Hacker News: iLoveOncall

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

iLoveOncall — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:59:37 +0000

And winning the AI race means being the biggest loser. LLMs aren't profitable.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"

iLoveOncall — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:20:36 +0000

Add to this that so far I have only seen it augment mediocrity, and even this is a bad plan.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "My friends all hate AI; I just joined an AI startup"

iLoveOncall — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:15:56 +0000

This just reads like a poor attempt at convincing themselves that they didn't become what they hate.

I hate AI and I work on an AI project. I use it only where there is no viable alternative and where it is safe and sensible, which means it's just another tool, not some sort of oracle used to supposedly solve everything. That makes me not hate AI in the context of this project.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

iLoveOncall — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:14:17 +0000

Storage has more than doubled as well. The same SSD (4TB M.2) I bought in September 2025 for £229 is now £500.

I also had another order where I paid £30 for a 1TB SSD (sata though) and it is now more than £100...

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

iLoveOncall — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:03:15 +0000

How about not writing the article at all then?

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

iLoveOncall — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:37:57 +0000

> have been caught auto installing random hidden extensions with full read/write access to all websites

Lol, they chose to ship parts of their browser as extensions, it's definitely now "random extensions".

> and blocking uBlock Origin from working on, for example, the Firefox extension site

Any other example? Bypassing an extension on their own website has absolutely no link to the browser itself being a malware, this is ridiculous.

I don't even use Firefox and I think Mozilla is a shit organization misusing its funds to pursue bad ventures lately, but even I think your claims are bullshit.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

iLoveOncall — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:42:52 +0000

Brave is malware, I don't understand how anyone on HN can use it, baffles me every time.

They've literally been caught MITMing web pages for their own financial gains.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

iLoveOncall — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:39:25 +0000

I mean did you try with Chrome and Ublock Original Lite? Because I have and there's literally no difference at all.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

iLoveOncall — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:24:05 +0000

I don't care at all about defending Amazon, I'm just correcting a completely false statement about H1-B visas, and answering a guy who claims something about big tech while myself being in big tech? I guess reading comprehension is just disappearing with LLMs.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

iLoveOncall — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:15:54 +0000

You're counting only CS bachelors, in reality there's 400K graduates a year in software engineering fields.

There's also only 60,000 H1-Bs a year for private companies.

Lastly the majority of H1-Bs doesn't go to software engineering jobs, it's around 30-50%.

There's also basically no US company hiring juniors via H1-Bs, so yeah, I'm saying it doesn't make any meaningful impact.

30K H1-Bs versus 400K grads...

New comment by iLoveOncall in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

iLoveOncall — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:04:32 +0000

The compensation bands and the actual compensation are exactly the same regardless of immigration status.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Only 2.6% of the most visited websites have fully valid HTML"

iLoveOncall — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:56:45 +0000

Because 0.5% of the world population is blind and it costs much more than an extra 0.5% to make a website accessible?

Everytime this question is asked I wonder if people are genuinely not understanding that. It's just not financially worth it.

I'm not defending this position, but it's just glaringly obvious.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

iLoveOncall — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:40:30 +0000

There are 100K H1-Bs a year and 4 million grads a year in the US. Anyone who thinks H1-Bs are actually contributing to their inability to find a job is a moron.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

iLoveOncall — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:57:47 +0000

> I don't know kubernetes and never will.

He said, proud of his own ignorance.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Is it all just vapourware?"

iLoveOncall — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:35:05 +0000

The one you link to?

New comment by iLoveOncall in "My server is a phone now"

iLoveOncall — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:41:40 +0000

That's a funny thing to say when even the long explanation I'm answering to does point out the fact that it cannot be reliably determined purely from the title in this case.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "My server is a phone now"

iLoveOncall — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:34:05 +0000

Regardless it is extremely poor phrasing and would have been easily addressed by using "My phone runs a server now".

It's borderline clickbait, unless the author is an English graduate and assumes all their reader will be too. A phone running a server is not very interesting and has been shared many many times on HN before, while I've not heard of a phone running on a server before (which I why I clicked at all).

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours"

iLoveOncall — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 14:39:04 +0000

Yeah I'm growing increasingly tired of those stupid metaphors about AI.

LLMs are not like screwdrivers, IDEs, or any other tool. They're indeterministic.

I keep seeing everyone make wilder and wilder metaphors which just don't work at all, as a sort of "argument" supporting whatever they say, with 0 actual proof.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

iLoveOncall — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:02:13 +0000

> All these things compounds if the NAS is not just for you, but your wife, kids, family, etc. Now it becomes your responsibility that all these precious data and photos entrusted to you are 100% safe for the decades to come.

A NAS is not a backup? It's hot storage.

I have a NAS but I backup my photos on AWS in S3 Deep Glacier. It costs me less than $1 a month for 500GB of pictures. That's a backup.

New comment by iLoveOncall in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

iLoveOncall — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:59:51 +0000

I built my "NAS", which is just a normal computer with no GPU but 3 hard-drives in RAID 5, for $400 + storage cost. It is much more powerful that any NAS, even thousands of dollars ones, I'm not too sure at what cost (power consumption maybe?).

I don't understand why people would go with an actual pre-built NAS from a manufacturer over my approach. It's always a complete rip-off.