frontpage.
newsnewestaskshowjobs

Made with ♥ by @iamnishanth

Open Source @Github

fp.

Open in hackernews

Pinterest CEO fires 'obstructionist' employees who created tool to track layoffs

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/pinterest-ceo-puts-staffers-on-blast-who-created-tool-to-track-layoffs.html
4•pseudolus•1h ago

Comments

i7l•1h ago
obstructionist /əb-strŭk′shə-nĭst, ŏb-/

noun One who systematically blocks or interrupts a process, especially one who attempts to impede passage of legislation by the use of delaying tactics, such as a filibuster.

One who deliberately hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body.

Someone who systematically obstructs the actions of others.

---

As I understand it, the tool the "obstructionists" built merely tracked teams/people being laid off.

How exactly does that block/interrupt the layoffs, hinder progress, or obstruct the actions of the executives? If anything it offers transparency that leadership was unwilling to provide.

> Employees should consider a job elsewhere if they’re “working against the direction of the company” and disagree with its mission.

Knowing which teams or individuals are affected does not seem to go against the direction of the company, unless they expect unquestioning obedience above all.

ramuel•18m ago
They're "obstructing" the unfettered profits.

Show HN: Vibefs – A file preview server for remote vibe coding

https://github.com/reorx/vibefs
1•novoreorx•2m ago•0 comments

MotherDuck: Self-Serve Recovery with Point-in-Time Restore

https://motherduck.com/blog/point-in-time-restore/
1•tosh•3m ago•0 comments

Anthropic says 'Claude will remain ad-free,' unlike ChatGPT

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/873686/anthropic-claude-ai-ad-free-super-bowl...
1•kstonekuan•6m ago•1 comments

Why do we use async-await in our Code

https://furotmark.github.io/2026/02/04/Why-Do-We-Use-Async-Await-In-Our-Code.html
1•furoTmark•6m ago•0 comments

Starting to Acknowledge Ukraine's Untenable Position and Inevitable Loss

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/collective-west-press-starting-to-acknowledge-ukraines-un...
1•hackandthink•6m ago•0 comments

The More Protein, the Better?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/well/eat/protein-fact-check.html
2•hampelm•8m ago•0 comments

Yet another currency converter app, but with cryptos and offline-first support

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/travel-with-currency-converter/id6746667973
1•hieuwu•9m ago•0 comments

System Management Mode: How SMM isolation hardens compute platforms (2020)

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2020/11/12/system-management-mode-deep-dive-how-smm...
1•transpute•9m ago•0 comments

SHA-3 Explained: Deep Dive into Keccak, the Sponge Construction and TurboSHAKE

https://kerkour.com/sha3
1•unsolved73•9m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Funding History: Product-Business Strategy Lessons

https://founderleverage.com/2026/02/04/openai-funding-history-analysis/
1•harshalachavan7•10m ago•0 comments

How to make employees learn cybersecurity?

1•dkozyatinskiy•11m ago•0 comments

How Containers Work: Building Container Networking from Scratch

3•amalChandru•12m ago•0 comments

Multifloats.jl: the world's fastest extended-precision floating-point arithmetic

https://github.com/dzhang314/MultiFloats.jl
1•postflopclarity•13m ago•1 comments

Show HN: SlitherPong, a hybrid of the Snake and Pong video games

https://www.slitherpong.com/
3•AmbroseBierce•15m ago•0 comments

Voxtral Transcribe 2

https://mistral.ai/news/voxtral-transcribe-2
1•meetpateltech•15m ago•0 comments

Blind Trust in VS Code Extensions

https://opista.com/posts/blind-trust-in-vs-code-extensions
2•StrangeSound•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Nemp – Claude Code memory with zero cloud (just JSON on your machine)

https://github.com/SukinShetty/Nemp-memory
1•sukinai•16m ago•1 comments

Explosion of Black Hole Could Explain (Almost) Everything

https://www.umass.edu/news/article/did-we-just-see-black-hole-explode-physicists-umass-amherst-th...
1•wjSgoWPm5bWAhXB•17m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Created Full YouTube Suite Skill for OpenClaw

https://clawhub.ai/therohitdas/youtube-full
2•nikhonit•18m ago•0 comments

Long branches in compilers, assemblers, and linkers

https://maskray.me/blog/2026-01-25-long-branches-in-compilers-assemblers-and-linkers
1•PaulHoule•20m ago•0 comments

Barcode Scanner as a Musical Instrument

https://www.electronicosfantasticos.com/en/works/barcoder/
1•the-mitr•21m ago•0 comments

Distributing Go binaries like SQLite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/distributing-go-binaries/
1•simonw•23m ago•0 comments

Xikipedia Algorithm

https://github.com/rebane2001/xikipedia
1•todsacerdoti•23m ago•0 comments

Underwater 3D printing can be used to build or repair ocean structures in place

https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/cornell-research-shows-that-underwater-3d-printing-can-b...
1•speckx•24m ago•1 comments

Why Your Video Tool's Source Code Matters More Than Its Privacy Policy

https://sendrec.eu/blog/why-video-tool-source-code-matters-more-than-privacy-policy/
1•alexneamtu•24m ago•0 comments

Confidential Computing Adds a Crazy Amount of Overhead to GPUs

https://bomfather.dev/blog/confidential-computing-overhead/
2•nathannaveen•24m ago•0 comments

Little zines can make a big difference

https://improvesomething.today/zines/
1•surprisetalk•24m ago•0 comments

Should States Reduce Teacher Licensing Requirements?

https://www.nber.org/papers/w34232
1•surprisetalk•24m ago•0 comments

I need to get better at email

https://chrishannah.me/i-need-to-get-better-at-email/
1•surprisetalk•24m ago•0 comments

Life and Supercontinents

https://szupie.github.io/supercontinents/
1•surprisetalk•24m ago•0 comments