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cpcat··on Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO
Oh. All this time I thought Wix pivoted to become a security company and suddenly Google wants to buy it. Just realized Wix is not Wiz. Still weird.
cpcat··on Ask HN: Who has had a successful PWA product?
Unrelated, I'm interested in the tech behind it to build my own PWA. May I ask what tech stack you use. Sorry if it's obvious I'm just getting started
cpcat··on Show HN: Open Source Version of AI "Math Notes" from Apple WWDC
I believe Apple isn't doing any "trickery" either. They're probably just running a local (on-device) llm?
cpcat··on Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video]
I actually saw a job posting that said at the very end "this is just an example". Previously it didn't have that line. So I'm guessing someone complained about being replaced and they had to put that line in there. Unfortunately they have since removed the job posting، It's a YC startup too
cpcat··on Ghost Jobs – it's not your fault that you are not getting hired in 2024 [video]
I'm a witness of that. Both to threaten that you're being replaced once we find someone and to make you think there is someone coming to help. I know for a fact it's the former. Since there was no hiring manager nor HR where that happened, I believe this is a common practice which is being advised to startups at some level. I've seen three or four YC startups do that which makes me wonder if someone is spreading this terrible practice among their network
cpcat··on Show HN: Solo founder launched iOS Development Agency as a Subscription
I like the idea. You can mention some more specific use-cases like offer to build an MVP from scratch, then provide subscription based support. Or suggest taking-over a project from another outsourcing team, etc.
cpcat··on Tired of late messages from your boss? A new bill aims to make it illegal
I used to answer and start selling them my own product
cpcat··on Tired of late messages from your boss? A new bill aims to make it illegal
Wait till you meet some fun bosses. I actually hope you do
cpcat··on YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble
Well they claim that currently the data is centralized and owned by a small group of companies, and they want to decentralize the data so that "users own their data". At least that's what they claim
cpcat··on YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble
I've read some CEOs leaving AI to build decentralized AI. A crossover between web3 and AI.
cpcat··on YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble
I know a company that claims to do AI. Their models didn't work so they ended hiring humans to manually do the job AI was supposed to do. Obviously that won't scale, but they still call themselves an AI company.
cpcat··on 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
What is the next article? AI launched a nuclear missile?
cpcat··on Ask HN: How do you decide what to do given market trends?
You refer to the economy as strong. Relatively it's not. Also depends on what you mean by economy. There are parts of the economy which are worse than before, and those are affecting the job market. I'm not saying AI hiring is the only reason, the relatively bad economy is another reason. As for AI there were articles that mentioned exactly that, companies are ending other projects to invest in AI. I'm sorry I don't have a reference handy for you, maybe you can search for them. Since you don't seem to have understanding of what economy is and generalizing it, which is clearly a fallacy, I suggest you are either being arrogant or ignorant to console yourself
cpcat··on Ask HN: How do you decide what to do given market trends?
AI solutions haven't taken anyone's job yet. Current AI solutions do make copy-pasta a lot faster though. I believe the reason all these engineers lost their jobs is because of companies greedily re-budgeting to hire AI talent and acquire AI startups. AI still hasn't replaced any developers yet, although that might still happen one day.
cpcat··on Elon Musk Bashes Remote Work
Doesn't he sleep in his factory. That's contradicting.
cpcat··on Google will soon let Pixel phones double as dashcams
There are special phone cases/holders designed for that. I'm pretty sure Google will sell those too. Not to mention this might be a camera recording the driver-distraction and not the road. So it doesn't have to be in the sun. Or even for passengers in a driverless car
cpcat··on Welcome Home, Garry Tan
Congrats. I was binge-watching on Youtube and came across one of your videos a few days ago which inspired me to start thinking of doing something with my 10 year experience, specially when you talked about there being no shortage of money :) No other investor has ever reached me via Youtube let alone inspire. Great move by YC.
cpcat··on Launch HN: Hello (YC S22) – A search engine for developers
It says start typing to search. So i started typing and it didn't search. I really expected it to be some sort of typeahead search without requiring focus on the the search field :)
cpcat··on The bottom is dropping out of Netflix
I can tell you why i cancelled my subscription. Everytime i would access Netflix from another device, they would reset my password and i couldn't create a new one without contacting customer service. They basically kicked me out. When i said i don't want to go through this process for the third time, and since your algorithms kicked me out, i want my money back, at least whatever is left of my subscription. They said no, i either go through the manual process with them to reset my password, or my subscription will automatically renew (because i can't even log in to cancel it). Thankfully they were very happy to cancel my subscription on my behalf.
cpcat··on Ask HN: Is the past disappearing on the web?
All i can say is i get really frustrated when i dont see a date on an article which to me means i cannot rely on any info in there. Im always looking for the latest and with no date i cant tell
cpcat··on My app failed: lessons learned
Totally agree about certain games. You can't have certain games before years of building, it's like making a movie.
cpcat··on My app failed: lessons learned
From my experience, if an app takes more than a few months to build and launch, the risk is no longer worth it. Large companies also do this (years building before launching and i have yet to hear of a success)
cpcat··on Kinto: Mac-style shortcut keys for Linux and Windows
I'm glad to see this here. I recently switched from mac to linux and Kinto makes it almost seamless.
cpcat··on Brown: color is weird [video]
So basically there's no such thing as orange. It's just brown
cpcat··on Open-Source Machine Learning Repos to Inspire Your Next Project
I'm not sure yet whether i want to do the training on mobile, but i want to try both before i decide so thanks for the resources i'll dig into them. One important question is, are there tools to decrease the size of a model so it'd better fit on mobile? Or is that part of the training?
cpcat··on Open-Source Machine Learning Repos to Inspire Your Next Project
Any of these work completely in iOS? I'm new in the field and want to embed everything in mobile
cpcat··on An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard
That is not always a good thing. High sales with a bad keyboard is one reason why we see so many people ranting, although i don't think anyone has pinpointed the real issue. Sales can be driven by reputation and now that reputation is slightly being exposed.
cpcat··on An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard
In the context of laptops. But then many people have never used a decent laptop and still comment
cpcat··on An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard
You know what's worse? Their bluetooth keyboard is not backlit so you can't use that as an alternative either.
cpcat··on An ode to Apple’s awful MacBook keyboard
Apple can do what it wants as long as it has a monopoly over operating systems. There is nothing like masOS out there. Personally i think the real problem is not the butterfly keys, it's the shrunken space between the keys. The arrow keys on the new MacBook Pros are the design fail of the century. I can't tell up from down without looking. Other laptops did it before and i was grateful that Apple didn't copy them, until now.
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