Hacker News: mertleee

New comment by mertleee in "Meshtastic"

mertleee — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 01:18:43 +0000

This community is laughably caustic and abusive. My friend attempted to create a simple tutorial site and their org harassed him for over a year. He didn't even mention the word "meshtastic" and they made dozens of false trademark claims that his site could be "confused" with an official site.

I was previously a fan, but I'd never seen behavior like that from an "open source" project.

New comment by mertleee in "25L Portable NV-linked Dual 3090 LLM Rig"

mertleee — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:00:06 +0000

Hmm, I can copy paste just fine from the build page?

New comment by mertleee in "25L Portable NV-linked Dual 3090 LLM Rig"

mertleee — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:59:31 +0000

I can't wait for blower 3090s from China / MSI to get cheap (although I fear this may never happen)

New comment by mertleee in "25L Portable NV-linked Dual 3090 LLM Rig"

mertleee — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 15:59:03 +0000

Yeah, but the B60 is basically half the speed of a 3090... in 2025. I'd rather buy 5yr old nVidia hardware for $100 more on eBay than an intel product with horrendous software support that's half the speed effectively. This build is so cool because the 2x 3090 setup is still maybe the best option 5yrs+ after the GPU was released by nVidia.

New comment by mertleee in "High-performance read-through cache for object storage"

mertleee — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:39:12 +0000

s2 is one of the coolest technologies that more people need to be talking about - I'm still begging them to move one layer lower -> turning s2 into an incredible middleware for edge IOT deployments!

PLEASE if someone from the team sees this - I would pay so much for a ephemeral object store using your same edge protocol (seen in the sensor example from your blog).

Cheers!

New comment by mertleee in "FFglitch, FFmpeg fork for glitch art"

mertleee — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:13:16 +0000

Is there any way to use this in conjunction with a mask overlay filter in ffmpeg if I just want to "glitch" part of a video?

New comment by mertleee in "Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people"

mertleee — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:28:56 +0000

30% fraudulent H1b, TN, and PERM visa mills (predominantly from india).

New comment by mertleee in "Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people"

mertleee — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:18:42 +0000

H1B visas are clearly a massive factor. Well before AI.

New comment by mertleee in "Passkeys and Modern Authentication"

mertleee — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:17:31 +0000

I honestly have no understanding of why people thought passkeys really improved anything... Why would I want to give a massive tech company the ability to usurp ALL of my accounts under the guise of being "more secure".

New comment by mertleee in "XAI CFO Liberatore has left the company just a few months after taking the job"

mertleee — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:14:06 +0000

I'm a fan of SpaceX but after his christmas eve crash out over hating americans / his general procedure for running a company I have zero-idea why anyone would want to work for Elon... For any amount of money.

New comment by mertleee in "40% of daily code written at Coinbase is AI-generated"

mertleee — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 02:08:35 +0000

This is... deeply troubling for a crypto exchange...

New comment by mertleee in "4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC"

mertleee — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 02:30:11 +0000

It's a US company - tell the UK to pound sand if they think they're going to tell businesses here how to operate because they want to run the UK like a draconian hell-hole.

New comment by mertleee in "I run a full Linux desktop in Docker just because I can"

mertleee — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 02:27:05 +0000

What's the best way to forward the x-server over ssh?

New comment by mertleee in "370k Grok AI chats made public without user consent"

mertleee — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 14:15:11 +0000

Has anyone figured out the google Dork to source these?

New comment by mertleee in "California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters"

mertleee — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:21:47 +0000

It's starting to hit product management and sales roles.

New comment by mertleee in "California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters"

mertleee — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:21:11 +0000

It's precisely this. Trump is allowing one of the last vestiges of the American middle class to be outsourced to India. Just like Clinton allowed the same to happen with factory jobs to China.

As a person of color this is even more detestable.

New comment by mertleee in "California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters"

mertleee — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 01:17:59 +0000

There have never been more unemployed new college grads studying computer science and computer engineering. There are ample americans ready to take these jobs.

Boomers promulgated lies about "shortages" for years to lobby for relaxed visa schemes. Ironic you mention nationalism being silly, since Indians are some of the most openly caustic nationalists I encounter on a daily basis.

New comment by mertleee in "Geneva makes public transport temporarily free to combat pollution spike"

mertleee — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:59:56 +0000

Have you seen the state of the river Ganges / any river in a developing nation?

Not to mention how the amazon rainforest is just burned down to clear space for palm oil plantations?

New comment by mertleee in "California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters"

mertleee — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:58:26 +0000

I couldn't agree more! Canada has massive potential, albeit also large issues with their immigration system being gamed.

In my opinion, outsourcing is a larger evil. The money used to pay the salaries of outsourced engineers should be taxed at-least at 20% (along with remittances to India) akin to what we currently penalize foreign countries for maliciously suppressing the cost of physical goods. This is called Countervailing Duty or Anti Dumping Duty penalties.

I've reached my limit with the entitlement of these people in the united states. Especially systematically excluding americans or non-indians once they reach a hiring level / role.

New comment by mertleee in "California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters"

mertleee — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 00:42:04 +0000

There's a reason most people you run into SF are either here on O1 or h1b visas these days...

Time to cull the waterloo crowd and maybe think twice about cheap outsourcing to latam and india.