Hacker News: melbourne_mat

New comment by melbourne_mat in "Claude Design"

melbourne_mat — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:07:01 +0000

I see a lot of responses here taking the purist line: that it's not real design and customers will know the difference. I suspect it's close enough in many cases that customers won't know or won't care. Likely it will have a big impact on design employment.

New comment by melbourne_mat in "GPT-5.4"

melbourne_mat — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 21:47:58 +0000

Quick: let's release something new that gives the appearance that we're still relevant

New comment by melbourne_mat in "Myanmar military shuts down a major cybercrime center, detains over 2k people"

melbourne_mat — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 20:24:36 +0000

Shutdown because they either stopped paying their dues or didn't agree to the recent increase

New comment by melbourne_mat in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

melbourne_mat — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 08:30:47 +0000

Yep if you wrote lambda@edge functions, which are part of Cloudfront and can be used for authentication among other things, they can only be deployed to us-east-1

New comment by melbourne_mat in "The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom"

melbourne_mat — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 07:21:02 +0000

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

New comment by melbourne_mat in "I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it"

melbourne_mat — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:50:36 +0000

> This utterly baffles me. [checks] The post isn't 25y old. Author is obviously intelligent and posses self awareness and analytical skills.

One lens on this is that according to him he hasn't sold a single share since he left the company. That would mean he has a substantial monetary reason to see that people keep believing in HP.

New comment by melbourne_mat in "I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it"

melbourne_mat — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:47:38 +0000

Had a black and white laserjet printer in the late 1980s. Was a magnificent device and super reliable.

New comment by melbourne_mat in "I convinced HP's board to buy Palm and watched them kill it"

melbourne_mat — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 22:35:23 +0000

Those 2 charts are amazing! At least the Itanium people adjusted their curves downward over time, looks like the IEA just carried on regardless!

New comment by melbourne_mat in "Trump exempts phones, computers, chips from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs"

melbourne_mat — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 11:01:22 +0000

So a 145% tariff on high tech goods will hurt the US too much? China should ban high tech exports to the US. That's gonna hurt both sides but the war was already started by Trump.

New comment by melbourne_mat in "Restructuring Announcement"

melbourne_mat — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 09:42:09 +0000

Actually I wrote it for Elon then added the headcount reduction!

New comment by melbourne_mat in "Restructuring Announcement"

melbourne_mat — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:05:17 +0000

From an alternate universe:

I apologize for my erratic behavior which has tarnished our brand and created unnecessary turmoil within our organization. Regrettably, we will need to implement a 16% reduction in headcount to address the financial challenges we now face. I have decided to step aside and hand over control to my deputy, who I believe will provide the steady leadership needed to rebuild trust and restore our company's vision.

New comment by melbourne_mat in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

melbourne_mat — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:06:20 +0000

I think it's smart to start with a high level language which should reduce development time, prove the worth of the application, then switch to a lower level language later.

What was that saying again? Premature optimisation is the root of all evil

New comment by melbourne_mat in "670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision"

melbourne_mat — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 19:58:18 +0000

Save money and go analog! Calibrate against a known spectrum. One example would be a sodium vapour street light but there aren't as many around these days.

New comment by melbourne_mat in "670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision"

melbourne_mat — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:56:49 +0000

A spectroscope is a handheld optical device which allows you to see the light distribution coming from a light source. Should be able to pick one up for under a hundred bucks.

New comment by melbourne_mat in "670nm red light exposure improved aged mitochondrial function, colour vision"

melbourne_mat — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 06:30:39 +0000

Right now I'm wishing I had a transparent skull

New comment by melbourne_mat in "AI-generated Answers experiment on Stack Exchange sites"

melbourne_mat — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:51:46 +0000

Agreed from a software engineering perspective. I can't imagine who still uses stack overflow.

However I'm still in the phase where I think of opening a browser before realising my IDE with it's LLM is a better first choice.

New comment by melbourne_mat in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

melbourne_mat — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 03:24:44 +0000

Did you find a legit use case for blockchain? Nice work bro!

New comment by melbourne_mat in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

melbourne_mat — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:09:46 +0000

The great thing about young people is that they haven't had much time to develop a moral compass. I'd say that makes them perfect for the roles they've been given

New comment by melbourne_mat in "Ask HN: Are you unable to find employment?"

melbourne_mat — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 21:35:02 +0000

Maybe it's a cultural thing but to me this comes across as racist

New comment by melbourne_mat in "US could ban TP-Link routers over hacking fears: report"

melbourne_mat — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:22:17 +0000

I'm not a cheerleader of China by any means but the attitude you have towards China is scary. Why does the US have to control the world in order to be safe?