20%? Is it really about AI or has the world moved on from FB?
Their revenue was up 22% in 2025 to over 200B. This seems like it really is being driven by AI investment
Readit Newsbearcobra commented on Meta is reportedly laying off up to 20 percent of its staff theverge.com/business/895... · Posted by u/jbraithwaite
It's really encouraging to see these kinds of success stories. I really hope people who are concerned about affordability start to view things from more of a "yes and" point of view. We can work on reducing the barriers to building more housing of any kind while also advocating for more social housing development.
bearcobra commented on Show HN: AgentMail – Email infra for AI agents chat.agentmail.to/... · Posted by u/Haakam21
Do you facilitate the domain registration or do users bring their own? And if you do facilitate it, do you retain ownership of it?
bearcobra commented on Intel CEO Letter to Employees morethanmoore.substack.co... · Posted by u/fancy_pantser
In the context of the the lack of confidence investors seem to have in Intels long term vision this makes sense but it really doesn't feel like a good sign for their future
bearcobra commented on AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API developer.accuweather.com... · Posted by u/TerribleTurnout
If the government option successfully creates a government monopoly, maybe we should?
In this case we simply don't know what the market needs or market value of these services are because no one is incentivized to compete with the subsidized government program.
How have they created a monopoly? This comment is on a post about a company that charges for this data, not to mention competitors like foreca or the weather company
bearcobra commented on AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API developer.accuweather.com... · Posted by u/TerribleTurnout
This is one I don't really understand why the change would be a huge deal in context, the framing of an article as republicans sabotaging the miracle of free weather report APIs is just confusing.
If our government were massively in debt and continuing to increase the deficit, maybe I'd understand wanting to consider weather report APIs as a public good worth funding with tax dollars. We should be cutting everything we can to avoid a complete train wreck though, why would this float to the top of the list?
Weather data is incredibly important to a huge number of activities and to the general safety of the public, which is why the government is providing it in the first place. Debt to fund it is almost certain to economically productive. The republican controlled congress is cutting taxes and raising debt levels. A similar argument could be made that we should continue to fund services and raise taxes to reduce deficits instead
bearcobra commented on AccuWeather to discontinue free access to Core Weather API developer.accuweather.com... · Posted by u/TerribleTurnout
Aren't the problems you point to just business justification for companies offering this service for a fee rather than subsidizing the fees with federal debt?
Companies can and do offer data for a fee. In the same way that private toll road existing doesn't mean we should get rid of the highway system, a paid option doesn't mean the government should stop providing a publicly funded option given the immense value it provides to society
bearcobra commented on Vanguard 50-year anniversary CEO letter corporate.vanguard.com/co... · Posted by u/telotortium
I'm deeply worried about the number of people I see online who don't understand what Vanguard (or Blackrock, State Street, etc.) do and develop conspiracy theories instead. I think it presents a real risk for ETFs going into the future.
bearcobra commented on Firefox tab groups are here blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/TangerineDream
I never have more than like 10 tabs open at a time, so likely wont be helpful to me, but I find this super interesting!
Can someone explain what normal people use so many tabs for? It seems to be super common to have tons and tons open.
Are people using tabs as a soft bookmark of basically anything interesting? Afraid to close the page because they wont find it in their history or bookmarks? Is this more an issue with bookmarks and history not being as useful as they could be?
Not judging or anything, I just find how other people use tools differently than I do an interesting subject.
Being able to navigate back within the page history of a tab is the major reason I keep them open
Per E.B. White:
"To foreigners, a Yankee is an American. To Americans, a Yankee is a Northerner. To Northerners, a Yankee is an Easterner. To Easterners, a Yankee is a New Englander. To New Englanders, a Yankee is a Vermonter. And in Vermont, a Yankee is somebody who eats pie for breakfast."
Growing up in Vermont, this was clearly written before Red Sox fandom took over