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New comment by mns in "Paramount Skydance has completed its $111B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery"

mns — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:03:19 +0000

They'll merge everything into some Skydance+ app, place ads in the basic tier with 720p, you'll get 1080p with ads for the price of Netflix (probably because of the "premium" HBO content) and then some insane subscription for the full 4K catalogue.

New comment by mns in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

mns — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:28:03 +0000

Liebherr. You can buy a smart box add-on to it, but by default they are just fridges without any smart features.

New comment by mns in "Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta"

mns — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:19:22 +0000

The mental gymnastics that people do here to defend these untouchable corporations is disgusting. From Meta to OpenAi, for a lot of people here it's just a "yeah, but actually". I've reported everything from holocaust glorification to videos of people being filmed in public in europe just to be humiliated, to obvious far right propaganda done by russian linked accounts, nothing goes against Meta's policy anymore, except when it's about them...

New comment by mns in "I said no and Apple said yes"

mns — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:19:04 +0000

As a Mac user and in general an Apple user, it's up to the balance between how much are you willing to take as a user from a bullshit perspective and the things you find good and useful from the device. Unfortunately, even for Apple devices, the balance is starting to shift towards the bad side. The problem is that there is no real alternative. For a laptop/pc, you might say whatever Linux distro, but let's be honest, for the general population there is no real alternative.

New comment by mns in "iPhone Duo"

mns — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:05:51 +0000

I don't know, their whole product announcements since they went the way of the pre-recorded ones seem like exactly the type of company they would smash in their 1984 commercial. Feels over-produced-airburshed-perfectly-rendered-ai-generated souless evil corporation trying to pretend to be good, completely disconnected from the real world, but that's just me, and I am deeply into their ecosystem.

New comment by mns in "iPhone Duo"

mns — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:41:44 +0000

I agree on that, just like the iPhone Air, feel more like clumsy Samsung phones, seems there are a lot of compromises.

New comment by mns in "Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs (2025)"

mns — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:40:18 +0000

That's not really true. He was a control freak and thought he and Apple knew better what people need. They always wanted to control the whole experience and most of the things were initially closed off because he never wanted anyone to modify the Apple experience and his products. That's why initially he didn't even want to let people install other apps on the iPhone and was against the AppStore.

New comment by mns in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

mns — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:44:25 +0000

Is this some sort of psy-op here against EU, this isn't the first message like this where someone is praising China and accusing EU, as if it's a unitary entity, about being a "horror show". If only we would have some dictators or extremist parties back in power to break up the EU and take our countries back to the good old days. I'm finding it harder and harder to come back to Hn with all of this stuff.

New comment by mns in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

mns — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:55:29 +0000

> They also do not introduce these regulations "from tomorrow"

This wasn't introduced "from tomorrow", people had 1 year and a half to prepare for this (at least) or to protest this. See some comments below how individual countries actually messed this up.

> But of course EU is fundamentally different in a way that the politicians need to please the electorate, so nothing is really planned ahead.

> I don't know if this EU regulation will work or not (most likely not)

It's good that you take the time to just make assumptions about how the EU is bad based on your knowledge on how it operates...

New comment by mns in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

mns — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:18:32 +0000

A similar strategy to this did help me a lot. Got tinitus 5 years ago in one ear due to a weird ear cleaning procedure followed by some sort of inflammation. It was quite weird in the beginning and it always got worse when I had a cold and my sinuses were blocked. Had some periods when it was really bad and I could fell like I can't take it any more, but somehow I accepted it and started to learn to live with it and ignore it as much as possible, focus on other sounds around me and so on. I went to a couple of clinics, my hearing was just fine and they always recommended white noise (used it a bit in the beginning, but somehow I didn't want to depend on headphones and constant sounds). What did help me in quiet places or when sleeping is just to think of something else and ignore the sound completely, at this point I can barely hear it/notice it even when going to bed or having headphones on with no sound. I do have friends who got it mostly because of loud music (musicians and concerts) and somehow they stress too much about it, making it unbearable. I understand that everyone has different experiences, but for me just ignoring it and somehow making your brain forget it and filtering it out did help a lot. EDIT: also completely ignoring the community (like reading about it on reddit or Facebook groups), stop watching videos like this about it helps a lot in forgetting about it and stops you from ruminating too much about it all the time.

