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dtnewman / burn-baby-burn

burn-baby-burn

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11Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
919GitHub stars
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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week11 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-05-15 17:20:26 UTC to 2026-07-15 00:33:23 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

0123452026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 commentsMay 112026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJun 82026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJul 13

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 112026-05-11 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC514
May 182026-05-18 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC101
May 252026-05-25 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 12026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC101
Jun 82026-06-08 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 152026-06-15 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 222026-06-22 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC202
Jun 292026-06-29 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC101
Jul 62026-07-06 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 132026-07-13 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-20 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I wonder when (if ever) the companies realize that demoralizing your workforce (and destroying that sector of the job market) doesn't have only advantages. I know plenty of people that reacted with the desired fear, putting in long hours to avoid layoffs, willingness to accept lower pay because the job market sucks, etc. - but I think there are also plenty of the the mythical 10x engineers that just checked out, stopped being 10x engineers, and are just collecting their paychecks and waiting for the layoff now. And I'm not sure you can "get them back", ever. At least some companies reacted to this with more top-down management, stricter metrics etc. which kills motivation further and leads to metric optimization. Tell a good, smart, motivated engineer that you want more AI usage, and he's going to maybe start using some AI where it makes
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sense, but mostly ignore the metric while trying to do useful work. Demotivate the same engineer and make clear that his paycheck depends on metrics, and he'll give you what you're asking for, except https://github.com/dtnewman/burn-baby-burn is probably not what you _wanted_...
In Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective

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