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I was an Amazon L7, I led global AI enablement, I was laid off

https://twitter.com/PlumbNick/status/2016500347053773198
7•MrBuddyCasino•1h ago

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MrBuddyCasino•1h ago
Another data point:

"Spent half a decade at Amazon, and all the folk I see being cut today are strong, performant Amazonians. Not fifo, but cutting the high performers that made Amazon successful, the doers, the expensive ones, the L6+ folk that define the culture. This is what we used to call frupidity (iykyk)"

https://x.com/BaldSkeptical/status/2016680049886249098

nacozarina•25m ago
lol, he’s let ai talk him into blowing his severance on a political campaign

there’s always crazy ideas at that moment, but you gotta check yourself…

armchairhacker•8m ago
I’d rather have more people run for Congress, even if they’re very unlikely to win. Maybe one of them will break through like Trump or Macron, but even if not. it pressure existing Congress-members.
speakingmoistly•6m ago
Looks like he filed for candidacy back in April 2025 [1].

[1] https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H6TX02236/?tab=about-cand...

Edit: added year to disambiguate.

The Tech Market Is Fundamentally Fucked Up – AI Is Just a Scapegoat

https://bayramovanar.substack.com/p/tech-market-is-fucked-up
1•Bayramovanar•2m ago•0 comments

Boston Dynamics' New Atlas Robot Makes Public Debut with Jaunty Human Walk

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/boston-dynamics-new-atlas-robot-make-public-debut-with-jaunty...
1•breve•4m ago•0 comments

Waze built the largest crowdsourced surveillance system

https://twitter.com/Harrris0n/status/2014197314571952167
1•NewCzech•5m ago•0 comments

Surfel-based global illumination on the web

https://juretriglav.si/surfel-based-global-illumination-on-the-web/
1•juretriglav•6m ago•1 comments

Finding My Childhood Motherboard

https://rubenerd.com/finding-my-childhood-motherboard/
1•speckx•7m ago•0 comments

Created an Album with Suno AI

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mUu1asIk_LUFjoJ780XodzDkCjPKqWZQw&si=ecmSXJ8l8N0G...
1•kalel314•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: LinuxWhisper – A native AI voice assistant for Linux (Groq/GTK)

https://github.com/Dianjeol/LinuxWhisper
1•LinuxWhisper•10m ago•0 comments

To keep AI out of her classroom, this high school English teacher went analog

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5631779
1•BostonFern•11m ago•0 comments

FBI searches Atlanta election office, chasing Trump 2020 vote fraud claims

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-executing-search-warrant-election-office-georgia-related-202...
3•throw0101c•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SonicCaption – Real-time bilingual captions and translation for videos

https://soniccaption.com/
1•DanielHu87•13m ago•0 comments

Craft Agents

https://agents.craft.do
1•raju•14m ago•0 comments

A Kubernetes Operator for declarative PostgreSQL database management

https://github.com/aboutbits/postgresql-operator
1•thosap•15m ago•0 comments

2026 will be the year Cybertruck dies

https://www.fastcompany.com/91475013/2026-will-be-the-year-cybertruck-dies
1•breve•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SuperQode, an open‑source coding agent for agentic quality engineering

https://super-agentic.ai/superqode
1•Shashikant86•17m ago•0 comments

Germany is facing a shortage of skilled workers

https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/2016472446975803887
1•MITfather•18m ago•0 comments

Comparing AI to the Internet

1•cadabrabra•19m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Instant-on tiny ESP32 PC with an editor, compiler, and apps installer

https://github.com/valdanylchuk/breezydemo
1•isitcontent•21m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What SaaS can survive with the rise of vibe coding?

1•Jsttan•23m ago•0 comments

Show HN: SemanticCache – Save 70%+ on LLM API costs with semantic caching (Ruby)

https://github.com/stokry/semantic-cache
1•stokry•26m ago•1 comments

How to Create LLM-Friendly Style Guides for Better API Design [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfZAv0OiPqY
1•mooreds•29m ago•0 comments

What to Build When Everything Becomes a Casino

https://theinterneteconomy.xyz/p/what-to-build-when-everything-becomes
1•automatedalpha•29m ago•0 comments

Voice AI Platforms Are Charging Tonnes Just for a Dashboard

https://blog.dograh.com/voice-ai-platforms-are-charging-you-for-a-dashboard/
1•pritesh1908•30m ago•0 comments

We Eliminated Local Execution on User Devices – By Architecture

1•MOHDLZE•32m ago•2 comments

Vibe Coding Charter

https://github.com/VibeCharter/Rules
1•spotlayn•32m ago•0 comments

Zen Browser: global tabs, no toggle, discussion locked

https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/discussions/12025
1•fernvenue•35m ago•1 comments

Philosopher John Gray: We are living through regime change

https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/geopolitics/2026/01/life-after-the-west
1•thinkingemote•36m ago•0 comments

Was Cline just acqui-hired by OpenAI?

https://blog.kilo.ai/p/cline-just-acqui-hired
11•boleary-gl•36m ago•0 comments

Code 2026 Open Call Reclaiming Digital Agency

https://impakt.nl/nl/residencies-projects/2026/code-2026-open-call-52175/
1•thinkingemote•38m ago•0 comments

Google Aims Knockout Blow at Chinese Company Linked to Cyber Weapon

https://www.wsj.com/tech/google-aims-knockout-blow-at-chinese-company-linked-to-massive-cyber-wea...
1•watchdogtimer•39m ago•0 comments

Data Overload in Fitness Tracking Technologies

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5268882
1•vassilbek•39m ago•0 comments