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by xenihn | 2025-07-13 19:43:31+00:00
I'm going to pick an arbitrary number here that's loosely based on top 100 tech companies by market cap.

If you are working for a company that employs at least 1000 full-time engineers, I think you should consider joining a team where every project involves AI in some way, if you aren't already on one. Whether its owning AI tooling, or developing client features that use AI directly, or even just prototyping AI concepts that never launch. The safest roles like research and directly working on the models are out of reach for most people due to competition and position scarcity, but that's ok. There are so many positions downstream from those. The key thing to look for is to be in a position where your AI features can actually turn a profit, which might be rare, but not as difficult to get as an upstream role. But its still fine to be in a role that isn't profitable.

I think AI-adjacent roles will either be the first or last fulltime SWE jobs to go during the next tech downturn, which I don't think we are in yet. I am betting on the latter, because I think corporations will continue to reroute more and more funding towards AI all the way down. Even if the current AI cycle ends up as a failure, we are already in the sunk cost stages of commitment. There is no turning back without anything short of a total collapse.
by mcherm | 2025-07-13 19:43:32+00:00
If insurers are suffering from "mortality slippage" because some of their customers purchased insurance while on GLP-1s then later discontinue the medication, then there must also be "mortality slippage" in the opposite direction. There must be customers who were not on GLP-1s when they purchased insurance, but could go on them, extending their lives in a way that is very profitable to the life insurance companies.

Furthermore, there are more people not on GLP-1s than on them (even with the recent surge in popularity) so this population that can give life insurance companies "excess" profits must outnumber those the article describes where the insurance company takes a loss.

Why can't they focus on this profit opportunity?
by mattmanser | 2025-07-13 19:45:18+00:00
There's often side effects, including nausea, diarrhea, headaches, bloating, discomfort, etc.

As far as I can tell from forums, it's not like 5% have the side effects, it's like 80-90%.

But for the first time in decades, I felt full. I didn't want to finish a meal, it was too much.

My body regulated my food intake in what felt like a natural way.

I hadn't even realized my body had somehow lost that fundamental mechanism of appetite control. It made me realize I wasn't weak willed, something is different about my body than other people.

But it comes with a price. The side effects I had were quite bad and so I stopped (though I now read that if I switch to a different brand, I might be ok).

I often didn't want to leave the house due to a dicky tummy. It could come/go in waves. But often can last a whole week.

Plus you've got to inject yourself every week. Often you can't drink as it makes you sick. Even when you're doing everything 'right' you can feel a bit off.

If you do over-indulge (with food or drink) the side effects can sometimes be massively amplified and you feel terrible for days.

So amazing in some ways, but it's not like taking a vitamin tablet. There are costs and making one slip up can result in suddenly feeling awful for a day or two.

Perhaps I was just particularly prone to the side effects, but it seems to happen to a lot of people (I found Mumsnet threads about it useful, they are quite revealing as they seem to be fairly honest and willing to share their experiences)
by 44520297 | 2025-07-13 19:45:23+00:00
Would you say the same about blood pressure medications, diabetes medications, cholesterol medications, thyroid hormone replacement, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, antipsychotics, anti-anxiety medications, immunosuppressants, DMARDs, corticosteroids, anticonvulsants, Parkinson’s medications, multiple sclerosis treatments, blood thinners, and heart failure medications? All of them set people up for rebound failure if they stop taking them for the chronic condition they started them for.
by paul7986 | 2025-07-13 19:45:25+00:00
Everyone lives and enjoy life as they choose as they should!

For those who are not interested cutting down daily on what they eat this data would not be valuable to them just as the data their phone captures now how many steps you walked in a day.

Myself I eat Cava bowls for lunch that are less then 600 calories, drink 70 percent water (not consuming calories from what I drink) and unsweet tea (zero calories in tea) with some lemonade to sweeten it a bit as the remainder. Other chains you can find similar meals that are less then 600. If you eat as such and keep at (change ur lifestyle for good) it some weight will be lost if the person wants to as well go for a walk on their lunch break. But again all about to how people want to live and enjoy their lives!
Show HN: I built an open-source and serverless authentication system
by iamjc54 | 2025-07-13 19:45:26+00:00
I built Oxidiko because I was tired of seeing companies lose millions of passwords to sloppy authentication systems that were never designed for privacy or modern threats. I’m Jonathan, a 17-year-old developer and security enthusiast, and I wanted to create a simpler, more secure, and privacy-first way to log in.

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It uses WebAuthn (passkeys) combined with a PIN fallback to generate a unique oxidiko_id — like a passport you actually have to prove you own. The vault is encrypted with keys derived from both, and either can unlock it securely.

