We are assigned a number of those in AP and honors classes, which is what most Harvard students have taken.
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Most of us were already competitive in speech and debate in HS or were introduced to similar content via our AP teachers in high school, so it wasn't much of a transition.
People on HN love talking about small cars, but purchasing data has shown otherwise in most markets.
The Kia Soul was also heavy hit by tariffs on South Korean automotive exports in North America and the EU as well as the sanctions on Russia, as it was manufactured and assembled in Kia's Gwangju and Kaliningrad factories. Btw, the Russian factory now assembles Chinese cars for the Russian and Belarusian market.
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> We have also found that SDEs and SDMs who are closer to their products and businesses are able to take the most advantage of AI and agentic software development. As Amazon has grown, we’ve seen some of our ICs and SDMs become less connected to their customers and business. We want to reverse this trend. We recommend that ICs of all levels find ways to become deeply connected to your customers, and your team or org’s product direction. As always, the scope and depth of this ownership will increase as you become more senior. For SDMs, we also recommend spending time making sure you’re close to your customers and business, and you’re helping the ICs in your organization to do the same...
Good.
Firms like MonsterCloud are just the tip of the iceberg.
> I don't want certain types of users to know anything about me. I wouldn't have felt this way, say, 5 years back...
Frankly, most people DGAF about random HNers and (a general or meta-comment targeted at the reader, not you OP) if someone needs to use throwaways to post negatively polarized statements on HN, then they shouldn't even be on HN in the first place.
HN essentially became mainstream after the New Yorker profile, Reddit's degradation due to the mod blackout and API changes, and Lemmy flopping.
I've gotten my HN back to the pre-2022 consensus but it takes severe filtering, with around 200 posts being hidden a day. And it's those posts that drive the majority of discourse on the platform now.
The fact that throwaways like you are so normalized is a huge reason.
HN has also gotten divorced from tech and water-cooler conversations in much of the tech industry, and a lot of that seems to be because HN no longer has the same plurality of Bay/NYC/Seattle/Austin techies that it used to, and the userbase is way older than much of tech now (I was always younger than average on HN, but the amount of 1980s to early 2000s references shows that the platform has frozen in time demographically).
Ignore Reddit - HN has functionally become Slashdot (the fact that I even know what slashdot is highlights how the age demographics are so skewed on HN).
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> 2022 is when tech funding dried up...
Tech funding didn't dry up then. It just coencided with the time period that most vintages that originated in early 2010s were closing out and those that originated in 2016-18 were hitting their 5 year mark.
This meant a lot of dry-powder didn't get deployed until 2023-24.
> stands to reason that we ran out of hacker topics...
They are still being posted at the same rate based on my filtering. The difference is a massive deluge in non-"traditional HN" related content being posted, and the younger generation of techies and founders (those below 35) not using HN.
Also this is a good example of the trend that has already been ongoing on HN since 2022. I think one other long-lasting HNer is working on a similar analysis of HN at the moment.
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> Appreciate some more details...
It's their story to tell. Not mine.
It's a similar approach the armed services use to train MOSes as well.
Making the class pass-fail would also be more conducive for learning as well.
But still, some sort of benchmark would be needed to at least give students the ability to gauge their proficiency.
That said, my hunch is your Africa speicifc datasets might lossy, as entire regions of Africa are very linguistically diverse and someone who speaks Bambara and French will affect a different English accent than someone who speaks Maninka and English.
And why are you being downvoted to oblivion?!?
The 2023 Hollywood Strike strike, the COVID lockdowns shutting down theaters, and the aggressive film production (UK, Poland, Ireland, Norway, Italy, Spain, Colombia) and VFX (Ireland, India, Colombia) subsidizes right as American states like California, Georgia, NY, and others began cutting them meant much of the American film and television industry got obliterated earlier this decade.
The reality is revenue is roughly consistent, but production costs one you remove subsidies (like what most of the US and Canada did) become exhorbitant in low margin industries like entertainment.
It's now cheaper to produce an "American" movie or TV show in Ireland, using British actors affecting an American accent (thank Hugh Laurie, Idris Elba, and Dominic West for that), with post and VFX done in India than it is in the US.
