Hacker News: nnurmanov

New comment by nnurmanov in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

nnurmanov — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:42:26 +0000

Basecheck.ai - a database auditing tool, supports Oracle, MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Supabase and SQLite. Happy to demo

New comment by nnurmanov in "Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?"

nnurmanov — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:08:10 +0000

IMO, Freelance marketplace could be a good pivot.

New comment by nnurmanov in "Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?"

nnurmanov — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:43:27 +0000

But what about SO's famous toxicity? Can agents be toxic? SO's - “Your question is stupid.” can save a lot of resources;)

New comment by nnurmanov in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

nnurmanov — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:43:41 +0000

Yes, they say we have backup procedures, but have they ever tested that the backups work? They write procedures to please auditors:)

New comment by nnurmanov in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

nnurmanov — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:42:16 +0000

There is always a disgruntled employee:) They will do anything to do maximum harm

Ask HN: What Would Make Stack Overflow Great Again?

nnurmanov — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:32:23 +0000

Just a brain exercise - and maybe a source of non-obvious pivot ideas:

If you were a product manager, what should Stack Overflow do to become great again?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47858591

Points: 10

# Comments: 25

New comment by nnurmanov in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

nnurmanov — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:36:08 +0000

You have no idea how indifferent security officers can be-even when you point out critical issues. The other day, we flagged that a customer’s database had users with excessive privileges. Their only question: “Can this be exploited from the outside?”

No, but most breaches today come from compromised internal accounts that are then used to break everything.

New comment by nnurmanov in "Vercel April 2026 security incident"

nnurmanov — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:27:37 +0000

Usually, companies have procedures for such events. But most do not.

New comment by nnurmanov in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

nnurmanov — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:58:18 +0000

That’s how ecosystems start: by cutting out third parties.

New comment by nnurmanov in "Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?"

nnurmanov — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:08:39 +0000

What about EU Inc? Is there any timeline?

New comment by nnurmanov in "Reports of Telnet's death have been greatly exaggerated"

nnurmanov — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:52:08 +0000

Do you have to restart your computer to exit telnet?:)

New comment by nnurmanov in "Lotus Health nabs $35M for AI doctor that sees patients for free"

nnurmanov — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:08:07 +0000

They claim: Since AI models are also prone to hallucinations, the company always has board-certified human doctors from top health institutions such as Stanford, Harvard, and UCSF review the final diagnoses, lab orders, and medical prescriptions., but is it economically viable?

Lotus Health nabs $35M for AI doctor that sees patients for free

nnurmanov — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 05:08:07 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/03/lotus-health-nabs-35m-for-ai-doctor-that-sees-patients-for-free/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881723

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by nnurmanov in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

nnurmanov — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:50:44 +0000

I agree. Here is my thinking. What if LLM providers will make short answers the default (for example, up to 200 tokens, unless the user explicitly enables “verbose mode”). Add prompt caching and route simple queries to smaller models. Result: a 70%+ reduction in energy consumption without loss of quality. Current cost: 3–5 Wh per request. At ChatGPT scale, this is $50–100 million per year in electricity (at U.S. rates).

In short mode: 0.3–0.5 Wh per request. That is $5–10 million per year — savings of up to 90%, or 10–15 TWh globally with mass adoption. This is equivalent to the power supply of an entire country — without the risk of blackouts.

This is not rocket science — just a toggle in the interface and I believe, minor changes in the system prompt. It increases margins, reduces emissions, and frees up network resources for real innovation.

And what if EU/California enforces such mode? This will greatly impact DC economy.

New comment by nnurmanov in "Ask HN: Quality of recent gens of Dell/Lenovo laptops worse than 10 years ago?"

nnurmanov — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 04:47:39 +0000

I used to be a Dell customer; all my family members had Dell Latitude laptops. But I agree, they got worse. I had a fan break, a key fall out, and Bluetooth issues with some of them, and when it was time to upgrade, I moved to Apple MacBook. It took some time to learn how to work in the macOS environment, but I am happy now.

New comment by nnurmanov in "Launch HN: Hypercubic (YC F25) – AI for COBOL and Mainframes"

nnurmanov — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:31:12 +0000

AI for COBOL? Now I’ve seen everything.

New comment by nnurmanov in "N8n raises $180M"

nnurmanov — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:48:40 +0000

It’s per core licensing with core factors. Core factor ranges from 0.25 to 1. I have not checked how it is now, but it used to be as above 5-10 years ago

New comment by nnurmanov in "Ask HN: How do you handle application spam via Who's Hiring?"

nnurmanov — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:20:24 +0000

Nowadays, when I post a job for our openings, I get thousands of applicants, which is much higher than 2–3 years ago. Over 90% are irrelevant. To limit the applicant count, I ask for references. For example, just the other day a candidate reached out directly, I asked if he could provide references, and then heard nothing back. It’s the quickest way to filter out irrelevant candidates. Now I am employing the same tactics and building an ATS where references make you stand out.

New comment by nnurmanov in "Ask HN: What's your experience with using graph databases for agentic use-cases?"

nnurmanov — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:55:53 +0000

I am using Neo4j to build an equipment database, I also use MySQL in the same project to store transactional data. It took some time to figure out right syntax for Spring Boot/Neo4j Cypher query, but now it works OK. The reason I chose Neo4j? Because I wanted to play with it:). I can say it is more flexible than relational databases. I would like to continue using it, but you can't create multiple instances within a database, I guess it is possible to do so by installing separate binaries, but I have not tried it yet.

New comment by nnurmanov in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

nnurmanov — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 02:06:41 +0000

It is a business model problem, not Google’s problem. When it is easy to stand out by paying money, it will always become trash