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by D13Fd | 2025-07-13 19:45:40+00:00
I have a huge backlog of games I’ve bought on sale knowing I would enjoy them, but never got around to playing them. It’s well over 50% of my game library.

The problem for me is that a good game that you really like can easily eat multiple thousands of hours. It’s just a time consuming hobby. And it takes a lot of effort to get started on a new game. I can’t help but think “wouldn’t I rather spend that time improving my ranking in x or y game…”
by ClumsyPilot | 2025-07-13 19:45:49+00:00
The greatest lie in the world is that US Gov. wants free market.

It has spent the last 10 years lobbying EU to ban Huawei, Chinese electric cars, Tiktok, etc.. It has banned foreign ships from travelling between US ports, a deal by Japan's Nippon Steel, imposed 300% tax on Bombardier, and imprisoned French executives until they agreed to sell a division of Alstom to GE.

This is why I support Trump as a European - at least he is upfront about the racket he is running. If the pretence cannot be maintained, our politicians will be forced to respond.
by alibarber | 2025-07-13 19:45:51+00:00
With all due respect, there's not a huge shortage of programmers in Europe.

What is needed is capital, world leading expertise (yes, top of the field - the people who can command the famous $100M sign on bonuses we hear about), and more risk appetite. If you were, say, an investor ready to fund and grow companies with ready captial, I think your options would be more open.
by massung | 2025-07-13 19:46:04+00:00
I don’t know if your topic switch was intentional - if so, my apologies and this is just for people outside the US who don’t know…

The article is about life insurance, which is very different from medical insurance.

Medical insurance companies often already go out of their way to pay early to save in the long run (e.g. free preventative care, checkups, etc.). I can’t speak to GLP-1s, but it’s possible that right now there are still active patents when used for obesity that make them crazy expensive for a few more years.

Life insurance is all about models and predictions about when you’re going to die. Any sudden change that massively impacts those models suck, because life insurers are basically gamblers with gobs of historical data they use to hedge their bets.
by mikhailt | 2025-07-13 19:46:05+00:00
That's a great idea!

Can you show me what we're doing in USA to help children and people develop the habits and discipline for long term lifestyle change?

Because I've never learned anything about nutrition, macros, high sugar content and all of the healthy food I should learn to eat on my own.

We did not have home classes in any of my education in US at all, they were a thing in the past but that wasn't a thing in my middle hs or hs or college at all in NY in 90s/2000s.

All of my bad habits were from my parents and they were not good eaters.
by ecb_penguin | 2025-07-13 19:46:35+00:00
If you think it's that simple, you have no idea what you're talking about.

How many years experience do you have in the insurance industry that you're so confident to talk like this?

> because this is a financial product and doesn't require months of building a factory or something to offer.

How many financial instruments have you launched? If the answer is zero, you should refrain from any conversations on the topic because your opinion literally means nothing.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-13 19:46:47+00:00
That is definitely not true. It's very dependent on the culture, the company, the specific group.

I've met managers who literally lock the conference room door when it hits :00.

That's a little crazy in my view, but there are definitely places where it's the norm.

There are basically two ways of managing expectations around meeting times. The first is that it's acceptable for meetings to run late, so it's normal and tolerated for people to be late to their next meeting, and meetings often start something like 5 minutes late, and you try to make sure nothing really important gets discussed until 10 minutes in. The other is that it's unacceptable for meetings to start late, so people always leave the previous meeting early to make sure they have time for bathroom, emergency emails, etc. In which case important participants wind up leaving before a decision gets made, which is a whole problem of its own.
by mschuster91 | 2025-07-13 19:47:01+00:00
> but if “healthy habits” were enough then people who’d lost weight the traditional way would keep it off.

That's because a lot of the "traditional way" methods are pseudoscience at best, outright quackery that's going to send you into serious malnutrition issues or eating disorders at worst. Every two or three months you see a new diet fad pushed through the yellow press rags, and none of it anywhere near being considered scientifically valid - usually it's some VIP shilling some crap story to explain how they lost weight, of course without telling the people that they have the time for training and the money to pay for proper food, 1:1 training and bloodwork analysis.
by jppope | 2025-07-13 19:47:18+00:00
I think the fair way to read any CEO's comments about AI reducing their workforce at this point has nothing to do with the capabilities of AI and more to do with the revenue outlook or the growth outlook. Basically, they are "narrative shopping" to save face with the stock market... and IMO it might work.

Just a basic sniff test though - If AI enables developer productivity that would translate to more revenue, reduced costs, reduced risk, etc. The bottom line numbers would get better. With more resources available your next move is to decrease spending on more productivity enhancements or revenue opportunities? They don't want more revenue? Doesn't add up.

