Hacker News: yawz

New comment by yawz in "Maybe the default settings are too high"

yawz — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:43:30 +0000

I love Woody Allen's speed reading joke:

> "I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."

The Island Where People Go to Cheat Death

yawz — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:02:19 +0000

Article URL: https://newrepublic.com/article/201135/vitalia-roatan-honduras-island-cheat-death

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45782716

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yawz in "AI is making us work more"

yawz — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:21:06 +0000

Currently giving 504 Gateway Timeout.

New comment by yawz in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

yawz — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 16:00:37 +0000

I assume it was not labeled as fake when the OP sent it.

New comment by yawz in "MacBook Pro Insomnia"

yawz — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 13:29:02 +0000

> "With the setting disabled, the Mac got into a kind of wake-up frenzy, instead of waking up and processing events in batch every hour"

Dora Research: Concerns beyond the accuracy of AI output

yawz — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 15:11:12 +0000

Article URL: https://dora.dev/research/ai/concerns-beyond-accuracy-of-ai-output/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44757990

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI is going to improve your documentation but not the way you expect

yawz — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:38:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.acmconsulting.eu/post/ai-is-going-to-improve-your-documentation-but-not-the-way-you-expect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44276382

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Copilot Spaces: A new way to work with code and context

yawz — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 02:03:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-05-29-introducing-copilot-spaces-a-new-way-to-work-with-code-and-context/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44187628

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by yawz in "Try Switching to Kagi"

yawz — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:05:49 +0000

Still works in the Arc browser, which is Chrome-based.

Reddit users were subjected to AI-powered experiment without consent

yawz — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 11:33:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2478336-reddit-users-were-subjected-to-ai-powered-experiment-without-consent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43843736

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Marc Benioff thinks we've reached the 'upper limits' of LLMs – AI agents

yawz — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:18:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/marc-benioff-salesforce-llm-ai-agents-future-podcast-2024-11

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42238594

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Deepinder Goyal's controversial chief of staff job posting gets over 18,000 apps

yawz — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:34:31 +0000

Article URL: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/property-/-cstruction/kalpataru-advayborivali-gets-an-illustrious-residential-landmark/articleshow/115404192.cms?from=mdr

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42206610

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

We might never know the truth about ultra-processed foods

yawz — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 19:08:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpe3pppw1z7o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41112998

Points: 16

# Comments: 16

In shock decision, Google abandons third-party cookie deprecation plans

yawz — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:33:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thedrum.com/news/2024/07/22/shock-decision-google-abandons-third-party-cookie-deprecation-plans

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41043139

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by yawz in "Interface Upgrades in Go (2014)"

yawz — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 15:49:16 +0000

The title needs "2014" to be added.

Climate change: The 'insane' plan to save the Arctic's sea-ice

yawz — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:15:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-68206309

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39727131

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Embracing Efficiency with the Arc Browser

yawz — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 15:59:45 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/insiderengineering/embracing-efficiency-with-the-arc-browser-part-i-9783def7beb3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39482228

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by yawz in "So long, and thanks for all the bytes"

yawz — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:37:26 +0000

Because of the downturn, I wonder how many people have given up on their careers at Tech? How many more will respond to the call of a different professional life that pays less, but that will be more fulfilling? Even as recent as yesterday I heard a past-colleague tell me "maybe Tech isn't for me, after all. I'll try my hand at this other thing."

New kinds of padding could make football gear, bike helmets safer than

yawz — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 12:32:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2024/02/05/new-kinds-padding-could-make-football-gear-bike-helmets-safer-ever

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39301168

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Google spent billions of dollars to lay people off

yawz — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:36:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/30/24056132/google-spent-two-billion-on-layoffs-severance-fourth-quarter-earnings-2023

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39201447

Points: 4

# Comments: 1