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New comment by marto1 in "Ask HN: What are your career plans in the age of AI?"

marto1 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 07:29:06 +0000

Have you investigated how much of your business has been diverted by AI agents scraping articles from your site and essentially presenting them to the users through their UI?

And related, do you see a future where info products become much more proprietary/hidden due to scraping?

New comment by marto1 in "Tilck: A Tiny Linux-Compatible Kernel"

marto1 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:36:22 +0000

I can see it's marked "educational", but would it be also suitable for smallish embedded devices ? Assuming the bootloader part is swapped out, etc.

New comment by marto1 in "Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks"

marto1 — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 17:01:16 +0000

> or is it just a neat academic toy

The Internet was a neat academic toy at one point for whatever that's worth :-)

Ask HN: Small Repairable Phone in 2025?

marto1 — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:33:14 +0000

Any recommendations for a phone like that? Ideally with less than 6 inch screen, microSD slot. Replaceable battery is a big plus, but not mandatory.

I was really hopeful for Fairphone 6 to be something like this, but it's simply waaay too large.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465409

Points: 3

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Ubuntu Licenses – Past and Present

marto1 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 19:06:36 +0000

Article URL: https://eruhinim.com/post/ubuntu-licenses/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44458224

Points: 3

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New comment by marto1 in "Tesla Cybertruck deliveries on hold as trims are flying off 'bulletproof' truck"

marto1 — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 16:39:09 +0000

And now all these tesla folks will buy the next cool thing and continue the cycle.. We got them again!

New comment by marto1 in "Ask HN: How will uncertain tariff policies impact tech startups and funding?"

marto1 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 17:41:06 +0000

Do you have any actual evidence of capital moving out of the United States? Besides opinion pieces, I mean. I'm genuinely curious.

New comment by marto1 in "Ask HN: Are anyone else's HN points mysteriously increasing out of no where?"

marto1 — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 16:29:18 +0000

Wow, it's never too late to find a HN secret link!

New comment by marto1 in "Ask HN: in 2025 Which project does not have any good open-source alternatives?"

marto1 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 17:50:01 +0000

Isn't this way more about regulation rather than the tech?

Still would be cool to see even if not allowed on the roads :-)

New comment by marto1 in "Ask HN: Why Isn't PHP Dead Yet?"

marto1 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:27:23 +0000

It made a lot of really good choices in the late 90s when a lot of dot-com companies started and a lot of people around the world started getting interested in making their own websites. It eventually snowballed to the LAMP stack which became the most user friendly way of doing stuff on the web on low budget. The inertia from this is massive so it's staying for a bunch more years.

New comment by marto1 in "Ask HN: What are some major world problems that are still unsolved?"

marto1 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:59:14 +0000

..and loads and loads of politicians that pretend they can solve problems above while shamelessly grifting.

New comment by marto1 in "Why Layoffs Don't Work"

marto1 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:56:51 +0000

> had a great product

> We got acquired

Can I just ask about the reason for this? Was it owners wanting off the ride?

New comment by marto1 in "Layoffs Don't Work"

marto1 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 13:36:47 +0000

> A lot of people treat economics as though damage didn't happen unless someone acknowledges it.

This is what I call the TV effect. People are trained from an early age, by consuming media, to only construct what is "real" by what is announced. And it's not just economics, but all sorts of aspects of life.

New comment by marto1 in "Layoffs Don't Work"

marto1 — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 13:32:29 +0000

> But everyone knows that's not what killed them.

Another addition I'd like to add here is more often then not wrong people get booted while the "dead weight" tends to stick around and becomes even deader due to a motivation fall from the layoff. So maybe it doesn't kill, but for sure exacerbates an already bad situation.

New comment by marto1 in "Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division"

marto1 — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:30:30 +0000

> you think a government can? Browser engines are really hard to build.

As opposed to CERN being easy to build!? I'd say is totally doable, but it doesn't promise filling anyone's pockets at the moment so traction is hard. Who knows, maybe in the future..

New comment by marto1 in "Ask HN: What currently is the best, nerd-friendly, rootable Android phone?"

marto1 — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:18:37 +0000

So ensuring privacy would mean feeding the infamous privacy predator Google? Seems like a classic case of exchanging short term gains for long term pain.

New comment by marto1 in "Ask HN: Why Is Nobody Hiring Juniors?"

marto1 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 05:18:43 +0000

> Tired of seeing 5-6 engineer levels where most people fuck around while 10% of the org carries everyone else.

As long as nepotism(both direct and indirect) exists this will always be the case.

New comment by marto1 in "Ask HN: Is there a string which MD5 Sum is all 0xffffffffffff?"

marto1 — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:57:11 +0000

I believe proof-by-induction is still a mathematically valid proof. Just one to be suspicious of/can be overridden by more rigid proofs.

New comment by marto1 in "[dead]"

marto1 — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:51:21 +0000

> Nearly all applications of Generative AI APIs by their very design and value proposition externalize cost to society

But they promise to maximize value for the individual. Which works in what is called an individualistic society.

New comment by marto1 in "Has anyone here had their jobs affected by AI in a negative way yet?"

marto1 — Fri, 21 Apr 2023 13:57:29 +0000

> How this plays out is a good question.

Look into what happened to Japanese wood printers around the time of the industrial revolution over there. It was a many layer apprenticeship system where everyone had a separate job - the bottom layer, mostly children, would make prints for candy wrappers and such until you get to the top - the masters which dealt with the most valuable and skilled work.

The lowest layers got cut, replaced by machines, and the entire structure eventually toppled. Including the work that couldn't be done by a machine - it was simply not requested anymore or there wasn't enough people coming from below to fill the ranks.

It's somewhat doubtful whether software engineers will feel the same both, because of the actual impact AI and that the job itself IS automation by nature. There could be political factors, however, that could skew things otherwise.