The better headline would be: "Amazon CEO Andy Jazzy faced with poor financial outlook tries to convince the public that downsizing is due to improvements in AI"
by nlawalker | 2025-07-13 19:47:19+00:00
True, but on the flip side, items in a digital library generally don't have to be paid for and put there until you're about to use them for the first time, making it a little stranger that they never even get booted up.

Everyone's different, but at least for me, I don't buy a game with the hope I'll find time to play it sometime in the next month, I buy it when I'm ready to start playing it, like right now.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-13 19:47:25+00:00
Ah - I didn't realize Google AI Mode is US Only!

> the only google service that did work at that time was google search as far as I know nothing else worked (no gmail, maps, etc.)

Yea, sounds like they resorted to a hard whitelist. How were other Internet services impacted in Iran? My understanding is payment is increasingly tap-to-pay or via digital wallets within Iran? How was that impacted during the shutdown?
by ho_schi | 2025-07-13 19:47:29+00:00
How about regulating Big Tech? Which was done with AT&T before Reagan and caused UNIX, C, Open-Source and Open-Documentation.

And encouraging and requiring open-source software development in Europe, founded by non-profit organizations and government. With requirements and control. The base for solution is readily available with Linux and BSD. Our politicians and CEOs only think in short terms. As consumers do :(

We can ban or tax things, like shipping Laptops with proprietary operating-systems. Declare, that the pre-installed operating-system must be open-source with {GPL, MIT, BSD} and fulfill standards. If not? Fine. Ship it without an operating-system.

And teach kids at school about scale of software and vendor lock-in. Every monopoly starts with being lazy and just grasping the first solution...
by leoc | 2025-07-13 19:47:40+00:00
Right: bascially, 1980s-vintage William Gibson is a post-New-Wave SF writer who's a fan of hard-boiled novels and of New Hollywood "outlaw" bohemianism, so his heroes are pimps, thieves and murderers. 1980s-vintage Shirow is a fan of military SF, so his heroes are paramilitary death squads. Now, that's a little jaded, but I think mostly simply accurate. I don't think that generalises well to a US/Japan distinction though. As others have said, Akira is surely more of an outsider story. (Beyond cyberpunk, have a look at the political backgrounds of senior Ghibli people like Isao Takahata, Kondo Yoshifumi and Hayao Miyazaki. I've read somewhere, but can't confirm, that people like that tended to end up in animation precisely because Communists were blackballed out from more respectable industries.) And the US is the land of Dirty Harry and Niven and Pournelle as much as Bonnie and Clyde and Blade Runner.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-07-13 19:47:53+00:00
but that's not even the case, because it's certainly possible to write a function that receives an object that holds onto an io (and uses it in its vtable calls) that equally well receives an object that doesn't have anything to do with io [0]. The consumers of those objects don't have to care, so there's no coloring.

[0] and this isn't even really a theoretical matter, having colorblind object passing is extremely useful for say, mocking. Oh, I have a database lookup/remote API call, which obviously requires io, but i want fast tests and I can mock it with an object with preseeded values/expects -- hey, that doesn't require IO.
by helicalmix | 2025-07-13 19:48:25+00:00
hmm...doesn't this possibly incentivize ozempic subsidies even more?

If you know a "customer" of yours (an individual employee) is only going to be with you until they either change jobs or go on Medicare, then it seems the name of the game then is to make sure that nothing catastrophic happens to them until you can hand them off to someone else.

In which case, they should definitely go on ozempic. Even if the effects of ozempic immediately come off after usage, it's a short-term enough solution that benefits the insurance company, no?
Show HN: I made a free, simple Mac app for tracking your sobriety
by virgildotcodes | 2025-07-13 19:49:09+00:00
Just decided to whip this up for myself as I've been going a little hard lately and wanted to take a break for my health.

It's super simple - add any substance, set the time your sobriety started, and it'll start a timer. If you'd like, you can show it in your menu bar just to keep a reminder if your progress.

Totally free, private, no data leaves your computer.

https://quititapp.com/
by 44520297 | 2025-07-13 19:50:05+00:00
>However there are other tools to supplement with to help learning discipline.

The current FDA guidelines support your assertion that GLP1s should be prescribed in addition to other tools to help people change their eating habits.

What the FDA does not prescribe is moralism, which is what “help learning discipline” tends to imply. If you didn’t intend to frame your argument in terms of moralism, you might consider a different word choice.
by krackers | 2025-07-13 19:50:25+00:00
Firefox should have appealed to the developer/hacker demographic. Instead they've made every effort to alienate those demographics in trying to appeal to the general public. They were never going to be able to compete against Google's influence, but they could have established a stronghold with the power-user communities that would grow slowly over time as they converted their friends.

