Hacker News: mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mulmenHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 14 May 2026 14:36:42 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"]]>Obviously. You didn’t read correctly. Try again.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 18:27:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989001mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989001https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47989001<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"]]>If you could actually prove that you wouldn’t be posting it on HN, you’d be shopping for a mega yacht.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 06:37:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983928mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983928https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983928<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"]]>It’s not operated for profit. People can just solve (some of) their problems by talking to computers.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 06:36:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983922mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983922https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47983922<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo"]]>Sounds like the testing stage is sticky? It could exist without the tooling to reset it to a known baseline and/or create multiple environments which would enable safe demos.

]]>Sat, 02 May 2026 00:54:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982208mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982208https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47982208<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Demo"]]>Does this mean there is no testing environment?

]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 22:27:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981222mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981222https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981222<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"]]>Maybe. It also lets people build things that never would have existed before. My hobby is competitive pinball. There are multiple new stat and tournament tracking apps that have been vibe coded by people who never would have written code by hand.

]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 22:18:34 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981147mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981147https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981147<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"]]>The difficulty in measuring productivity is the attribution. How do you know the new plow enabled growth?

]]>Fri, 01 May 2026 22:14:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981105mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981105https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47981105<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"]]>Malware is whatever Google says it is.

]]>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:56:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945352mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945352https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47945352<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"]]>Define malware.

]]>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:01:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937227mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937227https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47937227<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Dutch central bank ditches AWS and chooses Lidl for European Cloud"]]>What you’re describing is outsourcing. It’s still possible with on-prem or cloud VMs. You just hire a contractor provide those services.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:17:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924424mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924424https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47924424<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Agentic AI systems violate the implicit assumptions of database design"]]>Postgres has COMMENT ON to help with this but descriptive names are helpful.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:21:21 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912000mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47912000<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Humpback whales are forming super-groups"]]>But you’re not a chipmunk.

]]>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:55:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904912mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904912https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904912<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"]]>You’re probably thinking of the 70 Series Land Cruiser which has been in continuous production since 1984. Toyota does modernize the vehicle from time to time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Land_Cruiser_(J70)

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:45:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881676mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881676https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881676<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"]]>Not for half price.

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:40:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881602mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881602https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881602<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"]]>What does it do better by predating OSHA? Are there liability concerns or does it have just enough safety to be insured economically?

]]>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:26:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881401mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881401https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47881401<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"]]>What right is forfeited? The only reasonable assumption to make is that your boss can read everything. Regardless of if you think it is fair or not it is still the safest assumption.

]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:54:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858751mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858751https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858751<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"]]>It being protected has nothing to do with a presumption of privacy in corporate communications. At a minimum you should be aware that your work related communications are subject to discovery.

]]>Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:53:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858741mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858741https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858741<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"]]>Yes? And by law so can all US phone companies.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:58:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854441mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854441https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854441<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"]]>It's absolutely wild to me that anyone has ever operated under any other assumption. If you want to complain about your boss do it at happy hour.

]]>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:55:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854398mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854398https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854398<![CDATA[New comment by mulmen in "Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout"]]>It’s unclear where the 30,000 comes from because the article doesn’t cite a source for that number. You’re drawing an unsubstantiated connection between two (or more?) articles so you can invoke and then discredit a specific reporter.

At this point I’m not sure what you are even talking about but you seem to have an agenda.

]]>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:43:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789092mulmenhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789092https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47789092