Hacker News: Maken

New comment by Maken in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

Maken — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:43:58 +0000

To be fair, the UI randomly changing in every update is a pain point for people of any age.

New comment by Maken in "Claude Fable 5"

Maken — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:22:25 +0000

The bar is just too low.

New comment by Maken in "How turkey hacked the hair-transplant industry"

Maken — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:16:08 +0000

Just in time for fusion energy?

New comment by Maken in "Meta asks users to pay for WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook"

Maken — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:59:13 +0000

Whatsapp used to be a paid app.

New comment by Maken in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

Maken — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:15:02 +0000

It's not like they had much of an option, when everybody was hoarding every GPU they could. For the second Colossus they could book future production, but the first one had to be built ASAP so xAI looked as a serious competitor in the AI space.

New comment by Maken in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

Maken — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:15:17 +0000

The problem is that only works at the advanced courses. However people need to learn the basics before they reach that level, specially when they are starting and are in many regards below the LLM's baseline.

New comment by Maken in "Knitting bullshit"

Maken — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:37:54 +0000

The real genius was whoever decided to add fake typing sounds to virtual keyboards on touch screens.

New comment by Maken in "Cal.com is going closed source"

Maken — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:43:13 +0000

Was open source any more secure before LLMs became so cheap? For those same 100$ you could have a North Korean hacking your code for a whole month.

New comment by Maken in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

Maken — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:42:34 +0000

The digital Yellow Pages were replaced by streaming teleshopping.

New comment by Maken in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Maken — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:42:56 +0000

Now that's a bleak picture of the future.

New comment by Maken in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

Maken — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:36:16 +0000

Let's just be glad somebody talked him out of using nukes. For now.

New comment by Maken in "The Image Boards of Hayao Miyazaki"

Maken — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:50:55 +0000

That documentary is a must-watch for any Miyazaki fan. They recorded the entire creation of Ponyo, from Miyazaki's watercolors to the final released movie.

It also shows why the movie ends as abruptly as it does and why Ghibli was eventually disbanded. With Takahata gone everything was bottlenecked by Miyazaki's himself, and he was simultaneously crumbling under the pressure and refusing to let anyone else have creative input in the studio.

New comment by Maken in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

Maken — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:54:56 +0000

The only countries going to war with Iran are Israel and USA. The other countries are negotiating with Iran and reportedly paying the toll. Also, the strait has been open to Spanish tankers since two weeks ago.

New comment by Maken in "GabeN Is Shitting Yacht Money into Flatpak and You're Still Arguing Init Systems"

Maken — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:31:43 +0000

Steam offers an distro-independent runtime for native Linux games' distribution, which is based on Flatpak [1]

[1] https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steam-runtime-tools/-/b...

New comment by Maken in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

Maken — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:27:39 +0000

eIDAS is about making the electronic IDs emitted by the different EU governments intercompatible, so you can use a Slovenian certificate to authenticate into the German tax system, if you want to.

New comment by Maken in "Why Sora Failed: $15M/day inference cost vs. $2.1M lifetime revenue"

Maken — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:17:12 +0000

I specially like the graph-looking picture with no axis, no data and no context.

New comment by Maken in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

Maken — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:45:41 +0000

No matter how consumer friendly they were, nobody trusted them in the long term. Buying games on EA Origin meant giving them control over games' sales, and a EA monopoly in digital distribution was a nightmare scenario. Their bad PR at the time simply killed the platform, no matter how good or bad the product itself was at the time.

New comment by Maken in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

Maken — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:30:05 +0000

What is "financially viable"? Just hoarding copyrighted materials and not distributing them in order to create artificial scarcity could meet that criteria.

New comment by Maken in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

Maken — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:26:47 +0000

Copyright is an artificial monopoly set in place to guarantee that artists get a piece of the cake from distributors. The duration of this monopoly is completely arbitrary, and ideally it should be "long enough to make art creation a viable trade".

New comment by Maken in "Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls"

Maken — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:44:51 +0000

The main problem with EA Origin was EA itself. They have burnt every single bit of costumer trust EA as a company could have.