This is something that has been reported on in the space for a decade now, but not much can be done.
This article is also another example of why HNers should stick to their own lane, as most lack context or visibility into other industries.
Exactly.
> I just hope the mods start upping the bar somehow
I'm sure they are trying, but knowing how under-resourced HN is by YCombinator (barely any staff, handful of mods who are only really doing this because of close ties to old school YC, only really surviving because it's PG's baby) I don't think much will change.
I want to keep attending demo day so I won't say more.
And we'll see. If I refine it well enough, I'll try to create a more generalized ruleset that anyone can use as they so wish.
Ever heard of the saying "misery enjoys company"? I'd rather not participate in that.
Also, I try to auto-block all accounts that are AI generated such as you are.
Despite what the moderators say, their moderation hasn't kept pace with LOTL accounts and other HN account reselling platforms.
At some point this will blow back on YCombinator, especially because my understanding is that YCombinator treats all posts on HN as YC's IP.
That said, I also know two fairly prominent founders who are also fairly active HNers who felt social media activism (especially on HN) would help drive their message. One of them founded a fairly prominent DevOps company.
The silver lining is that HN doesn't actually matter to most people in the industry. It's become an inside joke at my fund to call a pitch or idea "HN worthy". Most younger (below 35) techies don't use HN and most older techies don't either.
Increasingly the mindshare and usage on HN is largely outside of the US, with most activity occuring outside normal US hours (3am-9am PST).
Notice how the most virulent accounts on HN from any side are all post-2023 accounts with low karma, almost no submissions, and almost exclusively comment on political and non-technical topics.
1. is this topic "technical" (ie. Directly related to the day job of a software engineer, electrical engineer, computer engineer, computer science). If so allow.
2. Does this topic give advice on how to drive GTM? If so allow.
Everything else I'm hard hiding so it is somewhat lossy, but I don't need to read discourse about zeitgeist about "VC" or politics from random HNers who don't know what a vintage is or what an LA does.
I could go more precise with my rules and filtering, but it's good enough for me.
I haven't thought of a solution for account filtering yet though and some accounts (a couple of whom are on this thread as well) are deeply aggravating.
I tried a call to action years ago and all Dang told me basically summed up to "become more active on HN".
At this point I think active filtering on my own is the only solution, as the guidelines around tone and conduct increasingly don't appear to be enforced anymore.
But maybe calling out some notable examples would be useful.
And India as well as much of ASEAN view coal and ONG as core stopgaps or important intermidate inputs for their own industrialization efforts (eg. Steelmaking has hard dependencies on thermal coal, roadbuilding and concrete have hard oil dependencies as intermediate parts).
Much of the overall impact from GHGs comes from the hard industrial dependencies in fertilizers, steel, pharmaceuticals, and other heavy industries that countries need to industrialize.
It isn't just cheap kotchkes being consumed by western consumers anymore.
Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, Nigerian, Brazilian, and other consumers are also able to consume much more than they were 40 years ago (which is when most HNers appear to have been born).
40 years ago you'd be hard pressed to find plastic wrapped packaged food in a village in rural China or India. Now they're available everywhere.
40 years ago the only people who could dream of buying a car let alone a motorcycle or moped in those villages would have been local politicos. Now they are well within grasp for most households.
As large countries like India, Vietnam, the rest of ASEAN, and other regions are expected to grow in the 6-8% for at least the next decade, expect carbon output to also grow - not as the same degree as before, but still significantly nonetheless.
China, India, Vietnam, Indonesia. Brazil, Nigeria, and others are continuing to build out capacity. While this capacity is much more green than past buildouts, it's still in aggregate going to have a significant downstream impact on overall GHG emissions.
It doesn't matter who deploys more renewables or less when countries like China, India, and others continue to expand coal and ONG at reduced but still significant rates.
But they can morally push back and say North America, Europe and Japan industrialized via similar externalities.
And the reality is countries don't care. This is why China is now export controlling solar technology and IP [0] at the expense of India and other large members of the global south.
The reality is most countries are going to rush as much capacity as they can until the externalities can no longer be ignored en masse (probably by 2040-45).
[0] - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-16/china-mov...
And it's very difficult in this market to justify getting relocated with expenses paid.