New comment by mns in "Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used"

mns — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:27:44 +0000

I wanted to say the same thing, Westpark is a gem, loved living next to it and miss it a lot. One of my favorite things there is the Kino Mond un Sterne, during summer they play movies in this open air amphitheatre surrounded by trees and with a small lake with a fountain on the other side.

New comment by mns in "How to read more books"

mns — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:08:27 +0000

I loved the article, but the only part that I didn't connect with was the blocking, and probably the goals (not sure if going for the numbers instead of the pleasure of reading something good is ideal long term). I think the author and you shouldn't necessarily be so hard on yourselves to go to these extremes of blocking of these things, usually it works for a while, but it might come back worse when you crack and try it again.

I found myself in a similar situation last year, I felt like I have no time, but I was just scrolling mindlessly on social media whenever there was some off time. As I was reading quite a lot when I was younger, I ended up maybe reading 1-2 books a year, best case scenario. Last summer somehow I wanted to try something else that would help me keep focus or disconnect, maybe for me it worked because of what I started reading. I heard 2-3 years ago on a podcast (Tim Ferris I think) about Ted Chiang and bought one of his collections, but never read it. I got so fascinated with the first book (sort stories, you could just read a story on the go, no huge time investment) and the stories that I ended up reading most all his works, that just hooked me up. A year later, I'm around 2-3 books per month, always try to alternate from fiction to non-fiction, try to mix up and probably the most important part, like in the post, whenever I feel like I don't "vibe" with the book or author, I just stop. Forcing yourself to read a book that you don't like is probably the easiest way of breaking the habit. I even stopped driving to work, the 40 minutes I get per day to read on the train are amazing, it makes me happy if there is some technical issue and the train takes 10-20 minutes longer, more time to read.

New comment by mns in "Waymo Premier"

mns — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:29:27 +0000

I find it somehow like a dystopia that things like these happen. This isn't about kids dying in some foreign country on some distant continent and we're investing in fancy robot taxis. This is actually that some people have the privilege of living in a bubble and using this technology that these huge corporations put money in (for the profit of their shareholders) while in the same time ignoring the core issues of the society that lead to such acts happening (stealing in broad daylight stuff from a car while people are inside it). I know people will say that this isn't for Google to fix (yeah, they only fix and lobby for laws that help them make more money) or for the tech people working for these companies and browsing these forums to fix, but I do find it a bit disgusting.

New comment by mns in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

mns — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:18:14 +0000

I also find this weird. Even though the companies I worked for didn’t have any crazy rules or restrictions (never had phone from work), but I never used my work laptop or computer for anything personal. I have friends doing their own side projects on theirs. Even though in the countries where I worked/work they have to let you know what they track if they track, I still remember one of my contracts that stated that any work done on the work computer belongs to the company. That’s why, even if maybe it’s not legal for them to say that, I never ever used any subscriptions, hardware or tools provided by my employer for personal use.

New comment by mns in "Commission fines Temu €200M for breaching the Digital Services Act"

mns — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:55:43 +0000

But you know what's not amusing, but rather sad? the comments here. It's wild that people now are upset that the big bad EU is somehow doing something against companies that make profit from selling products that could hurt people, products targeted for kids that can poison or kill them, but the main issue, as seen by tech people, is the EU targeting Temu...

New comment by mns in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

mns — Tue, 26 May 2026 11:29:05 +0000

When I first read the comment I thought this must be satire, it sure does sound like a Silicon Valley episode, but in modern times. I've been a skeptic for quite some time, but managed to get quite good results with Claude in general, not even going through the normal limits for a Pro account, but what people are describing here seems like just tokenmaxing, brute forcing a solution, I don't understand what code people need to write and what projects people are building, is everyone just constantly rewriting systems from scratch, or what is everyone spending these insane amounts of tokens on?

New comment by mns in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

mns — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:40:32 +0000

Yes, MONEY. Companies and their management couldn't care less about DEI, they care about pleasing whoever in in power in order to get benefits and make as much money as they can. You could literally have Hitler in power now and you would see what companies would do for their survival.

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...