Hacker News: mrmarket

Growing Pains of Starting a Secret Society

mrmarket — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:21:12 +0000

Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/growing-pains-of-starting-a-secret-society/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48458668

Points: 2

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Organic Thinking: The Philosopher's Salon

mrmarket — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:20:17 +0000

Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/organic-thinking-the-philosophers-salon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48335408

Points: 3

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New comment by mrmarket in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

mrmarket — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:21:43 +0000

important context for me is that layoffs keep eating my company every 6 months or so, meanwhile the due date is fast approaching. treading shark-infested waters

New comment by mrmarket in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

mrmarket — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:16:15 +0000

I guess it depends on what sacred means to you. i'm not a religious person, so my definition is entirely personal, but i consider honoring yourself even when it looks like a failure to others, or even when it doesnt give you money/power etc. to be a holy act.

New comment by mrmarket in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

mrmarket — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:11:03 +0000

This would be ideal, but practically speaking, it will only become harder to switch careers and make up the income gap as I get older (i'm 30) and more people leave tech for less volatile industries. Plus, I don't think we'll be one and done re: kids. I don't think waiting is necessarily a smart long-term move given rising anti-tech sentiment among workers, even if it would be better to wait until the perfect age from a lifestyle perspective. This is just my opinion.

New comment by mrmarket in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

mrmarket — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:04:22 +0000

> you're just about to become much more dependent on a stable income

would you consider the 2026 SaaS market stable? Very naive take.

> These two sentences are completely independent of each other.

They are two separate thoughts. Two thoughts that are separate can exist in one comment. They are just next to each other. The profession that comes close to tech salaries is elevator mechanic. The poetry is for my heart, which is related to this guy's post, in which he talks about leaving tech for the sake of his heart.

Not only are you a downer, but you have a highly unusual approach to parsing information.

New comment by mrmarket in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

mrmarket — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:47:25 +0000

thank you for this. what a sacred journey you're embarking on. i hope to follow you - talking with a close friend now about becoming an elevator mechanic. my wife is pregnant so i have to find a profession that comes reasonably close to tech salaries. i've been writing poetry by hand. i think the world you envision is possible, and closer.

Organic Thinking: The Philosopher's Salon

mrmarket — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:16:27 +0000

Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/organic-thinking-the-philosophers-salon/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48323410

Points: 1

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Waiting [pdf]

mrmarket — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:20:59 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/accomodating-fellow/Greek-Mystery-School/blob/main/On%20Waiting%20by%20Harold%20Schweizer.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48278757

Points: 1

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New comment by mrmarket in "It is time to build a new internet"

mrmarket — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:19:28 +0000

Author here. I got eaten up, lol. But thanks to those who recommended Gemini, this is exactly what I was looking for.

For the record: I know starting from scratch and creating a new way for machines to transfer information is nearly impossible and certainly redundant/not worth the squeeze. But everyone is right to call that out, lol. I was feeling frustrated by the pervasiveness of AI slop and just fired this one off. It was the equivalent of vowing to go completely off grid after seeing one too many ads in a doctor's office. I was basically fantasizing about buying time before those with a profit motive showed up. Of course, we will always run into the same problem whenever a commons materializes. It's our nature, after all.

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions I did get, though. And appreciated the vast majority of the discourse here.

In the interest of transparency: I deleted the stuff about stripping the internet to the studs, lol. But I will own that I suggested it. It's just perhaps a distraction to my true point, which was that the beautiful internet experiment is in a state of vast humiliation.

New comment by mrmarket in "It is time to build a new internet"

mrmarket — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:14:42 +0000

Thanks for sticking up for me, lol. It's ok though. He's partly right in that I was in a rash burn-it-all down mood at the time of this post. Suggesting we start from scratch re: create an entirely new way to transfer information between machines was obviously pretty hyperbolic and over the top. I had just seen one too many AI-generated posts on bearblog and wanted to do the equivalent of go off-grid and hope there was some organic beauty to be found there before the parking lots inevitably appeared.

Anyway, let this be a lesson to me. Next time I post to HN, I should count to 10 and look at my rant with more rational eyes. No harm done.

It is time to build a new internet

mrmarket — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:19:53 +0000

Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/it-is-time-to-build-a-new-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48231226

Points: 78

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New comment by mrmarket in "Your Most Improbable Life"

mrmarket — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:25:59 +0000

i feel like people are over emphasizing

1. that this is on substack

2. the word 'improbably' (taking it literally, not as a kind of abstract/symbolic suggestion of 'being urself'/having fun with life)

3. that it is self-help-y, which a lot of articles on HN are, so i don't know why this one is striking a nerve so profoundly.

idk, i thought it was a fun read and i like kevin kelly. i think it is good that people like kevin kelly do what they do and share their ideas every once in a while. it reminded me that i can kinda do whatever i want in life, and it made me think, which is all i ask of my blog posts. i also liked how certain sentences were written.

don't get me wrong though, i enjoy the snarky debate. it's a big part of the reason why i'm here after all.

Remote work is bad for you

mrmarket — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:03:36 +0000

Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/remote-work-is-bad-for-you/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48192219

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

Products are out, brains are in

mrmarket — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:03:56 +0000

Article URL: https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/products-are-out-brains-are-in-new/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168164

Points: 3

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New comment by mrmarket in "Toxicity on Social Media"

mrmarket — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:31:51 +0000

well yeah. like hacker news is a social platform with checks and balances in place to prevent mass hysteria and ragebaiting. but if we're honest about the biggest social media platforms of the day, each of the things listed are features of them. and because these tools are actually incentivized against fixing each of the problems listed, they will not fix them. so they're functionally essential parts of the social media platforms that are actually shaping public opinion.

New comment by mrmarket in "Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room"

mrmarket — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:29:37 +0000

true. but that's on the individual vs. the platform so it won't be perfect adoption. better than nothing tho.

How to Grep Video

mrmarket — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:46:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.cloudglue.dev/how-to-grep-video/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47877178

Points: 15

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