Hacker News: cianmm

New comment by cianmm in "I Left Harry's All-Night Hamburgers (2013)"

cianmm — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:45:16 +0000

What a lovely surprise to see EscapePod. One of the early early podcasts. If you search through their backlog along with the backlog of their sister podcasts, you’ll find some narrations from a much younger, less tired, me.

I miss that age of podcasting. I’m glad EscapePod is still going.

New comment by cianmm in "Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine"

cianmm — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:57:36 +0000

I won't be clicking on that first link because I'm on a work machine but is that _Limewire_?

New comment by cianmm in "Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine"

cianmm — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:58:14 +0000

I didn't make this, but came across it and though it felt like the kind of thing HN would appreciate

Dirty Little Zine – a tool for making an 8 page printable Zine

cianmm — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:58:14 +0000

Article URL: https://dirtylittlezine.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48611896

Points: 173

# Comments: 41

New comment by cianmm in "The Future of Email"

cianmm — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 13:13:11 +0000

As a Proton user - the main trade-off for me is that you are forced to use their apps on mobile, and those apps are pretty barebones and (on iOS at least) have none of the bells and whistles of a modern iOS app, such as Home Screen widgets.

Since I use my own domain for email, I am considering moving over to another provider once my subscription term is up. I really miss widgets.

New comment by cianmm in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

cianmm — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:50:18 +0000

My solar install took about 4.5 years to break even, which I understand is maybe a bit below average for where I live (Ireland).

New comment by cianmm in "MCP Hello Page"

cianmm — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:22:18 +0000

I have spent ~3 months working on various aspects of an MCP server builder at my day job and I hadn’t considered this solution to the nightmare of getting non technical end users connected. I shall be borrowing it next week!

Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions

cianmm — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:28:40 +0000

Article URL: https://red-squares.cian.lol/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48034587

Points: 767

# Comments: 168

New comment by cianmm in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

cianmm — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:02:51 +0000

Reading what Restore Britain stands for just makes them seem like another set of MAGA wannabes rather than the saviours of the UK.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restore_Britain

Accenture combats AI refuseniks by linking promotions to log-ins

cianmm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 10:02:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ft.com/content/ac672f97-a603-4c56-afa3-4a5273d45674

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47085927

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by cianmm in "France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US"

cianmm — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 20:57:55 +0000

Why would a private company deciding to release a Linux version of their product signal a government's follow-through? As far as I can tell, there is no current connection between Solidworks and the French government.

New comment by cianmm in "Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI"

cianmm — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:53:17 +0000

View on GitHub link at the bottom of this page https://rentahuman.ai/mcp

New comment by cianmm in "Rentahuman – The Meatspace Layer for AI"

cianmm — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:36:10 +0000

Is this real or a satire? The link to GitHub 404s.

Man Alarmed to Discover Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting Secret Map of His House

cianmm — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 19:12:22 +0000

Article URL: https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-vacuum-broadcasting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45714420

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by cianmm in "Alaska Airlines' statement on IT outage"

cianmm — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 23:44:21 +0000

There are also firms that handle all of this for you for a % (in the region of 20%). They validate the claim and threaten ti take the airline to court if they don’t pay out.

I generally go direct to the airline these days but if I get pushback beyond what I’m willing to deal with myself, I’ll use one of those services.

New comment by cianmm in "EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided"

cianmm — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:49:25 +0000

Here’s some data. Skepticism is pretty low and approval is pretty high

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1360333/euroscepticism-e...

New comment by cianmm in "Eye drops could replace glasses or surgery for longsightedness, study says"

cianmm — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:29:53 +0000

The issue is getting the lenses in and out of my eyes. I simply can’t. I tried really hard for about 4 hours with a consultant and I think that I got it in successfully once, and she had to remove it for me while I held my eye open.

New comment by cianmm in "Eye drops could replace glasses or surgery for longsightedness, study says"

cianmm — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:09:58 +0000

If they invented this for shortsightedness, which I have very slightly, I would pay a huge amount of money (in European medical cost terms) for it.

I mildly dislike wearing glasses but need them or I have a headache within an hour, I can’t overcome my blink reactions to put in contacts (after several hour long sessions with my optometrist) and my shortsightedness isn’t strong enough to convince myself to go for laser eye surgery.

We Built an Auto-Aiming Trash Can [video]

cianmm — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 14:16:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0XYANRosVo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44670985

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cianmm in "Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?"

cianmm — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 12:28:01 +0000

I remember some blog (maybe HackADay?) suggested sanding the back to give it a brushed aluminium look and that ended up looking so cool. Those early iPods were all-time-great products.