Hacker News: mayowaxcvi

New comment by mayowaxcvi in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

mayowaxcvi — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:24:37 +0000

Laughed very hard at this. Well done. Feel like you must have made this observation a while ago and just waited for your moment.

New comment by mayowaxcvi in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

mayowaxcvi — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:53:31 +0000

My concern was whether the glasses might record or transmit data while switched off or in standby mode. From what I can tell, they don’t do this intentionally. So the risk is broadly similar to other modern electronic devices.

The creepiness concern is real, but I think people misplace where the actual surveillance happens. The most consequential stores of personal data aren’t ad networks they’re things like banks, hospitals, insurers, and telecoms. These institutions hold information about your health, finances, movements, and relationships, indexed and searchable by employees you’ve never met, governed by policies you’ve never read.

Realistically, there’s very little an individual can do to completely opt out.

My take is: if the main outcomes are that I get shown ads for things I don’t need and my facecomputer knows the difference between a fork and a spoon… I… I can live with that.

New comment by mayowaxcvi in "Show HN: Firm, a text-based work management system"

mayowaxcvi — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:43:33 +0000

Spent ages building my own work management system only to realise I was just taking the scenic route to eMacs.

New comment by mayowaxcvi in "MentraOS – open-source Smart glasses OS"

mayowaxcvi — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:04:02 +0000

Very excited by all this! Have been searching for something like this for so long!

New comment by mayowaxcvi in "Jesus nut"

mayowaxcvi — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 17:42:40 +0000

Isn’t that the shortest sentence in the bible or something?

New comment by mayowaxcvi in "Facebook proven to negatively impact mental health"

mayowaxcvi — Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:49:40 +0000

- brought to you by the academic fields that can reliably predict almost nothing.

New comment by mayowaxcvi in "Crypto Is Crashing, But Companies Aren't Acting Like It"

mayowaxcvi — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 15:15:53 +0000

As long as crypto investors don’t ask to be bailed out by the government, I am fine with almost all the scammy behaviour.

New comment by mayowaxcvi in "Meta sued for social media addiction caused by its algorithm"

mayowaxcvi — Fri, 10 Jun 2022 08:54:21 +0000

Wait till they find out about Hacker News …

New comment by mayowaxcvi in "Facebook paid Republican strategy firm to malign TikTok"

mayowaxcvi — Wed, 30 Mar 2022 16:30:33 +0000

The Washington Post (a media organisation) malign Meta/Facebook (a media organisation) who were maligning TikTok (a media organisation).

Perhaps the most blatant case of "Always accuse your enemy of exactly what you are doing yourself."