Hacker News: mplewis

New comment by mplewis in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

mplewis — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:47:20 +0000

have you ever met a person who likes outlook?

New comment by mplewis in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

mplewis — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:06:34 +0000

is this your first year on the internet?

New comment by mplewis in "An Update on Heroku"

mplewis — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:12:15 +0000

You gotta fix the home page. I'm not sitting through a movie trailer to find out how your chat app works.

New comment by mplewis in "Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins"

mplewis — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 04:33:22 +0000

Making money doesn't make your thing not a scam.

New comment by mplewis in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

mplewis — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:03:41 +0000

For now.

New comment by mplewis in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

mplewis — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:03:30 +0000

Yeah. For now.

New comment by mplewis in "CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)"

mplewis — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:02:57 +0000

When is the last time you were someone who did real work at a Fortune 500 company and were coached by a CEO?

New comment by mplewis in "CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)"

mplewis — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:01:49 +0000

Yeah, that's because business leadership is largely a cult. The way you prove your loyalty to the cult is by overseeing larger and larger layoffs ordered by those above you until you're the one putting people on the street.

New comment by mplewis in "Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop "act of kindness""

mplewis — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:42:30 +0000

yes, you people

New comment by mplewis in "AWS CEO says replacing junior devs with AI is 'one of the dumbest ideas'"

mplewis — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 21:01:52 +0000

You posted this in jest but it's literally true. You need to read the whole book to get the context. You SHOULD be reading the manuals and the docs. They weren't written because they're fun.

New comment by mplewis in "Mozilla appoints new CEO Anthony Enzor-Demeo"

mplewis — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:33:23 +0000

These are all the same sort of vaporware promises that come straight from every AI booster. These features will never exist and you should feel bad for pretending they might.

New comment by mplewis in "Firefox is becoming an AI browser and the internet is not at all happy about it"

mplewis — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:19:28 +0000

Yeah, straight into the cryptocurrency trash heap.

New comment by mplewis in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

mplewis — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:16:34 +0000

Does it feel good to be on the side of millions of like-minded bigots?

New comment by mplewis in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

mplewis — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:15:58 +0000

"political reasons" like espousing the level of hatred that makes your queer, Bay Area employees distrust you? OK.

New comment by mplewis in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

mplewis — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:14:59 +0000

Why do there have to be AI features in Firefox? No one wants them. They make the browser less secure. They distract from the mission.

New comment by mplewis in "Thin desires are eating life"

mplewis — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:09:17 +0000

Not really.

New comment by mplewis in "Thin desires are eating life"

mplewis — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:09:00 +0000

ok, but there's nothing there. The point of this piece is empty calories.

New comment by mplewis in "AI will make formal verification go mainstream"

mplewis — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 05:06:58 +0000

Through empirical evidence? Do you think that the vast majority of software devs moved to typing for no reason?

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

mplewis — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:43:04 +0000

No you cannot! I blocked all of the user agents on a community wiki I run, and the traffic came back hours later masquerading as Firefox and Chrome. They just fucking lie to you and continue vacuuming your CPU.

New comment by mplewis in "Ecosia: The greenest AI is here"

mplewis — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:56:27 +0000

Maybe because we all know that working search is better than an LLM hands down? What are you talking about? The only reason people go to LLMs instead of Google is because Google Search has been destroyed by Sundar Pichai.