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New ask Hacker News story: Google just killed my project

Google just killed my project 3 by othmanosx | 0 comments on Hacker News. For the past year, I’ve been building GM Pro — a Chrome extension that upgrades the chat experience inside Google Meet. It started simple: reactions, replies, mentions, dark mode for chat. Then I added auto-join, auto-mute, transcription tools, lobby notifications, attendee shuffling. Basically all the things you wish Meet chat had by default. People loved it. 5-star reviews. Steady installs. Real usage. And then, after many years of lackluster chat, Google announced they’re integrating Meet chat directly with Google Chat — persistent conversations, reactions, file sharing, the works. Which means… the exact surface area I built on top of is becoming a first-party feature. On one hand, this validates the idea. The direction was right. The need was real. On the other hand, platform risk just punched me in the face. When you build on top of a giant platform, you’re effectively prototyping features for them. If th...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant?

Ask HN: Would engineers be interested in a technical prep consultant? 3 by TechPrepper | 2 comments on Hacker News. Hi, apologies if this is the wrong thing to post, please delete as needed. I've been a technical recruiter for 10+ years at major FAANG companies and startups, working on niche specialized roles. I used to come to Hacker News regularly to check "Who Wants To Be Hired," as I always like a more independent hacker mindset in engineers. Would engineers here on Hacker News be interested in any interview prep consultation? I've been thinking about taking a sabbatical to travel, but I would stay active with work by offering consulting on technical prep and interview help. I'm more just testing the waters here, but I would be open to doing a few free prep calls with anyone who has interviews lined up. The only ask is I would want updates on how thing went, and what you think the helpw as worth.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026)

Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2026) 34 by whoishiring | 106 comments on Hacker News. Share your information if you are looking for work. Please use this format: Location: Remote: Willing to relocate: Technologies: Résumé/CV: Email: Please only post if you are personally looking for work. Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here. Readers: please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities. There's a site for searching these posts at https://ift.tt/AQMq4hL .
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New ask Hacker News story: Cellular service providers are charging 10x what the network costs

Cellular service providers are charging 10x what the network costs 3 by huntsmans | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been thinking about this for a while and the economics of cellular service providers in the US are genuinely fascinating once you dig into them. The infrastructure reality: Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile have largely sunk their tower infrastructure costs. The marginal cost of adding one more subscriber to an existing network is close to zero. Yet retail pricing for cellular service providers averages $60-80/month. The math doesn't reflect underlying costs — it reflects market power and consumer inertia. Where MVNOs expose the economics: MVNOs lease wholesale capacity from the big three and resell at dramatically lower margins. Same towers, same spectrum, same coverage. The only difference is QCI priority levels — postpaid gets slightly higher priority during peak congestion. For everyday use this is largely imperceptible. When you pay $65/month to Verizon you...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics?

Ask HN: When do you expect ChatGPT moment in robotics? 3 by p1esk | 2 comments on Hacker News. Current humanoid robotic assistants are in early stage - somewhere around GPT2 level - they're starting to perform very simple, very narrow tasks, but stumble a lot, and still cannot do much. However, I've been tracking the progress in the last couple of years, and I feel that GPT3 level might already be happening, and some startups demonstrate impressive things (e.g. look up Generalist AI or Physical Intelligence). Plus the funding all these startups are getting should allow them to scale their methods 10x-100x of what has been tried so far. I'm not sure any additional research breakthroughs are actually needed to make the leap to usable products. Therefore, we might soon see a ChatGPT moment in robotics - a commercial availability a physical robot that will be capable of performing useful tasks: cooking, cleaning, simple repairs, yard work, elderly care, etc. Just like ChatGP...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt?

Ask HN: How will most Anthropic customers respond to the threats by the govt? 3 by Poomba | 2 comments on Hacker News. Now that Trump/the administration has designater Anthropic a supply chainrisk and threatened every company that uses them, how do u think most companies that use Anthropic/Claude would respond? Anthropic only has ~100 customers in federally focused industries (ie defense) [1] but it seems Trump is not just targeting “pure” federal contractors/agencies but anyone doing business with the govt. so that obviously includes a huge chunk of tech companies like Crowdstrike, Asana, Salesforce, Hubspot etc [2] and even non-tech companies And how is the govt going to enforce companies to not use Anthropic? Are they going to audit the internal tool usage of thousands of companies? What if individual developers pay for Claude Code personally? What if a company uses Azure or AWS Bedrock which routes to Claude? How would they handle those “edge cases”? [1] According to Bloomberry ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026?

Ask HN: How to approach new people in 2026? 3 by tavro | 3 comments on Hacker News. i recently read an article in the guardian about how casual conversations with strangers are becoming increasingly rare. the piece argued that smartphones and post-pandemic habits have made people less likely to interact with strangers in everyday places. this made me think about my own situation. i have been fortunate to meet many great people through university and work, and i generally feel comfortable talking with people in those environments. but outside of structured settings it is a different story. i live in sweden, where approaching strangers in public is already culturally uncommon. it can feel even harder if you did not grow up here and do not already have established social circles. public spaces often feel socially “closed”. people are polite but tend to keep to themselves. so i am curious how others approach this today. how do you meet new people outside of work or school in 2026? do yo...
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