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Re:Rabbit R1 source code [part 1] on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @05:14PM (#40137344)
Secretiveness in a startup at that stage is not a good sign. See e.g. Theranos or Magic Leap.
Re:Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs? on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:51PM (#38959727)
Gergely Orosz's theory[1]:

> An IRS tax code change in Section 174. This change eliminates the ability for businesses to deduct R&D as an expense.

> Hear of lots of layoffs directly because of this, as a start.

[1] https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1735030983173230944?...

Re:Graphical Python Profiler on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @06:33PM (#36608147)
Looks like it supports native stack as well, great! Most bottlenecks in seriously performance-sensitive programs are in the native code, which makes built-in tools like cProfile hardly useful.
I've made a simple encoder/decoder some time ago: https://github.com/megaserg/schallplatten
I think this was written by GPT-3.
Hiring freezes and non-freezes: https://candor.co/hiring-freezes/