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CEO of $300M company Bolt says problems disappeared after firing HR team

https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/ceo-of-300-million-company-says-problems-disappeared-after-firing-hr-team-101779248863189.html
4•randycupertino•47m ago

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randycupertino•45m ago
> “We got rid of our HR team,” the 31-year-old said while speaking at Fortune’s Workforce Innovation Summit on Tuesday.

> Breslow’s rationale for letting go of the entire human resources team was simple — “We had an HR team, and that HR team was creating problems that didn’t exist,” he said. “Those problems disappeared when I let them go.”

> He claimed that letting go of HR was essential to resurrect Bolt — a company that was once valued at $11 billion but has since witnessed a reversal of fortune, with its valuation falling to roughly $300 million.

arm32•39m ago
So he replaced HR with "People ops", which I'm assuming is HR but powered by LLMs? So, Steve with 5.5?
aurareturn•38m ago
Posted earlier today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205318

My comment:

  It's a crypto trading app that calls itself a super app and whose CEO is writing outlandish Linkedin posts to get attention to the failing company.

  Not worth the HN bandwidth and attention in my opinion.
ceejayoz•37m ago
My money problems go away when I stop opening envelopes, too.

Data centers loom over Georgia governor race

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/19/data-centers-loom-over-georgia-governor-race-00929073
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•32s ago•0 comments

Cybertruck owner believed Elon Musk that it could cross lake – now he's in jail

https://electrek.co/2026/05/19/tesla-cybertruck-owner-believed-elon-musk-lake-jail/
1•neilfrndes•1m ago•0 comments

Awesome database stories from the best

https://github.com/erenworld/awesome-database/
1•erenturkoglu•2m ago•0 comments

Benchmarking AI coding agents for distributed SQL: 350 runs, 17 models

https://www.yugabyte.com/blog/benchmarking-ai-coding-agents-for-distributed-sql-lessons/
1•mityash•3m ago•0 comments

Notes on AI, Labor, and China

https://jasmi.news/p/party-in-the-permanent-underclass
1•ripe•4m ago•1 comments

Co-Scientist: A multi-agent AI partner to accelerate research

https://deepmind.google/blog/co-scientist-a-multi-agent-ai-partner-to-accelerate-research/
1•smooke•4m ago•0 comments

How to set up a secure back end for hosting a shadow library mirror

https://software.annas-archive.gl/AnnaArchivist/annas-archive/-/work_items?show=eyJpaWQiOiIzMDUiL...
1•Cider9986•7m ago•0 comments

Woman dies after falling into NYC manhole

https://abcnews.com/US/woman-dies-after-falling-nyc-manhole/story?id=133109814
1•SilverElfin•8m ago•0 comments

Training a 22MB prompt injection classifier

https://www.stackone.com/blog/training-22mb-prompt-injection-classifier/
1•Hiskias•9m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Google Search Console MCP – read-only, OAuth, free

https://calmseo.com/google-search-console-mcp
2•noahflk•10m ago•0 comments

Denver has a plan to heat and cool buildings without fossil fuels

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5734477
3•mooreds•11m ago•0 comments

Gender Gaps in Education and Declining Marriage Rates (2025)

https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/bachelors-without-bachelors/
2•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

I committed to writing and sharing 30 jokes in 30 days. Here's what I learned

https://pammoore.substack.com/p/i-committed-to-writing-and-sharing
2•mooreds•12m ago•0 comments

Why Aren't Americans Living Longer?

https://now.tufts.edu/2026/03/09/why-arent-americans-living-longer
3•littlexsparkee•13m ago•1 comments

Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk apparently used AI to write her latest novel

https://lithub.com/nobel-laureate-olga-tokarczuk-apparently-used-ai-to-write-her-latest-novel/
10•bookofjoe•14m ago•5 comments

Stable Audio 3

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17991
3•guardienaveugle•15m ago•0 comments

Russian Troops' Fear Grows as Ukraine AI "Slaughterbot" Drones Headhunt Them

http://www.thelowdownblog.com/2026/05/russian-troops-fear-grows-as-ukraine-ai.html
3•tim333•15m ago•0 comments

California gubernatorial candidate investigation re: payments to influencers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/05/15/tom-steyers-influencer-campaign-triggers-cal...
2•1vuio0pswjnm7•15m ago•0 comments

Google is its own worst enemy

https://disconnect.blog/google-is-its-own-worst-enemy/
2•speckx•16m ago•0 comments

Handcrafted with Care: Alfred's Core Values – Alfred Blog

https://www.alfredapp.com/blog/productivity/handcrafted-with-care-alfreds-values/
2•samtrack2019•17m ago•0 comments

Meta begins 8k job cuts in AI efficiency push

https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2026-05-20/meta-begins-8-000-global-job-cuts-in-ai-efficie...
7•1vuio0pswjnm7•18m ago•0 comments

Wi-Wi Is Wireless Time Sync at 1 Nanosecond

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/wi-wi-is-wireless-time-sync-less-than-5ns/
3•Brajeshwar•18m ago•0 comments

How I burned 389K Claude Code cache-creation tokens before the real prompt

https://www.skinny.cloud/
2•vipdestiny•19m ago•0 comments

Meta Begins 8k Global Job Cuts in AI Efficiency Push

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-begins-job-cuts-in-efficiency-push-spu...
4•1vuio0pswjnm7•20m ago•0 comments

Betlang: A tiny (50kb) programming language detection model

https://github.com/DioxusLabs/betlang
2•demonthos•20m ago•0 comments

Microsoft Agent 365: Autonomous AI for enterprise governance by 2026

https://www.hitechies.com/microsoft-agent-365-autonomous-ai-enterprise-governance-2026/
2•dhakalster•21m ago•0 comments

ChatGPT and other AI bots made errors before Scottish election, study finds

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/20/ai-chatbots-chatgpt-replika-grok-gemini-misinf...
2•chrisjj•22m ago•1 comments

Show HN: MulmoClaude – open-source platform where Claude composes tools and GUIs

https://github.com/receptron/mulmoclaude
2•snakajima•22m ago•0 comments

Anthropic, Gates Foundation launch $200M partnership for AI in health, education

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/healthcare/articles/anthropic-gates-foundation-launch-200-15012...
2•gmays•23m ago•1 comments

Annotate-in-Place Notes with Emacs and org-remark

https://www.chiply.dev/post-annotate-in-place
2•chiply•23m ago•1 comments