthropic-looking-to-train-10000-ai-engineers/articleshow/134645266.cms?from=mdr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964981

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New comment by yawz in "So you think you could be an electrician?"

yawz — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:11:19 +0000

I would assume that you're almost guaranteed to commute when you work as a builder. No WFH option either.

New comment by yawz in "Show HN: I built a new version of my fun spatial 3D online meeting app"

yawz — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:14:22 +0000

I always wonder who the right audience is for this type of virtual environment for online meetings. And I am seriously curious because I am probably too old to relate to younger professionals these days, so I may be missing something that other may find fun.

New comment by yawz in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

yawz — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:26:18 +0000

I think it gets worse during their early teens when most of the socializing these days seems to be phone/app-driven. I hope they'll keep the habit going.

New comment by yawz in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

yawz — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:58:24 +0000

Hah! I'm usually guilty of not reading the (entire) article before coming here to read the comments, which usually give me a good indication if the article is worth reading. But this time I read it all before coming here because like so many of the people here, it's hitting too close to home at many levels.

New comment by yawz in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

yawz — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:44:03 +0000

First of all, I've only heard this from software engineers.

Second of all, most of us haven't worked on the software that send people to space or similar. We unfortunately only move data from one place to another.

People wrote production code after 6-months of boot camp. Writing code is easy. (Quality, scalability etc. are the harder parts).

Part of this is captured with this famous quote:

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads." - Jeff Hammerbacher

So the insult is probably to a negligible fraction of programmers.