Hacker News: mey

New comment by mey in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

mey — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 01:14:25 +0000

People share links to Instagram with me. It isn't something I seek out myself.

New comment by mey in "Every Fucking Website (2020)"

mey — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:41:42 +0000

I have Firefox setup to not launch apps on android with permission. I don't have Instagram/Facebook/etc installed. Attempting to view a Instagram link on mobile is the most hostile thing in existence. You essentially can't, but it so aggressively routes you to the website based Google play store it's horrifying.

New comment by mey in "Build Wide, Ship Narrow"

mey — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 05:18:01 +0000

I am most proud of the code I have deleted from projects and the code I have never written.

New comment by mey in "Making Postgres 300x faster for analytics: batching, operator fusion, and SIMD"

mey — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:46:08 +0000

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be compensated for your work, but for people like myself which use a cloud managed DB solution (GCP CloudSQL PostgreSQL) it means something like this would never be available.

I consider AGPL a poison pill in my work. That is not true with a suitable commercial license, although I expect a lot more commercial product (support/features/etc). As you note, your objective is to prevent commercialization of your software, but radically speeding up analytics is primarily a concern of large organizations so it seems like a mismatch in purpose.

New comment by mey in "EPA says [dedicated] power for data centers can sidestep pollution laws"

mey — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:21:11 +0000

Some thoughts for framing. Are data centers a national security risk? How is that different than the national electrical grid who h is already critical to national security. It sounds like the national grid is failing its purpose due to unplanned for/unexpected demands. This is a gradient, reduce demand/increase capacity. Is our health a national security issue? I would like to think so.

We are making a choice, it is more important to the nation to acceleate power consumption support over health concerns and climate change.

Even if allowing this exception, how much head room does that even buy us? 10 years, 1 year, 6 months worth of growth? How does that measure against bringing new cleaner energy production online?

Either the bubble will pop, efficiency gains in models/tech/hardware reduce demand, or we hit the ceiling anyways. So is it worth paying this cost in the mid-term?

New comment by mey in "I'd not buy a LG monitor"

mey — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:04:41 +0000

I have had good success with my dell montiors over the years. Only problem is they are not created equal, they sell to every level, entry/cheap office/gamers/high end docks/color calibrated/etc. I have stuck to the ultrasharps (and paid for it) but have been happy. Check out https://www.rtings.com/

New comment by mey in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

mey — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:09:33 +0000

How important is "the best" OLED vs the second best or 100th best OLED? I am personally ok not buying the bleeding edge to not get malware onto my OS.

New comment by mey in "Americans hate AI so much that politicians are losing their jobs over it"

mey — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:25:52 +0000

Two things can be true. The data centers can be driving up electricity costs, causing pollution, planning issues, and computer hardware shortages _and_ people can be finding the tools useful.

New comment by mey in "Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding"

mey — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:58:56 +0000

My assumption would be, when there is a large corpus of crash reports for a certain configuration of hardware, knowing if it's a hardware failure, driver bug, or software incompatibly, is pretty hard. So it's probably easier to catch false positives and not get blamed for a faulty product, even if you aren't the cause. Drivers crash under the hood in windows all the time, even today, but once MS did a better job of just restarting the offending drivers where possible instead of BSODing, people thought windows was an unstable product. Which is technically true from the users perspective, even though it wasn't Microsoft's fault directly. You may have had a good combo that simply shouldn't have been on the list/was later patched/or your system is more stable that the average persons.

New comment by mey in "Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature"

mey — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:52:39 +0000

Vibes

New comment by mey in "Minecraft: Java Edition 26.2, the first version with Vulkan 1.2"

mey — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:33:11 +0000

Considering the creeper was originally supposed to be a pig in alpha, checks out.

New comment by mey in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

mey — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:51:46 +0000

Somewhere between ~15-75+ billion USD. Higher end if you want to include the hardware R&D/etc, which is arguably core to their metaverse concept. I love the idea that they don't even have a product _called_ metaverse. Most of the VR content developer acquisitions costs by Occulus Labs are undisclosed.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/04/01/meta-platforms-has... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_Labs#Acquisition_by_Fa... ~1.6 billion

New comment by mey in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

mey — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:52:21 +0000

Narrator: The AI was not infact infallible.

New comment by mey in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

mey — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:08:29 +0000

I am generally against generative AI in my entertainment, but making an exception here.

New comment by mey in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

mey — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:37:00 +0000

When I spec'd a M1 air for my partner back in the day, even though she didn't really need it, I made sure to get the 16gb model for the longevity. Devices shouldn't be disposable toys. Apparently I had better foresight than expected...

New comment by mey in "Just Use Go"

mey — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:00:52 +0000

Where my brain went.

New comment by mey in "Spirit Airlines Is Winding Down All Operations"

mey — Sat, 02 May 2026 07:40:33 +0000

Low cost carrier. Think Ryanair. Competition from the rest of the market and bad management put them in a bad position, with the most recent war causing unsustainable fuel issues. Other airlines may be able to double/triple their prices in the short term. Spirit's customers may simply choose to not fly.

https://www.npr.org/2026/05/02/nx-s1-5807933/spirit-airlines... describes this in more detail.

New comment by mey in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

mey — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:29:47 +0000

Looks like Bitwarden has a statement here, https://community.bitwarden.com/t/bitwarden-statement-on-che...

New comment by mey in "Kernel code removals driven by LLM-created security reports"

mey — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:46:03 +0000

Now if only I could get the product team to fully understand that implication.

New comment by mey in "Tell HN: I'm sick of AI everything"

mey — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:11:14 +0000

I honestly want to follow you around for a day. I am reserved with how I engage with technology. It needs to be making my life better, not extracting value from me. Tech for tech alone is no longer exciting to me as it once was.