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notyouravon AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them

I’d love if author mentioned SRE is site reliability engineer. I’m still not sure if that’s it

notyouravon The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]

Not enough population density with single family homes. And if given a choice between living in a condo + better urban planning versus suburban housing, well. And then there is NY.

notyouravon Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

I made my first game on a paper and first video game on a C64. After a long diversion working in auto industry (I’m still working) I’m preparing to launch my first game here: http://store.steampowered.com/app/4265740/

Very exciting:)

notyouravon Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens by 63%

It boggles my mind that an LLM "understands" and acts accordingly to these given instructions. I'm using this everyday and 1-shot working code is now a normal expectation but man, still very very hard to believe what LLMs achieved.

notyouravon AI is different

A faulty break pad or an engine doesn’t take decisions that might endanger people. Self-driving cars do. They might also get hacked pretty thoroughly.

For the same reason, I’d probably never buy a home robot with more capabilities then a vacuum cleaner.

notyouravon The Gutting of America's Medical Research

A naive question: So much “tax payer” money is going towards research funding. But it looks like private companies are reaping rewards, mostly as a new drug. Why is this research not (mainly) privately funded?

notyouravon At Amazon, some coders say their jobs have begun to resemble warehouse work

Agreed. Real world is governed by physics, which tend to work well very well with interpolations, predictability and statistics

notyouravon Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

A Survivors clone with Control & Stranger Things vibe and some secrets.

notyouravon Nurses Say Hospital Adoption of Half-Cooked 'AI' Is Reckless

I honestly hope they make you drive the half-baked Model T.

notyouravon Apple explores home robotics as potential 'next big thing'

I wish there was a vacuum bot that didn’t need so frequent maintenance.

notyouravon Ask HN: How do you handle underperforming remotes at your company?

Depends on your role. Assuming you are their direct supervisor, simply give more tasks. Slacking off is usually due to not enough to do. Follow the tasks at a high level, make sure he knows he’s being tracked. This has even the effect of increasing motivation, as most people value attention.

If slack off means he’s not showing up at team meetings, constantly missing deadlines, low quality of work, etc.. just give feedback on a case-by-case basis, ask how he would make it better next time.

If he fails to improve and the examples pile up, time to make hard decisions. I have to say, in my experience as a direct supervisor, only 1 out of like 4 people fail to improve, if you are willing to invest your time and effort.

notyouravon Baldur's Gate 3: New Standard for the RPG Genre?

Yes-but watching tv is a social~ish event, i.e with your SO. It’s really not my personal time.

notyouravon Solve your big problems by solving your real problem

This is actually bad advice for the "marketing professional" case for two reasons in my opinion;

* Author directs his client (?) to create hypothesis out of thin air and start testing them. This is how you loose time and money. The missing step in between is observation before hypothesis creation.

* In a workplace setting, the #1 thing you should do is to ask for feedback from your supervisor, incase you feel something is wrong or you have a performance problem and don't know what's wrong.

notyouravon South Korea U-turns on 69-hour working week after youth backlash

In USA people can make these calls with much autonomy. In Korea, leaving before your boss is hard to do. In Germany working hours are hard capped and that’s absolutely normal to stop working when your weekly allowance is over.

Some things make sense only because that’s your cultural normal.

notyouravon The gas industry is paying Instagram influencers to gush over gas stoves (2020)

I wanted to replace my old gas range with a good induction cooktop. Everyone told me that would reduce my homes value, electric ranges are a step back.

I think problem is the induction ranges aren’t properly marketed. They have an image problem not a regulatory one.

notyouravon Show HN: A little side project, a watercolor art generator

14h wait time

notyouravon Ask HN: Ways to make and old car safer?

https://www.ancap.com.au/safety-ratings/subaru/forester/ea9a...

It‘s a pretty safe car for the driver and passenger. The modern tech generally avoid accidents (notably esp,abs, ebd). Keep your beakes & tires in a good shape, check the integrity of your seat belt ( loose screws, torn belts) and airbags(if any).

notyouravon From Wound Healing to Regeneration

Bad bot

notyouravon The AI startup erasing call center worker accents

I’ve read a great sci-fi short story regarding how far this could go. There is this device that alters your image to fit the “dominant culture” or the “appropriate etiquette”. You can crank it up to the point where you practically become someone else. It also feedbacks and directs your body language etc. I wish I could recall the stories name.

notyouravon Crypto Winter, or Crypto Ice Age?

I’m currently in Turkey. I can transfer funds from any bank account to another in about 1 sec., for a very low or no fee, 7/24. I can even withdraw money from an ATM w/o a card just by scanning a QR code from banks app. All merchants have adapted contactless visa etc.. payments. I honestly don’t see how crypto has a sliver of chance as payment alternative.

notyouravon Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

And by the way the amount of people interested in playing huge simulations makes me think that we living in a simulation because someone likes to play it might not be that sci-fi. At least even we have a kind of drive and motivation to build and play such a thing.

notyouravon Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?

I want Factorio with more interesting enemies and stuff I further expand. Played some popular mods but they don’t cut it.

notyouravon Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money

Gillette M3 selling point for me is you can’t cut yourself. It’s really effortless shaving. I can basically shave and finish under a minute, no cuts no hassles, no special movements with my hand etc.

notyouravon Bosch opens German chip plant

Bosch is going all-in for IoT. CEO/Borad realized they need to produce own chips for that a couple of years back and made the single biggest invest decision. Automotive also uses lot's of ASICs. Too bad it's an LLC (GmbH), can't buy stocks.