deanmoriarty

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by deanmoriarty 3mo ago
Unless you don’t have any other options, don’t do it. Your future self will thank you. I wasted so much time being a founding engineer, it’s the worst tradeoff. Don’t do it. Don’t do it.
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by deanmoriarty 4mo ago
Once liberated from toil, how are these kids going to pay for rent?
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Anthropic and The Pentagon are back at the negotiating table(cnbc.com)
3 points by deanmoriarty 7mo ago|1 comments
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by deanmoriarty 7mo ago
It’s entirely possible that people who are praising this CEO might have to come up with incredibly convoluted mental gymnastics to defend their position soon: “Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal”. Source: https:&#x2F
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by deanmoriarty 7mo ago
I genuinely get bothered when someone talks to me. I am typically rushing through my day to do stuff, whether it is hiking, grocery shopping, working out, or going to the restroom at work, and getting interrupted feels to me like getting an
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by deanmoriarty 7mo ago
Really hard for me to understand why the average HN commenter has an almost cultish behavior towards Anthropic, they are somehow excused for all their sins whereas everything OpenAI does is taken in the most uncharitable way. It’s a very co
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OpenAI Super Bowl 2026 – Codex – You Can Just Build Things(youtube.com)
2 points by deanmoriarty 7mo ago|0 comments
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by deanmoriarty 9mo ago
Just wanted to thank you for the Sutro Tower work ( https://vincentwoo.com/3d/sutro_tower/ ), it was truly beautiful and I’ve been looking at it so many times, very nostalgic for me. This one is great too!
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by deanmoriarty 11mo ago
I always see a large amount of pessimism about this company on HN, and I accept it might be for rational reasons. What do people think is going to be the most likely outcome for the company, since everything seems to be going so bad for the
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Continuing your ChatGPT experience beyond WhatsApp(openai.com)
2 points by deanmoriarty 11mo ago|1 comments
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by deanmoriarty 11mo ago
But who exactly is going to catch those errors, especially when the outcome of such mistake would be an adjustment in your favor? Not the tax authorities, not the CPA. You’re left to advocate for yourself. This is a story that really happen
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by deanmoriarty 11mo ago
A TurboTax-quality tax filing service for American expats with American investments who live abroad (particularly interested in a few European countries) and have to file in their country of residence and declare the income from such invest
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
Does that mean that you hope the next generation of iOS will do away with liquid glass so that you can update, or that you’ll never update again (also implying you’ll never buy an Apple device again)? I always understood the sentiment of wa
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
It’s going to take me a lot more to switch to Android, but yeah iOS 26 is not good. Some new UX paradigms are actually useful, like the ability to swipe over controls instead of having to press buttons, or the control bars shrinking during
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
What do you think this will mean for OpenAI, Anthropic and their current valuations?
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
There’s quite a few people on HN who hold Anthropic on a high pedestal compared to the other AI labs, I’d be curious to hear their opinion after this.
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
You’ll get downvoted but in my experience, which may not be representative of the entire population, this is true. A mid-size US tech company I know well went fully remote after a lot of insistence from the workforce, prior to the pandemic
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
> About half the public identify the cost of groceries as a major source of financial stress. And some other portion of the population, anecdotally much larger than what I would have thought, orders DoorDash/UberEats regularly, what
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
While I clearly cannot control who upvotes my comments (though what you suggest seems completely nuts IMHO), I can genuinely say this is coming from an ex startup employee who has seen, and been subject to, many startup equity shenanigans (
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
When employees are underpaid (see Windsurf), HN be like: investors and C-suites take all the gains, off with their heads! When employees are generously (and proactively) compensated for the financial milestones of the company, HN be like:
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
Do you have any hope that either what you are suggesting, or an increase in housing supply, will ever actually happen? It's clearly interesting to speculate the ideal solution on the Internet, but after having been here 10+ years I wor
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
I just did, picturing exactly the situation I'm in right now: - Rent: $3,500 - Home price: $700,000 (a similar unit just sold for this price a few months ago in my building) - Rent increase: 8% - All other parameters left as default, w
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
I am a renter so I don't have a horse in this race, but renting is many times the financially worse choice even in HCOL. Why? Because rent inflates like crazy over here! In the Bay Area 7%+ a year is completely expected, and 10% is not
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
Seriously, someone laying me off right now with 6 months severance could be one of the best things that ever happened to me.
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
> Over the decades, I have seen too many friends who have fallen for this story, 'hit their numbers' and loose their minds after 'retiring'. This is because the mind just unravels(unable to find meaning), if it doesn&
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
> Keep in mind that almost all of the FIRE advice available online has been written in a secular bull market that is almost 2 decades long Most of the reasonable FIRE advice (e.g. https://earlyretirementnow.com/ quality)
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
Where can I real the actual post you are mentioning? The tweet only mentions "had to forfeit all of my vested shares earned over my 3.5+ years at Windsurf", which seems to conflict with your "before his shares were vested&quo
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
Do you know what are the mechanics that allowed the VCs to get repayed, but not the employees who did not take the Google offer? Is this an issue with liquidation preference, or was there something more shady going on that truly allowed VCs
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
I totally agree! Philips diamondclean toothbrush anyone? The first one lasted literally 10 years, it was one of the best consumer purchases I ever made. Ever since then each replacement has crapped out within a year or two, despite same usa
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by deanmoriarty 1y ago
What’s your story? I graduated around that age and a million things happened since then, so it’d be good to have the context behind your key choices that you feel “held you back”.

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