Hacker News: frugalmail

New comment by frugalmail in "Japan's most famous tuna buyer says he turned Somali pirates into fishermen"

frugalmail — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:46:38 +0000

That's why they pirated so many Chinese ships right?

New comment by frugalmail in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

frugalmail — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:48:00 +0000

If your "household name" company is more susceptible to scrutiny, they may not have as much of a pay gap and strictly rely on a the possibility of getting the employee sent back home if they don't contribute enough being the motivating factor. But odds are there are many sub-contractors that are through agencies that are significantly underpaying and you may have not been privy to the contracts through these parasite vendors.

New comment by frugalmail in "The Netherlands Built a Nix-Basd Linux Desktop Because Microsoft Cut Off the ICC"

frugalmail — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:08:47 +0000

Nix is particularly excellent for governance, reliability, and quick recovery.

It was really a great choice on their part if they have highly skilled staff. Deterministic Systems isn't quite where Red Hat is, but hopefully they or other vendors get there.

New comment by frugalmail in "Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country"

frugalmail — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:36:31 +0000

Nothing like government run housing, markets, price fixing, rent control, pushing industry out, eliminating unfovorable resource use, selective government benefits, like the opposing side

New comment by frugalmail in "Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country"

frugalmail — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:22:42 +0000

PACs are evil, but at least going to Republicans is better than the alternative right now.

New comment by frugalmail in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

frugalmail — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:15:50 +0000

I dropped my subscription already and avoid using their models.

New comment by frugalmail in "UC Berkeley indefinitely suspends international student work authorizations"

frugalmail — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:57:08 +0000

Calc isn't required to get into a humanities programs in UC schools

New comment by frugalmail in "How to Write an Email"

frugalmail — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:42:41 +0000

IMO direct messages, using people's names in messages, or @them is a disruption and should be reserved for needing one. I hate being deep in work, and then being disrupted for something that could have easily been put in a channel that I could look at later.

Turning off notifications would mean muting people that are more respectful and might have a legitimate reason to disrupt you.

New comment by frugalmail in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

frugalmail — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:12:48 +0000

You're right, it's interesting that this device isn't the most technically superior in hardware or software, and isn't the most casual user friendly. It seems to be targeting a segment I can't bucket other than loyalists. Maybe good hardware & software for the cost?

New comment by frugalmail in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

frugalmail — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:50:18 +0000

The biggest problem is that if you want to run large (continuous memory) models, gaming graphics cards aren't sufficient, and if you manage to get graphics cards that you can chain it becomes a lot more expensive (and better performance) than these machines and GB10 machines.

New comment by frugalmail in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

frugalmail — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:45:40 +0000

I'm looking at Amazon and I see $4k GB10 devices right now (not an affiliate link) https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Supercomputer-Superchip-Supports...

New comment by frugalmail in "AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit"

frugalmail — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:39:49 +0000

When this was half the price of the DGX Spark, it made sense. But same price is a ridiculous premium for inferior performance but the ability to run Windows.

New comment by frugalmail in "The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online"

frugalmail — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:16:22 +0000

This is something that is the parent's responsibility.

We all know what this is really about. It's not okay to arm the government against it's own Citizens to prevent any sort of criticism, I don't care what side of the isle you're on.

New comment by frugalmail in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

frugalmail — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:01:13 +0000

Thats good to know, but I'm talking about that person that's trying to start a business, without incurring massive liability, doing small run 3d print jobs, some early run smart home device, some small one person SaaS, crochet niche hobby things, etc...

The type of thing that might go from side gig to actual long running business that could end up employing a bunch of people.

New comment by frugalmail in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

frugalmail — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:59:34 +0000

So the person that wants to sell that ultra-unique item that isn't produced by mega-corp, and the person that wants to buy that ultra-unique item despite unfavorable return policies never gets their needs met.

New comment by frugalmail in "Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice"

frugalmail — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:58:08 +0000

This is the result of the US embracing capitalism more than Germany. The market has set minimum expectations, but outliers with other benefits can have an opportunity to thrive until they have an opportunity to meet those minimum expectations.

Although, this is rapidly changing. Places like California are putting in similar regulatory barriers and excessive minimum taxation.

New comment by frugalmail in "The Korean telecom giant at the center of Anthropic's Mythos controversy"

frugalmail — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:44:03 +0000

You think their competitors, even without malice, wouldn't have put them in the same predicament if they were quiet?

The companies willing to collaborate would have brought light to the issues.

New comment by frugalmail in "Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup"

frugalmail — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:01:51 +0000

Bummer, they are the least friendly to open source, and the most incompatible with free use of your subscription via your own tools/custom harnesses.

New comment by frugalmail in "The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason"

frugalmail — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:43:44 +0000

I was under the impression the ping back to china security issues are what prompted this, until they were evaluated. I don't think Netgear would have a problem passing the audit.

New comment by frugalmail in "Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December"

frugalmail — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:22:48 +0000

It's one thing to not know and make a mistake, it's whole other thing to hear a claim from somebody, not even bother looking it up before you dispute it, and doubling down on ignorant.