Hacker News: MisterSandman

New comment by MisterSandman in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

MisterSandman — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:35:25 +0000

I think the pipeline is not really about the 30u30 list as a whole, but about the cover of the magazine, which I feel has had a very high rate of fraud.

New comment by MisterSandman in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

MisterSandman — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 06:31:10 +0000

AWS has existed for like 2 decades now, is that not enough evidence for you?

New comment by MisterSandman in "LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles"

MisterSandman — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 21:56:53 +0000

You can turn on Private Browsing, even on a free account. It also prevents YOU from seeing who viewed you, though, unless you buy premium.

New comment by MisterSandman in "Companies are lying about AI layoffs?"

MisterSandman — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:56:50 +0000

This is also assuming that 100% of layoffs are American citizens. A huge chunk of those layoffs are H1B workers themselves.

New comment by MisterSandman in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

MisterSandman — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:54:07 +0000

There are maps of Toronto

New comment by MisterSandman in "iPhone 17 chip becomes the fastest single-core CPU in the world on PassMark"

MisterSandman — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 23:24:49 +0000

You’re gonna replace your 13/15inch laptop with a 6inch phone screen?

New comment by MisterSandman in "Kmart broke privacy laws by using facial recognition, commissioner finds"

MisterSandman — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:09:56 +0000

This is about KMart Australia. Australia is a country, similar to the United States. You should look it up sometime.

New comment by MisterSandman in "PureVPN IPv6 Leak"

MisterSandman — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 12:52:24 +0000

They separate each other by spending money on YouTube ads and sponsorships and jacking up prices to offer 50%, no 70% no NINETY PERCENT DISCOUNT if you subscribe for 17 years using my promo code MisterSandman!

New comment by MisterSandman in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

MisterSandman — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:25:45 +0000

That doesn’t make sense, the 15pro and 16pro were already titanium, and they moved AWAY from titanium for those phones in the 17pro.

I don’t disagree that it has something to do with supply chain, but it’s not the titanium cases.

New comment by MisterSandman in "React is winning by default and slowing innovation"

MisterSandman — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 05:18:49 +0000

React is significantly more easier to hire for than JQuery is, especially in this market. Especially if you’re looking for more junior roles.

As a new grad, I would’ve picked a react job over a JQuery job even if the JQuery one paid me 10k more.

New comment by MisterSandman in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

MisterSandman — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:06:44 +0000

Europe is also somewhat poorer than North America, to be fair.

New comment by MisterSandman in "Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes"

MisterSandman — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:06:10 +0000

Can we stop calling things you find weird “American?” Like Jesus Christ, Europe isn’t some special land where everyone makes food from scratch and capitalism doesn’t exist.

I’m not even American, but are we seriously judging people for baking cakes using cake mixes? It’s been around for almost a century. I highly doubt that cake mixes aren’t just as common in Europe than they are in the US within a margin of error.

New comment by MisterSandman in "Apple barely talked about AI at its big iPhone 17 event"

MisterSandman — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:38:26 +0000

> This was a hardware event.

So was last year’s, technically, but that didn’t stop apple from making it all about AI.

New comment by MisterSandman in "US High school students' scores fall in reading and math"

MisterSandman — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 12:27:09 +0000

This is not just an unfounded theory but a completely insane theory. Many (all?) of the countries ahead of the US in test scores also don’t “beat their kids” because that is absolutely fucking insane.

It’s such an American thing, to blame something on a lack of violence.

New comment by MisterSandman in "South Koreans feel betrayed by workforce detentions at Georgia Hyundai plant"

MisterSandman — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:21:34 +0000

I think what ICE is doing is bad, but I do feel a bit annoyed with how the media is reporting this. They WERE misusing the B1 Visa a bit - at least that’s what the facts point to, and that’s the only reason they are sending workers back to Korea.

I understand why they did this (H1B is painful and a B1 visa may have been the only way to get people to train American factory workers), but it’s not like they were completely innocent. South Koreans were still treated with a lot more respect and dignity than almost any other ethnicity has been.

New comment by MisterSandman in "Show HN: Tallyit.co/coparents – Split costs with your baby dady"

MisterSandman — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 11:08:22 +0000

I understand you made the app because of your own needs as a someone in a co parenting situation, but you’d have a lot more luck by removing that from your pitch. I see on your website you’ve mentioned friends or roommates which is a much bigger market.

The service itself sounds very useful, Splitwise is good but requires all parties to use and respect the app

New comment by MisterSandman in "ICPC 2025 World Finals Results"

MisterSandman — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 10:56:30 +0000

I don’t see why it would. Chess is still bigger than ever.

New comment by MisterSandman in "GPT-5"

MisterSandman — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:59:36 +0000

It still is, not all queries trigger web search, and it takes more tokens and time to do research. ChatGPT will confidently give me outdated information, and unless I know it’s wrong and ask it to research, it wouldn’t know it is wrong. Having a more recent knowledge base can be very useful (for example, knowing who the president is without looking it up, making references to newer node versions instead of old ones)

New comment by MisterSandman in "Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce"

MisterSandman — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:54:30 +0000

There is no strong competition, there’s probably 4 or 5 companies around the world that have the capacity to actually have data centres big enough to serve traffic at scale. The rest are just wrappers.

New comment by MisterSandman in "The future is not self-hosted"

MisterSandman — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 05:57:57 +0000

I never said any of those things, you’re literally arguing with made up points I didn’t make?

But my point Hetzner isn’t self-hosted. Similar to how storing money in a bank isn’t self-banking. Self-hosting means you host your content yourself in a server room that you have physical access to. Hetzner isn’t that.

And that’s fine, self-hosting is pretty silly for most use cases nowadays. And all of the positives you mentioned are true. But I hate how we’ve turned “self-hosting” into a political dog-whistle for hosting with companies that seem more trustworthy than the big guys. And there’s nothing wrong with not wanting to trust GCP or Azure - just don’t call it self hosting.