Hacker News: ngc248

New comment by ngc248 in "Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure"

ngc248 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 18:38:58 +0000

All companies are trimming fat by reducing headcount and the cover for that is "AI"

New comment by ngc248 in "Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure"

ngc248 — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 09:45:28 +0000

Regular ppl i.e non-techies love the copilot integration into all office products. Since techies know better, they think microsoft messed up with the AI integration everywhere.

New comment by ngc248 in "OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information""

ngc248 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:39:15 +0000

If you have worked in a sufficiently big org this would have been normal to you. Executive assistants send mail which purports to come from the executive himself. That is the kinda thing which happened here.

New comment by ngc248 in "OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information""

ngc248 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:30:59 +0000

Time Travel sadly is fictional

New comment by ngc248 in "OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information""

ngc248 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:30:02 +0000

Plot of the movie upgrade (2018)

New comment by ngc248 in "NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart"

ngc248 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:22:15 +0000

The point is this Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle tech is form 1989, how the tech would have evolved 40 years later who knows.

New comment by ngc248 in "NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart"

ngc248 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 11:23:39 +0000

check these out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC97wdQOmfI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnofCyaWhI0 . But Syria et al would have have been the right kind of environment to test results of black projects, no?

New comment by ngc248 in "Pirating the Pirates"

ngc248 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:22:03 +0000

Memento was his peak and he hit new highs with inception ... its been all downhill after that ...

New comment by ngc248 in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

ngc248 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:03:05 +0000

you know this is why china and russia were stealing data, so that they can provide you backups if you lost yours /s

New comment by ngc248 in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

ngc248 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 07:00:21 +0000

they should provide and option for multi-AZ with drone defenders now

New comment by ngc248 in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

ngc248 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:56:52 +0000

1. There is no single "the right way", different app have different "right ways" 2. As for the flat fee, it only works initially when things are simple, as time goes on and your business and usecases you support grows, a flat fee won't work anymore.

New comment by ngc248 in "The GDR and Vietnam: From Fake Coffee to Coffee Empire"

ngc248 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:16:04 +0000

I collect stamps and DDR is what I know of. The warsaw pact countries used to produce amazing stamps.

New comment by ngc248 in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

ngc248 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:44:16 +0000

probably South Africa?

New comment by ngc248 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

ngc248 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:16:40 +0000

Windows defender has the uncanny ability of spiking up its resource usage at just the wrong time. Add in MS teams into the mix and the system just starts screaming.

New comment by ngc248 in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

ngc248 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:43:17 +0000

True ... my company recently started deploying endpoint protection like crowdstrike, beyondtrust, zscalet onto our macs and these have slowed my machine considerably. They somehow spike the CPU just when I am doing something important.

New comment by ngc248 in "Challenging the Narrative of European Decline"

ngc248 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:44:04 +0000

> We used to have a global economic system overseen by a mostly benign and in any case law-abiding hegemon

This is probably due to the op being the denizen of a country which has not been affected by the aforesaid hegemon

New comment by ngc248 in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

ngc248 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:35:49 +0000

Bro, you have "grass is greener on the other side" syndrome. China is a totalitarian state not comparable to the US. Take this from a non-US citizen. There maybe some backsliding or ppl may think things are worsening in the US, but US citizens always have the power to make things right, coz they are free and they can bear arms.

New comment by ngc248 in "Midjourney Medical"

ngc248 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:43:11 +0000

One meal ... many snacks?

New comment by ngc248 in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

ngc248 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:58:57 +0000

If you know your access patterns really well and they are non-relational, then you can design the best possible tables for dyanmoDB. In such a case DynamoDB works and scales amazingly. Ofc, you cannot do multi table relationships etc shoehorning a relational scheme onto DynamoDB does not work.

New comment by ngc248 in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"

ngc248 — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:19:31 +0000

"AI" is just a cover for laying ppl off and saving cost. But the pendulum will swing the the other way and the companies will realise that knowledgeable ppl are still required to generate and utilize the generated code. No serious company can run with vibe-coded apps generated by laymen.