Hacker News: umeshunni

New comment by umeshunni in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

umeshunni — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:07:15 +0000

Curious if they still do the daily triage and war rooms. I left in 2010 but those practices seemed like a remnant of the 90s era desktop computing paradigm than web or cloud.

New comment by umeshunni in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

umeshunni — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:01:28 +0000

Oh honey, I have news for you https://www.fastcompany.com/91552571/elon-musk-twitter-x-dea...

New comment by umeshunni in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

umeshunni — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 02:01:07 +0000

https://www.fastcompany.com/91552571/elon-musk-twitter-x-dea...

Wut?

New comment by umeshunni in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

umeshunni — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:54:52 +0000

Chesterton’s Fence

New comment by umeshunni in "America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it"

umeshunni — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:31:43 +0000

Once you make it hard to build something, the incentives to build the thing goes away. Can you imaging trying to build a factory in California in 2026? Or 2006? The NIMBYs can barely stand building an ice cream store.

New comment by umeshunni in "Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks"

umeshunni — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:12:24 +0000

I did an even simpler thing. I had it connect to gmail MCP and email it to me as an .mp3 file which I then play on my phone.

New comment by umeshunni in "Muse DAU dropped and Meta insiders decided to sell"

umeshunni — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:41:18 +0000

richardttang probably a bot trying to drive traffic to his site.

New comment by umeshunni in "[dead]"

umeshunni — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:40:53 +0000

This is a pretty stupid take.

1. DAUs didn't drop, but DAU growth did. You'd think someone posting on HN would know the difference. 2. Insiders always sell RSUs. That's not news.

New comment by umeshunni in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

umeshunni — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:39:42 +0000

I would expect a refrigerator to work 20+ years. What does a legacy product even mean this situation?

New comment by umeshunni in "The Deeply Impersonal Personalized Recruiter Mail"

umeshunni — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:44:44 +0000

Won't that also block anyone who copy-pastes your name? I often copy paste names so that I don't make typos.

New comment by umeshunni in "Everybody’s home. No one’s coming over"

umeshunni — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:51:31 +0000

> Between 1975 and 1998, the share of Americans who gave or attended a monthly dinner party declined by half.

Interesting. I would have assumed the correlation is with the rise of the internt and smartphones, but it looks like the drop precedes that.

New comment by umeshunni in "MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta"

umeshunni — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:37:47 +0000

data point #3 if you include his stint at Symantec 10+ years ago.

New comment by umeshunni in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

umeshunni — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:48:18 +0000

motor vehicle

New comment by umeshunni in "OpenAI agent hacked Australian government website, PM says"

umeshunni — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:48:18 +0000

that's adorable. what happens why a Chinese model hacks the australian govt?

New comment by umeshunni in "Astra for Law"

umeshunni — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:30:50 +0000

That's already the case in law because you could just hire the best or most lawyers.

New comment by umeshunni in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

umeshunni — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:22:36 +0000

> If my parents had done that I would have been pissed.

I was pretty pissed when I went off to college and my parents threw away my 80s computer that would now be considered a classic.

New comment by umeshunni in "'Offensively cheap': solar power is looking up"

umeshunni — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:07:55 +0000

> manufacturing usually happens on a different continent, in a different currency, different regulatory regime

that's irrelevant. They're selling panels at a profit and are churning them out by the millions daily.

New comment by umeshunni in "Silicon Valley is transforming the military-industrial complex? (2024)"

umeshunni — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:53:53 +0000

There's a class of people in the West who have forgotten that wars happen and that defense is necessary. American especially benefit from two oceans separating them from the rest of the world and having never seen a war except on CNN.

Some of them, esp in central/eastern Europe, were rudely woken up in 2022 when Russian tanks rolle into a neighboring country. Others still have their heads buried in the sand and will not wake up even when Chinese robots march in Taipei in a few years.

New comment by umeshunni in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

umeshunni — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:14:56 +0000

Not to mention the crime risk of cash

New comment by umeshunni in "ChatGPT outage – Resolved"

umeshunni — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:57:08 +0000

I believe it now uses the MAI models