Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

Thank you HN and HN community for sharing the most interesting places of internet, ideas, discussions and points of views. Learned a lot and hope to learn more.

So that’s why CapitalOne is out today. Even though their (incorrect) status page says all systems operational.

Same with any Amazon device. I wish there was a way to recycle Alexa so it’s not just a e-garbage… after all my personal data and insights were mined

Don't stress about it. The junk was created the moment you bought it. Take it to the dump, they usually have some kind of electronics recycling so maybe less than 100% goes to the landfill ultimately.

Thank you and agree! I am waiting for a good moment to get rid of that ad display listening device. Life gets its way!

This! I did a long drive last week and was surprised that spam calls knew exactly the area code I was in. Realtime …

Chilling realization

Is it possible that some background app is polling and selling this info rather than your carrier?

Using slash commands that describe engineering/task workflow (steps) and /clear once it’s done solves this.

Thank you for the last paragraph.

Same thought came when I was reading the article and glad I am not alone.

Anecdotally, most common productivity boost is coming from cutting down weird slow steps in processes. Write an automation script, campaign previewer for marketing, etc etc.

Coding seems to transform to be a more efficient (again anecdotally) but not entirely faster. You can do a better work on a new feature in the same or slightly smaller time.

Idle time at 4% was interesting. I think this number goes higher the more you use a specific tool and adjust your workflow to that

Offtopic - what kind of unicorns now hire fully remote people with that experience?

Senior+ eng roles at Netflix, Stripe, Discord, Figma, Reddit

Those are all definitely not asking about writing little services in postgres on their job apps. That tier job posting today looks more like a post for a tenure track ML faculty position.

I’ve worked at half of these places and they’re all doing yaml massaging and grpc sculpting. Not much more than basic KTLO with some regularly scheduled feature work and reliability heroics.

Well that is not what that tier job description is describing today at least. Maybe in the past or even still today if you got in early. Hard to imagine so much weight being put on ML knowledge and skills in the job app if it isn’t getting used in the role at all.

I’m building https://instantlyfluent.com, a small project to help people and myself practice languages before travel. It works through voice or text chats with AI.

I tried Gliglish but didn’t like how it was structured. So I started turning my own “learn a language before a trip” routine into something easier to use.

Dutch is not supported yet, and there are still some rough edges. But the idea is simple: help people remember words by using them. You say or type something, and get a reply you can hear or read.

In conversations on IF, there is no fixed path. You can start with a topic, then ask to switch to something else. It’s meant to be low-pressure and flexible.

Still figuring things out. Happy to share more or hear from others working on similar tools.

If you don’t have X account, you can’t read past the initial tweet

Almost finished with it after few days. I think it is must read and the fact author testified adds more reasons.

Glad to see this on HN.