seinvak

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by seinvak 8d ago
> We find that post-graduation employment, earnings, and job switching patterns among the most AI-exposed college majors began to diverge immediately following the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022 If ChatGPT in 2022 caused a large re
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by seinvak 8d ago
Well oil is definitely the reason countries like Iraq or Venezuela have been held hostage by America.
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A 25 question trivia quiz for America's 250th birthday(usa250quiz-site.pages.dev)
5 points by seinvak 3mo ago|0 comments
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by seinvak 4mo ago
Education doesn't imply intelligence. 90% of humanity that has ever lived has probably never read a word.
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List of Emerging Technologies(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by seinvak 7mo ago|1 comments
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by seinvak 7mo ago
Past threads : 2012 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3987566 2014 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367258 2021 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26837152
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by seinvak 7mo ago
> mastering the agentic process It would have been worth it if the frontier models were open weight. Right now, if you invest time in mastering tools like Claude Code or Google’s Antigravity, there is no guarantee that you won’t be remov
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by seinvak 7mo ago
It was an easy project, but managed to hit frontpage here : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345897
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by seinvak 8mo ago
Who said employees in India are unaffected by these layoffs?
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by seinvak 8mo ago
AI is definitely a solid reason. Even a 10% increase in developer efficiency translates to roughly 9% fewer workers needed to do the same job. For AI to be cost effective, it must reduce headcount.
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by seinvak 8mo ago
Probably the same happening for websites being built or apps being published.
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by seinvak 9mo ago
Thanks for the heads up. Corrected it.
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by seinvak 9mo ago
By searching in all categories, I can see it's mentioned once : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42659243#42662874 For a cult, this is some remarkably low-effort proselytizing though :/
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by seinvak 9mo ago
> I expect two of the listed to have very positive sentiment, and one generally negative in 2025. You are quite correct! Crafting Interpreters actually has the highest average sentiment score across all books with more than 10 comments.
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by seinvak 9mo ago
Just missed by a day I guess. Cutoff is 15th December.
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by seinvak 9mo ago
Thanks for the love.No need to scrape, just use this json containing all the data used in making the site : https://storage.googleapis.com/globalhnbucket/normalized_boo...
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by seinvak 9mo ago
> Would love to learn more about how this is built. I remember a similar project from 4 years ago[0] that used a classic BERT model for NER on HN comments Yes, I saw that project pretty impressive! Hand-labeling 4000 books is definitely
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by seinvak 9mo ago
Thanks! I used OpenLibrary's API to get the book IDs, and then Gemini 3 to generate the Amazon links.
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by seinvak 9mo ago
My bad — probably should’ve added a disclaimer :) For what it’s worth, I only added sponsored links to the top ~50 books out of ~10k total. Mostly just trying to cover the cost of a decent domain so I can keep the site running.
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Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025(hackernews-readings-613604506318.us-west1.run.app)
613 points by seinvak 9mo ago|212 comments
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Why Young People Are Struggling to Communicate(time.com)
4 points by seinvak 10mo ago|0 comments
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by seinvak 10mo ago
Specialist doctors are one of the highest paid professions in almost all countries. There are hardly any jobs more important than those of say a heart surgeon or a neurosurgeon.
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by seinvak 11mo ago
Quite possible regular flossing causes microplastic contamination in the gums which quite readily then enters the bloodstream.