Hacker News: promano

New comment by promano in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

promano — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:27:46 +0000

We had a way of measuring velocity, but who cares about estimating stories when we could be spinning up more agents? Burn a bunch of tokens and those stories will be DONE before you could even find your planning poker cards!

New comment by promano in "Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse?"

promano — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 10:28:58 +0000

Correlation is not causation and all that, but anime was better without Crunchyroll.

New comment by promano in "Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads"

promano — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 20:05:37 +0000

They obfuscate it more than just pressing "Yes". You get a big warning saying Microsoft Defender has protected you, and the only clear option is "Don't run"

https://cdn.advancedinstaller.com/img/prevent-smartscreen-fr...

In order to run, you have to click on "More info", and then a second "Run anyway" button appears.

There's way more than 5% of the Windows userbase that gets confused and can't get past this warning.

New comment by promano in "Review of Mullvad VPN"

promano — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 19:18:49 +0000

There was an audit of the VPN servers earlier this year:

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/fourth-infrastructure-audit-comp...

New comment by promano in "Limbo: A complete rewrite of SQLite in Rust"

promano — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 19:40:13 +0000

The Business Source License is not an open source license. Open source does mean "free to use without encumbrance" - see points 5 and 6 of the Open Source Definition at https://opensource.org/osd