Hacker News: MarcelOlsz

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights"

MarcelOlsz — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:23:58 +0000

It's blatant regulatory capture.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:50:50 +0000

There is no room for nuance. AI is capitals access to our labour. It's evil. The end.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change"

MarcelOlsz — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:21:28 +0000

I don't think it's a tired argument. It's the everyman trying to regain their time while being constantly reigned in harder by tech giants. You sacrifice convenience and privacy, so you kind of always feel somewhat like an asshole buying this stuff. Mostly because you have to. Many people don't move off of things because of the inherent time sacrifice and potential for future time sinks from things not working correctly and the knowledge required to troubleshoot it. If you make it easy people will switch, articles like this are the beginning of the right direction.

For example I moved off cloud services for my media in favour of fixing up a $25 BDP-CX960 400-disc bluray player with a few bucks in parts and a few weekends. When someone complains to me about modern tech, I can't in earnest recommend it though because its not easy. But I can write about it or tell them about it to expose them to the mindset more. Articles like this help IMO.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

MarcelOlsz — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 23:34:52 +0000

I'm a full-stack designer/engineer with a focus on design and frontend working with early to mid-stage startups my entire career taking products from 0 to 1. I've recently been into AI and orchestration and have set up some pretty neat systems and side projects :)

  Location: Toronto
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: depends  
  Technologies: react,vue,svelte,node.js,python,go,firebase,gcp,figma,postgres,nosql,aws,docker,mysql,etc
  Résumé/CV: https://olsz.me/resume.pdf
  10x: https://app.10xmanagement.com/clients/marcel-olszewski-16302/profile  
  Email: in my resume above  marcel[dot]olszewski[/at/]gmail.com

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers"

MarcelOlsz — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:57:30 +0000

Terrence Howard already figured this out.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

MarcelOlsz — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:44:23 +0000

How about it only works when I'm smoking?

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

MarcelOlsz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:04:28 +0000

I've combined my scrolling with my smoking to get two birds stoned at once. I'm currently trying to combine working out, scrolling, and smoking, for ultimate productivity.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

MarcelOlsz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:33:02 +0000

  Location: Toronto
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: depends  
  Technologies: react,vue,svelte,node.js,python,go,firebase,gcp,figma,postgres,nosql,aws,docker,mysql,etc
  Résumé/CV: https://olsz.me/resume.pdf
  Email: in my resume above  marcel[dot]olszewski[/at/]gmail.com

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2026)"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:33:27 +0000

  Location: Toronto
  Remote: yes
  Willing to relocate: yes
  Technologies: react,vue,svelte,node.js,python,go,firebase,gcp,figma,postgres,nosql,aws,docker,mysql,etc
  Résumé/CV: https://olsz.me/resume.pdf
  Email: in my resume above  marcel[dot]olszewski[/at/]gmail.com

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

MarcelOlsz — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:20:52 +0000

Of course, but presumably if you're launching something you want people to adopt it so spend some time on documentation.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Different language models learn similar number representations"

MarcelOlsz — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:20:02 +0000

That's incredible. Had do idea this existed. I'm listening to it right now and I can fully understand it as polack! I might actually want to learn this as it'll help me communicate to all my different slavic friends.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:53:11 +0000

It's the principle.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Different language models learn similar number representations"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:43:35 +0000

I refuse to learn esperanto, sorry.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "I'm done making desktop applications (2009)"

MarcelOlsz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:37:53 +0000

I'm a seasoned developer and I frequently come across OSS projects where I spend half an hour or more in "how the fuck do I actually use this"-land. A lot of developers need to take the mindset of writing the documentation for their non-tech grandma from the ground up.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

MarcelOlsz — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 07:01:54 +0000

>He's doing something right.

Yes, being rich.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:07:59 +0000

I have no idea I didn't think too deeply about this comment.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:38:54 +0000

Why? It's just the name of the game, everyone gets it. Especially if you're a generalist/frontend type.

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Claude Opus 4.7"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:44:59 +0000

Why? Doesn't have jokey copy. Any thoughts on claude-mem[0] + context-mode[1]?

[0] https://github.com/thedotmack/claude-mem

[1] https://github.com/mksglu/context-mode

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:37:51 +0000

People have this misconception that first it was one way, and then , and they'll wake up and suddenly it is another. It's a slow creep. 10 years ago there were 5 of us on a team each responsible for something specific. Now I can do all of that. Teams and companies will downsize. How do you see AI creating more jobs? (I need some hope right now lol).

New comment by MarcelOlsz in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

MarcelOlsz — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:35:26 +0000

I only had to wait 8 years but I can finally text my old co-worker that Laravel is in fact, shit.