Hacker News: mnx

New comment by mnx in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

mnx — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 10:21:07 +0000

"starbucks says there is no limit on how many napkins I can use but they got mad when I took the whole container, liars"

New comment by mnx in "Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado"

mnx — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 09:31:18 +0000

The argument goes, the purpose of prediction markets is not to be fair, it's to provide information. Allowing insider trading benefits that purpose. And I think that's fair - this is not a place to invest your retirement savings, it's essentially gambling.

New comment by mnx in "Talk Python in Production"

mnx — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 08:10:42 +0000

Yeah, immediately off-putting, even though I actually enjoy the podcast. Not for like "AI bad" reasons, it's just ugly. Micheal, if you are reading this - please fix, it should take 5 minutes.

New comment by mnx in "Gem.coop"

mnx — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 08:00:54 +0000

Might be worth noting the figure in question is the creator of Ruby on Rails.

New comment by mnx in "Spotify Down"

mnx — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 13:36:15 +0000

App and streaming mostly work for me (slower then ususal and search seems broken). Interesting outage.

New comment by mnx in "Kindle as a High-Contrast GPS"

mnx — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:36:04 +0000

Simple and clever. One concern I have is in my experience the kindle displays are quite fragile, I would worried it would break mounted like that.

Scheduled Tasks in ChatGPT

mnx — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 10:44:51 +0000

Article URL: https://help.openai.com/en/articles/10291617-scheduled-tasks-in-chatgpt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42709496

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by mnx in "More than $70B wiped off crypto market in 24 hours as BTC drops 8% below $20K"

mnx — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 12:13:38 +0000

Still remember when 10k USD/BTC was the unrealistic target everyone laughed at. Funny how we blew way past that, but without achieving nearly any real usecases.

New comment by mnx in "Can I Email?"

mnx — Tue, 11 May 2021 15:28:29 +0000

Only 50% support for ? Where is this world going.

New comment by mnx in "Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index"

mnx — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 14:49:48 +0000

The finite supply is a feature, not a bug. I agree there are many aspects of bitcoin that suck, but not this one. We are right now witnessing many governments printing more and more money, which makes it less and less valuable. Bitcoin avoids that.

New comment by mnx in "Twitter acquires Revue"

mnx — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:08:48 +0000

no way to prevent just adding a 'not' while still allowing sensible editing.

New comment by mnx in "Searching for 'VK' shows only a single result on DuckduckGo. Why?"

mnx — Tue, 25 Aug 2020 16:06:13 +0000

A different one at that. But other 2-letter queries return normal sets of results.

New comment by mnx in "Captcha.nsa.gov"

mnx — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 18:21:57 +0000

It seems like we broke it -- it now refuses to do any searches for me (due to suspicious activity from 'my' ip)

New comment by mnx in "What Happened in the UK Blackouts?"

mnx — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 17:06:19 +0000

If I listen carefully, I can tell the difference between 48 and 50hz using a sine generator (although it's very subtle), so I'd guess that you possibly could.

New comment by mnx in "Bill to put health warnings on soda and sugary drinks advances in California"

mnx — Fri, 24 May 2019 14:32:38 +0000

Can you tell me more? This is a bold claim, I'm curious what are you basing your apparent confidence on.

New comment by mnx in "USB4 Specification Announced: Adopting Thunderbolt 3 Protocol for 40 Gbps USB"

mnx — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 12:15:02 +0000

Yeah until the spec changes/expands and you now need another device to tell you whether that stick is up-to-date on the spec :D

New comment by mnx in "Want to Stop Fake News? Pay for the Real Thing"

mnx — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 15:52:02 +0000

Yep. Especially since communicating clearly is exactly their job.

New comment by mnx in "Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple’s back door"

mnx — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:26:08 +0000

I'm not sure if "in violation of contract" counts as illegal in this case.

New comment by mnx in "AresDB: Uber’s GPU-Powered Open-Source, Real-Time Analytics Engine"

mnx — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 20:13:46 +0000

That's important. But it does not stand in opposition to this.

New comment by mnx in "Mastercard will stop free trials from automatically billing once they're over"

mnx — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 09:44:46 +0000

in the EU, you can use revolut - their paid plan seems to provide a service pretty similiar to privacy.com