Hacker News: mlnj

New comment by mlnj in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

mlnj — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:57:06 +0000

The only assumption I am making is that NVIDIA and others dig thier claws into western governments and make decade long contracts for even greater surveillance. Trillions of dollars worth.

New comment by mlnj in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

mlnj — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:54:48 +0000

So it's MS products all the way down.

New comment by mlnj in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

mlnj — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:02:54 +0000

> it is invalid to argue that there should be no scale.

And to put that into policy gets rid of the scale for everyone. You can see it with abortion restrictions in various states. Instead of the doctor's expertise, the lawyers are the ones to decide.

Then again this is very much on point for the US. There are no experts other than lawyers. /s

New comment by mlnj in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

mlnj — Sun, 24 May 2026 16:41:11 +0000

I was demonstrating that throwing money at the shortage does not magically create new talent in a geographical area. It has to be imported.

New comment by mlnj in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

mlnj — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:27:25 +0000

>US colleges openly and actively discriminate against US citizens for grad school spots for 2 or 3 decades now.

Isn't this just because foreign students pay more than citizens? Isn't this just capitalism and the free market efficiently allocating resources?

Something about 'having the cake and eating it too'.

New comment by mlnj in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

mlnj — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:17:17 +0000

I highly doubt a company can find 20k senior Photolithography experts in rural Nebraska if a company wanted. No matter what money they are paying. They'll have to bring them in.

Of course I am exaggerating, but this is not a 1 dimensional problem.

New comment by mlnj in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

mlnj — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:44:21 +0000

Don't forget the boom boom collars to prevent thoughts of arson.

New comment by mlnj in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

mlnj — Mon, 18 May 2026 10:22:46 +0000

Especially the folks who are graduating. All they can see is 'Juniors no longer wanted' and 'Seniors also can count their days' everywhere.

Why can't they be as excited as people already invested into Datacenters? /s

New comment by mlnj in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

mlnj — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:15:22 +0000

Have been a customer for years, but if the core values are going away, so am I. It's not even about the money.

New comment by mlnj in "DeepSeek v4"

mlnj — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:31:53 +0000

The only instance of false equivalence I see is the mention of lower back pain vs cancer.

New comment by mlnj in "Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals"

mlnj — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:22:45 +0000

All those things are beyond the demo itself. Vibe-coded demos are just demos. There are stability, security and everything enterprise that still needs to be added to a demo to actually make it functional as a paid offering.

The hard problems still remain.

New comment by mlnj in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

mlnj — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:20:08 +0000

I remember how Skype, an awesome piece of software transformed into Lync, which worked fairly well, slowly transformed into whatever MS wanted to call it year after year, slower and more buggy than the year before.

New comment by mlnj in "We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under 2"

mlnj — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:12:05 +0000

This is one of the most frustrating thing about working with NextJS. There seems to be no way to improve the speed of building the app.

New comment by mlnj in "Unsloth Studio"

mlnj — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:40:22 +0000

I am unaware lm studio is being used for fine tuning. I believe it only does inference.

Happy to see unsloth making it even easier for people like me to get going with fine tuning. Not that I am unable to I'm just lazy.

Fine tuning with a UI is definitely targeted towards hobbyists. Sadly I'll have to wait for AMD ROCm support.

New comment by mlnj in "How I write software with LLMs"

mlnj — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:14:28 +0000

Is that not already possible with Markdown spec files and planning mode?

New comment by mlnj in "MCP Is Dead; Long Live MCP"

mlnj — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:58:46 +0000

You are right.

Although I have been a skeptic of MCPs, it has been an immense help with agents. I do not have an alternative at the moment.

New comment by mlnj in "Launch HN: Spine Swarm (YC S23) – AI agents that collaborate on a visual canvas"

mlnj — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:40:04 +0000

Elaborate?

New comment by mlnj in "Ceno, browse the web without internet access"

mlnj — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:17:40 +0000

It seems to be a way to circumvent censorship.

New comment by mlnj in "Phi-4-reasoning-vision and the lessons of training a multimodal reasoning model"

mlnj — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:29:51 +0000

I absolutely love it.

Am so much more excited about tiny models gaining real intelligence. Just today I have been running Qwen3.5 0.8B model on images and am pleasantly surprised by how good it is compared to even 4B and 8B models from a few months ago.

New comment by mlnj in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

mlnj — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 01:40:07 +0000

Besides, AI has barely started to be productive to Developers. The rest of the workforce are still untouched for the most part. The tools that assist the bulk of knowledge work out there is still in the works.