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pyb

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Pierre-Yves Baccou

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    Comment #49179400

    Because OP's email is in their bio, for one.

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    Comment #48841238

    Fully agreed. It's also that the interesting stuff quickly falls off the front page, and you have to go to https://news.ycombinator.com/active to find it.

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    Comment #48539391

    "Social media" is such a wide and vague term. We're basically banning people from talking to each other.

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    Comment #48539367

    If Reddit is "social media", so is HN.

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    Comment #48502506

    To me, Google switched the "Evil bit" around the time of the Dragonfly debacle (2018) If OP is only seeing the problems now, they must have been selectively blind.

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    Comment #48501955

    Gobsmacked to learn that this was originally developed on the Apple II. I always thought of PoP as a 16-bit type of game.

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    Comment #48315307

    and Disney

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    Comment #48074983

    I don't think full context should be provided at all times in casual internet conversations. However, in your defense, "Richmond" is one of the most overloaded geographical names, …

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    Comment #47942147

    Oh you're right, I misread. They're actually blaming their customer's vibe coding on their problems. I which case I call BS

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    Comment #47940604

    They are mostly blaming their shift to vibe coding for their problems. https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-...

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    Comment #47804298

    Is this the OpenClaw effect?

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    Comment #47705581

    Why are you still assuming good intentions of Vercel? This was them less yhan a month ago : https://vercel.com/changelog/updates-to-terms-of-service-mar...

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    Comment #47192795

    Those worries are ruled out... for now. Laws can be amended.

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    Comment #47098251

    Same here, I've not been able to open an account, it's a bit frustrating.

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    Comment #47003280

    It's the 2026 version of this https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

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    Comment #46958337

    Reminded of Dan Luu's post on the Normalization of Deviance (2015, https://danluu.com/wat/ ) "There's the company with a reputation for having great engineering practices that had …

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    Comment #46957509

    How could Signal be considered privacy-conscious ? The first thing they do is ask for your phone number.

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    Comment #46933228

    Interesting to see the deep-dive on "younger car drivers", but not a pip about the old-age drivers. Yet we see from chart 1 that their casualty rate is far worse!

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    Comment #46857018

    Not for me.

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    Comment #46171362

    If it's confirmed that Altman's played the Koreans against each other, it's going to cause a furore in Korea.

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    Comment #46086220

    I get the feeling that they are doing this partly for marketing purposes.

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    Comment #46085524

    The aerospace industry has had countermeasures in place against bit-flips for a long time, oftentimes thanks to redudancy Airbus/Thales's fix in this case appears to add more error…

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    Comment #45641033

    This. Your SBC's ecosystem/support is 10x more important than its specs.

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    Comment #45421951

    Anectodally, I've seen that some newly graduated engineers prefer to forgo the job search altogether, rather than lower their comp demands to get a foot in the door.

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    Comment #45421774

    Not mentioned in the article : interns/juniors are too expensive these days ; seniors offer better value per dollar of comp.