Hacker News: moritonal

New comment by moritonal in "Nobody is coming to save your career"

moritonal — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:06:15 +0000

Lets add some context. Amazon is the author's only job. 5yrs Software, 7yrs Senior, 4yrs Principal, now runs a YouTube self-help. Reading through there are multiple lines that collectively paint a picture of a difficult career.

"I had over 20 managers across my 18 years at Amazon", whilst this might be out of the author's hands, that's a wild manager history.

"..when I finally pushed for bigger scope at Amazon. My manager’s initial reaction wasn’t excitement. It was something closer to “But you’re doing so well where you are.”", most managers generally push their devs to always be doing larger pieces of work, if they aren't, that's weird.

"I was a passenger for the first 10 years of my Amazon career", which doesn't really line up, unless they're referring to their horizontal move to Prime in an effort to find promotive work.

"Not because I suddenly got better at my job, but because I started being intentional about which parts of my job were ... mapped to what the next level required.", which means the author worked out how to correctly market themselves internally.

"You know where you want to be in five years, and you’re actively seeking out the work that will get you there eventually.", again, they worked out how to find promotive work. This seems to be the key take-away they're dancing around.

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

moritonal — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:03:44 +0000

Honestly great work, but this is very much something where the results matter more than the product. It ends without a single comment about whether it worked in Production.

New comment by moritonal in "Show HN: Pano, a bookmarking tool built around shareable shelves"

moritonal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:56:07 +0000

Left before the loading animation finished.

New comment by moritonal in "Chrome DevTools MCP"

moritonal — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 23:36:33 +0000

Given MCP is supposed to just be a standardised format for self-describing APIs, why are all the features you listed MCP related things? It sounds more like it's forced the enterprise to build such features which cli tooling didn't have?

New comment by moritonal in "AI is making junior devs useless"

moritonal — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:19:52 +0000

When I started my career I heard people say almost verbatim "Stack overflow is making junior devs useless", with the idea all we did was copypaste scripts over. The same people failed, and the same people who can use the tools will succeed now.

New comment by moritonal in "LLM=True"

moritonal — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 11:21:32 +0000

It feels wild to have to keep reminding people, but AI changes very little. Tools have always had a variety of output, and ways to control this, and bad tools output a lot by default, whilst good tools hide it behind version of "-v" or easy greps. Don't add a --LLM or whatever, do add cleaner and consistent verbosity controls.

New comment by moritonal in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

moritonal — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:09:06 +0000

This is the answer. If you provide internet access to someone, you're responsible for it. It's a generally established law from a Torrenting PoV, so isn't it equally applicable to downloading content unsuitable for children. Sure it'll destroy offering free wifi, but that always was tricky from a legal PoV around responsibilities.

New comment by moritonal in "Labyrinth Locator"

moritonal — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:10:28 +0000

I imagine they sweated for a moment deciding if London Underground's labyrinths counted as individual pieces or the consolidated one they went for.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labyrinth_(artwork)

https://labyrinthlocator.org/labyrinth/london-underground/?f...

New comment by moritonal in "Sandboxels"

moritonal — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:19:07 +0000

If you didn't know, Dan-ball has a variety of fun free mobile games that are all great.

New comment by moritonal in "Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly"

moritonal — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:26:51 +0000

I genuinely just don't use the Start Menu anymore. It cannot find anything, and every search will include two Internet results (Bing only of course) and a Microsoft Store reference.

New comment by moritonal in "Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use"

moritonal — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 02:45:55 +0000

Creeper World, am I right?

New comment by moritonal in "Stargaze: SpaceX's Space Situational Awareness System"

moritonal — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:47:18 +0000

I think it should. Hate it or not he has a proven ability to create environments where people thrive and want to work the hardest they ever have. Moreover, an ability to understand how much money is required to build something alongside the daring to actually try it. Again, I wish he never got into politics, but generally he knows how to build things people want, and uniquely wants to try.

New comment by moritonal in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

moritonal — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:12:57 +0000

If you want a rabbit hole, this is the likely owner of both tel.net and sms.net = https://www.gbnet.net/

New comment by moritonal in "UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs"

moritonal — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 12:52:53 +0000

That's a really fair point. I suppose it's reasonable to point out that adults do have to provide ID quite often to buy things, but it's skipped so often because people can just look at us so we don't "feel" it. I think my problem comes from how I don't believe my cornershop records my ID when they see it, whilst I imagine these services would.

New comment by moritonal in "UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs"

moritonal — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:26:55 +0000

I don't get why the device changes the blame logic.

If child-services knew a parent was constantly watching/leaving around adult-content near children, that'd be considered the parents fault. If a parent lets a kid watch anything they want on TV and the kid watches adult content, it's the parents fault. But if the parent gives the child a phone, and doesn't manage what apps they use or content they watch, now it's the companies fault?

New comment by moritonal in "Just the Browser"

moritonal — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:07:06 +0000

VR gaming had this experience. AR is about to.

New comment by moritonal in "Personal thoughts/notes from working on Zootopia 2"

moritonal — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:59:16 +0000

I recently put together a system that trained a model to identify "background worthy frames" of TV shows. Animated shows scored often quite highly with a many frames being valid, I suppose an essayist would be able to explain why.

New comment by moritonal in "Uncrossy"

moritonal — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 16:18:50 +0000

Okay, amazing. (https://uncrossy.com/index.html?p=2026-01-01)

New comment by moritonal in "Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction"

moritonal — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:45:21 +0000

Oh my, I loved that game! It's wild everyone's throwing shade at Helldivers whilst ignoring that it was an massive success because of how fun it is. I've said it before, Dev's are really bad at understanding the art of making Fun experiences.

New comment by moritonal in "Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025"

moritonal — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:25:53 +0000

I am confident there is at least a few hospitals, gp offices or ticketing systems that interact directly or indirectly with Cloud flare. They've sold themselves as a major defence in security.