Hacker News: menomatter

New comment by menomatter in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

menomatter — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:33:12 +0000

Is Metas tracking more obscene than the traditional tracking suites at large corps like Crowdstrike? In 2017 I recall on launching a tor browser and in 15 mins physical security came to me that something fishy was going on.

Ask HN: A Brief History of LLMs

menomatter — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:57:45 +0000

Does anyone have suggestions for a book or an article that goes over the modern history of ML/LLM and how the field reached the inflection point that paved the path to the current state.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48378906

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

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

menomatter — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 14:54:44 +0000

What are the design best practices and industry standards for building on-premise fallback capabilities for critical infrastructure? Say for health care/banking ..etc

New comment by menomatter in "Elon Musk's multibillion-dollar Tesla pay package blocked by a judge again"

menomatter — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 02:06:28 +0000

Why is anything related to Elon is so divisive. He is certainly a manifestation of the Trump phenomenon. Please someone build a Adblock filter that blocks anything related to musk and trump. I’d pay for it

New comment by menomatter in "Musk's Rivals Fear He Will Target Them with His New Power"

menomatter — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 14:53:01 +0000

This comment nails it: "Rich vindictive kids descend on Washington.."

New comment by menomatter in "Elon Musk's XAI in Talks to Raise Funding Valuing It at $40B"

menomatter — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:07:59 +0000

Can someone explain to me how Musk is able to repeatedly turn gambles into gold?

New comment by menomatter in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

menomatter — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:29:20 +0000

even that is not far fetched. This is a typical supply chain attack.

New comment by menomatter in "[dead]"

menomatter — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:49:11 +0000

this is likely some sort of a supply chain attack. The videos I saw show serious explosions for radio pagers. Can lithium battery do this? Or the most likely explanation is that they were rigged with some explosives?

New comment by menomatter in "Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you get work?"

menomatter — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 16:48:39 +0000

Go to linkedin and search for jobs you like. There is an advanced search options where you can filter by remote, contract, part time or full time. What I meant by specific tech board is applying directly on a websites/boards/forums associated with a certain tech. For example elixir jobs .com if you are want something in that space.

New comment by menomatter in "Ask HN: Freelancers, how do you get work?"

menomatter — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 12:12:13 +0000

LinkedIn job search. I filter by contracts, part time, remote …etc and apply even if it’s not a perfect fit. In addition, specific tech job boards. I got a couple contract/freelance gigs this way that since 2018. The same clients keep giving me jobs in and off. I noticed it’s a bit harder now than it used to be but that’s probably across the tech market.

New comment by menomatter in "Ask HN: How to transcribe 1000s of handwritten notes"

menomatter — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:27:03 +0000

Does it work for Arabic and hebrew? I am trying to teach myself how to fine tune a model and thought doing this with my own arabic notes could be a fun project. Not sure where to start though.

update: I tired it and it works to some degree and a lot better than chatgpt.

New comment by menomatter in "Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor"

menomatter — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 14:04:22 +0000

Congratulations on the launch! is there any write up on how it's different than other popular db management tools?

New comment by menomatter in "The xz attack shell script"

menomatter — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 20:20:24 +0000

curious how were you able to tell? as a non-native speaker, I too use LLM to improve my wordings/clarity but modify it to maintain my rough style

New comment by menomatter in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

menomatter — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:32:07 +0000

account is back online https://github.com/JiaT75

New comment by menomatter in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

menomatter — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 19:31:25 +0000

his account is active again on github https://github.com/JiaT75

New comment by menomatter in "Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison"

menomatter — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 20:01:21 +0000

I have not been following any crypto news POST mtgx and pulling all my crypto to local storage. What did this guy actually do? Did he mismanage funds or literally took money from poeple and stashed it away?

New comment by menomatter in "Unexpected benefits of sun exposure on skin"

menomatter — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 13:58:22 +0000

Photoaging is the term and a quick search yields a few studies. Ex: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8802961/. And anecdotally, I never used sun screen and was exposed to a lot of sunburns in the Mediterranean climate. My skin is visibly older and more wrinkled than my peers who used skin protections. My back is full of freckles and dermatologist said this is due to sunburn. I guess sunburn doesn’t need a lot of studies to show it’s very damaging to the skin?

New comment by menomatter in "Life Is Short (2016)"

menomatter — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 02:12:12 +0000

Most people in the third world are barely enduring it. If you have the luxury to reflect on roads not taken, I pray that you appreciate it .. a lot.

New comment by menomatter in "Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile"

menomatter — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 20:31:08 +0000

Kids from the project/poor neighborhood in metro cities still do this to a dangerous extent. I dunno what's a good balanced approach ..

New comment by menomatter in "The euro has tumbled near parity to the US dollar"

menomatter — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:15:31 +0000

Been thinking about moving to Europe while continuing to work for US companies. But it may difficult to maintain full time status while in the EU. On the other hands, there are plenty of contract jobs I can take on then move to the EU. My biggest problems are: 1) how does one manage works hours in different timezones? Perhaps one can make arrangements? 2) tax: should I take my earning into a personal account in the US/EU? Or alternatively start a corp and do corp to corp without and only pay myself minimum amount? 3) tax: do I pay taxes in the US and in the EU? Do they go after my US corporate?

I know those are difficult questions to answer but I want to put themnout there