Hacker News: neom

New comment by neom in "The tech jobs bust is real. Don't blame AI (yet)"

neom — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:13 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

New comment by neom in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

neom — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:14:23 +0000

I am autistic and I also enjoy the sharp edges, I rub my wrists up and down them sometimes and generally play with them, I find it very satisfying. I also suspect the laptop might not be as easy to carry around when open if edges were rounded?

New comment by neom in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

neom — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:43:16 +0000

I could imagine if you where friends with someone and a bunch of their friends suddenly and mysteriously died, personally, I wouldn't kill that friend, but I might call the cops.

New comment by neom in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

neom — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:51:15 +0000

Here is the paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz4944 - it's interesting.

I noticed there was a respiratory epidemic that killed 25 chimps naturally quickly, one would imagine that would have quite a societal destabilizing impact?

Civil war among wild chimpanzees

neom — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 01:55:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aeg6719

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47712674

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by neom in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

neom — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:29:05 +0000

https://cdn.sanity.io/files/btop3zhg/production/6cdd8502a5fd...

Closest thing I could find poking around.

Here is an example of one of their core growth plan items from the strategy above:

"Social Media Campaigns, Organic and Paid Driving key messages around digital hygiene, decentralisation, and security on social media platforms to raise awareness."

The whole pdf is basically a collection of the remedial "go-to" SaaS growth blog posts everyone thinking about startups read: make content, build a community, turn your community into advocates, write about things people care about etc etc.

Given I've done this stuff for some 20+ years now, here is what is missing and frankly what most folks miss/don't want to admit:

This document basically has no ICP, who is the ideal customer? What is their persona? Who specifically are they, like, super specifically! You can't start with "oh anyone who wants anon-privacy first msg'ing!" That would have been like me at digitalocean saying "oh it's for anyone who needs a VM" - you can't execute a series of steps with that, you can't boil the ocean so to speak, we had to work through communities one at a time, we did: rails, node, php, devops/config management, in that order, split up over quarters and years, maybe it looked like we just...did developers, but we didn't, we slowly worked our way through all the developer communities slightly tailoring towards them while keeping things general enough.

The biggest problem here tho is the classic vitamin vs. aspirin problem. They're selling "better privacy" and "decentralization" - these are vitamins for the vast majority of people - they're things people say they care about in surveys but don't actually switch apps for. The 85% of adults who "want to do more to protect their privacy" aren't switching off WhatsApp. Are they the most secure messenger, or are they a token ecosystem with staking? Those attract fundamentally different people with different motivations...so just bolting them together creates confusion.

Folks need to stop thinking "we're going to do marketing" = "we're going to build a business" marketing, go to market, growth.. these are tiny components of overall business strategy.

New comment by neom in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

neom — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:03:27 +0000

If you're into rats, here is a playlist with 6+ hours of rats doing tricks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGThSDBAdLEKFkcKeHc0D...

Rats are so awesome, we just need to GMO them to live longer.

CRTC website down due to expired certificate

neom — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:42:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crtc.gc.ca/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47662376

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by neom in "My Google Workspace account suspension"

neom — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:56:29 +0000

They tried all sorts with me in school, I seem to recall it's related to trying to add shadow to hint to the brain the direction the letter should be etc. I found it more annoying than helpful. Probably a very unpopular opinion but I think teaching someone with dyslexia to read and write neurotypically is probably unhelpful and finding audio visual learning methods is a considerably better way to have them retain knowledge. I think you can get to a basic level of competency but speed and recall, at least with me, never really came. One thing I found once that was cool was an app that present each word at a time only in the center of the screen, but it felt extremely mechanical I was so focused on the words once I was done there was basically no meaning left if that makes sense. I'm autistic with dyscalculia also, FWIW. I mostly think in sounds, pictures and movies, for whatever reason my brain doesn't have a great framework for symbols that don't have those things inherently attached to them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by neom in "Sad Story of My Google Workspace Account Suspension"

neom — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:45:51 +0000

Funny because I have dyslexia and read excreting power as exerting power, and then had to read your "Exerting" underneath 4 times to understand the mistake. I guess it's the phonics, dyslexia is so weird tho, ha.

New comment by neom in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

neom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:40:32 +0000

Absolutely.

New comment by neom in "A.I. Helped One Man (and His Brother) Build a $1.8B Company"

neom — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:44:59 +0000

Not capitalism in the way many of us capitalists think it should be practiced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_Moral_Sentiments

New comment by neom in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

neom — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:54:43 +0000

I knew that name looked familiar. Hello from a fellow Canuck who you follow on twitter. :D

New comment by neom in "Starcloud raises $170M Series A to build data centers in space"

neom — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:50:13 +0000

I've been defending Philip on HN religiously for quite some time now. Super proud to see them take it this far. Interop/general near source processing in space is gonna be pretty big business one day, someone has to build the railroad.

Starcloud raises $170M Series A to build data centers in space

neom — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:47:44 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/30/starcloud-raises-170-million-series-ato-build-data-centers-in-space/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47574309

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by neom in "Trust Signals as Sparklines for Hacker News"

neom — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:38:13 +0000

Great idea! I've been running my own chrome plugin I made that is similar, but recently discovered this: https://oj-hn.com/ and intend to start to contribute to it as it's very good and hope it grows. Something like Sparklines would be great in oj also for us chrome users, I really like the Sparklines implementation.

Agents create work. Daemons clean up the mess that agents leave behind

neom — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:15:04 +0000

Article URL: https://ai-daemons.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47493148

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by neom in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

neom — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:07:35 +0000

Yeah I agree, this would be ideal, I actually thought this post was pretty funny because I couldn't imagine anyone wanting them off, and I suppose some people think it's funny I like them. :)

New comment by neom in "404 Deno CEO not found"

neom — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:49:16 +0000

Thanks for saying so. btw your hn plugin is really fucking good! Thanks. :)

New comment by neom in "Hide macOS Tahoe's Menu Icons"

neom — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:34:24 +0000

Thanks! I don't use the notes app, cog is not the best icon for that but I suppose it's differentiated from the file system version, if I read them both the same I might be confused, but not sure why they selected cog!!!