Hacker News: nickmolnar2

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2024)"

nickmolnar2 — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:23:02 +0000

Ephemera is building XMTP, an open and secure messaging network built to last forever

We’re hiring a cryptography-minded Rust engineer, a design-minded React Native engineer, and a blockchain-minded distributed systems engineer. All Staff Level roles.

We operate like owners, and believe that our passion combined with grit, talent, and drive can change the world. If you are inspired by solving hard problems alongside the best in the space, come join us.

https://paragraph.xyz/@ephemera/careers

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset"

nickmolnar2 — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:01:17 +0000

Wasn’t he supposed to be developing AGI?

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "WeWork Gave Founder Loans as It Paid Him Rent, IPO Filing Shows"

nickmolnar2 — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 00:14:27 +0000

I wouldn't assume it went as planned. Seemed plausible they tried to lend him $362m to exercise his options, and then chickened out amid bad press.

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "VS Code on a Remote Server"

nickmolnar2 — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:40:51 +0000

StackBlitz is Monaco in the browser. No extensions or terminal. Works great for certain kinds of front-end dev, but more complicated build tooling aren't available and only JS/TS are supported.

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Ask HN: What are some hacks of real founders who did things that don't scale?"

nickmolnar2 — Wed, 07 Nov 2018 17:48:05 +0000

Aardvark, the question and answer service that was later bought by Google, initially routed and answered all user questions from their internal team.

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "_why's site is back up and this is the "About Me" [unclear if it is _why]"

nickmolnar2 — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 00:55:53 +0000

_why would never write an article called 'setting up my own software programming company' or use the phrase 'Maybe it would’ve been easier and safer to just stick out the 9-5 and work my way up the corporate ladder in the hope that I got promoted enough to be comfortable after a while…'

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Ask HN: Where are the 750k Bitcoins lost by Mt. Gox?"

nickmolnar2 — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 16:27:34 +0000

Wouldn't the sheer number of coins involved make tumbling services almost useless. What is the volume that a single tumbler gets per day? If you put in tens of thousands of coins, and there are only a few dozen coins in the Tumblr that day, your coins are going to be most of what comes back.

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Facebook Buying WhatsApp for $16B in Cash and Stock Plus $3B in RSUs"

nickmolnar2 — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 23:45:49 +0000

According to Sequoia's post, they are adding 1mm users/day. http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbe...

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "NSA infiltrates links to Yahoo, Google data centers worldwide"

nickmolnar2 — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 18:52:45 +0000

The denials over Prism never squared with the size and capability of the system that were outlined in the documents, unless I'm missing something here. Is it not possible that the court-ordered data releases were just one small part of the Prism program, with MUSCULAR and others filling the data that could not be obtained through the legal system? Prism is just the query interface, which is not necessarily tied to one dataset.

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Show HN: Streem.io - Media Center on the Cloud"

nickmolnar2 — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:33:35 +0000

I am a big fan of Put.io. This seems like a contender to replace it, although there is a long way to go. One of the wonderful things about Put.io is that it is so versatile. I use their Boxee app, Android App, iPad app, as well as the web version regularly. That's a lot of work to replicate.

SDD: Spite Driven Development

nickmolnar2 — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:06:36 +0000

Article URL: http://engineering-blog.wantering.com/post/40276705512/spite-driven-development?utm_source=hackernews&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=blast

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5055162

Points: 9

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New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Engineers as Heroes"

nickmolnar2 — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 03:11:01 +0000

Should definitely add Primer to the list. I've never seen another movie that uses scientific language that is not dumbed down -at all- for the audience.

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "I made a 'search engine' for fun"

nickmolnar2 — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 21:11:15 +0000

Are you crawling these sites yourself, or using the Bing API to get the index?

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Drone delivery service"

nickmolnar2 — Sun, 12 Aug 2012 01:04:24 +0000

Nope, this is all coming together in the next two weeks. Those Reallocators are madmen, and know how to get things done.

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Don't login to reference.me"

nickmolnar2 — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 23:29:05 +0000

It'd be nice to have an audit trail of admin actions on HN somewhere.

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy"

nickmolnar2 — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:10:36 +0000

Can we just take a moment and note that Kim Dotcom had two Mercedes ML63 AMGs seized in the raid. One had the license plate 'Guilty' and the other 'Mafia'. He knew what business he was in: working around the law to facilitate massive scale copyright infringement.

If we want this anti-SOPA sentiment to stick, we need to draw a line in the sand somewhere. Even on a free and open web there are going to be some people who are just plain-old criminals. I'd prefer the line to be somewhere between me & Kim.

http://torrentfreak.com/images/megacars.jpg

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Windows Phone is failing because the seeds were planted elsewhere"

nickmolnar2 — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 06:42:47 +0000

One other fact that backs up the author's point is that while Apple has a low percentage of the computer market as a whole, they have >90% marketshare for PCs over $1000. That gives them a lot of loyal, high-end, customers who also happen to be the early adopters for new technologies.

http://betanews.com/2009/07/22/apple-has-91-of-market-for-1-...

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Is Tumblr a bot fest?"

nickmolnar2 — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 18:37:13 +0000

We've been testing a new startup with a hacked together Tumblr, to simulate the app we're building. Because of this we've been monitoring our Tumblr traffic & interactions closer than most casual bloggers.

We have 300 followers right now, and I'm going to about 15% of our Likes are SPAM. A problem, but not completely overrunning the system. They seem to also be using Tumblr tag pages to find articles to like. Articles tagged with common product keywords like handbags, shoes, or a brand name get much more SPAM Like activity than other posts.

Tumblr does seem to be hiding the entries in the Dashboard for some of these, indicating that they have some sort of system in place for isolating spammers.

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "The + operator has been replaced."

nickmolnar2 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:57:15 +0000

I'm guessing w/in a few months Google launches a G+ integration with search that lets you reference your contacts in search queries using the + operator.

New comment by nickmolnar2 in "Antivirus Software Pioneer John McAfee Loses Fortune (2009)"

nickmolnar2 — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:34:34 +0000

Sad story?

I think you miss the point. He was never in it for the money. The toys, houses, and cars were a distraction. Read his quotes in the article. The sad part is that he wasted so many years showing off when he could have been fulfilling his passions.