Hacker News: mnd999

New comment by mnd999 in "Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents"

mnd999 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:36:06 +0000

Boo hoo

New comment by mnd999 in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

mnd999 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:19:50 +0000

> and maybe even made it worse

I don’t think that’s a maybe. There’s actual research on social media addiction. For me, getting off Facebook improved my life.

New comment by mnd999 in "An ad-free Android TV"

mnd999 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:56:32 +0000

Advertising company in shows ads shock!

New comment by mnd999 in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

mnd999 — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:24:09 +0000

Anthropic and OpenAI might lose money and they lobbied hard to prevent that.

New comment by mnd999 in "Personal software factories are a waste of time"

mnd999 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:56:11 +0000

AI wet dreams

New comment by mnd999 in "Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains"

mnd999 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:15:13 +0000

Mythic beasts

New comment by mnd999 in "Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain"

mnd999 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 09:07:25 +0000

I have a second level and I’m in the process too. This kind of shitty behaviour warrants bankruptcy.

New comment by mnd999 in "Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges"

mnd999 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:40:17 +0000

Why does a robotic vacuum cleaner need to connect to the internet at all? Mine doesn't (Neato Botvac D85) and it works fine.

New comment by mnd999 in "We are the builders"

mnd999 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:19:31 +0000

Not if all the slots are booked up online. Look at what happened with driving tests. They moved it online and all the tests are booked by bots and sold to the highest bidder.

New comment by mnd999 in "Software Supply Chain Security"

mnd999 — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:41:15 +0000

Yeah, this has to be the way. Suppliers get paid.

New comment by mnd999 in "GQL: A New ISO Standard in Graph Query Language"

mnd999 — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 15:03:01 +0000

The major vendors are adopting it. Most people don't read the ISO SQL spec to learn SQL. They read their vendors documentation.

New comment by mnd999 in "The Shingle Spit in Whitstable"

mnd999 — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 09:33:14 +0000

Is that you Chris? I think I did a CS poster project with you.

New comment by mnd999 in "Tesla Has a Design Problem"

mnd999 — Sun, 24 Dec 2023 11:21:20 +0000

It likely won’t meet European safety standards so there’s a whole market it will just miss. But maybe it’s too big to be practical in European cities anyway.

New comment by mnd999 in "Twitter Now Showing Ads for Nonconsensual 'AI Undress' Apps"

mnd999 — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 17:21:31 +0000

I’ve had ads for drugs, cloned credit cards and devices for stealing cars with keyless entry all in the last month on a major social network. Reported, but they don’t seem to care.

New comment by mnd999 in "Airbnb is deploying AI to block New Year's Eve bookings that could be parties"

mnd999 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:07:40 +0000

Sure, but its NYE. In most neighbourhoods there are going to be parties anyway, AirBnB or no.

New comment by mnd999 in "Airbnb is deploying AI to block New Year's Eve bookings that could be parties"

mnd999 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 12:06:48 +0000

Parties are not the problem. Damages, illegality and annoying the neighbours are what they should be trying to detect. It's a shame that people planning a small get together with friends should have to suffer because some idiots like to trash places.

New comment by mnd999 in "Why do programmers need private offices with doors?"

mnd999 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:55:47 +0000

I've definitely seem benefits from working in open plan. Sometimes it's helpful to overhear what others are doing because maybe they're lacking some information or maybe that thing has already been done elsewhere. Does a fresh graduate with no experience really want to be in an environment where everyone is shut in an office?

Equally, sometimes it's better to be quiet. Sometimes, quiet can be at home but sometimes homes are not quiet or uninterrupted.

Flexibility would be great, but I think a private office will always be seen as more prestigious, so those with that facility are unlikely go give it up so sit in a cube / open plan with the team, even where that would actually be beneficial.

New comment by mnd999 in "Build a search engine, not a vector DB"

mnd999 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:14:16 +0000

My views are my own and as such I do not disclose my employment or otherwise on here.

I did think twice about posting it, as I don't usually but it's relevant and i might be helpful so why not? If you don't like it, thanks for the downvote.

New comment by mnd999 in "Build a search engine, not a vector DB"

mnd999 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:08:00 +0000

Neo4j are mixing vector embeddings with knowledge graphs - https://neo4j.com/generativeai/

New comment by mnd999 in "CUDA vs. ROCm: A case study"

mnd999 — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 08:24:48 +0000

It doesn’t even work on half of the GPUs (Navi23 hello). It’s like they’re not even trying which is insane when there’s so much cash on the table.