Hacker News: manicennui

New comment by manicennui in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

manicennui — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:30:36 +0000

Why not ask your LLM?

New comment by manicennui in "Trevor Milton is raising funds for a new jet he claims will transform flying"

manicennui — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:11:44 +0000

Not trying to defend these assholes, but the author of Meditations was not exactly a good guy.

New comment by manicennui in "Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too"

manicennui — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:40:53 +0000

I was recently considering what these people would do to us if they found a valuable use for part of our bodies. The Matrix was brought up by someone in response.

New comment by manicennui in "Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too"

manicennui — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:40:11 +0000

Human beings are nothing but their economic output to Sam Altman.

Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

manicennui — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 04:39:12 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47108221

Points: 22

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New comment by manicennui in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

manicennui — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:27:57 +0000

Did they not realize that it is already a mass surveillance network?

New comment by manicennui in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

manicennui — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 04:17:02 +0000

The interesting thing to me about this example is that it had to be someone lower level in or near the administration with less wealth, but who knew about a military operation. Hard to imagine any of the rich people around him risking a bet for such a small sum.

New comment by manicennui in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

manicennui — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:53:28 +0000

It's really just people in the suburbs and smaller cities. Doing things alone is completely normal in a city like Chicago or NY.

New comment by manicennui in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

manicennui — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:52:25 +0000

Go to a major city. There are tons of people doing things alone, including sitting in a cafe.

New comment by manicennui in "I canceled my book deal"

manicennui — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:57:24 +0000

Are the people who are really into "AI" even buying books anymore?

New comment by manicennui in "AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded"

manicennui — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:58:07 +0000

Surely you have realized by now that a large portion of the HN userbase is here for get rich quick schemes.

New comment by manicennui in "It’s been a very hard year"

manicennui — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 21:54:38 +0000

So we should cater to those with the lowest ethical standards instead?

New comment by manicennui in "All it takes is for one to work out"

manicennui — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 21:50:36 +0000

This is also the strategy of groups trying to pass oppressive legislation.

New comment by manicennui in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

manicennui — Wed, 07 May 2025 02:46:16 +0000

So which of OpenAI's investors are also Windsurf investors?

New comment by manicennui in "Anime is eating the world"

manicennui — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 22:07:59 +0000

I mean this as unkindly as possible: please stay the fuck out of anime.

New comment by manicennui in "New startup sells coffee through SSH"

manicennui — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:32:30 +0000

I really like Fellow Drops: https://fellowproducts.com/pages/fellow-drops

It is SMS based. Each week they offer a different bean from a different roaster, and you reply with the number of bags you want. I've discovered a number of great roasters this way.

New comment by manicennui in "Show HN: Meegle – Jira alternative with workflow visualization"

manicennui — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:09:15 +0000

JIRA obviously allows one to customize workflows as well, and I frankly don't really care about the visualization of it. The problem is that at many companies, there is one group that is allowed to change the workflow and they are more interested in conformity than allowing teams to work well.

New comment by manicennui in "Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)"

manicennui — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:17:42 +0000

The problem is that most developers don't not actually understand DRY. They see a few lines repeated a few times in different functions and create a mess of abstraction just to remove the repeated code. Eventually more conditions are added to the abstracted functions to handle more cases, and the complexity increases, all to avoid having to look at a couple lines of repeated code. This is not what DRY is about.

New comment by manicennui in "Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says"

manicennui — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:51:16 +0000

Which is basically how software engineering is done.

New comment by manicennui in "Amazon owes $525M in cloud-storage patent fight, US jury says"

manicennui — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 14:47:09 +0000

You are literally describing software engineering.