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New comment by yesimahuman in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

yesimahuman — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:33:11 +0000

I mostly stayed clear of the SV world while building and exiting my startup, but people like this came and went through my network constantly. They were always easy to pick out based on how much they glorified certain SV personalities and were desperate for their approval.

New comment by yesimahuman in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

yesimahuman — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:30:42 +0000

Same with a $10k tree slicer, when the actually expensive alternatives that really get people in trouble are day trading, real estate, car collecting, divorce, and starting new businesses that fail.

New comment by yesimahuman in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

yesimahuman — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:39:07 +0000

I love his videos. He makes you feel like we can actually fight back and win. If he changed his style I think something great would be lost

New comment by yesimahuman in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

yesimahuman — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:57:25 +0000

I reject the core assertion that there was a "lost decade" at all. I was deep in the frontend industry during that time, and many "use the platform" purists completely missed the reality of what people were building with better abstractions: much more complicated and ambitious frontend apps. These apps heavily used new browser APIs and features, they just did a lot of it in frameworks like React, which these purists despised. I think the era we're in right now is fundamentally different.

New comment by yesimahuman in "Ti-84 Evo"

yesimahuman — Sat, 02 May 2026 01:00:12 +0000

Does this mean uncle worm won’t run on it out of the box? A tragedy

Robinhood mass phishing incident – April 2026

yesimahuman — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:19:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/RobinhoodApp/s/0c2qJaAJbW

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920141

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by yesimahuman in "State of Kdenlive"

yesimahuman — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:11:32 +0000

Same, and corrupts backup saves

New comment by yesimahuman in "State of Kdenlive"

yesimahuman — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:10:52 +0000

You're getting downvoted but just yesterday it got in a weird state, crashed, and corrupted recent backup saves and I had to do a bunch of work all over again. I still enjoy using it but this scenario on a pretty basic project would be unacceptable in a professional setting.

New comment by yesimahuman in "State of Kdenlive"

yesimahuman — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:07:16 +0000

Kdenlive is amazing. As someone that learned basic video editing through cracked versions of Premiere growing up, I love that a completely free tool can do everything I need for editing without the nonsense of basic editors or tools like Clipchamp that lock ffmpeg flags like 4k rendering behind paid gates. My only issue with the tool right now is crashing and corrupted backups which happened a few times on the video I edited a few weeks ago.

New comment by yesimahuman in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

yesimahuman — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:09:42 +0000

I don’t know why you’re getting so aggressively downvoted. You aren’t wrong at all. This is a term that has not seen such aggressive and widespread use until this administration.

New comment by yesimahuman in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

yesimahuman — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:50:14 +0000

It is so clearly being used to a much greater and more deliberate degree during this administration. Pretending otherwise is foolish

New comment by yesimahuman in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

yesimahuman — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:17:56 +0000

The only surprise is how quickly it all happened!

New comment by yesimahuman in "AI optimism is a class privilege"

yesimahuman — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:33:15 +0000

This sums up a lot of what I've been feeling lately. I've had a hard time getting excited about the AI long game, unlike a lot of my peers. I think being out of the industry for a few years (sold my startup a while back), and spending less time in that privileged tech bubble has made me far more aware of and concerned about average people and the future of non-tech hubs around the country/world. While I get value out of AI tools today, I see a lot more downsides in the immediate future for everyone that isn't directly working on this technology with skin in the game. Especially when our society doesn't seem even remotely ready for the big changes coming.

New comment by yesimahuman in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

yesimahuman — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:04:40 +0000

Yep, and watching many of my peers in tech get red pilled and vote for this administration, or even be active participants in it, has been very hard to stomach. Financial penalties might be the only thing that gets them to realize the error of their ways

New comment by yesimahuman in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

yesimahuman — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:50:18 +0000

I think it's also a uniquely American thing. We are so defined by our work and our careers here. It's kind of sad, in my opinion, but that's the reality.

New comment by yesimahuman in "Sergey Brin's Unretirement"

yesimahuman — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:49:12 +0000

Yea I've noticed this is the singular difference between those that enjoy early retirement and are successful doing it and those that aren't. Many ambitious people end up wrapping their entire identity up with work and feel completely lost with that gone. It's why so many successful founders throw themselves into new startups right after an exit, despite having way more than enough to retire. Personally, I've taken some time off since selling my startup and I've been so busy learning new things and building new hobbies that I can't imagine going back! Maybe I will one day, but it will likely involve something I've learned from during this time

New comment by yesimahuman in "Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal"

yesimahuman — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 01:26:34 +0000

And all these data centers they want to build around the country. When consumers can’t get devices they want maybe they’ll fight even harder against these data centers being built in their back yard. He’s not making any fans with this move that’s for sure

New comment by yesimahuman in "All it takes is for one to work out"

yesimahuman — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:49:50 +0000

Yep, heard so many no’s while building my startup. They mean nothing to me now because I got a few yes’s when it mattered.

New comment by yesimahuman in "Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out"

yesimahuman — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 14:50:55 +0000

They absolutely do not. It took getting out of tech a few years to realize how hilariously out of touch we can be in this industry

New comment by yesimahuman in "A modern 35mm film scanner for home"

yesimahuman — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 23:30:03 +0000

Why are you getting downvoted? You’re absolutely right. My mind instantly went to “I would have bought this instead of the F135+ in a heartbeat”