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throwaway5465··on America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks
DB schemes forced not to take long payment holidays when markets go up.

Offering a DB scheme however is an employer's choice, a choice most choose not to make today.

throwaway5465··on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans
I don't weigh 3 tons.
throwaway5465··on Poll: Are you writing the majority of your code by hand or with an AI agent?
Both, as both are involved.
throwaway5465··on Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
This speaks volumes of the moral values of Facebook vs the brick industry.
throwaway5465··on I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?
GPT told me to walk as there'd be no need to find parking at the car wash.
throwaway5465··on Ask HN: Want to move to use a "dumb" phone. How to make the switch?
A take on this to add - the absolute ease of this might depend on your social enviornment.

Make a list of mobile apps you use. For each of these, identify the web or other substitute soluti9n.

If there is no substitute, you might need a smartphone. Is the solution to 5his keeping one in a box, for example.

throwaway5465··on Can my SPARC server host a website?
Now imagine a beowolf cluster of these.
throwaway5465··on Ask HN: AI Depression
These people, the perrenial fairweather travellers - and those infected - descend on industries and places like locusts.

Been there - another industry. Staying true to you and what you do will outlive the pestelance you're currently (and we all are) currently being delivered. Don't also throw the baby out with the bath water - there is often fire to the smoke, just identify the mirrors too.

throwaway5465··on Ask HN: My OpenClaw doesn't respond. Anybody met with the same problem?
The solution will be to wait a month for stories of runaway Openclaw ruining a few peoples' lives or careers.

Then the AI providers will stop throttling it. Until they figure out another pricing tier.

Unless this slightly negative AI story is suppressed too?

throwaway5465··on Ask HN: Better hardware means OpenAI, Anthropic, etc. are doomed in the future?
Young people have had even the concepts of filesystems conditioned out for files to live in a 'folder' of an APP.

Local sovereignty isn't a pressing need for most users.

throwaway5465··on Why have far-forward nominal Treasury rates increased so much in past few years?
The other side of the long term interest rate being the cost of borrowing is tgat it is the reward of capital i.e. on the assumption the USA exists, better returns and growth.
throwaway5465··on Ask HN: Why is everyone here so AI-hyped?
The tedium of another "Was this post written by AI?"

None of the points are engaged with, just the line breaks? Divergence or FUD?

throwaway5465··on HN needs a context reminder in the URL window
Would the context reminder not have been reading the article?
throwaway5465··on Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025
There seems much defensiveness in the comments here along the lines of "not a new thing" and "not unique to LLM/AI".

It seems to deflect, even gaslight TFA.

> For most of the articles Pangram flagged as written by GenAI, nearly every cited sentence in the article failed verification.

So why deflect that into convenient other pedantry (surely not under the guise tech forums often do so)?

WSo why the discomfort for part of HN at an assertion AI is being used for nefarious purposes and creation of alternate 'truths'?

throwaway5465··on European Alternatives
netim.com
throwaway5465··on The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button
> divergent complexity of today's abstractions

The vast majority of websites and apps do not have complex divergent abstraction needs.

Some developers however require complex divergent abstractions in order to baffle brains and collect paycheck.

throwaway5465··on Ask HN: Can companies claim copyright over their LLM-generated codebases?
Compilers do not have copyright over the code resulting from instructions given.

LLMs do not have copyright over the ode resulting from instructions given.

throwaway5465··on GPT-5.2 does not follow instructions and ignores my prompts
Tools for fools.
throwaway5465··on Teen Jailed After Exploiting Refund Policy for $570k
Less exploit, more fraud. Still, I am surprised it took so long to spot given how huge online shopping is.
throwaway5465··on Scientists discover oldest poison, on 60k-year-old arrows
Not overly pedantic at all as it highlights that by using venom the hunters were able to eat what they shot.
throwaway5465··on Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn
For other readers' benefit: Girocard is not related to Girobank https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girobank or using said Girobank's Girocard to pay bills or collect dole.
throwaway5465··on Google is dead. Where do we go now?
While TFA is anecdote, the author mentions maintaining their spend, being gifted adword budget, and getting lower returns so increasing spend.

This suggests adword revenue is up, conversion to adword 'dollar' balances is inflating those balances, so both return per dollar in is down and even more down is return per adword balance dollar.

It's a leading indicator that quarterly-return focused Google must be scrambling to fix right now - they inflated themselves out of Q4 2025 but 2026 is a question mark, or to parle some Boxton Matrix, is the cash cow dying and if so is the extension strategy ad injection in AI responses, product placement in your AI videos, background changes in your family snaps, etc.

throwaway5465··on No, it's not a battleship
Sounds like a very noisy submarine.
throwaway5465··on Calendar
Why downvoted? This is correct.
throwaway5465··on Bloat in software is getting WAAAY out of hand
You encountered an App Spam. They litter app stores. Like spam videos on YouTube.

It only makes an ever stronger case for good software.

throwaway5465··on Parasites plagued Roman soldiers at Hadrian's Wall
The average body temperature then was also higher.
throwaway5465··on Tell HN: Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas!
throwaway5465··on Thomas Piketty: 'The reality is the US is losing control of the world'
China has grown old before it grew rich. The past decade has been one of a collapsed houehold sector (and birth rate below the already gloomy concensus back in 2010), general deflation, and bright lights and conspicious technology achieved only through throwing government spending at ritzy projects - centrally planned growth and waste. Being unable to escape the domestic security agenda will forever neuter global aspiration, from currency to technology.

India is yet to harmonise widespread organisation.

Relative gaps are smaller, but the persistance of gap is never more entrenched than ever.

That is not a decline. It is however a Great Game, not played with nations but with ideology and where the US and China are quite aligned. That game is less visible until it is seen.

throwaway5465··on YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
The law of entropy appears true of TikToks and Shorts. It would make sense to take advantage of this. That is to say, the content becomes so generic that it merges into one.
throwaway5465··on Show HN: HCB Mobile – financial app built by 17 y/o, processing $6M/month
In accounting, finance, M stands for 'mille' aka 'thousand'. So the headline reads $6000/month.

Given how famed HN is for its pedantry I thought you may find this useful as sooner or later someone in your industry might make a judgement on it.

MM is million, BTW.

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