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maxk42 commented on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs cnbc.com/2025/08/25/tech-... · Posted by u/Teever

In the end this is like banning fake news, you just can't.

I suggest people just take a credibility approach. As an example, I no longer bother with HN's "Who's hiring", everything there is bullshit.

Besides, job sites are just social media, their purpose is not to inform, it is to create eyeballs to advertisers. You should discard them, like you should also cancel Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp.

maxk42 · a day ago

Hey - not everything is bullshit on "Who's hiring" threads. I once got eight rounds of interviews with a company before being ghosted by someone off of an HN thread.

maxk42 commented on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs cnbc.com/2025/08/25/tech-... · Posted by u/Teever

treyd · a day ago

How is this actually restricting speech? It's not restricting advertisements for labor, it's restricting intentional lies made to misdirect. That's called fraud.

maxk42 · a day ago

Sorry, but how would you ever prove a job ad is fake?

"Were you going to hire someone for this role?" "Yes." "Case dismissed."

maxk42 commented on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs cnbc.com/2025/08/25/tech-... · Posted by u/Teever

apercu · a day ago

If I wanted to game my stock price and mislead my competition, a bunch of highly specific (and fraudulent) job postings on my website (in combination with other investor-adjacent reporting) would be a great low cost start.

maxk42 · a day ago

How, exactly, would that convince an investor such as myself that your company is suddenly worth more?

Generally when I'm looking at a company's financials more employees means less profitable.

maxk42 commented on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs cnbc.com/2025/08/25/tech-... · Posted by u/Teever

maxk42 · a day ago

The problem is most "ghost jobs" aren't: They're real jobs with a real intention to hire, but the hiring team can't come to a decision. I've seen it time and time again: A role gets reposted 2, 3, 4 times until the one curmudgeon on the team finally relents and somebody gets hired. It's a tremendous waste of time but it isn't a "ghost job". I predict this legislation will have approximately zero impact on people posting roles that don't actually get filled.

maxk42 commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott

maxk42 · 5 days ago

"Allowing" UK residents to access the site? The UK is not the police of the Internet. 4chan is not a UK site and does not have to be aware of UK law. If the UK doesn't like it then it's their responsibility to stop their residents from accessing it. 4chan is complying with all the laws that apply to them.

maxk42 commented on Perplexity Comet – interested in your feedback · Posted by u/zyruh

maxk42 · 8 days ago

In Comet I can type "Click on each of the numbered links on the Hacker News front page and summarize them in 3 - 5 sentences each then email me a summary."

This absolutely elevates the speed and simplicity with which I can accomplish certain complex multi-step workflows. The biggest obstacle right now is to expand my thinking to see what else I can do to make use of this power.

maxk42 commented on LLMs tell bad jokes because they avoid surprises danfabulich.medium.com/ll... · Posted by u/dfabulich

maxk42 · 10 days ago

There is an AI technique that maximizes surprise: Genetic algorithms.

maxk42 commented on Basically Everyone Should Be Avoiding Docker lukesmith.xyz/articles/ev... · Posted by u/Fred34

cmdrk · 2 months ago

Containerization is amazingly great for scientific computing. I don’t ever want to go back to doing the make && make install dance and praying I’ve got my dependency ducks in a row.

maxk42 · 2 months ago

Containerization is great. Docker != containerization. Most people don't even know it runs qemu under the hood.

maxk42 commented on JavaScript Trademark Update deno.com/blog/deno-v-orac... · Posted by u/thebeardisred

maxk42 · 2 months ago

Oracle, to my knowledge, does not profit at all off of the JavaScript name or brand. I don't see the purpose of defending this lawsuit. They have an opportunity to create some goodwill here, hold a press release, and say "We're gifting the JavaScript trademark to the developer community!" But instead they're defending something that they literally do not profit off of. It's absurd.

maxk42 commented on Why is the Rust compiler so slow? sharnoff.io/blog/why-rust... · Posted by u/Bogdanp

taylorallred · 2 months ago

So there's this guy you may have heard of called Ryan Fleury who makes the RAD debugger for Epic. The whole thing is made with 278k lines of C and is built as a unity build (all the code is included into one file that is compiled as a single translation unit). On a decent windows machine it takes 1.5 seconds to do a clean compile. This seems like a clear case-study that compilation can be incredibly fast and makes me wonder why other languages like Rust and Swift can't just do something similar to achieve similar speeds.

maxk42 · 2 months ago

Rust is doing a lot more under the hood. C doesn't track variable lifetimes, ownership, types, generics, handle dependency management, or handle compile-time execution (beyond the limited language that is the pre-compiler). The rust compiler also makes intelligent (scary intelligent!) suggestions when you've made a mistake: it needs a lot of context to be able to do that.

The rust compiler is actually pretty fast for all the work it's doing. It's just an absolutely insane amount of additional work. You shouldn't expect it to compile as fast as C.