Hacker News: yedava

Agents can't check their own work

yedava — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:42:00 +0000

Article URL: https://frontierai.substack.com/p/agents-cant-check-their-own-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47720672

Points: 2

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The Werewolf game: an interview with Google's former news chief Richard Gingras

yedava — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 15:23:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.codastory.com/authoritarian-tech/the-werewolf-game-an-interview-with-googles-former-news-chief-richard-gingras/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45847344

Points: 3

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New comment by yedava in "Perplexity got ads"

yedava — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:25:02 +0000

AI products will be speed running the last few decades of tech - make a compelling product, then add ads based on the prompt, then store prompts from each user and build psychological profiles, and finally manipulate AI output to maximize user susceptibility to part with their hard earned money. Bonus points if they can get the user addicted to their product.

New comment by yedava in "Is Python That Slow?"

yedava — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:51:55 +0000

The article times bubble sort, which is just nested loops. And python is dead slow. Granted nobody uses bubble sort, but loops show up in all kinds of places in programming. With python, you always have to make a decision on whether to use python loops or let something like numpy or torch or pandas do the loop.

New comment by yedava in "Is Python That Slow?"

yedava — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:08:00 +0000

I use python because I have to, but not because I want to. I have to think twice about using something as basic as a loop, whereas in another language I don't have to.

The Scandinavian Soft Rock Band That's Big in Asia

yedava — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:37:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/world/asia/michael-learns-to-rock-popularity.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42183886

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by yedava in "Porygon Was Innocent: An epileptic perspective on the infamous Pokémon episode"

yedava — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:38:52 +0000

The history of disability rights, or any rights for that matter, has been more of raising the cost of ignoring them rather than just being "nice". If they were "nice", nothing would have ever changed.

A Craving for Calculation

yedava — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 19:41:29 +0000

Article URL: https://technicshistory.com/2024/11/03/a-craving-for-calculation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42035565

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by yedava in "A new book shows how the power of companies is destabilizing governance"

yedava — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 00:46:24 +0000

The problem is deeper than that. Software has completely eroded property rights. I believe someone has coined the term "techno feudalism". Corporations own the software and us serfs merely lease it.

Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay

yedava — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 14:56:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-uber-lyft-nyc-drivers-pay-lockouts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41849280

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The Rage of Google

yedava — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 23:42:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-rage-of-google

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41815031

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by yedava in "Five days a week in the office? Forget it"

yedava — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:00:55 +0000

The framing around productivity misses a huge area - productivity of life. The less time that is wasted in office, the more time is available to do things that make life worth living. Any argument for return to office should justify why people are expected to waste away their lives.

Amazon Still Has a Counterfeit Problem

yedava — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:46:07 +0000

Article URL: https://prospect.org/power/2024-08-28-amazon-counterfeit-problem-ink-cartridges/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41380130

Points: 117

# Comments: 126

New comment by yedava in "Uber loses New Zealand appeal, court rules drivers are employees not contractors"

yedava — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:32:11 +0000

The primary "innovation" of Uber is political, not technological. They've managed to circumvent labor protections and at the same time position themselves as the middleman between drivers and riders.

In another Universe, a technology company would develop software that taxi companies can use to provide the same services that Uber does. But that wouldn't be as profitable as there wouldn't be scope for labor exploitation.

Will "surveillance pricing" help or harm consumers?

yedava — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 14:09:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2024/08/14/surveillance-pricing-harm-consumers-ftc-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41246270

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

Apple is America's semiconductor problem

yedava — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 20:00:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.semiconductor-digest.com/apple-is-americas-semiconductor-problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41195584

Points: 175

# Comments: 240

The Antitrust Case Against SpaceX

yedava — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:43:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thesling.org/the-antitrust-case-against-spacex/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41191417

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by yedava in "Amazon forced to recall 400K products that could kill, electrocute people"

yedava — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:23:29 +0000

A good rule of thumb for shopping an Amazon - avoid anything that you can ingest, apply on your skin, and anything electrical.

These are better to buy in a brick and mortar store where a human verifies that the product has indeed come from supplier who is verified in some way. Of course this doesn't make brick and mortar products automatically safe, but they are far better than Amazon where quality control is offloaded onto the customers.

Uber Is a Poor Replacement for Utopia

yedava — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 01:49:46 +0000

Article URL: https://scholars-stage.org/uber-is-a-poor-replacement-for-utopia/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41097383

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yedava in "SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas"

yedava — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:58:24 +0000

Sure, they are children and said children do a lot of things at school that they hide from parents. This isn't new. As long as the children are not hurting others, why should the schools care?