Hacker News: manphone

New comment by manphone in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

manphone — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:46:32 +0000

Yeah, this is my favorite one, the number of CEOs I’ve had tell me that they were frustrated how little everyone else was putting in compared to them while they’ve had hundreds of times of the return is hilarious.

New comment by manphone in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

manphone — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:11:37 +0000

I made a media center replacement for something like plex or jellyfin, streaming video or audio whenever I am; transcoding, subtitles, specialized dupe and renaming metadata. A little automated datawarehouse that manages all my output in an object store. My own tag system of course. A personalized eval system for llm tools.

New comment by manphone in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

manphone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:35:32 +0000

This is what people said about Trump and the Republicans. Of course they wouldn’t do mass deportation. It’s all just rhetoric.

New comment by manphone in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

manphone — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:35:37 +0000

He’s sitting at 30% approval while starting wars and not releasing the Epstein files. You are saying pure cope right now.

New comment by manphone in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

manphone — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:52:20 +0000

Oh, they were aware from the phrasing they ate implying that we’ve already spent enough and we should stop, which is exactly what Trump was saying and is totally stupid if you want the world not to be run by Vladimir Putin.

New comment by manphone in "Sam Altman's Business Dealings Under GOP Scrutiny Ahead of OpenAI's IPO"

manphone — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:32:43 +0000

He ran a government institution that recklessly cut public spending and hurt us all. What are you talking about?

New comment by manphone in "Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]"

manphone — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:24:19 +0000

That has little to do with building code and a lot to do with customers and releases and operations - giant companies don’t just magically demo software to people.

There’s so many layers today that can’t exist if this is the way forward.

New comment by manphone in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

manphone — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:28:02 +0000

As someone who has worked with all three in many capacities, as is the worst by a mile. Don’t get me wrong. They are all very bad, but Azure is the king of shit.

New comment by manphone in "Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]"

manphone — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:03:37 +0000

The concept of a large organization doesn’t even make sense in this model. How do you make decisions? How do you coordinate? What is Google when you have 50,000 individual silos?

New comment by manphone in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

manphone — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:04:14 +0000

We can walk and chew gum at the same time, the government can regulate thousands or millions of different types of things at the same time. It doesn’t make sense to say there’s stuff on the Internet that is worse therefore we cannot it should not do anything about it.

New comment by manphone in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

manphone — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:02:48 +0000

That’s not an explanation or an excuse at all.

New comment by manphone in "Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis"

manphone — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:14:56 +0000

And what point of view does all art have now?

New comment by manphone in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

manphone — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:34:56 +0000

And which part of the things he said, would we find a counter argument to in the grass?

New comment by manphone in "Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better"

manphone — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:09:25 +0000

There’s basically no point of political discussion if you all agree, besides bitching and moaning.

New comment by manphone in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

manphone — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:25:18 +0000

That may even be true, but many commenters here are saying these things because they actually happened to them and then they switched off of Firefox because it pissed them off. (Myself included) So when you say this is a comment or narrative it’s the commenters you’re talking to and you’re talking past them in a way that is confusing. I’m telling you that I hated the Firefox changes and I finally turned to another fork. This has nothing to do with a narrative.

New comment by manphone in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

manphone — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:17:21 +0000

This isn’t about a fight between two things. This is about a company that completely refuses to listen to their users and then some random guy on the Internet who says you should deal with their telemetry to somehow fix the problem that in no way relates to the actual problem and no way has evidence that they would take steps to fix the problem either. It’s very prosocial to think that Firefox actually makes changes based on user feedback, but almost none of these features have users been clamoring for, this is totally executive bullshit pushed into the product.

New comment by manphone in "Why poor countries stopped catching up"

manphone — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:37:25 +0000

Here, you dropped your dog whistle.

New comment by manphone in "Reid Hoffman: Silicon Valley can't be neutral any longer"

manphone — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:27:58 +0000

And that is why these articles get flagged time and again because the existing tech brow pretend they want no politics but what they want is no pushback.

New comment by manphone in "Oracle made a $300B bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price"

manphone — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:05:28 +0000

The Java goodwill is mostly gone and I see zero new orgs trying it so while Java is still alive and well the mindshare has definitely been squandered given the capability that Java has.

New comment by manphone in "The state of Schleswig-Holstein is consistently relying on open source"

manphone — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 15:54:41 +0000

Make the execs bonus based on open source success and then it will be the most funded thing of all time.