Hacker News: mmkos

New comment by mmkos in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

mmkos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:33:59 +0000

Yeah, it is complete bullshit. Even if they don't do it straight away, once they have the spyware in place, it's only a matter before they do. It is Meta after all.

New comment by mmkos in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

mmkos — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:06:46 +0000

The anti-Cursor sentiment here is baffling to me given how useful it is to me. I use it interactively and actively review everything it produces. I like how I can plan a feature and refine the plan before instructing the agent to implement it. Last I checked, vscode had none of those features. Do (seemingly most) people prefer Codex because it gives a greater degree of autonomy to the agents?

New comment by mmkos in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

mmkos — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:42:59 +0000

I don't have a stake and I'm not disagreeing, but care to say why?

New comment by mmkos in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

mmkos — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:09:45 +0000

The cost to bootstrap a sovereign cloud offering in Europe that can even begin to compare to the big ones in the US would be humongous. There would need to be a solid, multi-year incentive for a company/startup to even want to attempt it. It has to come from the top. Else force the big US clouds operating in Europe to be ready to effectively detach from their US counterparts if shit hits the fan, though this one's probably not realistic.

New comment by mmkos in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

mmkos — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:38:07 +0000

You and me, brother. The writing is unnecessarily convoluted.

New comment by mmkos in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

mmkos — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:11:46 +0000

I'd say each move like this increases the likelihood of the next one happening, and typically, nobody wants to be the last one holding the bag.

New comment by mmkos in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

mmkos — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:02:46 +0000

I fully expect this comment to age like milk and soon.

New comment by mmkos in "Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far"

mmkos — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 11:05:51 +0000

I see societal changes like container ships turning. Society has a massive cultural momentum so of course not much has changed today, but we'll have seen big changes years from now. The tools are only just getting really good at what they do.

New comment by mmkos in "Ask HN: How does one stay motivated to grind through LeetCode?"

mmkos — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:42:13 +0000

I get this. I couldn't grind leetcode before the LLM AI era, now even more so. It always made me feel like I'm doing a junior's work.

I guess it comes down to the kinda work you want to be doing. I myself love building products and product features and I've never really needed any leetcode knowledge for that (I don't work on products with a massive user base). I suppose if I had a problem that required a specialised algo, I'd just consult a few AI tools.

Good luck finding that motivation though.

New comment by mmkos in "Googler... ex-Googler"

mmkos — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 10:52:30 +0000

I had the same feeling. The underlying message has merit, but the format felt very similar to a lot of the get-rich-quick landing pages. I had to edit some of the CSS to get through the page at all.

New comment by mmkos in "Googler... ex-Googler"

mmkos — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 09:00:36 +0000

It's not wasting energy if it genuinely helps you build products much more efficiently. Regardless of our feelings towards it, it is here and it's making a difference. You can either move with the times or be left behind.

New comment by mmkos in "Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button"

mmkos — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 09:40:39 +0000

I honestly can't see what's wrong with using TypeScript anywhere in place of JavaScript. Unless you're making a simple script or a throwaway prototype, then you're pretty much always better off with it. It's invaluable during development and it's compiled away at build time.

New comment by mmkos in "50 Years of Travel Tips"

mmkos — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 17:11:33 +0000

Here are mine - go and do something that excites you, whatever it is. Also, be respectful of the local culture and have common sense, et voila.

Whatever you do...

  > Crash a wedding. You are not a nuisance; you are the celebrity guest!

I stopped reading here. PLEASE don't do this. It's extremely disrespectful.

New comment by mmkos in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"

mmkos — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:59:02 +0000

That's my problem with a lot of the literature on building successful businesses. They all seem to be offering a white glove path and don't talk about all the tactics ranging from shady to downright illegal that helped many of the biggest companies today to be where they are now.

New comment by mmkos in "Web Browser Engineering"

mmkos — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 12:07:01 +0000

With all due respect, this feels better suited as a journal entry rather than a comment on a HN thread.

New comment by mmkos in "Show HN: Turn any website into a knowledge base for LLMs"

mmkos — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 17:18:15 +0000

Do OpenAI and all the other LLM behemoths?

New comment by mmkos in "Rethinking Text Resizing on Web"

mmkos — Tue, 21 May 2024 14:20:15 +0000

Nitpicky, but I admit I stopped there for a second too.. like how did it get past even a half assed editorial review

New comment by mmkos in "Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract with Israel's Government"

mmkos — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:02:34 +0000

And I guess tech companies need to be reminded that human lives are more valuable than investors money.

New comment by mmkos in "EU's new tech laws are working – small browsers gain market share"

mmkos — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 08:32:00 +0000

Free markets don't work. Corporations absolutely will abuse their position and power to establish monopolies wherever they can, blocking any new entrants to the market. I wonder how we (europeans) would ever regret regulation to stifle monopolistic behaviours from American behemoths.

New comment by mmkos in "Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16"

mmkos — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:38:35 +0000

You really can't speak for everyone. You can maybe say this particular cohort is fine despite seeing some of this content while young, but certainly not because of it.