For some reason I still cannot load unpacked extensions for more than 24hrs. I cannot load unsigned extensions unless i download a special build of firefox. Firefox doesn't support apple scripting. A stock install of firefox has more sponsored bloatware than Chrome. Great way to treat the power users.
by oletrn | 2025-07-13 19:50:27+00:00
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by dvdkon | 2025-07-13 19:51:43+00:00
Less mad political culture? Walkable cities? A nicer place to live for your less-wealthy neighbours? I can't think of much else that would impress a rich or soon-to-be-rich person from the US especially.

And I don't think offering anything more is a good idea. There's little else a wealthy person can't already just buy in another country, except for maybe looser labour and environmental regulations, and I certainly don't want that.
by earth2mars | 2025-07-13 19:52:12+00:00
My gut feeling is, he is saying it to show dominance in AI (to show customers look, we are reducing our workforce, you can do it too! but to be frank, they have too many people doing nothing. so they can lay off as many people as they want). there isn't much out there. Systems are so fragile, management have no clue as they are far behind in understanding it.
by grishka | 2025-07-13 19:52:44+00:00
That's the cool thing about analog video, it doesn't really have the concept of horizontal resolution. Especially when it's monochrome. It's made up of lines that continuously change brightness as they're drawn.

Color composite video, as far as I understand, does have a limit to the horizontal resolution because in all three standards the color information is encoded as a high-frequency signal added to the main (luminance) one, so that frequency is your upper limit on how quickly the luminance can change.

S-video, VGA, and component should, in theory, allow infinite horizontal resolution and color.
by alibarber | 2025-07-13 19:53:13+00:00
Indeed - it reminds me of a story I heard about potential Lithium deposits being found in Sweden. Initially this would be a good thing because it would help Europeans build and drive more electric cars which are a good thing because they are less polluting and rely less on oil from unstable places.

Of course, it was swiftly pointed out that it would be impossible to mine it and meet the stringent environmental standards that we have in Europe, because we're good and care for the world.

Fine to trash the environment in China though.

Similarly, hands have been wrung in Finland because they banned importing Russian timber for obvious reasons, but this meant potentialy cutting down more Finnish wood and failing to meet environmental obligations. Aparently if you cut down trees a bit to the East it's ok for the environment.
by imiric | 2025-07-13 19:53:29+00:00
> Many of these agents have yet to be built, but make no mistake, they’re coming, and coming fast.

This is the same wishful thinking that AI companies are heavily marketing.

Nobody will want to use an "agent" that makes mistakes 60% of the time. Until the industry figures out a way to fix the problems that have plagued this technology since the beginning―which won't be solved by more compute, better data, or engineering hacks―this agentic future they've been promising is a pipe dream.
by froh | 2025-07-13 19:53:55+00:00
thanks for clarifying.

to all of this I agree:

if the linker doesn't have namespaces (and it doesn't, unlike, say, the Java class loader, or even more extravagant the OSGi bundle loading mechanism), you need to flatten names into one name space. Which means, as you say, name mangling. and that, even without overloading, is a major PITA.

and indeed, not prescribing a prefix and just blocking a useful suffix was also an idea others hopefully took as inspiration how to not do things...

wrt prefixes in the C stdlib, I'd strictly prefer the prefix to be '#define' able, so _if_ you need to move th stdlib to a namespace, #define the prefix before #include-ing the library. needs a statically linked trampoline, though or some other nasty lionk time mechanism. meh. there is a reason languages come with namespaces from the start, these days ...
by bbrimacombe | 2025-07-13 19:54:27+00:00
Great question. It's not better, but it's different. And different is useful for drug discovery, where you need to create a rich portfolio of possible designs.

Humans play games in unique ways. We link the Tetris game to DNA design, and the more diversity we can harvest in high-quality Tetris play, the more diversity we can explore in high-quality DNA design. So we will combine AI play and human play at the end.

And tbh partly it's to help get more people on the platform.
by davkan | 2025-07-13 19:54:29+00:00
Profit for the founders and the shareholders is the only definition anyone cares about in the states.

The idea that a business could be considered successful by just providing a living wage for its owners and employees or contributing to the community is not a consideration.

People in this country see a single person startup making a few million dollars to be a greater success story than providing for the lives and well being of 20 employees for a decade.
by ramblerman | 2025-07-13 19:54:39+00:00
I am originally from Europe as well. And still living there (not sure if that’s why you phrased it like that) but how many innovations from the us are really adding to the value of life vs just forcing eyeballs to screen.

Linux came from Europe. A lot of open source does, see blender.

I know VC money is sexy but does it add real value