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qcic··on Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford
Good for you.
qcic··on Investors bought 27% of US homes in Q1, as traditional buyers struggle to afford
27% of homes sold, not 27% of US homes. The title is completely misleading.

Not a shocker, given high interest rates usually drive down prices, and investors are not getting mortgages. Great investment to keep value, not so much for growth.

qcic··on Private sector lost 33k jobs, badly missing expectations of 100k increase
False equivalence. Politicians aren’t scientists, and people do criticize programmers all the time. I got at least 3 complaints at work today about bugs in our software.
qcic··on Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
Put their WiFi router inside a faraday’s cage and wire a modem behind it. That should shave off the $25/mo.
qcic··on The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs
It doesn’t matter. Jim Bean doesn’t compete with an R&D software company. The R&D software company does compete with other companies in different jurisdictions with better regulations.
qcic··on Ask HN: Has anybody built search on top of Anna's Archive?
Super interesting.
qcic··on I'm starting a social club to solve the male loneliness epidemic
Gym, BJJ, pick up soccer, tabletop game clubs, RPG events, book clubs. There’s a billion options out there.
qcic··on Show HN: Voiden – a free, offline, Git-native API Client
Not GP, but the tagline above the fold doesn’t tell anything related to the actual value prop. Modular, extensions etc are implementation details. Git-native? I had an “idea” of what that meant, but had to scroll down to confirm.
qcic··on Show HN: Voiden – a free, offline, Git-native API Client
No. You can very much call your project that is running locally without any internet connection.
qcic··on Apple card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts (2021)
I don’t see how that happened in this case. They were able to talk to someone and get it fixed.
qcic··on Show HN: A C-Suite AI Agent Meant for SMB
Yes. It’s well known that SMBs would immensely benefit from the same practices Fortune 500 companies adopt. /s
qcic··on Car companies are in a billion-dollar software war
Latin America is “just” 33 countries each with their own culture (not to mention Brazil with its massive size).
qcic··on Evolving OpenAI's Structure
I doubt it. Google is shoving Gemini on everyone’s face through search, and Meta AI is embedded in every Meta product. Heck, instagram created a bot marketplace.

They might not “know” the brand as well as ChatGPT, but the average consumer has definitely been exposed to those at the very least.

DeepSeek also made a lot of noise, to the point that, anecdotally, I’ve seen a lot of people outside of tech using it.

qcic··on California's $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at small cost to consumers
Please, tell me which part of the world has higher minimum wage and lower prices. I dare you.
qcic··on California's $20 fast-food minimum wage improves pay at small cost to consumers
Potato - potato. Doesn’t really matter that it was a response, the chain of events is still the same, so are the results. It the end of the day, just one more example of unintended consequences of legislation.
qcic··on Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress
Which is much more gruesome and makes a lot more sense. I expect more hesitancy in potentially killing the prince than kissing a frog.
qcic··on Part II: The failure points from $5M to $100M in ARR
3 is greater than 0.
qcic··on Ask HN: Why it is hard for US to move to metric system?
How is measuring something in 3 1/16" better than 8mm? Conversely, how is that not worse?

You can measure from 1nm to 1Em using a simple decimal scale, while with imperial you have to handle conversion from twip to inches to foot to yard to mile to league, all using different scales.

qcic··on Carta lays off 10% of the workforce
this is worth, like $500. would have looked better if they didn't even have this at all.