Hacker News: mns

New comment by mns in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

mns — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:24:13 +0000

It's the way he's doing it. The entire ecosystem is just one giant ad for various paid projects. It's one thing to offer paid services, there are users out there that want to use them or need to use them, that's not the issue. From my perspective Laravel became a huge ad with purposely bad documentation that ends up directing unknowing users into using features, libraries and products that will lead them into paying for things that they might not need. Everything in Laravel recently is set up so that users folow documentation and best practices to end up using whatever subscriptions and paid products they offer (and then in some case pull the plug on them and come up with something new, abandoning whatever UI library they made people buy 1 year ago).

New comment by mns in "They See Your Photos"

mns — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:02:30 +0000

Is this one of those things like the old Facebook games where people were answering personal questions that can be used to guess all kind of secret answers for taking over accounts? Are people actually uploading real photos of themselves here?

New comment by mns in "I built an AI receptionist for a mechanic shop"

mns — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:52:02 +0000

The site is selling SaaS templates and AI courses. The post is just an ad for whatever services it is offering...

New comment by mns in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

mns — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:35:20 +0000

Did he struck a nerve? All I'm seeing here are attacks on his person rather than discussing his post, which is not even that controversial, just some common sense stuff.

New comment by mns in "How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe"

mns — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:08:08 +0000

They had official trainings on how to use Copilot/ChatGPT and some other tools, security and safety trainings and so on, this is not some people deciding to use whatever feature was there from Ms by default.

New comment by mns in "How AI is affecting productivity and jobs in Europe"

mns — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:36:36 +0000

What do you mean? Deloitte has been all in on Microsoft AI offerings for quite some time, people have access to a lot of AI tools through MS.

New comment by mns in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

mns — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 08:15:58 +0000

Does this mean that in an absurd way you can get banned if you use CodexBar https://github.com/steipete/CodexBar to keep track of your usage? It does use your credentials to fetch the usage, could they be so extreme that this would be an issue?

New comment by mns in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

mns — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:26:22 +0000

If you work in a medium to large company, you know most of the documentation is there for compliance reasons or for showing others that you did something at one point. You can probably just put slop at the end of documents, while you still keep headlines relevant and no one will ever read it or notice it.

New comment by mns in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

mns — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:26:17 +0000

Unlike virtue-signaling corporations that burn the planet down just to get more shareholder value in the next quarter.

New comment by mns in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

mns — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:20:24 +0000

But why are you lying? It's not about you, no one is stopping you to go and throw everything you own in a landfill, this is about the companies that act environmental in their marketing, but then go ahead and destroy new and unused products.

New comment by mns in "GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment"

mns — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 07:47:35 +0000

I'd rather get judged by a human than by the financial interests of Sam Altman or whichever corporate borg gets the government contract for offering justice services.

New comment by mns in "Why software stocks are getting pummelled"

mns — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:40:07 +0000

OpenAI releases an electron slog of an app, while they have basically unlimited computing power, compared to anyone else except their direct competitors. Why aren't they just pumping out proper software built by their own AI/Codex...

New comment by mns in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

mns — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:37:51 +0000

He still had a decent player career, and anyhow, this is a completely different field. The issue is that good engineers are not promoted to management positions because their skills are needed or they don't want to get promoted because of politics. But one of the things that I noticed a lot is people "specifically trained" to be managers. Our company is full of project managers and POs that never built anything their entire life, they never led a team, they never did anything except start with something like an assistant or QA and then all of the sudden they want to manage people. This is what I find frustrating, people that never in their life did something productive or build or contribute to something, but their expectation is to be a manager, just because they were "specifically trained in that discipline"

New comment by mns in "ASML staffing changes could result in a net reduction of around 1700 positions"

mns — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:22:56 +0000

As I was following Siemens Energy in these years, I remember them getting a huge bailout, or you can call it help or whatever, at one point and from there on the stock price started going up.

New comment by mns in "Delta single handle ball faucets (1963)"

mns — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 09:19:15 +0000

Is this a US thing? We renovated the apartment in Germany in the last year and every faucet and piece of equipment that we got has a manual including a table with list of parts and technical drawings and how to take it apart. We also got from the original owner all the manuals of the existing things, and this helped a lot in finding the proper part to replace and fix the bathtub drain. None of this is old stuff, the building is 15 years old.

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

mns — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:37:23 +0000

And not only that, but YOU need to pay to work, starting at only 199 per month.

New comment by mns in "How Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain"

mns — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:04:40 +0000

I started reading it because I saw it recommended here 2-3 years ago on one of the end of year book threads. I’m still somewhere at around 40% according to my Kindle. I like the style and the way Mann paints the world so to say, like the world it creates in your imagination, but I find it so dragged and boring, I just can’t get myself to read it for long.

New comment by mns in "2025 Letter"

mns — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:33:30 +0000

Relentless work, or simply not caring about the people that you need to crunch in order to achieve the outcomes that you want. The western world could also build things fast again and innovate faster, we just seem to value human life a bit more now that we used to...

New comment by mns in "2025 Letter"

mns — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:30:16 +0000

The attitude here is quite astounding, seeing how any criticism of the author or this piece is seen as some sort of reductionism of his views and european smugness (?!?), all the while the author reduces an entire nation (Germany in this case) to the anecdote of a Georgian mass murderer, probably one of the most ruthless and diabolical people that ever existed, so yeah, very balanced discussion here.

New comment by mns in "I'm a developer for a major food delivery app"

mns — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 08:48:28 +0000

Engineers are completely blindsided by technology. I work with some brilliant people, technically speaking, but in some cases they seem to have 0 awareness towards the things they are building and how that affects the people using the things that we built. I had a couple of months ago an engineer that's working on various AI things in our company telling me how we can use and build an AI tool to rate the performance of people in the company and people that use our platform (let's say similar to all these mini-job platforms) just to know who to fire if they are not efficient. At no point in time was he thinking of the people, all he could think of was the algorithm and AI and how amazing it could be to do this.