Hacker News: mhx1138

New comment by mhx1138 in "Protecting the Meaning and Value of American Citizenship"

mhx1138 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 23:20:08 +0000

This will surely dissuade people from coming to work on work visa. It’s a big step to relocate your carrier to another country. If there is no perspective to fully commit and plan proper migration, then there is less motivation to even go in the first place.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Stop Trying to Schedule a Call with Me"

mhx1138 — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:52:14 +0000

The sales person does not have any incentive for that. They need their name to be associated with the purchase.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Tip pressure might work in the moment, but customers are less likely to return"

mhx1138 — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:52:04 +0000

That’s just another word for overreaching regulation.

New comment by mhx1138 in "ContainerScript: Firefox Addon for programmatically assigning URLs to containers"

mhx1138 — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 16:02:26 +0000

This should be built in to Firefox. I would appreciate that functionality, but installing a rando‘s script in my browser seems risky.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Bitwarden is no longer free software"

mhx1138 — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 13:00:32 +0000

Companies should not opt for and advertise with open source, if they don’t stand behind open source principles. Classic bait and switch. That’s what upsets users. They chose Bitwarden over e.g. LastPass, because they believed in FOSS. Companies exploit that and it’s sad.

New comment by mhx1138 in "One-time purchase alternatives to popular subscription tools"

mhx1138 — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 17:58:09 +0000

Many SaaS disappoint after a while. They suggest you are paying monthly and benefit from ongoing development in return. Instead prices get increased, and essential new features are locked behind additional pricing tiers. Premium, professional, enterprise, what’s next? The user interface becomes an advertising app for the upsell. It’s an abuse of trust. So the problem is not so much subscriptions and SaaS themselves, but the business practices they enable.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal"

mhx1138 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:34:20 +0000

I personally could tolerate it if Microsoft’s “Ai” is down for a few hours or days per year. Give clippy a break.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?"

mhx1138 — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 12:50:20 +0000

Soon you need to waive your class-action rights when applying for a job.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Should the richest 1% – who gained $42T/decade – be taxed more?"

mhx1138 — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:06:45 +0000

If anything, it’s an intransparent trade that gives Musk and the others their power. It is not a vote.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Wafris – an Open Source Web Application Firewall that lives in your stack"

mhx1138 — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 22:19:57 +0000

So free and open source costs $249 a month?

New comment by mhx1138 in "MacBook Air, M2 Chip, 8GB RAM: Nothing is open, but half the memory is gone"

mhx1138 — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 19:36:08 +0000

Despite all the Ui tricks and metrics handwaving, even 16GB is not enough for a fluent dev-environment, with an IDE, a browser, slack, teams and docker. My 6 years old xps 13 with 16GB ram and Linux feels as slow as mbp m1 with 16 gb.

8gb is a slap in the face.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Google and Meta struck secret ads deal to target teenagers"

mhx1138 — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 13:04:35 +0000

We could make it illegal for minors to use the internet at all. It is too dangerous. Similar to driving. That would solve so many current problems.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Ask HN: What is the best software to visualize a graph with a billion nodes?"

mhx1138 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 13:21:39 +0000

Neo4j has an interactive graph browser built in.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Install Docmost – open-source Notion Clone"

mhx1138 — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 14:24:07 +0000

OSS is unfortunately an overloaded term. But assuming it is about FOSS, than software that runs on the user’s machine gives so much more freedom. Can software even be free for a consumer, when it is really unpractical to run it yourself, because it needs a server?

New comment by mhx1138 in "Crystal Fragment turns everything you see into 8-bit Pixel Art"

mhx1138 — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 12:56:04 +0000

It’s not 8 bit. Just ultra low resolution with big square pixels. But the color spectrum seems big and unaffected by whatever the crystal is doing.

New comment by mhx1138 in "A journey into Kindle AI slop hell"

mhx1138 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 22:13:27 +0000

I wish that worked on echo show. That thing is infuriating. Don’t get it unless you’re cool with ads in your home.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Florida woman's Apple Watch traces lost luggage to airport worker's home"

mhx1138 — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 11:47:22 +0000

Who else puts their laptop in the check in luggage? Isn’t that forbidden because of the batteries?

New comment by mhx1138 in "PowerShell: The object-oriented shell you didn't know you needed"

mhx1138 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:49:14 +0000

Microsoft is driving fragmentation with Powershell. It doesn’t really matter if it’s better than bash or not. Bash is good enough for most use cases. Yet e.g. so many of their examples for using cloud apis are in powershell, which instantly alienates everyone who doesn’t want to commit learning a redundant tool.

It expresses an arrogance and disregard for their users and makes a group of people just walk away from it. That’s totally unnecessary.

New comment by mhx1138 in "When 'open core' projects reject contributions for competing with the EE"

mhx1138 — Sun, 10 Mar 2024 13:46:57 +0000

I think the problem is the terminology. People grew up when open source software was also free. Open core uses the same terminology, although products are only open and free in a limited way. I don’t want to assume intend, but many users are mislead that way.

New comment by mhx1138 in "Ask HN: My company went bankrupt today and I have 2 options"

mhx1138 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 14:08:36 +0000

Kind of sad to think that a company just went bankrupt, while their employees were working on their own companies instead. No blame for OP. But what should managers do in challenging situations to prevent their team from losing focus?