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Kyle Corbitt
Personal blog · corbt.com · on HN as kcorbittaiprogramming
Kyle Corbitt's personal blog at corbt.com covers ai and programming. Since 2013, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “One Day with React Native for Android”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-15, and you can follow it by feed.
If AI agents can really replace knowledge workers, the price of compute has to rise about 10x.
Most-linked posts?
- One Day with React Native for Android2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-09-16
What Hacker News says?
It's a fair question. Personally though, I come down on the exact opposite side of the question – all gifts should be highly taxed, with maybe a nominal tax-free allowance of a few thousand dollars. Making large gifts tax-free is just another big advantage that kids born to rich parents get over those born into less-fortunate circumstances. If we're in favor of equality of opportunity (and almost everyone claims to…
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on “My Parents Give Me $28k a Year”Submitted It Ain't AGI Until H100s Go for $30 an Hour as a story · 26 points
HN discussionHere's a post I wrote about my experience as an individual contributor moving from Google to a smaller organization. https://corbt.com/posts/2017/10/28/small-companies-and-the-p... TL;DR is that I feel much more productive in the smaller company, in large part because there were SO MANY stakeholders at Google that it took a very long time to decide on a course and move forward with it. I think that experience probab…
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on “Ask HN: Why are big companies so much less efficient?”Submitted Codex, File My Taxes. Make No Mistakes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere are some thoughts I wrote up recently comparing my previous work at Google to my current role at YC, written from the perspective of an individual-contributor software developer: https://corbt.com/posts/2017/10/28/small-companies-and-the-p... Both workplaces are great, and while I'm personally happier at YC I could see the decision going the other way for somebody with different preferences.
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on “Ask HN: What are the big differences working at a startup, bigco, old smallco?”Submitted One Day with React Native for Android as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK - London, UK or remote I'm currently seeking freelancing work as a full stack web developer. I have significant experience in Ruby on Rails, and have worked in teams as well as individually to produce high-quality, well-tested web services. Most recently, I've been working on a site and accompanying mobile app to record weddings and other events (see https://kapshare.com/kyleandkarla ). My preferred web…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2014)”Submitted Show HN: Pypeline DB, a database for data sets as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mapping Countries in the Twitterverse as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Pocket Guide to Surviving the Robot Apocalypse as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted One Day with React Native for Android as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clojure for Rails Programmers as a story · 1 points
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