Hacker News: mmwako

New comment by mmwako in "Figma's woes compound with Claude Design"

mmwako — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:51:51 +0000

Great take. I think the only way forward for Figma will be the good old "let's cannibalise our own product" playbook. They are actually in prime position (with one of the best brands and distributions out there) to create an AI design product that dominates the market.

New comment by mmwako in "Companies are lying about AI layoffs?"

mmwako — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:09:27 +0000

They weren't lying, they just meant AI = Affordable Indians

New comment by mmwako in "The Epochalypse Project"

mmwako — Sun, 11 May 2025 11:39:15 +0000

How exactly? asking for a friend

New comment by mmwako in "Economists don't know what's going on"

mmwako — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:51:30 +0000

haha came here for this.

New comment by mmwako in "Show HN: We are building the next DocuSign"

mmwako — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:02:51 +0000

this guys are going to rebrand so hard...

New comment by mmwako in "Tesla Autopilot Car Drove Through a Giant Photo of a Road"

mmwako — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:30:26 +0000

Seems staged. Here is the take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INc6W1-fjQM

New comment by mmwako in "[dead]"

mmwako — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:25:32 +0000

how is federal employees accessing federal data considered a data breach?

New comment by mmwako in "Less Coffee, Better Sleep"

mmwako — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 11:18:34 +0000

didn't know this, thanks!

New comment by mmwako in "Less Coffee, Better Sleep"

mmwako — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 11:15:56 +0000

This is oh so important. I struggle with fatigue myself for pretty much all my life, and as soon as I did a 7 day detox diet with no coffee, I couldn't believe how my mood and energy went through the roof.

However, the 4 first days without coffee are incredibly tough. But I advice people trying it to understand themselves better.

New comment by mmwako in "Common side effects of not drinking"

mmwako — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:58:43 +0000

The article does a great job of explaining how alienating for others is dealing with a non-drinker. I won't talk about it explicitly so others are more comfortable in these scenarios, even though I have no problem at all with being sober and talking about it if prompted.

New comment by mmwako in "Common side effects of not drinking"

mmwako — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:56:21 +0000

Interesting answer. I'd say that being an extrovert (which I am by the way) is not a protection against social anxiety. To give an easy example: every male friend I ever had, extrovert or not, had to drink some amount of alcohol to have the courage to flirt in social environments. But business meetings, family meetings, etc, are also nerve-wracking.

Alas, the addictive nature of alcohol obviously plays a role as well.

New comment by mmwako in "Common side effects of not drinking"

mmwako — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 11:52:44 +0000

Exactly what I meant, I was referring to the health benefits of not drinking. Thanks for clarifying.

New comment by mmwako in "Common side effects of not drinking"

mmwako — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:57:43 +0000

I had to give up alcohol because of liver problems.

It's amazing for 1. all the health benefits but mostly 2. it changes your perception of life. People are under the influence of alcohol at most social events, but I'd argue it's just for one simple reason: social anxiety. When you have to deal with this anxiety instead of numbing it with alcohol, you go through an emotional and spiritual journey, where you'll uncover who others really are, but mostly who YOU really are.

I highly recommend it.

Protip: How to prevent making people uncomfortable at parties: don't talk about you drinking or not, and directly ask for a mocktail or other alcohol-free drink. If anyone asks if you are not drinking, say "maybe later" and they'll just forget about it.

New comment by mmwako in "How mobile apps illegally share personal data"

mmwako — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:40:19 +0000

now try tiktok

New comment by mmwako in "I'm betting on HTML"

mmwako — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 12:13:54 +0000

I would really really like to see a full-blown retro-looking social network (say, a Twitter/X clone), that works solely with pure HTML. It would be really amazing.

New comment by mmwako in "Basic terminology and practices related to graph databases and graph modeling"

mmwako — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 16:37:03 +0000

ChatGPT?

New comment by mmwako in "Getty Images v. Stability AI – Complaint"

mmwako — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 20:33:35 +0000

Just read the first article. Getty Images was sued by a photographer for using 18.000 her public domain images for profit by Getty. The ruling DISMISSED the allegation, which is crazy. It's comical that now it's exactly the same allegation, but with the sides inverted, now it's Getty trying to sue an AI company for using their public domain images. I think we can all guess what's going to happen xD

New comment by mmwako in "Finding traction without a product: Our process"

mmwako — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 18:50:30 +0000

In the article says: "It only had a simple landing page and a Readme on our GitHub repo". So they started getting pull requests without any product (is what I gather). So they are advocating for the classic MVP experiments before building the actual product (No idea why they renamed it to "MV Positioning", when MV Product is exactly the same thing).

New comment by mmwako in "Ask HN: What is your burnout story?"

mmwako — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 22:27:07 +0000

Founded a startup, worked for 1 year 10-14 hours per day, incluing 5-6 hours saturdays and sundays. After 12 months, I started to wake up dizzy in the morning, and having spontaneous nausea during the day. General feeling of wanting to die all the time. We decided to shut down the start-up (unrelated to burnout), and the disappointment made me to develop an "allergy" to working. My brain would stop functioning in front of my computer (very weird). I had to stop for a while, wind down hours, and it took me A WHOLE YEAR to get back to feeling good again and being at full performance again. Had to go back to doing sports, some meditation and deep spiritual introspection. I must add: I believe burnout has more to do with stress and nervousness and being pessimistic about the outcome than the sheer amount of hours. If you are super excited and happy with what you are doing, it's less likely you'll burnout.

New comment by mmwako in "Rules for a Better Conference Name Badge (2017)"

mmwako — Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:18:24 +0000

I went to Collision Conf last year and there was one hyper useful feature on the name badges (which had a great design): "role". All badges had on top "Startup", "Guest", "Investor", and other categories I can't recall. This was really useful, if you are an investor you can talk to startups and the other way round. Startups also had a "beta" and "alpha" subcategory, that represented startup scale. Obviously, many don't like being so easily spotted, but it helped strike a lot of conversations.