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by lolinder 2y ago
Oh, we're talking about bubbly VC growth and not actual GDP growth or growth of sustainable businesses or new useful products. In that case, I suppose I concede.
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How about DeepSeek? Oh, wait...
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by lolinder 2y ago
If there were no ChatGPT we'd be reading about a Google search here instead (or more likely we wouldn't, because it wouldn't be interesting enough to get traction among non-Koreans on HN). If the quotes in TFA are accurate he
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by lolinder 2y ago
Direct link to the Google translate for anyone else who can't read Korean [0]. This comment is correct, and the English headline is confusing, especially for English-speaking readers of HN who don't have context for who actually m
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by lolinder 2y ago
Presumably this is referring to him downloading one of many different data breaches that are out there, and yes, many of the services that have had their password databases leaked had terrible security practices. Couple that with password r
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It still works fine for end users, just not for the compliance department.
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> make workers less disposable without substantially affecting growth (see: European tech hubs). Sorry, but you shot your argument in the foot with this example. The last two months of Europeans trying with great difficulty to replace US
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> something more customizable like Jenkins If they had, we'd be reading a different article about how terribly complex and unintuitive Jenkins is. CI is just a very very hard problem and no provider makes it easy.
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> Also, realistically speaking, a lot of other CI solutions are only marginally better. This is the key point. Every CI system falls apart when you get too far from the happy path that you lay out above. I don't know if there's
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by lolinder 2y ago
They don't intermingle any more. HN used to be a place for that kind of discussion, but it hasn't been that way in recent months. Perspectives that even sort of smell like they're right leaning get downvoted or flagged very q
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by lolinder 2y ago
Facing it in this way isn't helping, it's just cementing the battle lines that were already in place and furthering the polarization and hatred which got Trump elected in the first place. We're not getting anywhere by spirali
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I work in education. I'm in those meetings you're talking about that are wrestling with these topics. I also live in Trump country in the Midwest and am living here in large part specifically to be an ambassador to help in my ow
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> draw in a bunch of people interested in only politics. This is already happening. I'm finding myself visiting the site less and less and enjoying my time here less and less because every single thread is getting hijacked by peop
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> Much too quiet here on HN on this post This whole topic has been done to death on HN, and this post doesn't contribute much that hasn't already been discussed extensively. Science underpins technology, but we've had 2-3
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> This is how good things turn to crap: people want to be accommodated rather than have to learn something new. Funny, this sounds more like an explanation for how we get stuck with crap and aren't able to move on to better interfac
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by lolinder 2y ago
Here's the link to the relevant discussion so people can decide for themselves if there actually is a significant difference and come to their own conclusions about why that difference might exist: https://news.ycombinator.c
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> I'm setting aside the caveat about a potential price change due to tariffs and assuming they launch at current list price As you should, because if they raise the price because of tariffs they won't see a dime of it. It'
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by lolinder 2y ago
There's a whole second blog post about Apple support being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401245
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by lolinder 2y ago
The MacOS-wide equivalent is Cmd+Shift+/, which searches all menu items. KDE has a similar idea built into the global menu.
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> upper management tried to gaslight everyone into thinking on-call was just part of normal work and didn’t warrant additional compensation. If it's made explicitly clear in the job interview process that on call is expected in a ro
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by lolinder 2y ago
There's a reason I didn't say "innovation"—I knew that people would immediately point out it's been around forever. What's new is that it's in mainstream tooling.
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by lolinder 2y ago
In a sense isn't that exactly what OP is saying is happening today? Only the super wealthy actually pay the sticker price on college, everyone else is subsidized by some combination of taxpayer-funded grants, scholarships (usually pr
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> I prefer using the mouse mostly because I cannot remember all of the shortcuts in a range of different environments. This is why one of the greatest changes in power user tooling in recent years is the "find anywhere" hotkey,
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What makes your experience representative and theirs unique? How are you measuring this?
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Try the people that manage the people that manage the people that manage the managers. Maybe. Definitely not the people being laid off.
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If the answer you were looking for was "managers", then you have no concept of just how big Amazon is. According to TFA they have about 106000 managers before this layoff. You don't give 106k people any meaningful control ove
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by lolinder 2y ago
It's not even the one-sidedness: HN has historically had either a leftward or a rightward tilt depending on your own politics—that is, everyone on here interacts with people who disagree with them more often than they are used to. What
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by lolinder 2y ago
The very well-compensated early employees, leaders, and executives, working together as a team to create something that was greater than the sum of the parts. The average Googler in 2025 wasn't even on the team that created the initi
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Only if what you took from the public domain is actually taken —as in, no longer available to the public. The scarcity model that we use for the literal commons (the shared fields in a village) doesn't apply when we're talking ab
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There's a reason why FOSS is by hackers for hackers—it's software written by people to solve their own needs. They release that software as Free/Libre so that others can benefit from it if they would like to, but first and f

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