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pyman

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About pyman

Things that happened since I joined Hacker News:

- In 2009, WhatsApp and Uber launched, and Minecraft was made public.

- In 2010, Instagram went live, Apple released the iPad, and Microsoft released Windows Phone.

- In 2011, Apple announced Siri.

- In 2012, Facebook bought Instagram, and Google launched Google Drive.

- In 2013, Edward Snowden leaked NSA documents, and the Oculus Rift was released.

- In 2014, Apple Pay and HTML5 were launched.

- In 2015, Alexa was launched, OpenAI was founded, and Tesla's autopilot went live via a software update.

- In 2016, TikTok and Pokémon Go launched.

- In 2017, AlphaGo beat human players, and Fortnite was released.

- In 2018, Alibaba’s AI beat humans on a reading test, and Google published the Transformer paper.

- In 2019, Slack went public, and WeWork’s IPO collapsed.

- In 2020, Zoom usage skyrocketed.

- In 2021, NFTs exploded, and Google and Apple faced lawsuits over App Store policies.

- In 2022, ChatGPT launched, Elon Musk bought Twitter, and Meta lost billions on the metaverse.

- In 2023, generative AI exploded, and ChatGPT became the fastest-growing app in history.

- In 2024, SpaceX caught a rocket, and the EU AI Act came into force.

- In 2025, China’s open AI model DeepSeek shocked the world, and Tesla reported its biggest decline in quarterly revenue in more than a decade.

To be continued...

Recent public activity

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    Comment #45050423

    Excellent. Men in black :D

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    Comment #45050396

    Statistically speaking, everything points to human interference. My theory is that the government was planning to cut funding, and to stop that from happening someone deliberately …

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    Comment #45050357

    Or the government was planning to cut funding, and to stop that from happening someone deliberately created the interference. Statistically speaking, that's more likely than aliens…

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    Comment #45050318

    Not sure about radiation, but I once tried to boil an egg in the microwave and the microwave exploded. For a second, I thought the chicken had secretly developed human-level intell…

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    Comment #45050198

    Although I'm sure @stinkbeatle was joking, I should clarify that most LLMs are trained on books and online articles written by professional writers. That's why they tend to have a …

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    Comment #44982605

    The best PMs are like mini-CEOs, and many of them go on to become CPOs. But there's a lot of confusion in the software industry about what the role of a PM should be. For example, …

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    Comment #44982377

    It does sound a bit weird, I have to admit. Customer Experience Manager sounds better or just CX Manager. For me, the title Product Manager sets the wrong expectation, it makes it …

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    Comment #44980005

    I think the role of Product Manager should be renamed Customer Manager to avoid confusion and conflicts of interest. Some companies like Airbnb tried switching to Program Manager, …

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    Comment #44979857

    I was saying that many companies already make a mistake by putting unqualified people in senior product roles, and some go even further by making the bigger mistake of promoting an…

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    Comment #44978103

    Time. Most of my 10-hour workday people bombard me with messages and meeting requests. Messages I can usually ignore, but meeting requests get abused by some. Anyone can send one a…

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    Comment #44977980

    How exactly is your question related to the link you shared? You should change the title to: "Show HN: SubBuddy"

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    Comment #44977605

    People skills matter for product managers, but they come after customer and product experience, business and product strategy, and execution and delivery. Otherwise you just end up…

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    Comment #44976580

    Lots of product managers have never studied product development. You'll find philosophers, designers, physicists, even musicians in the role. Many have great people skills, but lit…

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    Comment #44960970

    I would say 100% of their audience should be held accountable. Watching a crime take place, no matter how entertaining it seems, and not reporting it to the police is still a crime…

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    Comment #44960880

    > a comment in the JavaScript code even pointing to a website that allows anyone to decrypt the key Intel hiring vibe coders and junior devs, nothing new here. But Intel needs to f…

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    Comment #44960826

    "There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: illegal drugs and software." - Edward Tufte

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    Comment #44960550

    I remember buying into OpenAI's claim that I had Aristoteles in my pocket, and at first I was amazed. Then one day I realised it wasn't Aristoteles at all, it was my little brother…

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    Comment #44960269

    It doesn't affect us, so why complain? We can always just get a visa to watch porn.

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    Comment #44950486

    Newton was obsessed with the idea that matter could be transformed, which is basically what alchemy is about. He thought metals like lead could be changed into gold if you uncovere…

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    Comment #44949969

    Great article and research!

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    Comment #44949935

    I'd argue that shamelessness and countersignalling are different things but share the same foundation: confidence. Shamelessness is acting without embarrassment and countersignalli…