Hacker News: mercanlIl

New comment by mercanlIl in "Claude for Small Business"

mercanlIl — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:40:32 +0000

I think there are some pretty good ways to understand it now.

When the electricity goes out, (most) people get similarly upset. No electricity means no internet, and all of a sudden everything that people had planed to do can’t be done until the power returns.

New comment by mercanlIl in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

mercanlIl — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:29:25 +0000

Yes it does matter. Users need to know that the updated URL is correct and trustworthy.

New comment by mercanlIl in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

mercanlIl — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:00:21 +0000

I interpreted the parent comment as asking what society _specifically_? Not some abstract concept, but something that exists a step or two away from where we are right now.

New comment by mercanlIl in "Officials Claim Drone Incursion Led to Shutdown of El Paso Airport"

mercanlIl — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 16:44:23 +0000

Which writing style standard does that correspond to?

This is an internet discussion board with people from diverse backgrounds. Informal quotation style is common. Your comment is the first time I’ve seen someone assert that new paragraphs should start with a quote.

New comment by mercanlIl in "Show HN: I trained a 9M speech model to fix my Mandarin tones"

mercanlIl — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:27:30 +0000

The tool definitely needs to address tone transformations, it’s a big part of how the language is spoken. Otherwise it’s mostly useful for a first year student speaking in isolation.

Hoping to see improvements in this area

New comment by mercanlIl in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

mercanlIl — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 01:44:09 +0000

As a non-American, I like the way HN is moderated. This isn’t an American politics and domestic issues forum.

New comment by mercanlIl in "Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences"

mercanlIl — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:40:00 +0000

Some of these infractions also carry the risk of losing your license. So it is more than just the fine.

New comment by mercanlIl in "Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences"

mercanlIl — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:38:09 +0000

Why not? Knowing you’re going to get caught and fined for running a red light, which typically holds significant penalties, would act as a deterrent.

You can lose your license for that kind of nonsense (via demerit points), and they’d have it on camera.

New comment by mercanlIl in "Tesla fined for repeatedly failing to help UK police over driving offences"

mercanlIl — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:24:48 +0000

I’m a bit biased here, because a close friend’s mother was killed by someone speeding through a red light.

I think automated enforcement of minor driving infractions is a good thing. More efficient use of government resources. Incentivizes drivers to follow the rules of the road.

New comment by mercanlIl in "The struggle of resizing windows on macOS Tahoe"

mercanlIl — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:46:21 +0000

I assume it’s getting down votes because it’s off-topic. The parent comment was suggesting external mice as a temporary measure to debug the intermittent issue they’re facing.

Whether or not external micr suck on MacOS doesn’t really matter. The objective was to diagnose an issue.

New comment by mercanlIl in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

mercanlIl — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:07:29 +0000

If you don’t want to use CC, just use the API

New comment by mercanlIl in "ICE's Tool to Monitor Phones in Neighborhoods"

mercanlIl — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:29:34 +0000

Just one anecdotal perspective:

I do not of know a single person in my extended family/professional network/social circle who has had location tracking or app eavesdropping directly impact their life. The only impact I’ve seen is via advertising exposure.

(For me) The convenience of Google Maps for navigation, and messaging for communication, is too beneficial. The _impact_ of these technologies as surveillance tools _in my life_ is hypothetical.

New comment by mercanlIl in "I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign"

mercanlIl — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:22:27 +0000

We appear to be talking about different topics entirely. Your points seem to be about the effectiveness of political involvement, but the comment you’re replying to and the quote I posted relates to political involvement.

It’s encouraging to hear stories about how people get involved. We can learn about the process, network, and have an impact, even if that impact is incremental.

Edit: Clarified, added second paragraph

New comment by mercanlIl in "I DM'd a Korean presidential candidate and ended up building his core campaign"

mercanlIl — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:23:17 +0000

>Well yeah of course it's not hard to get involved in politics, if the involvement is supporting people who are rich and powerful even if it is via the use of a more modest looking young mouthpiece.

I fail to see how it’d be any more difficult to get involved in politics for candidates that don’t meet this criteria.

New comment by mercanlIl in "How to tolerate annoying things"

mercanlIl — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:05:15 +0000

In practice? Yes it’s unavoidable. Unless you build in enough buffer to account for _every_ possible scenario out of your control, the probability of running late is non-zero.

New comment by mercanlIl in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

mercanlIl — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 00:28:12 +0000

IME (in Canada), the cash discount is surprisingly close to 15%, which is approximately the sales tax in most provinces.