Hacker News: minusSeven

New comment by minusSeven in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

minusSeven — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:58:56 +0000

Folks on reddit and hackernews aren't normal people. Outside of this bubble few people have heard of linux. Hell so few people I know use firefox which makes me mad. You are safe from that fear.

New comment by minusSeven in "ElonJet Is Now Suspended"

minusSeven — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:17:49 +0000

Thinking of buying shorts on twitter now with all the dumb ass news going around...

New comment by minusSeven in "India lifted 415M out of poverty in 15 years, says UN"

minusSeven — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 05:51:16 +0000

Thing is it hasn't moved as much as you think. People have moved from poverty to lower middle class not actually middle class. If consider middle class as between 20k to 40k a month and lower middle class at 10k to 20k a month and below 10k as poor then most poor people have only moved to lower middle class only.

New comment by minusSeven in "US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia"

minusSeven — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 10:51:34 +0000

So what exactly is the use of GPUs like A100 apart from in mining cryptocurrencies ? Also isn't mining cryptos banned in China? Am I missing something?

New comment by minusSeven in "Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus"

minusSeven — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 06:24:26 +0000

Having something for free but for a brief period of time is actually really inconvenient if you think about it. You are basically forced to move or find some alternative. You want consistency.

New comment by minusSeven in "Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus"

minusSeven — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 13:25:06 +0000

>It probably pleases the people who were paying you, because now they don't have to subsidise the people who aren't.

Bullshit. It's unclear communication and indecisiveness that pisses people off. If you can't afford it, there is no reason for you to give something for free and then later take it away. People who are paying will feel that samething will happen to them in other ways. You want consistency.

New comment by minusSeven in "Teen mental health is plummeting and social media is a major contributing cause [pdf]"

minusSeven — Thu, 05 May 2022 17:47:49 +0000

All your arguments are very specific to yourself and is not necessarily indicative of "All teens". 20 years ago we didn't have the so called social media we have today. And back then we didn't have that problem atleast not to the extent we have today.

New comment by minusSeven in "Amazon worker chat app to ban words such as “union”, “pay raise”, “slave labor”"

minusSeven — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 08:36:45 +0000

I think the end goal of Amazon is to replace these employees with bot and to automate manual labour work. Until then all this is just ways to delay the unionization as much as possible.

New comment by minusSeven in "US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent"

minusSeven — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:05:11 +0000

Even that can achieved by changing the time you do things. Like schools can be 1 hour early at a particular time of the year instead of changing time for everybody else.

Honestly I can't think of a single legitimate reason why you would want to hang onto daylight saving time.

New comment by minusSeven in "US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent"

minusSeven — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 06:58:44 +0000

I don't get it, why does it matter at all? Isn't it just a perception. If you live in Alaska there are days where there is always sunlight and similarly days where there is no light.

New comment by minusSeven in "Israel passes law denying naturalization to Palestinian spouses"

minusSeven — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:42:31 +0000

Was this even an argument? it felt more like "We should have a Jewish state because we can and there nothing anyone can do about it, if you are not Jewish go fuck yourself. "

History has nothing to do what is happening today. You are just trying to drive the narrative anyway you can.

New comment by minusSeven in "Show HN: I made a web game called Almost Pong"

minusSeven — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:25:07 +0000

His other games didn't load on firefox for me.

New comment by minusSeven in "The painfully shy developer's guide to networking for a better job (2017)"

minusSeven — Mon, 28 Feb 2022 13:05:30 +0000

In India the advice that I receive mostly these days is to find someone who works at the company you want to interview at and ask him to refer you. Apparently this is much better method than applying through job portals and linked in.

New comment by minusSeven in "Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)"

minusSeven — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 07:42:53 +0000

One thing I can suggest is to switch to business news instead. Business news is more inclined to give all the facts rather than give an opinion on things. Also looking at things from a business perspective is usually much more neutral and you learn a lot more. Regardless of this you shouldn't be consuming news on TV anyway.

This article isn't new though. Similar articles have been posted in HN since 2010s.

New comment by minusSeven in "Happy 15th birthday Hacker News"

minusSeven — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 14:26:39 +0000

Maybe an unpopular opinion here but I am finding HN to be more and more like Reddit everyday. I normally only read HN articles that have atleast 500 points or more and have notifications setup for it. In the past I used to get only 1 or 2 notifications a week. Now I get atleast 4 a day. I find it hard nowadays to keep up.

New comment by minusSeven in "Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority"

minusSeven — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:21:44 +0000

>It will take forever to build up a similar ecosystem in Europe and I think most successful European entrepreneurs will just end up starting companies in the US instead.

This is what you are wrong about. It would be true if you were from a small country like Sri Lanka or similar but for EU many European companies will smell an opportunity to fill the void.

New comment by minusSeven in "Thousands of Mazdas in the Seattle area are stuck on a single FM radio station"

minusSeven — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 19:31:40 +0000

So could this be because of 5G because if I remember right the latest 5G roll out caused a lot of problems for airlines?

New comment by minusSeven in "The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed"

minusSeven — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 12:46:48 +0000

This is a contentious point especially for software engineering jobs as the salary is supposed to be based on performance as there is no obvious benefit to being in the same geographic location.

This is happening now too, as many high paying jobs are coming on India and other parts of the world through remote work. Eventually I believe your cost of living will have no impact on the salary you get.

New comment by minusSeven in "Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online"

minusSeven — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 11:00:52 +0000

Can you give some examples that expand into your answer, maybe some blogpost or youtube videos that explains this in detail.

New comment by minusSeven in "Ask HN: Gmail account security"

minusSeven — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 10:32:35 +0000

>I'd frequently tell my co-workers, "If you're not paying for it, you're the product." That experience underscored that notion for me.

But this isn't true for all of us, google provides support through paid programs and sells services to other businesses. This is more of google specific problem.