Hacker News: kingnothing

New comment by kingnothing in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

kingnothing — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:36:27 +0000

Why do you need an M5 to run Cursor and a browser? Your laptop isn't doing anything in your described workflow.

New comment by kingnothing in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

kingnothing — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:29:59 +0000

Maybe it's an excellent experience these days, but every time I've tried Linux on desktop over the past 25 years I get burned. Maybe it works for a while, then your NIC driver gets borked and you spend 2 days trying to get it working again. Or some update goes sideways and you lose the GUI, launching only into a terminal. It's always something. And laptops have even less common hardware than desktops.

On the other hand, every Mac I've used over the past 15 years has been bulletproof. It turns on, it works, it runs *nix. It's an invisible interface to getting work done.

New comment by kingnothing in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

kingnothing — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:29:15 +0000

Won't they simply blacklist freedom.gov?

New comment by kingnothing in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

kingnothing — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:28:59 +0000

It's always a game of cat and mouse, but NSO had a quarter billion USD in annual revenue in 2020. They are clearly providing highly effective spyware to governments around the world. It wouldn't surprise me if they have that many zero day, zero click exploits that they can always get in to a phone. We're talking nation state espionage here... they probably have insiders at Apple and Google who introduce subtle unnoticeable bugs in core OS stacks.

New comment by kingnothing in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

kingnothing — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:57:45 +0000

It's relatively well know that the NSO Group / Pegasus is what governments use to access locked phones.

New comment by kingnothing in "Show HN: AI tool to scan internal docs for GDPR violations before audits"

kingnothing — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:45:21 +0000

There might be. You need to talk to your market and find out. I work at larger companies, so I can’t speak to startup culture right now. There’s no way I would personally sign off on giving access to all of our company data to a small company with no certifications, especially in an AI world where you might leak all of our data into public training models if it’s done wrong.

New comment by kingnothing in "Show HN: AI tool to scan internal docs for GDPR violations before audits"

kingnothing — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:27:01 +0000

You need to have compliance certifications or no one will use this. Think along the lines of SOC2, HIPAA, willingness to sign BAAs, etc. The hardest part of this company is going to be sales. You're not selling to small businesses who will pop in a credit card number -- this is an offering for enterprises with annual agreements and longer sales cycles.

Also, consider supporting CCPA for California businesses.

New comment by kingnothing in "We saved $500k per year by rolling our own "S3""

kingnothing — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:35:13 +0000

Nanit is horrible spyware. Do not buy their products.

If you have a router that lets you inspect data flowing out, you'll be astonished at what your little Nanit cam exfiltrates from your home network. Even if you don't pay for their subscription service, they still attempt to exfil all of the video footage caught on your camera to their servers. You can block it and it will still work, but you shouldn't have to do that in the first place if you don't pay for their cloud service.

Stay away if you value your privacy.

New comment by kingnothing in "Roc Camera"

kingnothing — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:08:12 +0000

This page cannot be scrolled in Safari or Firefox.

Devs -- stop hijacking native scrolling functionality. Why? You had one shot to sell me on this product. I can't see the page, so I can't consider it for purchase. That's a lost sale.

New comment by kingnothing in "Ruby core team takes ownership of RubyGems and Bundler"

kingnothing — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:14:37 +0000

I've used Ruby off and on since the hype train started with DHH's early videos showing how easily you can make a blog in Rails. Oof, that was published 20 years ago! I wouldn't use it for anything beyond simple shell scripts these days. You're better off with Go for back-end work.

New comment by kingnothing in "A mechanic offered a reason why no one wants to work in the industry"

kingnothing — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:27:42 +0000

Police officers in SF make $103k per year.

Making less than $105k per year in SF is considered low income.

New comment by kingnothing in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

kingnothing — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:08:39 +0000

Why not? You can easily encrypt your data before sending it for storage on on S3, for example.

New comment by kingnothing in "Ford locking basic navigation behind a subscription"

kingnothing — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 15:57:09 +0000

You won't even need to own the car. Just pay $800 / mo indefinitely.

New comment by kingnothing in "White House Announces ‘TrumpRx’ Drug-Buying Site, and Pricing Deal With Pfizer"

kingnothing — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 18:13:31 +0000

Or, and here's a wild idea, we could use Medicare for that.

New comment by kingnothing in "Ollama Web Search"

kingnothing — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:19:57 +0000

You can say you're training an AI model and do whatever you want with it.

New comment by kingnothing in "Amazon fined $2.5B for using deceptive methods to sign up consumers for Prime"

kingnothing — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 21:18:36 +0000

Amazon's 2024 net income (profit) was $59B on $638B revenue.

The median US household income is $80k and has a savings rate (profit) of 3.6%, or $2880.

This $2.5B fine is equivalent to the average US household being fined $115 or, basically, a traffic ticket.

New comment by kingnothing in "Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years"

kingnothing — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:24:00 +0000

What do you think is so unique about the US that it is incapable of having similar pricing and quality of care compared to the rest of the developed world?

New comment by kingnothing in "Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years"

kingnothing — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:24:33 +0000

Yes, exactly. We spend more far more and get less because we do not have a single payer system like the rest of the world. We are lining the pockets of healthcare execs and unnecessarily employing hundreds of thousands of people at insurance companies and private companies to manage employee benefits.

New comment by kingnothing in "Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years"

kingnothing — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:16:33 +0000

If Congress could decide to agree on something, they announce taxes are being raised by X% to provide Medicare for all next year. Next year, employers stop providing healthcare via insurance companies and everyone signs up for medicare. Done.

New comment by kingnothing in "Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years"

kingnothing — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 16:13:50 +0000

Single payer is cheaper. The US spends more per capita than any other developed nation and is not even capable of providing health care to all of its citizens.

Move to single payer, kill the medical insurance industry, and save these costs:

The health insurance industry employs approximately 605,000-912,000 people directly. The top 10 companies generate over $1.5 trillion in combined revenue annually. Conservative estimates suggest these companies spend $45-90 billion annually on employee salaries.